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[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Trump called for a Muslim ban and the Arabs in Michigan are like, yeah, that’s my guy.

Republicans are masterminds at not just getting people to vote against their own interest, but also at convincing them that they are, in fact, voting in their best interest.

If Trump wins I can’t help but wonder how many faces are going to be eaten by the leopards.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Republicans are masterminds at not just getting people to vote against their own interest

Only because corporate news refuses to check them. Because corporate news sewers are run by republiQans.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Democrat elections are basically a hostage situation (it votes for biden when it's told or else it gets the trump again). If biden refuses to budge on the critical issues, at some point you have to start executing hostages.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yeah but funny thing is IT'S NOT DEMS HOLDING THE COUNTRY HOSTAGE, it's dems offering the country a way out from madness. the "it gets trump again" - he's the GOP candidate for fuck's sake.

you act like the dems get to elect both candidates just to upset you.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No it is the Dems holding the country hostage. They pretend to care but they're using the lack of a real alternative to hold themselves to extremely low standards AND RESIST ANY CALLS FROM THEIR OWN VOTER BASE TO CHANGE THEIR BEHAVIOR- "I mean, have you seen the other guys?" should not be a valid operating principle!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the dems didn't make the GOP fucking nuts. but it's the dems fault huh?

listen to yourself, shit man, do it, vote trump, you deserve each other

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You're not getting it. The point is that the Dems keep betraying their own base and refusing to change for the better- they're unresponsive to feedback. This doesn't mean trump deserves to win, it just means the Biden needs to go. "I'm only 99% fascist" is not something I will condone ever, and I don't think you should either. Show some spine! Support the students protesting against the "democratic" Biden regime and the genocide it's providing diplomatic and military aid for. There has to be a red line somewhere and in my opinion we've passed it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

The point is that the Dems keep betraying their own base and refusing to change for the better- they’re unresponsive to feedback.

school loan forgiveness

green new deal

rescheduling mj

aid for ukraine

I dunno man, failing to see the betrayal.

This doesn’t mean trump deserves to win, it just means the Biden needs to go.

lol, guess what: there are two people running bright lights. you're supporting trump.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

green new deal

I think you mean the Green New Dream, or Whatever. You're trying to credit them with a policy that was very much not enacted and what was done was done to discredit it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I dunno man, failing to see the betrayal

idk what to tell you either, he could be the second coming and it still wouldn't give him a pass to unconditionally support a country while it's carrying out a genocide. That's not how it works

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

support a country while it’s carrying out a genocide. That’s not how it works

biden actually reigns in bibi, and you want trump. go nuts shitbag, get what you want, I hope it blows up in your stupid face.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You don't see how supporting a genocide is a red line if you had family or friends there? You lack any sort of empathy then.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

supporting a genocide

and yet he's the only one who's capable of reigning in Bibi. Trump's not going to do that lol, you bellend

how fucking dumb do you have to be to see that voting Trump would just empower the far right in Israel?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

He's had lots of time to reign him in and he hasn't at all. They've just given them more money, weapons, and support. Until there's been actual actions and not just words, on this particular issue, they are the only exact same.

Until then, the threat of a Trump Presidency hopefully impresses upon Biden the need to do something, anything, other than what he's been doing (a wag of his finger every now and then and that's it).

I don't want Trump back. You don't want Trump back. It's better to spend your energy trying to push Biden on this issue as soon as possible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I don’t want Trump back. You don’t want Trump back.

I know me, I'm doubtful about the rest of the people in this thread. Dangerous fucking games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait, Republican behaviors are the fault of....the Democrats?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

They're not talking about Republican behaviors at all, they're talking about Democratic behaviors, like what's happening right now by Democrats with respect to Palestine. "But Republicans are worse" doesn't change that Democrats are adopting policy counter to what their base wants. They think the left/Muslims/young people have no other option, so they don't need to do anything to please them.