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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Politicians being jack asses. In other news, the sky is blue.

โ€œI propose putting an end to anonymity on social media"

How does he not realize how evil/stupid he sounds? Lmao.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why is there no piblic access to the communication records of politicians and members of government?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure about Spain or the EU (US too, i'm talking abt my personal experience), though:

Politicians are inherently corrupt. There is no good politician, no matter how they act in public. They say what the mass wants to hear, not what they need to.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I do believe there are authentic, genuine politicans, but I'me I'm inclined to bellieve that politicians are worse than people believe. Politicians on the left are worse than people think, politicians on the right are worse than people think.

I believe that you are American, the ones I do trust at face value for moral consistency is Thomas Massey, Mike Lee, Chip Roy, and Louie Gohmert. Don't mistaken trust for full total agreement. It means their public statements is how they are alone in private.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not american :)

But i live in a kingdom so we don't even have politicians, but from what i've seen they're very untrustworthy. I'm only speaking from personal experience so i'm probably wrong.

Don't mistaken trust for full total agreement

I agree, but politicians should be viewed as just ways to change the status quo. I've seen too many people actually like politicians (as people, not policies).

Believing a politician actually cares about you is like believing the stripper likes you, yet some people still fall for it.

I've seen Massey's positions and alot are good, but some are really suspicious; such as against making lynching a federal hate crime. What's the reason for that? Seems to me that there are better choices for politicians.

I'd say i generally agree with people like AOC, but i'm smart enough to know that she's a politician, i only like her policies but i don't care much for her herself.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Believing a politician actually cares about you is like believing the stripper likes you,

Hey, come now... there's no need to compare those parasites to strippers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A single stripper provides more of a service to humanity than 10 politicians. I apologize for the offensive comparison ๐Ÿฅบ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exactly, one actually works, the other is a parasite.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

one of them makes me happy, the other miserable... guess which is which

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mentioning lynching is emotional manipulation. Falsely claiming that lynching is not a federal crime, you're saying that commiing homicide by hanging is not a federal crime, but commiting homicide by shooting is a federal crime.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I agree that it should be a federal crime, but massey doesn't. That's my problem with politicians, they always have skeletons in their closets.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can you share Massey's comments or statement on it to read or watch for mysef?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait i'm wrong, i searched his name up and got thomas massie. He's a US republican and you were talking about the aussie politician ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ Sorry lol

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess I spelled it wring. I was talking abiut Massie, not Massey, about commenta on hanging people, or what you called lynching.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/26/809705702/it-s-about-time-house-approves-historic-bill-making-lynching-a-federal-crime

Reps. Louie Gohmert of Texas, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ted Yoho of Florida and the chamber's lone independent, Justin Amash of Michigan, voted against it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Get fucked.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago