• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    If I represented people, I’d fuckin actuality do it. That’s just me, though. Maybe I’ll fuckin do it some day. Fuck these shits, on BOTH sides. I said it. They’re all shits. Shitty little shits.

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    Don’t worry everyone, Chuck Schumer is going to write one of his most strongly worded letters ever.

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      And send eight overwrought emails about how much it would help if you donated right now.

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    It’s quite literally on the administrations to-do list.

    If you’re worried about election integrity under the administration, please do volunteer, or work directly for your elections board if you can. We can really use the help, no matter where you are from.

    If you have some spare cash, don’t be afraid to print out some fact sheets for people to take with them when voting, as long as you don’t violate canvassing laws of course.

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    eyes on the New York mayoral election.

    It’ll be a prelude to the general election.

    And trump is already interfering in that election. and I bet he’ll deploy the national guard during the elections. Or straight up jail a candidate.

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    Like in Germany, Italy, and Spain it will not be the Liberals that fight back. Liberals will bend the knee and beg for forgiveness while Social Democrats will protest until the military massacres them all. But it will be the revolutionaries, the Socialists, the Anarchists, and the Communists that will resist.

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            I’m well aware of the alleged historical grievances that some anarchists like to use to justify playing victim and being fucking useless, fortunately not all anarchists do this

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                Yes, a proletarian boot to prevent the capitalists from ever taking power again, your absurd opposition to wielding power for anything good ensures you will never do anything but lose

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                  Seems like a stretch to call the mass execution of anarchists “anything good” but I suppose that really depends on how you feel about anarchists.

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        Obviously

        Then we’ll all get lined up and shot by fascists Or just Communists and liberals Who’ve been waiting all along to become the fascist cops

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    Oh that would force Democrats to write a really strong worded letter. Probably multiple pages. You’ll see.

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    He literally mentioned turning the military on cities earlier during the rambling speech he’s giving right now, in between talking about the quality of paper he likes and complaining about not getting a Nobel prize, because people are apparently shooting firefighters off ladders.

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      The Time to Move Forward Is Now

      Ah, 2021. A time of triumph and jubilation. Democrats coming together and saying “We won last time so now we’ll never lose again” and proceeding to write the opposition party off as toothless has-beens. What a magical moment for our country.

      Why can’t we go back to brunch? I think the real reason is because leftist voters stabbed us all in the back. So we just need to pivot further to the Right if we want to reclaim our beautiful brunch-time again.

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        Almost as much as protests voters helped Trump do all this. Almost as much as the both sides are the same rhetoric helped Trump do all this.

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          Almost as much as protests voters helped Trump do all this.

          Gee, if only there were some way democrats could have got those voters back on board. But they were too insignificant to matter until centrists needed someone to blame for the results of their unwillingness to represent people not named cheney or netanyahu.

          When the electorate is polarized, you win by energizing your base to get more people to the polls. Abandoning your base one vulnerable group at a time not only fails to curry favor with the fascists that centrists desperately want to befriend, it also depresses turnout from your base as well. But since centrists like moving to the right and don’t want to stop, they treat their positions as sacrosanct and it is the voters who must capitulate. After all, our politicians capitulate by example so frequently.

          If they were too insignificant to listen to, you don’t get to blame them. If they are significant enough to blame, they’re kingmakers and you should have been listening to them.

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              Any impact protest voters might have had could be outweighed a thousandfold by nonvoters. Why call out protest voters unprompted as a cause of an election swing when their impact is a drop in an ocean?

              Half the country didn’t vote. If 1% of them would have leaned Biden they would still have had more impact than protest voters, and I feel like the percentage leaning Biden might have been slightly higher than 1%.

              I feel like I see protest voters called out 300x as much as nonvoters and I can never understand why it’s so disproportionate.

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              Idk if you’re familiar with the phrase “proving a negative” or “burden of proof” but you should maybe try looking them up and learning a little bit about why you’re wrong

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          “Whatabout protest voters, whatabout third parties” lol quit blaming other people for your failures

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            People who chose not to vote for Harris are just as much failures as the Democratic party. Take some responsibility.

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              Democratic party could have won in a landslide for speak up for their base who didn’t want a genocide, but no, they wanted it and stuck to it.

              Democrats are 100% to blame. And fuck you and everyone who tries to put the blame on people for having a conscience. If they had any semblance of representing their base, they fucked it up themselves.

              Democrats put themselves in a scenario where Trump would win and you’re surprised he won?

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                Yeah bro those people must be feeling so amazing about themselves and their pure and righteous conscience everyday that Trump runs rampant and destroys the country even more, and don’t even get me started on trans issues

                AT LEAST GAZA IS SAVED THOUGH :) fuck off and grow up. You are both to blame because you both are fucking idiots. Democrats should’ve done a better job and split with Israel, because dipshits like you needed more of a reason to vote against obvious nazism

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                  AT LEAST GAZA IS SAVED THOUGH :)

                  At least democrats didn’t have to abandon unconditional genocide support. At least they didn’t have to follow the Leahy law. They’ll make up every excuse under the sun to block progressive legislation, but straight up ignore the law to sell weapons for genocide.

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    Totally on board with your premise, they do need to punch up as much as they can. And it looks like they’re trying to do so this round of shutdowns.

    Nonetheless, this ultimately comes down to us. All of us. We can’t just sit here behind a computer and meme ourselves out of this disaster. We have to get out in the streets. We have to yell get mad and be angry. We have to hit them where they feel it. We have to organize. Get with upset farmers, get with the military vets whose benefits have been cut, get with the middleclass milquetoast moms who are starting to feel like something isn’t right with their grocery bills.

    Each and every individual one of us is a single drop in the ocean, but, if we all move in the same direction, we become a crashing tsunami.

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      I’m Canadian, you guys should have been doing this since Regan, but better late than never I suppose

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          Never said we’re blameless but we did manage to avoid electing maple flavored trump even once, nevermind twice

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        Oh shut up haha. The CA government is headed down the same path last time I checked. Fuckin America Lite up there.

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          Yeah, kinda wish you guys hadn’t decided to export your particular brand of capitalistic rot by osmosis. Our mistake was integrating with you guys as a policy and when the move was made outspoken politicians called it for what it was.

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    He certainly learned from other autocrats that, for example, you cannot hold elections during a civil war.

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    The Kingdom of Conscience will be exactly as it is now. Democrats don’t really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child’s toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.

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        Weird. It’s almost like it’s tankie/Russian propaganda. “Both sides are bad and the same and it’s hopeless! Give up.”

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          Not everyone who criticizes the dem party is a malicious. They are saying dems arent really trying and are actively blocking real change. Judging by how the party is treating Mamdani, its a valid take.

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          The first part is correct, both parties are owned by the same billionaires and consistently vote in the interests of those billionaires. The second part is some shit you made up because you don’t have a coherent counter-argument to the things the tankies are actually saying.

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        It’s not about bad or good even, it’s about having “principles” and acting on them. Democrats in general, for better and worse, are permissive to all kinds of stuff but have a real hard time agreeing on where lines are drawn and picking hills to fight for and die on together.

        It’s like a kid having a tantrum on the floor of a public place and the parent going “sorry this is horrible but this just how he acts” and doing nothing to correct them or change the situation when they totally can.

        Republicans don’t really have that problem, even when it’s objectively the dumbest shit ever.

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          Indeed the results are the same under both, but of the two at least Republicans have the virtue of honesty. Democrats lack even that.

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        It’s an extremely transparent good cop/bad cop routine, quit being gullible

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              Yes, I’m such a PaTriOt that I am deeply ashamed of most of the things the US does. But hey, at least I’m not so shallow that I think cool red logos justify disgusting and brutal authoritarianism under a different name.

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                Yes, I’m such a PaTriOt that I am deeply ashamed of most of the things the US does

                You spent all of 2024 screaming abuse at people who opposed genocide.

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                  Nah, mate, that was you. You kept arguing for letting trump win. Genocide max over any other outcome for you, shouting at anyone who tried to get in the way.

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                Your shame is as worthless as your political action lol, authoritarianism is a thought-terminating buzzword employed by spineless liberals too terrified of the idea of wielding power for good to actually do anything to help

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                  authoritarianism is a thought-terminating

                  This phrase renders all your words unlistenable. You just said that if a dictator is friendly to you, then they are good. Bye, blocked tankie.