President Donald Trump just made it clear that he already has his eyes set on a new target following the US's capture of the president of Venezuela. During a press conference on Saturday, he urged Colombian President Gustavo Petro to 'watch his ass.' The threat marks a dramatic escalation in tensions across Latin America, with Trump openly invoking the Monroe Doctrine to assert US dominance in the Western Hemisphere.

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[–] 29 points 10 months ago (27 children)

You first.

Seriously, all this stupid talk of guillotines and everything else. You do realize a full third voted for this, a full third DID NOT CARE to vote at all. And honestly, until economic issues affect them those same 2/3 won't care to do jack shit. And let me tell you, the 1/3 that hates this aren't despaired enough to foment a revolution.

God these pithy sentiments are useless. Familiarize yourself with reality and understand that we are so, so far away from any real change.

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  • [+] -13 points 10 months ago (24 children)

    A full third didn't care to vote because a majority of Democrats said genocide is okay. Maybe instead of criticizing them, criticize the politicians that got us here.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (15 children)

    And at least one of you still doesn't understand:
    Not voting is voting.

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  • [+] -11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (14 children)

    Democrats: Here's your corporate Dick Cheney loving wouldn't do anything differently than genocide Joe the Zionist puppet.

    Progressives: Yeah, we're not going to vote for that.

    Democrats: Can't believe we lost to Trump, it's the Progressives fault. Guess we need to go further neocon the next election.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago* (13 children)

    Not voting has never changed anything for the benefit of the non-voter. Never.

    If you want any sort of change - vote.

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  • [+] -8 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    I did vote for Jill Stein. But don't act surprised that people don't vote when given a fake choice between two neocons.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    People being stupid stopped surprising me decades ago.

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Yet you keep losing to people you claim are the dumbest people alive. Wonder if you'll ever take some time for self-reflection & strategy besides, "Biden was young & dynamic!"

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    The rich and powerful have so much control over politics. The one sliver of actual political power you hold is your vote. To think that giving up that power gives you any sort of political benefit is the stupidest idea I've ever heard.

    You couldn't even be bothered to do what very little you could to oppose a psychopath from becoming president.

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I did, like I said I voted for Jill Stein. Did you vote for the psychopath Kamala, wouldn't do anything different than genocide Joe, Cheney?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    You didn't vote in the general. You threw away your political power. You're an idiot.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    I did vote in the General for Stein. Politicians don't deserve votes, they earn them. The sooner you figure that out & many Democrats stop acting like authoritarians they claim to hate, like the massive hypocrites they often are, then you won't have to worry about another Trump because you'll actually have morals for once.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Politicians don’t deserve votes, they earn them.

    So naive. The rich understand that it's not about supporting a candidate personally - it's about affecting change in your favor. It's how they keep power.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Jill stein is a plant to make you vote third party in a system designed for only two parties.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

    Man its weird how defensive the purity voters got. Palestine is being wiped from the map and we're attacking other countries unprovoked but both sides amirite?

    Every single one of these deaths could have been avoided if you didn't fall for the obvious divide and conquer strategy being peddled out by bad faith actors.

    The entire reason the Overton window keeps shifting right is because the right wing assholes will vote lockstep for whoever the right candidate is. He may not be right enough for them, or he may be too far right for some, but they all fucking show up and vote.

    Meanwhile, we can't get leftists to figure that simple fact out and then people directly helping these assholes whine about how the candidate wasn't perfect.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    if you didn’t fall for the obvious divide and conquer strategy being peddled out by bad faith actors.

    uh dude

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Democrats like Kamala Cheney keeps shifting right because that is the type of neocon Democrats you keep telling everyone they must support. Then when they engage in war without congressional approval & commit war crimes like Obama did, you stick your head in the sand.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I think most every president since FDR was ass. I also know letting the window shift further right isnt going to help. We should be making the furthest right candidate lose by tons each and every election just like the right shows out and keeps making that Overton window shift right.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It shifts right because people keep making excuses for corporate Democrats who don't stand for anything. They keep propping up the system that got us here. If you consider yourself on the left, then vote left where the progressives were at. Don't vote right of center & complain that it keeps shifting to the right. Don't just scream about Republicans when genocide the proud Zionist Joe & drone-strike Obama were killing children. All it does is signal to everyone you're a hypocrite, and that is how you end up with Trump.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Yet we are currently living through what happens when you do that. While both options suck, I'm not going to contribute to accelerating a genocide and allowing for multiple new warfronts to open up. I'm rather vote for not having camps like alligator Alcatraz opening up.

    I vote as far left as possible in primaries and the general but we're actively seeing what not voting against fascism gets you: fucking fascism. Has not voting against fascism stopped the bullshit DNC push of fucking Newsom? No. So non voters allowing fascism isnt exactly helping the cause.

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  • [+] -12 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Show me where in the 25th amendment they mention anything about guillitines.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Why are you going on about legalism, as if the US has a functioning legislative and judicial system? It is obviously broken to the core and the constitution or voting doesn't matter in the slightest.

    Who are the people who are going to invoke that 25th amendment on Trump?

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