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[–] 208 points 6 months ago (143 children)

One side aligns with my views 70% of the time. The other actively wants me and everyone like me to die. I refuse to acknowledge the differences between them. I’ll actually deploy this lack of understanding as a weapon to depress voter turnout and make sure the second group gets to wield power!

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (16 children)

    Wait, who does the left want to die?

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

    Nazis, slavers, and unrepentant pedophiles mostly.

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

    Um, the right obviously! I want everyone on the opposite side to die so obviously the other side must feel the same!

    Genuinely hard to not be black pilled by this constant bullshit like as if there are genuinely elected officials making comments about "MAGA hunting" or some shit. Literally only one side wants to eat the other. One wants death the other wants brunch. Fucking hell.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    No I absolutely want fascists to die. A world where we allow fascists to live is a world that will fall to fascism, because fascists don't play by the same rules as the rest of us.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Yeah. I get the SPIRIT of the idea, but MAGA has committed WAY more than enough heinous crimes where I'd ACCEPT them being thrown of out power, but in my heart of hearts on my extended wishlist I'd like to see them all drawn and quartered.

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

    I mean I see conservatives say it all the time they believe liberals want them dead. Like nah just dont be fucking assholes and pedophiles lol

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Mostly it’s, GTFO of my personal life that doesn’t affect you. Practice some of that liberty you like to pay lip service too. Admit there is a gun proliferation issue and address it.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    Plenty of them do. People like tucker Carlson and Alex Jones have audiences. And for God's sake /r/conservative, and practically all of reddit is a conservative hatefest now.

    Edit: nevermind, I misunderstood this comment originally.

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  • [–] 49 points 6 months ago (70 children)

    Do you not care about GENOCIDE???

    /s

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago (14 children)

    Genocide Joe!

    Making sure the party that continually starts new wars in the Middle East gets elected will surely help my cause!

    “Yeah but you support GENOCIDE!”

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    You say 'Genocide Joe!' like he didn't actually support and enthusiastically aid a genocide.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (14 children)

    So, actually that question though? Genocide used to be a really, really bad thing, and here you're making light of it. I feel like people have lost the plot a bit if they talk about an actual genocide like this. "Yeah, sure they committed a bit of genocide, but have you seen the other guy?" I feel like I'm losing my mind

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I don't know what kind of person could look at parents being handed the remains of their child in plastic baggies and at any point in their life go "oh wow are they still going on about the genocide?"

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

    No, it's the people like you who are going: people should have voted for some genocide to prevent more genocide, instead of saying something sane like: maybe the fucking Democrats shouldn't have been promoting a fascist in Israel while running on being anti fascist

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 6 months ago (39 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    funnything in rick and morty, the very same episode supernova says"what is is-rayel" referring to israel, rick and morty and FAMILY guy are 1 of the 2 shows that poke fun of the ridiculous of hte gaza/palestine conflict.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    It must be so nice having worldviews that can be fully encapsulated by trolley memes

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

    I guess the view that I want to articulate could be represented as a trolley meme with the following changes:

    1. The lever has only some unknown probability of steering the trolley's path
    2. Millions of other people also influence the lever to degrees which are unknown
    3. The track splits into at least 10 different paths instead of two
    4. There are more splits off of each subsequent path
    5. Each path also produces benefits to some actors (not sure how we'd represent that)

    If I try to simplify these changes, though, then maybe I could depict my view a bit like this?

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    One side aligns with my views 70% of the time.

    That's an optimistic percentage, and yet still not an excuse to avoid voting for them.

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  • [+] 17 points 6 months ago (11 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    The US messed up most of Latin America. USAID makes things better. Removing USAID makes things worse. It doesn't matter whether it is out of benevolence (the real reason is that making Latin America better means the US doesn't have to deal with a migrant crisis). What matters is that it's better than the alternative.

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

    I am both brown and from a third world (both in the original unaligned sense and in the newer impoverished sense) country. You fucked us over with Trump.

    The slaves didn't care that Lincoln said in his debates with Douglas that whites were superior to blacks and that he supported an Illinois law against miscegenation. They cared that he removed them from bondage. Smart people take whatever progress they can get.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    it is propaganda method by the right, like your vote doesnt matter. thats how we end up getting schumers and hakeems of the congress, when less people vote, more conservative candidates are elected, this includes the DINOs. maine is currently fighting with susan collins, mills and platner 2 of them are conservatives.

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago (35 children)

    One side aligns with my views 70% of the time

    False.

    One side SAYS they align with their views, and then do the same shit as Republicans, and kind of just expect you to swallow excuses. Meanwhile we've watched Donald act unilaterally with near absolute power for two years, so we know objectively that the lack of power was (and is) never the problem. It was that they didn't actually support what they said they did.

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

    Someone that actually wants to disrupt the ills of the system could have tried effectively using the DOJ to imprison every pedophile, traitor, and corrupt politician currently in office, that would leave a nice heap of missing seats in the senate, getting a majority would be much easier. Remove the filibuster and pack the courts with a fresh set of folks like KBJ.

    While you're at it, use the DOE to enforce radical a climate agenda that disrupts the power of oil. You could even use the climate emergency to justify massive reductions in military presence around the world, letting the military budget go towards jobs programs for local green development. They could actually follow leahy laws and cut all military aid to Israel.

    I would have hoped from the Trump presidency, more folks would realize the rules are largely built on biased interpretations and that you can bias those in other directions to make the country better. Now maybe you think I am absurd in my views, but maybe we can compromise a bit further than spending months with websites and means testing to slowly roll out partial student debt relief while giving all the time in the world for the right to send court cases against it. Put simply a Trump of the left would have done the effective thing of simply abolishing the debt unilaterally and giving the courts the much more difficult task of reinstating debt, rather than moving slow enough that it's stopped before it starts.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (6 children)

    I'll argue democract are ineffective to a fault, even ineffective in a weaponizable way to punish their consitutients for straying from the center. Again, the bar is in hell. But they did not repeal abortion rights directly and never would have.

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