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true story - crowd size at his final rally before the mids. .. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 4 days ago by to c/antitrumpalliance@lemmy.world
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[–] 87 points 4 days ago (22 children)

Wow, you’re so smart. Instead of participating in democracy I should just stay home and post smugly on the internet. That’ll make the revolution happen.

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  • [+] -93 points 4 days ago* (21 children)

    How is americas democracy real when it's all marketed and bought and sold to people?

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  • [–] 61 points 4 days ago (11 children)

    Goddamn you must be the smartest human alive to see that.

    I don’t think anyone has ever noticed that before.

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  • [+] -71 points 4 days ago (10 children)

    I take that as forfeiture of this debate.

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  • [–] 44 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    dEbAtE mE bRo

    Go back under your rock, cretin.

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  • [+] -48 points 4 days ago* (5 children)

    No one at all that responded even tried to educate me. I don't know how you all see it... But that looks bad for your cause.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Nobody tried to educate you because they all assumed that you are either:

    1. absolutely so amazingly, stupefyingly braindead that you are likely incapable of taking in new information and meaningfully understanding it

    Or

    1. a Russian/Israeli propaganda spreader who is only here to try and convince as many people as possible to sit out the election so that your agents can win government positions again.

    I, personally, am willing to bet it's both

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago

    "No one even tried to educate me when I'm clearly starting from a position of bad faith! Waaah! Why aren't you engaging in good faith with my obvious trolling and astroturfing!? Waah!! This makes you look so bad!! WAAAH!!"

    -You, apparently.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago*

    How is americas democracy real when it’s all marketed and bought and sold to people?

    The fuck kind of dumbass non sequitur is that? Potatoes are marketed and bought and sold to people. How can potatoes be real?

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  • [+] -10 points 4 days ago* (5 children)

    Hard question that will get your screamed at by people who prefer easy answers

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago* (4 children)

    What about this is hard to understand or answer in any way? People are dunking on him because of the opposite-- the question is so easy to answer that to think bringing it up is a good point is laughably naive.

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

    the question is so easy to answer

    :-/

    It is, but not for the reasons you're willing to stomach

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago* (2 children)

    It seems pretty obvious that two things are true:

    • The votes people make are used to determine who gets elected
    • People try very hard to influence how people vote

    That makes it fake how exactly? Surely a fake democracy would not have the first property?

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