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This is just next level.

I too always like it when I get to choose who oppresses me, makes it feel so much better./s

(No links, because not sure how big or small of an account this Harris lib has. Screenshotted from Mastodon.)

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is an argument for Trump for all I care. Libs cared about politics under Trump. Now under Biden it was 4 years of respectability politics, and you couldn't complain about anything because it would hurt the vibes and that would give Trump more fuel.

No, the economy is working amazingly for workers, anyone who says otherwise is a Trump concern troll!

No, Israel would be committing genocide even harder under Trump, anyone protesting Biden's support for the genocide is an useful idiot!

No, it's totally fine that we're still jailing immigrants because we nominally aren't splitting up families anymore

Libs just tell themselves these stories then stay home instead of getting worked up and mobilizing like they did in 2020.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I view it the same way. Trump is wildly less competent at managing the Imperial state. He is heavy handed and helps radicalize those on the fence by taking the mask off. He actively undermines American "soft power" across the world. Those are all good things from the perspective of lessening American influence around the world imo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, no love for Dems but this is another level of cope and mental gymnastics. Trump did not soften any American power. If anything he crested a wave of right wing electoral victories across the world and emboldened white supremacist, Nazi, and transphobic messaging.

Trump radicalized people... To vote for Biden!! People got radicalized to vote for a right wing old senile white man who sniffs kids instead of a far right old senile white man who raped 14yo's. Trump was not a victory for radicalizing people to the left - Trump put the world decades behind in social progress.

If Trump wins but Project 2025 doesn't cement GOP power the way the Christian nationalist power fantasy thinks it will, we're gonna get another fucking Biden all over again. Radicalized to slightly left of far right.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Brexit happened before trump was elected, thats arguably thr start of the right wing victories in the anglosphere. The colonies are just tailing the old country. But really this point is silly because the laat time there were good western governments was the 1940s.

I do agree that trump getting in made people being open bigots more comfortable, but our leaders have been saying the same shit with dog whistles for decades.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Yeah this is 100% written by someone who only cares about voting every 4 years and wants to "return to normalcy"