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Some friends I just can’t shake

hard enough

around the neck

with a firm grip

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[–] [email protected] 238 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Somebody that's actively trying to end my existence isn't a friend.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I love that they excuse their vote as anything else.

I just want a tax cut. (and don't care about the republic or my friends' lives)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

And said tax cut will work like this:

Step 1: Before it happens, you're asked to publicly dream about what an extra $4000 will do for you on social media. Step 2: Once it passes, you get a 0.1% tax cut. Enough for one extra pizza. Per year. The bill will also includes 3 tax raises only for the poor, one every 4 years that follow. Step 3: The corporation you work for, meanwhile, gets a 16% tax cut. With it, they'll announce a $2000 one-time payment to all workers. Which will be rescinded as soon as it's been reported about on local news. The bill also includes 3 further, even bigger tax cuts for the rich, one every 4 years.

End result: taxes raised on the poor, taxes lowered for the rich, but lots of social media euphoria from the working class, lots of newspaper clippings of bosses giving their workers generous one-time payments (that never materialized). And next election cycle, Fox News can dig up all the happy reports and the truth of the matter has never even entered the attention span of the royally-effed-over working class voters.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Aw come on... they're not trying to end your existence. They just don't want to be alive or exist.

Okay wait actually some DO want to end your existence directly. But most wished if you just died.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Most of them would be fine if you just denied everything about yourself that didn't conform and pretended to be just like them.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Editors note: This only applies if you’re a white man. Other demographics are not allowed to conform.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No, you forget about, "the good ones."

Just don't ever expect your existence to change their beliefs. Hell you could climb the ranks in the party even make it to the Supreme Court. As long as you have no problem shutting the door on people who look just like you because of the way they look.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you were to try to argue their view, I think they would say that their only problem is when you exhibit immortal behavior. Their definition of immoral behavior isn't the only historic definition but is certainly a prominent one.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

I exhibit immortal behavior every day by not dying.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Sure, but the Christian/MAGA view of morality is a shit one that I don't subscribe to. They can fuck off with their moralizing of my decisions.