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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

LA told me

"You'll be a pop star

All you have to change

Is everything you are."

[–] [email protected] -3 points 44 minutes ago (2 children)

Robert Reich, the same idiot who told me to vote for Kamala’s right wing platform.

Go back to doing your stupid little dances, Robert

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 minutes ago

All of these can be true simultaneously:

  1. Voting for Kamala was 100% the right thing to do, and
  2. The Democrats, including Kamala Harris, have a fucking horrible right-wing platform
  3. The Democrat party needs to be thoroughly dismantled in favor of an actual leftist party
[–] [email protected] 2 points 27 minutes ago

As opposed to what?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Ok, and white must become black.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Or what? What are you doing to do about it if they don't change at all; if they'd rather lose with a lesser fascist than win with a progressive?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Lol "lesser fascist." tHeY'Re bOtH ThE SaMe!!1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 51 minutes ago (1 children)

You're failing to grasp the nuance between reluctantly supporting genocide and fully supporting genocide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

There are a whole lot of folk that plain demand full support of genocide as the cost of doing business/having rights. Reluctance to support genocide is viewed as eroding the foundation to their very way of life.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Correct, Biden just cozying up to Trump when he should be using emergency powers to arrest this madman who under the 14th Amendment isn't even eligible to be President was absolutely sickening to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Right so... "let's do the thing the fascist threatens to do because we're right and it's justified" is not the same thing as the fascist saying "we'll do it because we're right and it's justified".

Easy to justify the means when you believe in the ends... but of course every one thinks they are right and that everyone else will come to believe they are right, thusly conveniently avoiding any bad consequences.

Do you have any idea what would have happened if Biden just arrested Trump?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 29 minutes ago

Yeah, it might be just to arrest him, but America clearly doesn't give a fuck. The fact of the matter is the people picked Trump this election, if nothing else arresting him will only galvanize his followers and legitimatize their own turn to fascism. There's no good outcome in this scenario, we missed that opportunity on election night. It sucks but right now we're the kid playing with fire; obviously we need to learn the hard way. We should've learned from the last trump presidency you say? Yeah, we really, really should've.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Biden doesn't even know wtf is going on. If he does, the last thing he's doing is trying to salvage his legacy. He's got no fight in him.

He truly fucked us. Not saying Harris would've won necessarily, but having only 3 months to run a campaign against someone who's been running for 8 years is tricky. You can see why given the number of people googling if Biden dropped out...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

A legacy of "Used powers given to him by the Supreme Court to stop Hitler 2.0" would be better than "Sucked Trump's dicker harder than Elon did."

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