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[–] [email protected] 84 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

communist russia

i want to live in the reality libs live in 😭

[–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How do these people keep forgetting that they won the Cold War?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago

Red Scare propaganda is a hell of a drug

Also, I assume not enough of them watched the movie Red Heat

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago

They won the Cold War but didn't like the result.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Stopped reading at "Communist Russia." Who do I vote for in order to get that?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago

religious oppression

not sure if this is about israel or smol bean biden being powerless to protect abortion rights

communist russia

sicko-wistful

working conditions and social security cuts

yeah the guy who has been trying to cut benefits for over 20 years and broke a rail strike is a real winner

environment

more drilling permits than trump and the bullshit waivers for the border wall

tax the wealthy

yeah i voted for bernie in both primaries.

somebody else can do the rest

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago

To have mass shootings or responsible gun control?

Besides the fact that gun control wouldn’t eliminate all mass shootings, it’s readily apparent that gun control is an issue that Dems make just enough political theater out of to keep the donations rolling in but don’t actually put any political capital on the line to make a reality, except in deep blue states.

Do you want your Saturday night entertainment to be mandatory attendance at this week’s book burning?

Ugh, this kind of hyperbole backfires, because if you propose that the opposition is going to do something so far beyond what they’ve actually put on the table, it makes voters cynical that you’re just fearmongering.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

Libs are getting very desperate. Biden isn't a good candidate and they know it.

vote libs when they are forbidden from voteing in a competitive primary:

default-dance spongebob-party dancing-roach penguin-dance duck-dance

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago

Democrats don't want any of that...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Several infamous mass shootings that people still talk about today happened under the Obama administration. Biden hasn't done shit about the environment and it's gotten even worse under him. Most of this is already happening and not changing anytime soon at the federal level.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Other than Uvalde and the Las Vegas concert one, I'm fairly certain all the most brutal ones to enter the public psyche were under the Obama regime.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

There are also older ones like Columbine and Virginia Tech

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

Seriously?
Hey asshole who wrote this, where's my 2,000?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

Kim Jong Trump definitely needs to be stopped. Best way to do that is vote.

lenin facepalm

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

>Communist Russia

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

Can't wait for Biden to finally become the president so that he can fix all of these issues

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (3 children)

wait which color ends the genocide and confirms women's right to abortion?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

but i thought red was Democrat? funny how that's never really brought up as a mud sling tactic

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

The Red one. With the hammer and sickle.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

red white and blue

diaz-canel-troll kim-drip

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

Religious oppression or individual freedom

What have the dems done against that?

Free Ukraine of Communist[sic.] Russia

badeline-scream

To improve working conditions for the worker [...]

Biden on billionaires: "The folks at the top aren’t bad guys. I get in trouble in my party when I say wealthy Americans are just as patriotic as poor folks. I’ve found no distinction."

I'm sure this guy (with 230 billionaire backers) will stand up for the proletariat.

To protect the environment or let corporations pollute without repercussions

2023 was the first time in the anthropocene that global average temperature exceeded 2C above preindustrial average. He's doing great.

To decide if you want an abortion or let the state decide for you.

Joe Biden famously codified roe into law which is why it exists today. Thank God we voted blue.

To have mass shooting or responsible gun control

The US had 647 mass shootings in 2022.

To be taught the history of America or just the white racist version?

Biden hasn't made any laws or executive orders pertaining to curriculum.

Do you want to restrict your right to vote [...]

The American electoral system is broken beyond repair. There is nothing he could do to fix it. Also, Biden literally needs to sign a single document to make election day a national holiday and allow people to vote more easily. He just doesn't care.

Do you want Saturday night entertainment to be mandatory attendance at this week's book burning?

That's why you should vote for someone who will do nothing to stop fascism, because he only serves to benefit from it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Where is the Soviet Union?

points to heart

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Are all democrats pro choice? Honestly if so then that would maybe be the only reason I’d vote democrat if I were in the US. Not being able to legally get an abortion is scary as fuck to me.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Given they never tried to codify Roe into law, I would actually argue that all Dems are anti-choice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Hmm yeah then I see no point in voting for them, at least on federal level.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Henry Cellular is the only openly anti-abortion Dem in Congress (who Pelosi campaigned for against a pro-choice primary challange in 2022). But there are a few Dem's who's position isn't really clear becuase they are in GOP leaning areas. Like Joe Manchin goes to both anti-abortion and pro-choice events.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He's anti abortion and his fucking name is Cellular?

Next u gonna tell me about the abortion expert named Mitosis?

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

I regret to inform you his last name is actually Cuellar.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

I-was-saying I support communist Russia

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

The history taught in the US has always been the white rascist version

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Is supporting a Communist Russia really an option? Cause if it is ussr-cry

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I know libs, especially blue MAGA libs have goldfish memories, but I remember the last time the republicans were elected, Trump even, and the entire world didn't collapse overnight from that. Somehow I think this may be a little more dramatic than it needs to be.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

In fact libs suddenly understood protests and pretended tonsupport them under Trump.

Then Biden was elected and the same people protesting the same things were suddenly secret russians spreading republican prooganda.

How's dejoy doing as head of the usps liberals? How about the cocncentration camps on the border?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Would you rather have hyperbole or straight up lies?

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

This list is like playing LA Noir

doubt

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Lol I was talking about seeing this non reddit the other day.

On reddit they at least were calling out that modern russia wasn't communist, too bad they didn't apply that level of scrutiny to literally every other bullet point.

I mean seriously if you post this it's fair to assume your worldview is basically a children's cartoon.