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      • ZeroCool
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        Hate to break it to everyone but many of those people found their way here too. Which is why this post is sitting at 74% upvotes as of my writing… They don’t appreciate being called out.

        • LinkOpensChest.wav
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          241 year ago

          Waiting for one of them to chime in with why the person depicted in the meme is good actually

          Something something marketplace of ideas

          • MisterMoo
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            It’s the guy above in this thread saying “Strawman arguments are so boring & ineffectual.”

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              Yes, I saw that one.

              I’ve also seen that user in other posts, behaving just as you’d expect lol

                • LinkOpensChest.wav
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                  Tell me you don’t understand how party politics & voting work without telling me you don’t understand how party politics & voting work

                  …to someone who clearly does understand how party politics and voting work, but it understandably disillusioned by the fact that we have two right-wingers to choose from, albeit one much further to the right than the other. Completely handwaves the negative effects of Democrats’ actions, which are very much in need of criticism.

                  I voted for Biden, but it’s been increasingly disappointing to watch stuff like this. Biden opened more concentration camps, Biden continued the wall, Biden took power away from railroad workers in favor of his own lobbyists’ approach, and supported the IRS in auditing unprecedented numbers of low wage earners. We need to talk about these things. This partisan teat-sucking shit needs to stop.

                  And if that’s “just how the system works,” then we need a new one. If families need to be imprisoned while Washington moves glacially, then fuck anything and anyone who enables that.

                  Ironically, by calling everyone a Russian psy-op who dares criticize the party, Democrats are alienating all except their most conservative voters.

                  • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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                    51 year ago

                    Tell me you don’t understand how party politics & voting work without telling me you don’t understand how party politics & voting work

                    …to someone who clearly does understand how party politics and voting work,

                    Obvious gaslighting is how that sort of person concedes an argument.

                  • @orrk@lemmy.world
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                    to be fair, weren’t you in the other thread calling for a boycott of the broken electoral system? that literally does align with Russian propaganda to try and get republicans into power.

                    similarly, I’m not saying Berkley was full of Nazis in the 1930, but by golly if pacifism wasn’t ALSO pushed by the literal American fascists during this time…

          • @tsonfeir@lemm.ee
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            121 year ago

            Hey now, as an upper-middle class politically “center” white heterosexual cis male with “I don’t have to shave daily” five o’clock shadow, I’m offended 🥸

        • @Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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          Perhaps if we create further divisions amongst ourselves along lines of race, gender, and sexuality, we can ascend above these divisions.

          … Wait a minute.

        • snownyte
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          Yeah but they’ll soon realize how bored they get because of how few people there are here. Why go waste effort to anger like 50 people when they can go around angering over 1,000? Big difference.

          • The Snark Urge
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            41 year ago

            Smaller online communities are the antidote for what I’ve got. For a lot of reasons

      • LinkOpensChest.wav
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        131 year ago

        Never said he’s not

        If you look, you might see him in this very thread

      • Whitehat Hacker
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        111 months ago

        Willing to bet they’re on Kbin, Kbin favors trolls more than Lemmy does, since they have significantly worse moderation and some kbin instances have no moderation.

    • @rwhitisissle@lemmy.world
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      Serious response, but that’s almost certainly some random guy who got paid like 100 bucks by a stock image company. I always feel bad when a real person’s likeness gets applied to horrible ideological positions they probably don’t personally endorse just because they look like a stereotypical chud.

      • LinkOpensChest.wav
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        71 year ago

        Yeah true. I was focused more on the concept than the guy, but I can see what you’re saying. The literal guy in the photo might be a really great person for all we know.