• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    4chan users now: makes greentexts like this.

    4chan users before: voted for DJT for the memes, for gamergate, and that the transes transed their favorite gay bamboozle character, Bridget from GGST (reminder that the “trans women are tricking straight men” myth came from straight men tricking each other into watching femboy/trans porn); and due to the wizard game drama.

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    I like that last one … but I doubt Democrats will do anything at this point. Dems are just Republicans that still play make believe and sort of pretend to care about people.

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        Amen to this. There’s a very few couple of good ones, but for the most part the Old guard Democrats really need to go enjoy their long overdue retirement and let some new people with new ideas and new energy carry the torch.
        The old playbook isn’t working anymore. It doesn’t resonate with voters. It doesn’t address the major problems with our country.

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      This guy’s a Chinese Wumao Russian Bot Republican Psy-Op Far-Right Double-Secret Fascist Oil Executive Who Wants to Murder Everything.

      If you don’t blindly and uncritically support Jim Justice for President, you are the worst thing to happen to this country since Eugene V. Debs cost John W. Davis the election.

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      it’s wild to me that they’re considered progressive when like. my aunt is literally an old white bitch that romanticizes the kennedys as “american royalty.” Like don’t get me wrong they’re way better but like in the sense that they don’t want to just like. Shoot me. They still want me to know my place as a peasant. They’re not gonna do anything that’s going to risk them actively losing any power in the normal electional way. They’re just crossing their fingers that the other guys won’t just like. Start shooting. We’re reaching the point where it’s the dems that are regressive in that they want everything to stay the same and it’s the alt right that’s pushing for change. It’s terrifying genocidal change but it’s attractive to a certain segment of the population on the sole merit that at least it’s technically change.

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        There is this old joke: “The US has two parties: The conservatives, and the Republicans…”

        People may be stupid, but not blind. They see that things are bad, and want change. The “old” Dems promise status quo, stability, business as usual, maybe even business like in the good ol’ days. That is like the textbook definition of conservative. The MAGA people promise and deliver change. Sure, might not be good change. But it’s change.

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      I think the only thing I could have in common with a Trump supporter is that we can agree the Democrats are useless, and that the Republicans can get shit done.

      Republicans are also pure evil, and only work to create as much pain and suffering as possible.

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    He has the biggest stick in the world, but he doesn’t meet the strength, intelligence, or wisdom requirements to wield it, so when he uses it it degrades faster than normal and doesn’t work.

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      He has the biggest stick in the world, but he doesn’t meet the strength, intelligence, or wisdom requirements to wield it

      Trump with more competency would be a different kind of disastrous. Better military leadership, a broader global alliance, and more effective (ie, not the AI slop) weaponry would just mean another Libya or Syria instead of an Iranian state that’s held firm.

      Trump with more intelligence would have meant doing an Obama-style Stuxnet attack or a new and more pernicious sabotage/infiltration operation. One that would further destabilize society in Iran until it was ripe for collapse, a la Yugoslavia or modern day Cuba.

      Trump with more wisdom would have meant not doing any of this shit to begin with. The wisest thing to do with a The Biggest Stick is to cast it into the fire. Destroy it. Trump’s not the first President to become seduced by the mad whispers of a dozen different Pentagon analysts and John Bolton minded strategists. Iran is ultimately just a repeat of Iraq and Afghanistan, Vietnam and Korea. Our imperialism is a cancer upon the planet and the source of our own social decay.

      when he uses it it degrades faster than normal and doesn’t work

      When anyone uses it, all it can do is degrade society and undermine long-term socio-economic goals. To war is to splatter yourself with the blood of your neighbors. You can never justify it, in the end. You can never war “correctly”.

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    That last part was interesting to me. Every president since Eisenhower, every single one, no exceptions (none), was a war criminal. Has any administration ever prosecuted a previous one for war crimes?

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    • Live in America
    • Have enough money to become immune to legal repercussions
    • Do whatever you want, knowing you’ll never have to face any sort of real punishment for it
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    I read that from top to bottom and not a single thing was wrong or even an exaggeration.

    It really is that bad.

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        It’s always funny how absolutely nothing happened to judges who let Trump off and the electors who elected Trump against the vote of the people. Such democracy, wow.

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      There’s another, even dumber world where Trump has such a great visit to Iran, we team up to invade greenland.

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      Do diplomacy by shouting in public and assuming the message will reach your enemy.

      You may not like it, but this is what peak transparency looks like