• frog_brawler@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    As “the other side” don’t speak for me. I want guillotines and a substantial redistribution of wealth until we no longer have billionaires.

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    1 day ago

    Obviously the republicans are genuinely terrible people

    But I’ll give you an equivalence that actually holds up

    Both parties have their snouts in the trough and depend on huge levels of external funding which completely undermines your democracy

    That is a problem that needs to be fixed

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      17 hours ago

      OK, fix it when the government isn’t on a bloodhunt for transgender people, to start with.

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    1 day ago

    A lot of world class dipshits on this very platform think both sides are equal. Getting pretty tired of reading

    “Both sides are fascist, one’s just more open about it.”

    Stupidest fucking sentiment I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading. Absolute lack of education and critical thinking skills to say shit like that.

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      1 day ago

      I don’t think they’re both equal, they’re certainly both shit.

      How do you measure the quality of shit?

      Let’s just say I wouldn’t let Maxine Waters or Mitch McConnell watch my dog

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        If “shittiness” was a binary, they’d definitely the same. However, in the real world it’s a spectrum that looks more like:

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          7 hours ago

          Beautiful!

          Now, add some marionette strings to both parties, connect those strings to a billionaire’s hand and it will be a perfect representation!

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          With their proposed ideas, I’d mostly agree.

          However, with the increasingly shittier Republicans they have compromised further and further into utter shit. They’ve tacked toward shitty, pretty hard in some cases, to try to lure some shitty votes their way… alienating those who want less shit. They’ve opted to take money from extremely shitty people because they have a lot of money but those people desire there to be more shit. The Democrats abandoned their less shitty ground repeatedly even when they managed to find some real leverage, unleashing torrents of shit for no apparent reason (unless they actually want more shit).

          So yes, their campaign websites have a lot less shit on them than the Republicans, but in practice the party as a whole has either pushed for things to be much shittier or compromised their alleged ideals unnecessarily resulting in things being much shittier.

          There are certainly diamonds in the shit. I don’t think it’s all of them, but current leadership is definitely way more shitty than they look. What concerns me is that every time we get rid of some small contingency of Democrats that are obviously bathing in shit and willing to open the floodgates for the Republicans, we always seem to find just enough of the remaining Democrats wiling to dive in and replace them. It gives the impression that, for a significant subset of them, their campaign slogans and alleged ideals are performative.

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      People refusing to vote for the lesser of two evils is what got us the worse evil!

      What are you even talking about? Biden got elected and enabled the modern-day holocaust lol. There is no “lesser evil”, there are many heads to the same hydra: capitalism.

      • 𝕲𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍🔻𝕯𝖃 (he/him)@lemmy.world
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        well fuck me for prioritizing the genocides happening in my own country over the genocides happening on the other side of the planet.

        edit: responded to the wrong comment, but the one I meant to respond to was also by you so I’m leaving it.

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          What’s happening in America is terrible but if you’re comparing it to what is happening in Palestine as being even close to equivalent, you are a chronically out-of-touch and overprivileged liberal.

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    Correction: They SAY they want health care and education, get elected, and then spend their political capital making most people poorer, doing fascism, and genociding.

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      doing fascism

      Lol. Can you describe how Democrats “do fascism”?

      I keep seeing this stupid, counter-productive sentiment and have yet to have anyone actually explain it to me.

      Meanwhile, I’m old enough to remember when I was poor and had NO healthcare and the Dems fought tooth and nail to get Obamacare passed and then I had affordable healthcare. Millions of other people can tell you the same, if you need a history lesson.

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        I don’t know that I agree.

        The only difference I see here is that, under Democrats, it’s primarily ICE and the cops doing the Nazi things and not CBP, and you’ll recall that after George Floyd was killed Biden used his next SOTU to publicly call for more police militarization.

        Also, go look up who first appointed Tom Homan, for a very good example.

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    the “media” doesn’t “think” they all just push their current agenda

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    it feels like these are a bunch of buzzwords to likefarm instead of actually saying anything. No, i don’t think the average republican / American is fully unprejudiced and benevolent. but to say an entire half of the country wants slavery back is nonsense

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    2 days ago

    Equal? Universal healthcare is derided as the delusions of radical extremists. A mere pipedream of anti-semitic tankies, if we’re talking the gambit of American media.

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    The media is just a billionaire propaganda machine. They have to make both sides sound equally right so both sides keep fighting each other instead of fighting the billionaires causing all the problems.

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    No, the media doesn’t think that, the owners of the media wants the media to say that they’re equal

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    So foolish to think this way.

    The longer we sit here and make it about the “other” is another day/year/decade that these people play us and stay in power.