• WanderWisley
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    A hardcore maga coworker told me that “if” it’s proven that Trump “was” in the Epstein files he will still vote for him because I’m his own words “I would rather vote for a pedophile than an honest democrat.”

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      Do these people mean it as democracy per se or just the democratic party? Just trying to understand your country’s stage of fascism.

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        No they pearl clutch and love America and the democracy it has. But they have been taught that Democrats/Liberals are horrible, disgusting people. It’s a knee jerk reaction at this point. My brother, who is hardcore maga, said “no I don’t think they are talking about you. You aren’t a ‘liberal’”. Like he was saving me from a terrible slur. And I had to nicely tell him that I am, in fact, liberal.

        It kind of feels like the hatred against “the gays” in the 90s. They need someone to hate and right now it’s the Democrats and liberals, and I guess everyone else the media has told them to hate (lgbtq, trans, etc).

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        They don’t even know the rules, they just make up or move be flag pole as needed…

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    7 hours ago

    The mad red hatters are also child molesters

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    6 hours ago

    This is divisive rhetoric.

    Remember our shared enemy is the ruling class.

    Both political parties serve the ruling class.

    Do NOT let them divide US.

    Apes together strong.

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      If there’s a realistic choice beyond “Corporate Whores” and “Corporate Whores who also want to institute Christian Sharia law in the US”, and you still support the whores, then yes, I will be right there front and center to call those people scumbags all day long.

      However, everyone knows that is not the case in US politics within the electoral mechanisms we’re currently operating under. Through that lens, being the person that knowingly votes for some niche candidate that they know isn’t going to win any election against those two, knowing full well that by doing that you’re making it that much easier for the Christofascists to scrape out a win and continue pushing this morality horseshit on the people…no, you don’t get a pass. Not anymore.

      The cost of a dozen eggs is of no fucking consequence when LGBTQ+ society is under assault. The price of a gallon of gas pales in comparison to the fact that ICE is out there literally wiping their ass with the constitution every day and the courts have no recourse to stop them. The fact that your property taxes may be a point or two higher or lower means precisely dick when you’re watching a war be instigated and fought that nobody wants solely to distract the people from the fact that our president belongs on a sex offender registry so his movements can be monitored for the rest of his disgusting life.

      I haven’t considered myself a supporter of the Democratic party since they sidelined Bernie, but if my choice is them, or someone that thinks the things I listed above are just fuckin great, you’re goddamn right Im going to pick them. Because at least with them we can stop the fucking bleeding. With the other guys, we’re just counting down until someone decides to trigger a nuke and once that happens elections as a concept are going to seem quaint let alone all the other luxuries we enjoy like running water or a functioning power grid.

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        Both the republicans and democrats have plenty of billionaire pedo connections. The working class do not. This is another class issue - working class kids being abused by wealthy ruling class pedos.

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          Watching Ivanka Trump disassociate when she introduced her child hood room makes me think the rich kids don’t exactly escape unscathed. But yeah, they target kids with the promise of changing their circumstances. They exploit the very weaknesses they breed in society.

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      6 hours ago

      bOtH sIdEs BaD is a tool used to sanewash the right

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        Both sides, Republicans and Democrats, ARE THE RIGHT. Both are pro war. Both are pro billionaire. Both are pro Israel. Both are pro genocide. Leftists have been screaming for years about the rise of fascism and were ignored for years. Now we have been proven right, again and again, and now are telling you, the democrats are 100% compromised, there is no saving them, and both parties must be dissolved. Now please, stop dividing the working class, if you want justice for the Epstein files, if you want this country to stop waging imperialist wars of aggression, if you want to stop fascism, we need to STAND TOGETHER FIRMLY against the ruling class.

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        One hand washes the other. They are different hands but they work together to sanewash each other. Biden sat on terrabytes of evidence but didn’t go after the pedos because it implicates Israel. Boths sides are bad, but in appreciaticely different ways

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        “There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.”

        ― Gore Vidal

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        blue magats can fuck off and die, shithole country of barbarians.

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      Not american.

      But while both parties are corrupt you can choose to use the better of the worse.

      Like yeah eating bland dough sold as a steak is bad, but eating literal shit sold as a steak is worse. Both are bad, but one is not like the other.

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        The trick is, it’s not just that they are shit labeled as food. It’s that most Americans have never seen the steak they pretend to be, so they look at anyone else as crazy when they are told what they’re eating isn’t filet mignon and no one else wants it. They have no frame of reference to even understand what food is in that metaphor.

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        No, I’m sorry, but the Democrats supported and enabled a genocide. We are fucking done with the lies of “harm reduction” which are promised all the while the democrats race to the right. Wake the fuck up, and realize YOU ARE WORKING CLASS. THEY ARE RULING CLASS. Stop doing their propaganda for them.

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      should also promote the third party instead of just bashing both sides of the mas party

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    My visceral issue with that comic series is that either: 1) the faces are weirdly deformed, with their mouths where their noses should be, or 2) they have little Disney button noses, and no actual mouths.

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      It’s crazy how many people love to blot the Clintons (and Larry Summers and the Cuomos and the rest) out of their brains the moment it’s convenient.

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    Where’s the mirror, or a fourth person with real integrity? Seriously, why not all three? I see not-one Left-of-Center, non-child-rapist-enabler portrayed here…

    Oh wait, a shit-lib made this, didn’t they.

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        Unlike many here, I stay off-campus because I stay armed, not because I’m otherwise legally prohibited. Talk to me when you’ve actually punched a Nazi, not just gathered in a large group far-away from the seats of power to hope-and-pray mean words at them.

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          Oh my, don’t tread on this snake, he scaaary. So how far have you gotten on your “make the world a better place”-project? Do tell.

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      If you don’t vote for Clinton, Cuomo, and Eric Adams, you’ll get something worse!

      looks at the thing that is worse

      It’s their biggest donor

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      Not going to lie, I thought it was pretty clearly labelled.