• @TrickDacy
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    -15 months ago

    You say that like the stakes truly aren’t as high as people say they are.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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      35 months ago

      I say that like it’s happened in every fucking election I’ve been aware of since I was born.

      And if the stakes are even higher then we’re actively circling the drain as a nation.

      • @TrickDacy
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        15 months ago

        Hmm weird because I don’t remember 50% of the country saying Mitt Romney is a fascist and even if some did, they didn’t have a pile of valid evidence for their argument like they have for trump today

        And that wasn’t even that long ago. Huge difference, if you’re thinking of making some argument that it’s slowly gotten more intense.

        But yes of course every election is actually the exact fucking same. If you turn your brain all the way off anyhow.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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          05 months ago

          I’m not saying they’re the exact fucking same. I’m saying they’re getting fucking worse.

          Also wasn’t the Romney election where they had "Vote or Die’ shirts?

    • @[email protected]
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      -15 months ago

      You say that like people haven’t been saying that exact same thing every election for all of US history. It’s a tactic to silence unrepresented groups and bully them into conformity. Some people think differently from you and do legitimately view both the Democrats and Republicans as anti-democratic organizations.

      And since at least the ones on the left were personally deprived of a fair election by the Democrats in 2016 and arguably 2020, pretending the Democrats are not also a threat to democracy immediately makes any argument you make fall on deaf ears. Instead, the Dem base parrots the party lines about progressives being the ones who gave us Trump in 2016. Despite literal evidence that the Dems propped him up during the primary.

      • @TrickDacy
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        -15 months ago

        This is exactly the lie this post was created to criticize

          • @barsquid
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            -15 months ago

            Donald, an insurrectionist: “I should be allowed to murder political opponents.”

            SCOTUS: “Oh, maybe he’s right, let’s consider.”

            You: “Everything is fine, just another regular election.”

            • @[email protected]
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              15 months ago

              Everything is decidedly not fine. Where was that in my comment? I merely pointed out that your rhetoric is the same as we hear every election.

              • @barsquid
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                05 months ago

                A president who claims he can murder whomever, whenever is novel, horrifying, and would be the end of voting. Who is going to stop him if SCOTUS rules that way and how? Especially with half the legislative branch complicit. And in fact this same person has already committed an insurrection. You want to play it off, “oh, you guys are panicking every four years.”

                  • @barsquid
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                    -25 months ago

                    No, those are the things you are saying right now.

                    You’re free to go in depth and clarify what your intent is saying, “we hear this every election,” when people are discussing an openly authoritarian candidate who publicly wants to murder political opponents and has already done an insurrection.