• @[email protected]
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      The problem is that, as always, the sides aren’t the same. One side is ravenous to begin killing as many Palestinian children as possible, and the other is tepid and wants to make sure we’re still sending sufficient aid to our allies in Ukraine fighting against a war of extinction.

      Both sides want to aid in the death of Palestinian children, and for that both are reprehensible, but you can see that one is still preferable to the other. Voting for neither helps the worst side. I’m not going to pretend that it is easy to push past the Biden administrations crimes, but it will be harder to swallow a Ukrainian loss as a result of a Republican demagogue coming to power.

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        -311 year ago

        Voting for neither helps the worst side.

        the only vote that helps either side is a vote for that side.

        you won’t get me to endorse either of these evils.

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      Tell me you’re a white straight dude without telling me you’re a white straight dude. That or that you get all your politics from them.

      Imagine having the privilege to only be under the corporate thumb in this country and then turn around and shit on everyone else in the position of wishing they only had that to worry about.

      Women lost the right to abortions because of people who voted like you. Bush happened because of people who voted like you. Shit, Bernie probably lost because of people who voted like you, because y’all can’t even be assed to turn out at the damned primaries.

      Nah man, fuck you.

      Edit: you know you’ve touched a nerve when the porcelain americans respond by attempting to spam your inbox over how you totally didn’t just touch that nerve XD

      • @hark
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        Remember when democrats had the ability to act on reproductive rights and then this was what democrats did when they had the power to do something about it?: https://www.reuters.com/article/obama-abortion/obama-says-abortion-rights-law-not-a-top-priority-idUKN2946642020090430

        That was after Obama said it was a top priority during his campaign. Democrats are incredibly skilled at claiming they care, not doing anything to actually back that up, and then when people don’t turn up to vote for their no-acting-asses, they wag their fingers and moralize from atop their high horses. Sure though, why don’t you lecture some homeless white man about how privileged he is, you fucking racist? I’m sure that’ll win you votes.

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          Yeah how dare Obama use the miniscule window in which he had a hypothetically filibuster proof majority to do something as pointless as passing laws that stop the healthcare system from being exponentially worse than it currently is, which also required employers to provide reproductive care access before SCOTUS struck that down.

          Gotta love the porcelain americans trying to gaslight victims over how it’s actually your fault they don’t do the miniscule thing that could minimize how shit your life is for at least a little while, and that next time you should make sure they feel pandered to enough before you do something so entitled as asking them for a crumb of that solidarity they go on about when they’re lecturing you about whatever self righteous cause they’re on today.

          Allies like you are why CEOs can get away with disrupting union formation by recruiting more PoC and queer folks.

          Edit: Fragile white folks complaining that porcelain americans is racist because it makes fun of how fragile they are will never stop being funny. Keep on keepin’ on Mr. “I’m totally not Commie’s alt account.”

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            Obama would’ve had a wider window if he actually delivered on his campaign promises, because then people would actually turn up to vote since they’d feel their vote actually mattered. No, instead he used that time to bail out the bankers who caused the global financial crisis. I have no idea what you’re blabbering about with pandering, since this is about reproductive rights, something you were shrieking about just a second ago, but now that I pointed out democrats could’ve done something about it, you say that other things are more important and that it’s somehow pandering. Also, what are you talking about “your fault”? I didn’t say it was your fault, I said it was the fault of the politicians holding the power. You know, because they hold the power.

            By the way, please stop using “porcelain americans” to refer to white people, it is racist. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, but you seem like a troll trying to get a rise out of people. You cannot seriously talk about divisiveness letting CEOs get away with things while you use such divisive language.

            • @dragonflyteaparty
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              Obama would’ve had a wider window if he actually delivered on his campaign promises

              Because he can single handedly do whatever he wants?

              • @hark
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                Well apparently he can set priorities.

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        -111 year ago

        suggesting your 4-paragraph screwed is legitimate discourse but my point-for point rebuttals are spam is lazy

      • @[email protected]
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        -131 year ago

        Imagine having the privilege to only be under the corporate thumb in this country and then turn around and shit on everyone else in the position of wishing they only had that to worry about.

        understanding the definition of fascism isn’t a privilege

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        -141 year ago

        Bernie probably lost because of people who voted like you, because y’all can’t even be assed to turn out at the damned primaries.

        vote harder next time. you’ll get the government you deserve

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        -161 year ago

        Bush happened because of people who voted like you.

        bush was coronated by his daddy’s friends

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        -171 year ago

        Tell me you’re a white straight dude without telling me you’re a white straight dude. That or that you get all your politics from them.

        identity is irrelevant to truth. this is pure ad hominem

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          identity is irrelevant to truth. this is pure ad hominem

          Today I’ve read stupider things and more pretentious things, but I think this is the most of both at once I’ve seen in a while.

          What are you even trying to say? That the world through many institutions and norms doesn’t treat some classes of people differently?

          You didn’t even address the rest of the post you quoted from.

          • @[email protected]
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            -121 year ago

            You didn’t even address the rest of the post you quoted from.

            you don’t get to decide what I say, when, or to whom.

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              you don’t get to decide what I say, when, or to whom.

              This is also incredibly stupid and irrelevant. Are you okay? Are you just bad at communicating? It’s not about me deciding what you say or to who. I’m giving you shit because your post was nonsense and you didn’t make a coherent argument. What you said was a complete non sequitur.

              The argument the other person made was, essentially, arguments that “both sides are the same” are bullshit. One “side” does a lot more immediate harm, especially to women and minorities. Your identity is irrelevant to the truth of those harms, sure, but not irrelevant to the conjecture that you don’t care about these things because they don’t personally affect you.

              You didn’t address any of that. Maybe you’re too busy badly replying with poorly written but extremely pretentious leavings.

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                -151 year ago

                Your identity is irrelevant to the truth of those harms, sure, but not irrelevant to the conjecture that you don’t care about these things because they don’t personally affect you.

                and that claim is a red herring, irrelevant to whether what I said is true

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                -191 year ago

                you’re too busy badly replying with poorly written but extremely pretentious leavings.

          • @[email protected]
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            -121 year ago

            What are you even trying to say?

            I’m saying that my claims are true or false regardless of who I am.

            • @[email protected]
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              Could you learn to comment once, with your whole thought contained? Its really hard to take you seriously when you talk and text like my senile grandmother

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        -201 year ago

        Women lost the right to abortions because of people who voted like you.

        rights are a fiction and your politics get people killed

    • @Vqhm
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      Concern trolls are going to concern troll.

      I see this corporatists allegations, and raise the military industrial complex that Eisenhower famously warned of.

      The military industrial complex in America is a vast public jobs program.

      Parts for the F 35 fighter are made in every state: https://www.f35.com/f35/about/economic-impact.html

      Other countries have public healthcare with the government running hospitals.

      We instead use tax dollars to pay people in every state to make weapons.

      There’s also NASA and a fair amount of money for medical research and computers.

      But our country has been obsessed with over preparing for war since WWII.

      If that’s something you would like to see changed you should probably be vocal about the policies you would like to see implemented and examples of how well it’s beneficial in other countries.

      To simply say, the state is wrong about everything. Or all war is horrific and therefore everyone that worked in the largest jobs program in this country should pack it up and go home has zero chances of success.

      Politics are complicated without trying to resort to absolutes with no room for negotiation.