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    13 days ago

    This “both sides” is bullshit when you are getting a train run on you by the Republicans…

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        13 days ago

        Correct, but still not even close to the same thing. More of this “balanced” stuff.

        Anywho on the plus side, he’s getting wrecked in the polls vs AOC who’s looking to take his place though.

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        13 days ago

        There’s no “leader” of the Democrats, it’s a big-tent party. Chuck is head of the group of Democratic senators, but he doesn’t dictate things outside of Senate business and we don’t blindly all follow everything he says. That’s the difference between electing public servants and people in a cult.

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      Are you denying that the Dems are shit? Just because the Reps are worse and currently in power?

      What kind of an argument is that supposed to be?

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        What are you talking about the initial argument is completely insane to be begin with. I think Biden came into office and reduce child poverty or hunger or something by half as his first action.

        We’re gonna compare that to Trump destroying the economy, removing due process, open up national parks to logging, letting DOGE cut departments with corruption, invading other countries?

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          13 days ago

          Biden gleefully engaged in one of the worst genocides of the era. He should be in a cell in the Hague.

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            I agree I think it’s fucking horrible and I think Chuck Schumer and everyone on any side of the political aisle that upheld this should be in a jail cell too.

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          What are you talking about the initial argument is completely insane to be begin with. I think Biden came into office and reduce child poverty or hunger or something by half as his first action.

          Are you having a stroke? I don’t follow your point and/or syntax.

          We’re gonna compare that to Trump destroying the economy, removing due process, open up national parks to logging, letting DOGE cut departments with corruption, invading other countries?

          What do you want from me? Obviously we agree that Trump is worse than the Dems.

          That still doesn’t make the Dems “not bad”.

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              Nobody said the Dems were perfect OR not bad through the chain.

              Never claimed that someone claimed that. Again: how is the original post wrong?

              Two parties in a two party system is no case of “apples and oranges”. That’s as close to a fair comparison as you’re gonna get.

              Ghonorrea and pancreatic cancer are two things I don’t want to have. Is this “false equivalency” as well?

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                Two parties in a two party system is no case of “apples and oranges”. That’s as close to a fair comuarison as yo’'re gonna get

                stroke much?


                seriously, this isn’t a “fair comparison” because it doesn’t address any sort of nuance nor is it supposed to. It’s supposed to make people go: “yeah the dems suck too” rather than understand anything about what’s going on.

                If you claim to be on the same page then whatever, we can just agree on our core points leave it at that.

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                  stroke much?

                  I guess you never make typos, then. Huh? /s

                  seriously, this isn’t a “fair comparison” because it doesn’t address any sort of nuance nor is it supposed to.

                  I’m sorry that I slandered ghonorrea by comparing it to pancreatic cancer. Clearly I forgot the nUaNcE between these two horrible sicknesses. /s

                  Wait. How can there be any “nuance” if you can’t compare the two parties? Is a comparison of apples with oranges flawed because of the “nuance”?

                  It’s supposed to make people go: “yeah the dems suck too” rather than understand anything about what’s going on.

                  That’s what you think the intent is. I think that it’s supposed to state that the US democratic system is not suitable for a fair and equitable world and the Dems are not the solution of the mess the US is in.

                  You can have your own interpretation but don’t assume that this was OP’s intent.

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                    Are you having a stroke? I don’t follow your point and/or syntax.

                    I was making reference to this.

                    Wait. If how can there be any “nuance” if you can’t compare the two parties? Is a comparison of apples with oranges flawed because of the “nuance”?

                    I never said you can’t compare. I’m saying this comparison is devoid of any content. The establishment dems suck for many reasons. None of which you can find here.

                    You can have your own interpretation but don’t assume that this was OP’s intent.

                    I think I will.

                    [edit] the point that everyone is emphasizing is the Republicans is setting the US on fire. The Dems have put on rallies to stop it. The posts that are saying “both sides” are just insane to me, but whatever. [/edit]

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      13 days ago

      I can’t deal with US politics right now and this thread.

      I’m fucking Canadian and people upvoting this both sides nonsense is getting my blood boiling.

      I thought this enlightened centrist shit was over with but people are bringing it up like they’re some next-level IQ genius. When in reality they’re trying their to push people to the right (whether they understand it or not).

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        You think neoliberalism is on the left? Well, in this case yes we’re pushing people to the “right” if your scale is inverted

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        When is your country going to return the land they stole to its indigenous peoples? When is the US democratic party going to stop supporting the genocide of Palestine?

        If its people not voting for the US democratic party, rather than either of the above issues that “gets your blood boiling”, you might need to re-evaluate which side of the white supremacist line you’re on.

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        I’m sorry that genocide is okay to you but you draw the line at bad optics. That sounds like a you issue. Genocide apologist don’t tend to be the sharpest tools in the shed though.

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        I’m fucking Canadian

        So you probably dont even understand the full context of what you’re talking about.

        Arent there other countries political websites you can go bother people on? Try Australia, your fellow commonwealth country (sorry australians). Theres plenty of other places to be a touriust with strong opinions about other peoples governments.

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      13 days ago

      Interesting.

      Obama dropped an average of 80 bombs per day on the ME and North Africa during his presidency. The number of civilians murdered is impossible to calculate.

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        For a USAmerican(or any other person), their primary concern would be their own safety, right?

        Unless they can form/support a major third party, they are effectively forced to a two-choice system

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          The USA is not the world, and its citizens should start looking towards the welfare of the people their country murders.

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            When both choices explicitely lead to mass murder its mandatory for any ethical person to do all they can to make some third outcome happen.

            Voting quietly for what may be slightly less mass murder but certainly is still mass murder is a pathetic and shameful way to chart a course forward. A handful of us have more dignity than that.

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      You really don’t get it, huh?

      People heard that shit last time, and they voted democrat, and Biden won. And ABSOLUTELY NOTHING changed.

      At the end of the day, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer, just like they did with trump, and with Obama, and with every single president who has taken office in god knows how many decades.

      And still you’re here yapping “oh noes the horrors, vote Dems”.

      Bro, the Dems aren’t LISTENING! Get a Bernie up there, or an AOC, or anyone that the people actually believe will do anything other than feeding the same interests they have been feeding.

      And if you’re too thick to realize that, at least you’re not alone, the whole DNC is right there with you.