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      If people are making fake posts like this I am completely fine with it. It will only further influence the real magats to maybe see the light. Even if one voter is swayed the cost is worth it.

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        Yeah I see what you’re saying, but it’s only giving false hope like we don’t need to try anymore because MAGA is finally realizing. They won’t. They never will, which is why they are MAGA.

        There were thousands of people on their deathbeds in the hospital, with their dying breaths, saying COVID wasn’t real. These people are too far gone. It’s over for them trying to participate in our society.

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        Or it will be one small piece of a larger problem that causes them to ignore anything that disagrees with their world view

        The amount of bullshit being shared as truth has caused a lot of people to be much more willing to dismiss real facts as fake

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          I’m a straight white guy and I can personally say that trump did nothing for me, my life only changed a little bit and it was for the worse. Everything is so much better under trump though. I feel respected - which I never do when non autocrats are involved.

          Edit: Anyone downvoting the guy above maybe doesn’t realize he’s directly quoting a white republican wanna be politician who posted that on twitter .

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            I think he’s on the lines of “Democrats didn’t do enough to stop this” - I think that’s better wording than what you’re saying. Can’t argue your point because you’re kind of right. Culpability is a stretch, can’t argue that either because you’re angry and you’re right to be angry. So. I don’t know, I got nothing lol.

            FYI I originally interpreted your statement as “I voted for Trump, liberals caused me to”.

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              interpreted as

              Fuck no. Hoping he dies in a funny humiliating way, I no longer vote. It’s bullshit and I don’t want to legitimize it.

              a stretch

              After j6 they’re responsible in exactly the way every cop in the department is responsible for the obviously sex trafficking guy, even if they keep their rape more personal. They monopolize acceptable violence disempowering the rest of us, and instead if using it to stop the fucker use it to protect and insulate him from harm. Also all the legal/organizational/cultural/physical infrastructure they built for this shit. The dems fully built the fascism. All the other team did was paint some bitchin flames¹ on the side and catch the keys they were tossed.

              Like imagine if Obama had given snowden a medal and declared the NSA ‘over’, or that their surveillance programs were over and they sent audit teams to suspect Pd’s to cut their shit out. Instead of hunting him down til he got to Russia. Do you think any of this could be happening in that world? Or if he OR biden had curtailed, or just not expanded, ice? Do you think this could have moved as fast?

              I love the assumption of ‘he’ by the way. Fucking libs.

              ¹cross shaped. Obviously.

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                My bad, I see your comment history says you’re a woman. I didn’t read that far back. English sucks.

                I mean, at least vote for the person you hate less. If the Overton window was shifted far left by votes like yours, you might begin to see progress. Not voting does not “prove” anything to anyone, it does nothing. Voting can work even with the fuckery and cheating we’ve seen. We’re not that far gone, yet. And we depend on informed votes like yours. At the least, voting for the candidate you hate least does no harm.

                If there were two Satans running for office, I’d at least begrudgingly vote for the less disgusting one, while doing whatever else I feel is making an actual difference.

                Other stuff can’t really argue. I don’t really see things that way but I get your seething anger.

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                  Fuck you people. Fuck your system of power. Fuck your state. I can cope with a few deranged Nazis, but I’m simply not willing to engage in the co-creation of reality with liberals after their past decade of absolutely inexcusably vile behavior. I understand voting for trump to own the libs, and in fact think it’s the only excusable reason.

                  You fuckers really cannot comprehend how fucking awful your behavior was, or how much everyone on earth very justifiably hates you.

                  State doesn’t need my name and fingerprints on a ballot anyway. If I’m gonna shift the window left, it’s not gonna be with votes. Tried that. Just got the libs to… Well, look outside.

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      Also, self reflection and the ability to reassess, coupled with some humility.

      No way this isn’t satire.

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    So, in 2016 I read a couple opinion pieces about the rise of Trump, and how liberal/leftist elitism played a major part because the rank and file of the right felt as if we were looking down on them, and it made me really introspective. Were we being exclusionary? Should we focus more on kindness and understanding? It would be hard to ignore or push aside some of their hateful rhetoric to meet then where they are and help guide them out, but maybe that is what needs to happen.

    In 2025? Fuck that, and fuck you. I’ll still vote for your best interests, march with you, vote with you and not mock you or disown you for your past, but you have to swallow your pride and admit you were wrong first. If you can’t do that, you deserve the Trump-dozer that will roll over you.

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      The democrats started the mantra of “take the high road”. The only thing that did was piss off the right and they got worse. There is no reasoning with MAGA. They won’t stop until their perceived enemies are suffering, even if that includes their own suffering along side them.

      Kathy is suffering, but when her legs are gone she will still be eating Trumps asshole.

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        As Cipolla suggested, a stupid person is the most dangerous person in the world … Why? you don’t understand them and they’ll act in ways that hurt you and themselves.

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    A 3-month supply of Metformin costs under $7 without insurance. This isn’t a real situation, at least not for the person who wrote this.

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    No Kathy, I want you to laugh.

    I want you to laugh as loud and as boisterously as you can.

    Laugh while they’re amputating your leg, Kathy. Laugh while they deny you unemployment and medical care. Find someone who tried to vote to keep all this for you, get right in their face, and laugh a rank, toothless laugh in their commie lib face.

    I SAID FUCKING LAUGH BITCH

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      Actually for us folks not in America, it is. In a tragically dark way, of course, but funny nonetheless.

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    She needs society to come together and help cover the costs of her healthcare through some sort of social safety net?

    Are there any words to describe that kinda thing?