• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    If the American electorate was slightly less stupid, I’d be ecstatic, because he made himself effectively kryptonite to reasonable, intelligent people with that statement.

    Unfortunately, the American electorate is, on average, that stupid.

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    11 months ago

    Wow. This jackoff needs to go right now. That didn’t take long. Isn’t about time for Mr. Smith to start indicting these fuckers for treason?

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    11 months ago

    Yo. Shit for brains. Here’s the deal.

    Get your god on the ballot. We’ll vote for it. If it wins then maybe we’ll give a listen to what it’s got to say.

    Otherwise keep that fucker OUT of our government.

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      11 months ago

      Isn’t that effectively what he’s doing? A vote for him is a vote for his opinions, including that of God.

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        No, that is not what he’s doing. He’s pretending to be the will of some magical sky fairy, and he is anything but that. He claims to “hear” this imaginary person “telling him what to do”. That is not the same thing as a god - that is a charlatan using the snake oil of an imaginary sky fairy to con the poorly educated.

        What I want is god, I don’t care which one (they’re all imaginary) put on the ballot and voted for. This would be decisive two ways… First, how does one get on a ballot? (they have to prove they are a real live human being, among other tests). And the second doesn’t matter, because an imaginary thing can’t be on a ballot.

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    11 months ago

    Republicans (see, it’s right there in the name) have been openly mocking people who think we live in a democracy for literally my entire life

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        11 months ago

        The only horseshoe theory is “america isn’t a democracy” and the critical difference is the appendment of “and that’s good, actually”.

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          11 months ago

          I hope that there’s a huge blue wave, and it stays blue, just so that I can say to them “America is a Constitutional Democracy, not a Republic”.

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            Can we get some non-Third Way blues? Some people that actually oppose the military industrial complex, and will actually push renewables over the coal, gas, and crude that’s broiling our planet alive? 'Cause if we don’t, I sure as shit won’t be part of that wave. This current crop of dems can either get right or get gone.

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              11 months ago

              We have those in Congress. It’s just that there’s more conservative wing of Democratic Party is more numerous, and there’s the issue of batshit-crazy right-wingers on the Republican side. Republican Party has to be extinct before left-wingers has a more significant foothold.

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                Republican Party has to be extinct before left-wingers has a more significant foothold.

                How y’all plan to do that with the ‘more numerous’ Democrats obstructing progressive ideals just as staunchly, if not moreso than the Republicans? I don’t sell out where I stand to gain nothing; and my left hand to my gods, my right hand to my ancestors, I see no one currently worth even temporary alliance in the current day Democrat party, exactly like I see the Republicans.

                As it stands, I’d rather the whole shit fell apart than sell my principles for nil to ghoul barbarians who will waste that support, as well as my tax money, on endless war, endless subjugation, and endless climate change.

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                  11 months ago

                  Easy. Voting left-wing on the down ballot and putting the better of the two on top. And it works over time.