Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal

ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• poopsmith@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The most terrifying words from in the English language are: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”

  Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

  • Senile retired actor mouthpiece for the ultra-wealthy

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Senile retired actor mouthpiece for the ultra-wealthy

    …who was voted in based on a single issue campaign. The anti-abortion-access movement convinced their flock that abortions were literally as bad as killing babies, and Falwell successfully created a voting block based on that one issue. That base didn’t realize it came with massive deregulation, and they weren’t smart or knowledgeable enough to care.

    Reagan was the beginning of the end. I was fourteen when he was elected.

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• Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s an issue with definitions. When the right says the government is corrupt, they mean socially corrupt. When the left talks about the corrupt, they mean fiscally corrupt.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, the right is also morally and legally corrupt.

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    • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My favourite logical fallacy is this: big, democratic government having control is bad, there’s too little oversight and too much corruption. Therefore, it is better if a billionaire, who rules autocratically without any oversight, is better.

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      • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        As long as it’s their autocrat, yes.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The right thinks that people are socially corrupt. Not the government. They think the government shouldn’t enable that corruption. But when it comes down to it, they hate people. They don’t hate institutions.

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  • Dojan@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The right wanting to eradicate minorities has nothing to do with fiscal corruption. It’s just pure evil.

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• ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am declaring war on fat, gay kids.

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  • Unstoppable_Flop@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Finally! A new angle!

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• SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The “right” isn’t a monolith anymore than the “left”.

  While it manifests in different ways the American “left” has been just as willing and happy to sacrifice brown, trans, woman, etc. persons because they are equally dumb and brainwashed.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “If we don’t let Israel burn down Gaza we might lose votes and if we lose votes then Trump will win and if Trump wins then it’s your fault when minorities are hurt.”

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    • Unstoppable_Flop@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Look what you made me do!!

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      • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We are literally caught between two political parties which are both using different styles of psychological abuse to get our votes.

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  • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Liberals are center-right at best, the US has no left

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• a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They actually say it all the time. Trumps people have been called out in interviews for saying it while occupying their positions.

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