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Bezos deletes 'LGBTQ+ rights' and 'equity for Black people' from Amazon policies
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"I tried to save you from the empire by voting for the empire"
Honestly, fuck Americans and their insane discourse. Absolutely psychotic, delusional, brainwashed bullshit. You have NO fucking clue what is happening on this planet. This society is a plague on the world, just unleashing an endless series of massacres, and none of you even understand why.
The fact that you would vote for someone complicit in genocide, without even figuring out WHY, and actually think you did something GOOD. My fucking god. And nobody reply to me with this "Trump would have been 5% worse" bullshit, because I'm done hearing it. You are not the heroes of the story. You've been indoctrinated to support "global military empire lite" with your fear of "global military empire original". You sacrifice the lives of the victims of the empire for your illusion of democracy and quality of living, that never existed in the first place. Stop fucking patting yourselves on the back.
Brooooo, it's not like any of us were thrilled with Kamala either. But in comparison to Trump I was excited for her.
Trust me, we all get that both options weren't optimal, but we don't get an optimal option. We get 2 options, and one is usually better than the other. If we keep picking the better one, over time things improve.
People like you tend to protest by not voting at all, or voting third party (which is essentially the same under our current structure). If we had compulsory voting, I highly doubt Trump would have won.
The problem is it’s not a choice between good and better, it’s a choice between bad and worse. We’re hitting the point where the lesser of two evils choices are hitting critical mass.
Aside from not taking a firm stance on Israel, I didn't have any huge problems with Kamala. I figured she was just holding back on criticism since AIPAC has the power to essentially end careers. That's probably too optimistic.
"Figured", "probably" - these are not the levels of certainty you should have on your conclusions regarding a genocide.
Considering I was absolutely certain trump would make it worse, I was okay with mild uncertainty.
Let me rephrase it. You are not meeting the standards of research required to effectively participate in a democracy.
Actually based take.
Lawl, you don't know me, don't pretend to.
There's enough to tell.
No single drop of water blames itself for the flood. There are 240 million eligible voters, who all have the choice, collectively and individually, to vote for ANYONE. Somehow you are all completely incapable of blaming the entire group for its continual decisions to vote for war criminals and genociders. Rather, you completely invert the blame onto those who DON'T vote for those people. Literally, you ignore the blame for the only people actually responsible, and instead blame the only people NOT responsible. Given the massive efforts to brainwash the public regarding this political system, it's nearly impossible to not see this as a product of brainwashing as well, because this self-defeating pattern completely neuters any attempt for real political change.
By the way, the Senate just voted 99-0 to confirm Marco Rubio. Including Bernie Sanders, Van Hollen, Booker, Warren, every Democrat. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00008.htm Explain that to me once you get done explaining how the Democrats are really the underdog opposition.
Also, no, they fucking don't. The system presenting you with these manufactured options continually clamps down its chokehold on the world as you continue on in your delusion of political choice. It absolutely boggles my fucking mind how after a year and a half of open genocide you think there's some kind of autonomy between the Democrats and Republicans.
I'm still upset about what they did to Jorgensen in 2020. If they hadn't retroactively banned her from participating in the debates she may have actually had a chance at the seat.
So, the choices were donvict or Biden/Kamala. That's it. You don't have to like it (and I certainly don't), but that's just reality.
Your depiction of "the choices" is factually incorrect. The population had the ability to run with any candidate whatsoever. You "chose" (or rather, were handed) two war criminal psychopaths to vote for.
You are in a prison of your own creation.
Remember what happened with Bernie Sanders 8 years ago?
He lost the primary fair and square. And because unlike many of his voters he could acknowledge this. He worked with the party to make those primary elections even more democratic in the future. Bernie actually got shit done. Unlike the people performing outrage he doesn't feel on his behalf. Actively working against Sanders accomplishing anything through the Democratic party. Because they didn't like the parties primary election rules which were changed because of Sanders.
To borrow a phrase from Gandhi. I like your Bernie. I do not like your Bernie bros. Your Bernie bros are so unlike your Bernie.
I'm talking about throwing everything against him when he was the best for the job, unlike Hillary.
We had a chance to put Jorgensen in 2020 and we blew that too. Could have avoided this whole mess if you ask me. Probably the last actually qualified candidate I've seen since probably FDR.
That's a good joke.
Someone doesn't like genocide, geesh.
How about "I'm the only one of you actually judging this godforesaken system objectively, by its merits, which are nonexistent".