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    Not exactly. The mass pig expansion program across the country in the 1990s was spearheaded by Bill Clinton. The pro pig Dems are just as actively racist and murderous as the pro pig Reps.

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          And because he won that primary 2 other mainstream “Dems” are going to be challenging him in the General as well.

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      not really just that, as the system resists when actual socialists get into significant power in capitalist institutions.

      weve been there, done that. i assure you they will be doing their best to stop or coopt him, if they aint already.

      the bright side is you just got an opportunity to actually really improve things materially, hes a good sign. this will depend more on his supporters than himself though, and i don’t think the us public is just about ready to actually really materially support a socialist dissident in power.

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    Careful you’re going to make Godric very angry and he will have to be the adult in the room

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    Yeah. But also a quick test to see how far gone American society is: if the Dems get elected it means that, at least for the sake of optics and spin, morals play some sort of role still.

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      Nah, people like you who were willing to defend any evil committed by the democrats, up to and including genocide, are the reason you have Trump now

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      Why did your party do this?

      The US democrats are a vicious, brutal, genocidal party.

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        If not sooner or as soon as he distanced himself from Reverend Wright’s words, let alone with quitting his church over them to become more powerful, we should have known. And it’s easy to “sell our souls” by centimeters, of “not as bad,” and I’ve certainly been guilty. It creeps up on us.

        It’s hard to know exactly when that sudden, terrible decisive action needs be taken, but there is a point when not taking it is the worse crime against humanity. In thinking of the necessary terrible wars fought, I think of the Kali myth of going into battle to help her husband. She licked the blood from the ground not as an act of simple bloodlust, but because not doing that would mean a demon would have sprung from every drop spilled.

        What that looks like in a decisive war action is in need of serious and long discussion.

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    if you still think that reps and dems are the same after Trump’s actions during his current term, then you must not be reading any news or you’re willingly blind to his atrocities.

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      “willingly blind to his atrocities”
      Says the Blue MAGA character that for a year at least didn’t want to see the painfully obvious mental state of Genocide Joe(IDGAF) but worse, his atrocities in occupied Palestine or the kids he put in cages in record numbers.
      Complete hypocrite.

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        Let me guess: You didnt vote for Harris and wouldnt have voted for Biden? You still call him genocide Joe showing how completely stupid you are. Under Biden Gaza got some help at least. Trump wants Gaza to be cleared of Palestinians to built his Hotel there. Why dont you call him genocide Trump?

        You are responsible for everything that is happening to palestinians under Trump if you didnr vote for the only candidate that could have beat him.

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          I don’t live in your embarrassing banana republic.
          I just make fun of you idiots.
          He will eternally be Genocide Joe bcs he did absolutely nothing to end it, on the contrary he helped tand armed those genociders.
          The Pissraelis said it themselves.
          OC you in your infantile campist reasoning want to make it about Trump.
          Trump bad, our side good! Any criticism means you’re from the other side.
          And I love Trump, yes he’s a slightly more fascist AH than Blue MAGA but he’s very good at destroying your shithole.
          Expediating the demise of your warmongering shithole. This is the best thing that can happen for the world.
          Since 95% votes for 1 of 2 MAGA sides you all deserve it.
          I feast on your tears.
          Please cry more.

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      Tbf he’s a fascist in disguise, and his followers don’t know how to open a pdf, so there’s that.

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    The republican is actively killing. Yeah that seems to check out.

    I know you’re trying to say they’re the same but no, they’re not. You accidentally showed how dems are better.

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      After winning the Nobel peace prize, Obama dropped an average of 30k bombs / year (80 per day) during his presidency, mostly on Muslim countries, 2, 3. In 2016 alone, dropped 26,171 bombs in the Middle East and North Africa, up 3000 from the previous year. The countries bombed include Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia.

      • Began a campaign of drone assassinations in the Middle East and Africa, in which 90% of those killed were not the intended targets, but innocent civilian bystanders, including women, children, and US citizens. 1. Drone strikes are used by the military and the CIA to hunt down and kill people the Obama administration has deemed — through secretive processes, without indictment or trial — worthy of execution. He authorized 10 times more drone strikes than George W Bush, 2. The Obama assassination program is detailed in the drone papers.
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      The liberal brain, gentlemen. Tou Thao was convicted for keeping bystanders from intervening while not doing anything himself. He might’ve been less worse, but he still deserved to go to prison. And he remained unrepentant to the end. Of the four cops he got the second worst sentence despite never laying a hand on Mr. Floyd precisely because he refused to admit any culpability. It really is a good comparison, seeing this comment.

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        It’s really a great representation because if Floyd actually overpowered Chauvin, you know for a 100% fact that Thao would have resorted to the same direct violence himself, he just didn’t have to because someone else was doing the dirty work sufficiently.

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      Yeah…they are watching and doing nothing…a failure and an accessory. The results are the same whether they are there or not, when they could prevent atrocities.

      This who is better bullshit doesnt matter, they are complicit.