• Rottcodd@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It’s so bizarre to me that a politician saying that the grotesquely corrupt psychopath in charge of an apartheid nation that’s carrying out a genocide on one front and an incremental land grab on another while they also try to provoke yet another nation into attacking so they can play the victim as they continue their egregious crimes “should resign” is a newsworthy event.

    The world is in the hands of insane monsters.

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      7 months ago

      Well, it’s newsworthy because, while Pelosi is hella old, she hasn’t technically retired yet. And politicians actually saying or doing things that are morally defensible usually comes after retirement (unless you’re part of the progressive wing that the DNC is basically trying to shut down altogether).

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        7 months ago

        Exactly, and that’s bizarre.

        We actually live in a world in which politicians are expected to be dishonest, amoral and corrupt fuckwads and the few in Washington who aren’t are outcasts even in their own party. And we just accept that. It’s insane.

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      7 months ago

      The world is in the hands of insane monsters.

      I too get that feeling since around 2010.

      And knowing that for sort of the night of the long knives, but for many bigger nations and elites, nothing which we’d notice is needed, - maybe something like that did happen then. Or maybe a bit earlier - in 2006-2009.