• @[email protected]
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    My dad gave me a choice between a pair of skates or a 10 year old used car when I turned 18 but I refused both and told him I wanted a brand new car. I ended up with a pair of skates. Getting to work was hard the next 4 years.

    /s

  • @[email protected]
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    278 days ago

    Trump wants to build the wall and do genocide because be is racist.

    Harris wants to build the wall and do genocide because it is good for the economy.

    They are clearly not the same.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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      We are constantly making the mistake in Russia of judging the slogans and tactics of a certain party or group, of judging its general trend, by the intentions or motives that the group claims for itself. Such judgement is worthless. The road to hell—as was said long ago—is paved with good intentions.

      It is not a matter of intentions, motives or words but of the objective situation, independent of them, that determines the fate and significance of slogans, of tactics or, in general, of the trend of a given party or group.

      ~ V.I Lenin Word And Deed

      If both parties are doing the same shit, it doesn’t fucking matter why

    • DoiDoi [comrade/them, he/him]
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      308 days ago

      Damn if she’s not racist she should stop implementing racist policies and using racist rhetoric that endangers immigrants and minorities then. I’m sure it’s all just a big misunderstanding.

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        It would be one thing if you only talked about the policies being essentially the same and having the same outcomes.

        But you brought up rhetoric, and the rhetoric is not the same, and that gives people leeway in saying you’re being misleading.

        • Maeve
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          So being racist towards Palestinians isn’t racist? Is that what you’re saying?

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      Are you just going to ignore the racist and xenophobic talking points by Harris about how immigrants are bringing fentanyl to kill US citizens? Or Harris bringing up the factually incorrect claims about Hamas members and Palestinian men sexually assaulting Israelis, based on racist colonial tropes. Or how Harris was a top prosecutor that spent her entire career locking up minorities. I could go on and on, the entire debate consisted of the candidates trying to outdo each other with the amount of racism they were spewing.

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          No one claims that donald isn’t a racist, but every time kamala is correctly identified as also being a racist genocide supporter you get chucklefucks like yourself standing up to defend the integrity of a person who has a whole ass racist career behind her and is currently supporting a genocide. We don’t ignore trump, it’s just that his supporters are gleeful about the racism instead of browbeating everyone about the moral superiority of their preferred imperialist.

          • @agamemnonymous
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            As opposed to the very authentic progressivism of rounding up and shooting political opponents?

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                If you can’t reach your ideal democracy without executing dissidents, that’s not democracy.

                • @[email protected]
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                  68 days ago

                  ‘Dissidents’ like they’re some powerless minority being oppressed and that their dissent isn’t over the value of human life. This is why we say that liberals are the same as fascists. “Sorry freemen, if we crack down on the whites killing you and passing black codes, it’s just not a democracy!”

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPM
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      in the right is racism and genocide, but in way that’s palatable to libs, you’re just happy to mislead

    • @[email protected]
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      38 days ago

      And Trump’s solution to the genocide is nuking Gaza.

      If you’re using Harris’s stance on Palestine/Israel as a reason to not vote for her, you’re an idiot.

  • @[email protected]
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    98 days ago

    Which of these candidates do you think will be more willing to have their minds changed with protests and petitions?

    Nothing is going to be easy or perfect, but we can at least choose the most likely candidate that is slightly more aligned with our desired outcome and then fight for what is needed.

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    88 days ago

    Having a fringe lunatic as plausible opposition actually works really great in a two-party system, as the Democrats can really focus on policy for lobbyists and not so much on policy for the electorate. Just point out that the other guy would be worse.

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      It’s even worse this time, Kamala is running to the right of Trump in 2016 regarding Immigrants, so you can see in real time Trump jump to go even further right, like the cats and dogs bit.

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    38 days ago

    Need to add Jill Stein and Chase Oliver to the mix to fully embrace how weak all our candidates are.