no need to write an essay or anything

some libs and baby leftists are kinda baffled by the trump banter here and don’t know what’s serious and what’s irony

  • Trump is a grotesque monster, but he’s hated by libs not for vile actions, but because he was rude. We don’t value civility here, so we can laugh at him when he’s funny, but he and every living American president deserves to be tried in The Hague

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      See, this is why I don’t trust y’all. How can you pretend to be leftist when to you the fundamental difference between Trump and any other political administration is literally just that he’s rude.

      How is it that nothing else, from the rights of workers and of oppressed minorities to the protection of the environment to access to health care and education, means anything?

      If none of that means anything more than being rude or not, you’re not a leftist. You’re a cosplayer.

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    The thing about leftist opposition to Trump that seems to confuse liberals is not that we think Trump is awful (everyone here does), but that we think there isn’t as much daylight between him and people that liberals actually like (say, Obama) on the awful<->not awful continuum that liberals want us to believe. The crass, blatant incivility isn’t what we have an issue with (and the fact that it’s what seems to bother liberals the most is something we frequently poke fun at), it’s the widespread murder and immiseration of innocent people. Consequences, not intentions; substance, not tone.

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    Imagine Trump and liberals as an episode of Scooby Doo.

    Trump is the villain and its the liberals who are the “gang”.

    Only, Trump walks out of the haunted house, mask off laughing and pointing and shouting, “What? You think you can do ANYTHING to stop me?”

    And the only thing the “gang” can do is stand in frozen awkward silence because Trump isn’t playing his part right and they can’t do anything more than what they’ve always rehearsed.

    Nobody here seriously likes or supports Trump as a person but he gets to be the one that constantly shows the world just how much of a sham the USofA actually is. And its glorious.

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      This is a really good analogy. I would only add that after the awkward silence the gang is told to move in to the haunted house with him. They go along with it while whining about dirty dishes and how much time he spends hogging the bathroom.

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        HAHA… Id watch a weird “end of civilization” movie where MAGA chuds and some Resistance Libs all wind up in the same survival bunker. The chuds spend most of the run time living out their wildest “end of the world fantasies” while inside the bunker with the liberals being their fodder. It ends with the surviving libs and maybe a few of the less chuddy chuds emerging from the bunker only to find that the “damn dirty authoritarian commies/anarchists/socialists” immediately went to work on mutual aid and organizing the disparate survivors after the initial civilization collapse and the surface was super chill and fine.

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          Oh my God this is great. End scene they’re lead to a survivor camp and are given jobs salvaging or growing food. One of the particularly haute libs hates all the changes and manual labor, so he sneaks back to the bunker because at least he knew his place there.