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  • A new government memo feels like it’s straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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  • One day before? How about 12 months before? How about 4 years before? I've been hearing your lesser of two evils bullshit for 25 years. You locked yourselves in a prison and threw away the key. There is no escape for you all until you reject your own fucked up self-defeating mentality. Period. You will keep voting for mass murderers and they will keep tightening their grip until we're all dead. They just have to keep pantomining "big tough Muricans vs. opposition with a conscience" enough for you to buy it. And we're all stuck on the ship you decided to sink. We're truly fucked as a species because of the idiocy of people like you.

  • A new government memo feels like it’s straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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  • I heard you the first time.

  • A new government memo feels like it’s straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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  • Jesus fucking christ. It's like talking to a "hello world" program.

  • Trudeau announces 25 per cent retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods starting Tuesday

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  • Yeah, and sometimes you're just a bad person.

  • A new government memo feels like it’s straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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  • For the ten millionth time. The population has the option to vote for anyone. Preemptively narrowing the options down to two parties is self-defeating circular logic. I have addressed this exact point on this website about a thousand times already. Stop bringing it up. It is incorrect - misinformation/disinformation.

  • Trudeau announces 25 per cent retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods starting Tuesday

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  • ^ Now we're sinking down from "reddit level" to "Facebook level". Just "laugh reacts".

  • A new government memo feels like it’s straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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  • Biden introduced the "oligarchy" word again and now you're all using it. Like the actual oligarchy wasn't running this country under Biden. Like Biden didn't just send, what, 40 billion dollars of arms to a genocide. Like Congress, who between them and the President completely control the Treasury (not just the information, mind you, but the FUNDS) weren't completely on board with all of that. Like the federal government isn't a frigging money laundering operation that hemmorhages 800B/yr into the black pit of military spending.

    You think I don't see what's happening? You think there's been some huge shift because Trump comes into office and starts breaking everything like a gorilla? That's because you're getting led around by the nose instead of following through diligently on everything that's happening. The same U.S. imperial policies are continuing uninterrupted. The "Israel" policy is proof incarnate of that. You're focused on trying to demonstrate 1% of difference between "Israel" policy between Trump and Biden, completely ignoring the 99% of similarity which absolutely begs the question, why the fuck are the openly fascist party and the so-called "opposition" completely in agreement that they SHOULD support a genocide. None of you seem to have a coherent answer for that question! Or the ten thousand others like it that don't make it onto CNN or MSNBC or even Reuters or AP News. Because you don't analyze the economy, you don't analyze the federal budget, you don't look at the revolving door with all the federal agencies and Wall Street and military contractors and oil interests and so on - all you focus on is attention-grabbing headlines that make you completely miss the big picture. You don't understand that the empire even exists. You don't understand that they're meddling with every single country on Earth to impose an economic superstructure. That's the problem with you people. It's never slow, careful analysis, it's REACT, REACT, REACT. You're armchair analysts - you react to headlines and you repeat the same theories you heard from everyone else. You're not educated. You're brainwashed. You're the automatons running around the imperial core, panicking every time the TV tells you to - and worst of all, never concerned with how you affect the rest of the world, only selfishly with your own wellbeing. That's how you move so effortlessly from "there's not a genocide happening" to "so what if there's a genocide happening, the genocide would be even worse under Trump." Somehow the lightbulb never even went off in your head, "why the fuck are our politicians arming a genocide."

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  • So you don't have a strategy then. Then sit the fuck down. "I don't know what the fuck is going on and I guess we'll just try whatever the fuck" is not a strategy.

  • A new government memo feels like it’s straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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  • "In Congress or the Senate"? Congress INCLUDES the Senate. Congress is the combination of the House and the Senate.

    Yes you do. You support him via advocating for a completely ass backwards promotion of third party voting.

    This is the most fucking backwards logic I've ever seen. I talk about "leftists want to make a better world" by using a completely different approach than voting for fascists. You frame the false choice of "anyone but fascists is impossible" again. And then by your logic, not supporting fascists is equal to supporting fascists, because "it's like voting for fascist B, because either fascist A or B has to win!" THIS LOGIC IS NOT SOUND.

    If you can't actually add something that's not completely fucking insane to the conversation, then DO. NOT. REPLY.

  • A new government memo feels like it’s straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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  • Yes, it is. Moral compromise has been a near-constant, and also war and corruption. GO FIGURE.

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  • No, somehow in my 16 years of primary education and going to college for political science/pre-law, I somehow managed to come out not understanding the most basic principles about the U.S. elections. Thanks for coming along to share that vital piece of information with me. This is really so helpful and productive and not a complete derailment of the conversation and waste of everyone's time, that you came along to say that.

    And now the genocide will get worse.

    Let's back up. Did you actually read what I wrote SPECIFICALLY? Because all I'm hearing is the same talking points again. Here it is, one more time:

    P.S., nobody said “the exact same”. You all just love rolling that out, but at the same time can’t even acknowledge exactly WHAT similarity it implies, that two “opposing” politicians both UNQUESTIONINGLY PARTICIPATE IN A GENOCIDE. Really, finally, at long last here - take a minute out of your life and seriously ask yourself - HOW THE FUCK DID THAT HAPPEN? What in god’s name brought us to that situation? Because if you can’t explain that, you don’t understand anything about what’s happening.

    Or in one sentence. WHY. DO. BOTH. OF. THEM. SUPPORT. A. GENOCIDE. You want to pretend you have some grand strategy to shape this society in the future? OK - THEN EXPLAIN HOW THIS HAPPENED, AND EXPLAIN HOW VOTING FOR PEOPLE SO IMMORAL THAT THEY SUPPORT GENOCIDE CAN EVER POSSIBLY RESULT IN FIXING IT. You wanna pretend you're strategic, then explain your understanding of the situation, and assuming it has any relation to reality, explain how you you think your approach will fix it.

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  • Bro. NOBODY. WE'RE. TALKING. ABOUT. SUPPORTS. TRUMP.

  • A new government memo feels like it’s straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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  • No, the fact that we had an election and the sum of you voted for a fascist and another fascist is why the country is disintegrating. See, when you make immoral choices, bad things happen as a result, that's why the choices are immoral. You love to pretend that this logic only applies to third party voters, while ~140M of you vote for literal monsters and accept ZERO culpability. For some reason you're all even more focused on third party voters than the literal Trump voters, despite them having 25-50x as much influence on the election.

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  • The consequence of your moral compromises is that the world is broken. Did you read my very short message where I made a specific point to say that?

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  • You have no idea what my situation is, and it's irrelevant.

  • Farmers plead ‘stop our fields flooding’ as Trump opens dams

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  • Mmn...2/3 of the House and Senate is what's required to override a veto, if the the President doesn't want something to pass. But the President can't just pass something without a majority vote.

    Anyway, you don't have to solve that problem by handing control of the executive to the Congress (House + Senate). You can have popular referendums, popular recalls, more frequent elections. Having high turnover in that job is a good thing, because the job itself has way too much power. Abolishing the job would be better. The idea that "one guy has to be in charge" causes extreme problems.

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  • No. They didn't.

  • Trudeau announces 25 per cent retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods starting Tuesday

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  • Seeing the same. Not that many different users either, just really vocal.

  • Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models.

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  • The way it's written, it sounds like we could download it in the US, after the law was passed, for 180 days, and then do whatever we want with it. Unfortunately, after that point, the test of it being "developed" in China would probably be met for anything but a near-total rewrite.