• @scarabine
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    13217 hours ago

    “They voted for Trump to punish the Democrats.”

    Oh, that didn’t work. Losing elections isn’t the same as being punished. Not saying it was a bad move, I’m saying it was the wrong one. It was also a bad move though.

    “All Harris had to do was stop the war.”

    Oh is that it? Just as a VP / figurehead, swoop on over and say, “Stop it.” Man, why hasn’t anyone ever tried that before?

    Dearborn, I hope your lives work out ok. You’ve really fucked up.

    • Nougat
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      7516 hours ago

      “We would have voted for Harris if she would just have brought peace to the Middle East!

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        2813 hours ago

        And cured cancer. That’s all that we need.

        …and solved world hunger.

        We don’t need anything except peace in the middle east, a cure for cancer, and solutions to world hunger. And that’s it!

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      1513 hours ago

      Not just as a VP, but it’s not even our fucking war. She’s going to go stop the war being waged by a sovereign nation? MK then!

    • @[email protected]
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      2816 hours ago

      That tactic was tried in 2016 and failed. The political party isn’t the one getting punished when you vote that way nor does it encourage them to change their ways.

      Changing the direction of a political party is a long, drawn out affair that requires sustained political action over the course of years.

      I have a feeling a lot of people who voted for Trump are going to be hurt by his policies and they’re going to be completely shocked as though this wasn’t known already. How could they possibly have known the person who bragged about hurting them when elected would actually hurt them when elected? /s

      • @[email protected]
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        2516 hours ago

        They won’t be shocked. They’ll blame it on liberals and democrats and anyone else who had nothing to do with it… because nothing is ever their fault, it’s always a conspiracy by someone else.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        513 hours ago

        It doesn’t work because both political parties are servants to the same masters. Nothing will ever significantly change as long as that’s true. At least not without protracted hardship.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 hours ago

          Someone said something in the YouTube comments of a political video I was watching yesterday that really resonated with me:

          “I wish the Democrats could find someone who talks about billionaires the same way Donald Trump talks about immigrants.”

          Unlimited money in politics is the poison in our society. When money = speech, billionaires will always have the loudest voice in the room.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 hours ago

              Yes, but he’s far too old at this point to run. We don’t have anybody on the left who is a rockstar dem-socialist except for maybe AOC, and Democrats are probably not going to run another woman in the race for POTUS for another 50 years after these last two embarrassing defeats, so I wouldn’t get my hopes up for that.

              Meanwhile, the right is grooming an entire cadre of Trump’s successors so they can keep the MAGA gravy train rolling long after the evil bastard croaks.

    • @[email protected]
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      2917 hours ago

      I hope it doesnt work out for them. I kind of hope a bunch of them die in a fire because that’s about what it’s going to take for people to start understanding how serious all of this is.

      • @[email protected]
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        Not really, so many died from COVID and look at us. They’d say the fire was Chinese.

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          Supposedly some people who were directly impacted did change their minds. Not many proportionally were in that situation though.

          • @[email protected]
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            310 hours ago

            Canada just had the first case of human transmission in bird flu. Guess we’ll get to grab some more data to show them.

      • Ioughttamow
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        My dream schadenfreude scenario is that a hurricane wipes out the Villages in Florida, and it’s bad because Trump privatized NOAA, so no one knew to evacuate, then when they’re picking up the pieces they get hit with a wet bulb event.

        • @[email protected]
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          1114 hours ago

          By “wet bulb event” do you mean when the wet bulb temperature exceeds around 94 F and you will literally eventually die without air conditioning? Because, yeah, that’s incredibly scary.

          We had a couple of those days in Texas this summer.

      • @scarabine
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        817 hours ago

        I don’t see much of a difference between them wanting punishment instead of harm mitigation and myself wanting punishment instead of harm mitigation. I will keep hoping for less overall harm.

          • @scarabine
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            224 minutes ago

            I think they wanted to punish someone who didn’t need punishment.

            Furthermore, they didn’t have that available a choice. The choice was less harm or more harm.

            Because of that, their choice seemed to them like a choice to punish, but it was actually a vote for more harm.

            I don’t think they need to be punished for that. I don’t think they deserve to be hurt. In fact it’s one of the things I vote for. Less harm. Every time.

            I just think it’s sad, I don’t need payback.

            • @[email protected]
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              112 minutes ago

              If you continue to allow people to do bad things with no pushback, bad things will continue to happen.

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          This world is burning so fast that humanity can only slow it down if we put all of our resources towards it.

          The largest nations on earth are all heavily armed dictatorships.

          Many of them dying might actually be the minimal harm. While we cannot enact judgement on them in good conscience, we can hope they burn and watch it happen.

    • @[email protected]
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      714 hours ago

      Dearborn, I hope your lives work out ok. You’ve really fucked up.

      Dearborn, MI did not decide this election.

      • @scarabine
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        121 minutes ago

        They didn’t. But I didn’t say they did. I said this was a fuck-up.