It’s not like any candidate was actually good but they did pick the worst one.

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    Honestly, picking Trump again is a good thing for the rest of us. We know he can lose and because of the last presidential election and his base is just getting smaller.

    It’s not like any Republican is a good candidate. All of them think abortion is a crime and will appoint shit supreme court justices. So give me the one I know loses because they lost before.

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      Except Bidens base is also getting smaller. The whole funding a genocide thing isn’t exactly winning him any supporters.

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        He’s not funding a “genocide thing”. The US has subsidized Israel for decades. Not yanking all of our support because they responded to a terrorist attack on their civilian population is not the same as “funding a genocide thing”.

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            It’s almost like Israel and the US are strategic allies and would help each other no matter who the president was.

            If you’re .ml I’m sure you’ll downvote this. I’d be mad if reality was in staunch opposition to my narrative too.

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              Is that why this zionist piece of shit went as far as to bypass congress so Israel could get its weapons to commit genocide faster?

              You are partially right; the nation built on slavery and imperialism will indeed continue to support colonialism until its capitalist government is overthrown entirely, but an openly zionazi pos like Biden makes that support even worse, as we can already see with the ongoing genocide.

              I’d be mad if reality was in staunch opposition to my narrative

              Ig you should indeed be mad then.

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                My narrative is as follows:

                Blah blah fucking blah, america has always been an imperialist shit-hole. Slavery and nonsensical governing since the start. Are you shocked by this?

                Are you shocked allies back each other? Did you make this same complaint before October 7th or are you just another bandwagon moral-elitist?

                Do you think I’m championing this behavior by stating facts? You’re delusional mate.

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                  Imagine being such a fucking loser that all you can think of in response to that is basically “nuh uh”. You could only come up with adding “Blah blah fucking blah” to that? What a child lmao

                  Are you shocked allies back each other?

                  Read the comment you’re replying to.

                  Did you make this same complaint before October 7th

                  Yes, as did anyone with half a braincell. Evidently you’re not one of them though.

                  Do you think I’m championing this behavior by stating facts?

                  Refer to the facts in the comment you’re replying to.

                  You’re delusional mate

                  Yeah, you clearly are.

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    It’s funny, they say fascism happens in slow motion and no one expects it to actually happen until it’s to late.

    I really feel like we’re watching it happen in America.

    Everyone’s laughing at Trump’s stupidity while the systems to stop fascism are slowly destroyed behind the scenes.

    Feels like he’s just a distraction from what’s actually happening.

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      It does happen in slow motion, and every single time, some people see it happening. They march and wave their arms shouting FASCISM! whilst their neighbours call them hyperbolic.

      If you read contemporaneous accounts, you can feel the frustration.

      Or… I thought I could feel the frustration, until recently (eta: if you haven’t read They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer, please do as soon as possible). Now it’s doubly frustrating. I keep wracking my brain, wondering what I can do that they didn’t. I can’t stop this, so I keep saying ‘if you were a German in the 1930s, knowing what you know now, what would you do?’

      I don’t know the answer to that. I know many Germans saw it coming and couldn’t stop it.

      What the fuck can we do? Because it is absolutely coming.

      e: oh, and worse, trump isn’t actually the problem. He’ll likely lose, then everyone will high five that we’ve defeated The Problem, but Trump is just their carnival barker. He could die tomorrow and the threat wouldn’t change. There’s a solid fascist movement in the US and elsewhere that will not stop with trump’s defeat. There are thousands of them in high levels of the US government , and they’ll barely miss a beat without trump. He barely matters, and I’m afraid when he loses, the fascist movement behind this will find a wide opening.

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        I keep wracking my brain, wondering what I can do that they didn’t

        These internal questions are what led to me finally realizing how powerless I really am. I can’t even convince my close personal friends to re-evaluate the batshit crazy things they learn online, let alone change the trajectory of a nation.