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[–] [email protected] 108 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Not stunning to anyone who's paid attention. So I bet there's lots of people who are deeply shocked by this.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That assumes they are paying attention to this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah... it's a joke that makes me sad though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Morose humor is simply a way to deal with tragedy and sadness. It's often the most we can do for ourselves or anyone else in such situations. Seeing as in this situation especially it would require to impress upon people the importance of Being educated in general and about specific things that they have no interest in. Both of which are generally out of our control. So we all just default to recognizing the absurdity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't get me wrong, I'm not faulting you or anything... it's both absurd and sad that major alarm bells have been going off about Trump for a very long time and a lot of people don't notice or look the other way.

Better to laugh than cry I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I didn't think you were :-) and unfortunately Trump is just the most recent symptom. It's been going on for longer than even my parents have been alive. And they were born in the late 40s and early 50s. At least here in the US.

Grandpappy Bush was tied to a coup in the 30s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No. It is not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Stunning they finally said of out loud. Of course they wait until they got a TV appearance vs, you know, calling it out at the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, this revelation didn't get so much as a raised eyebrow from me.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

But Biden is old and, according to this poll I found, unexciting

How will I decide whether voting is even important at all; I’m not motivated

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (17 children)

Or the ones who say they can't vote for Biden because he's not doing the things he's not got the power to do. All in pursuit of some ephemeral moral High Ground. Which they think exonerates them of all the genocide and killing that will still happen. Possibly even increase if such actions were to be taken.

They all think they've got a simple easily implementable answer to all the problems. Despite the best minds of generations of people having been unable to actually solve it. The ignorance and hubris is palpable.

I think the easiest and most simple to implement solution to all this. Would be to time travel back to the selection of places for Israel to be carved out of. And hard veto Palestine somehow.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I don't understand your comment. Are you being sarcastic?

Edit: downvoters, it was a genuine question. Nowadays it's hard to know when people are being serious or sarcastic. I'm glad the poster was sarcastic in the end.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I am

I am lampooning a certain population on Lemmy who like to come up with an endless variety of specious reasons not to vote for Biden. Some of their reasons are pretty much exactly as I stated, and to me they are outweighed by “Trump wants to kill anyone who disobeys him, so we shouldn’t put him in charge of the military” among other issues, and so hence the lampooning.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for clarifying. I totally side with you :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it’s a perfectly fair question. Idk what the downvotes are about but be not afraid; they can’t hurt you.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago

Ex Trump official confirms what we all assumed …

FTFY

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago

So what?

At this point, anyone who’s a Trump supporter secretly (or quite vocally) agrees with the policy of executions.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why is it that those who are most vocal about being American don't understand what that means?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because idiots think they're better than everyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

There's a name for that.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

She sat in the same room and did nothing. Now enjoying playing the other side as a political commentator on CNN. Just sayin.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

"Stunning"? As in "actually surprising anyone"? Well, I am not the least surprised.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Trumpets: as long as it’s the right people, we love it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Kaitlan Collins, to her credit, interviewed Bill Barr and asked about an anecdote that I had shared about a meeting he and I were both in the Oval Office, where Trump straight up said a staffer who leaked a story should be executed. And Bill Barr kind of danced it and said I don’t recall that specific instance, but there were others where we talked about executing people. How do you rationalize that is a person fit in sound judgment to be president of the United States?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

At some point all of these MAGA people will have to be stopped permanently or another country will invade us and punish us for doing nothing to stop them but voting and crying online.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why would anyone invade when our enemies could continue watching us rot from the inside?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

A ground war in the US would be over before it begins. Infiltrating via the internet and collapsing the social fabric, on the other hand, is a very viable strategy that we're watching right before our eyes :D

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (16 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki

What a president can do to the least of us they will do to the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (25 children)

If you notice the contrast between jurors that convicted dementia donnie vs. those that convicted Hunter....the difference between the two "sides" here is thrown into stark contrast.

No matter how much the "liberal media" tries to bothsides the two parties, they just cannot cover it up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean by the juror comparison? I didn't follow the Hunter trial (because who the fuck cares lol) so I might be out of the loop

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The jurors for Hunter were out there giving interviews after the fact. The jurors for donnie are more or less in hiding as far as I can tell.

And for good reason. It's not "both sides"; the Republicans have been getting crazier and more violent every year and they adore donnie the wanna-be dictator. They were trying to dox the jurors, and the jurors would be right in trying to keep quiet and lay low and hope to keep their identity secret. Honestly, if he "wins" this fall, and I were them? I'd get the fuck out of this country. A great many of the donnie leg-humpers are crazy and murderous.

Meanwhile, as you point out - who GAF about Hunter, honestly. His plea deal being spiked and this trial is likely entirely political, but if he faces consequences for misfiling some paperwork while addicted to crack, I doubt any Democrat or leftist is going to be making death threats to anyone, least of all the jurors that found him guilty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Ahh yeah that makes sense, thanks for the explanation, 100% agree with you

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Wow im so stunned

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

No, no, no.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Didn't french minister Robbespierre say and act same in french revolution aera? Before he was executed by his own people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I would have been astonished if he hadn’t. I figured he’s the typical old white Republican where the answer to every irritant is to kill it.

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