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dudes, you voted him in TWICE!!!! He’s not rogue, he’s what you wanted. You just didn’t think it would affect you.
This is on every person that voted for him, single issued voted or abstained from voting.
Fuck you all
Yeah, because voting automatically makes every single fascist/imperialist element from a government disappear. Something that's been building up in the US since the early 20th century and fostered by nearly every aspect of the US government. Even in roles that have no elected position. Yeah, voting would have definitely saved us. 🙄
This is why no one who understands the US system takes this line of thinking seriously.
Your argument feels disingenuous and does not provide an alternative approach to fighting fascism.
OP was right, we wouldn’t be having this conversation with President Harris.
There was never going to be a President Harris.
You have:
If Harris was president we'd be seeing failure after continued failure to properly put Trump in prison. Which is my exact point. The US government will protect Trump, and as an extension fascists, regardless of who is interested white house. Not even in just the US, but internationally.
Even when Biden was president it was rare to see any insurrectionist get more than 10 years in prison. And that was with a DoJ that should have been ruthless in every instance.
The solution? The system is too big to sustain itself. The US is an ouroborus that will not live out the century at this rate. The best answer I can see is a balkanized and restructured US. At least then there is a good chance of seeing a less widespread amount of damage on the world stage from a dying, flailing empire.
So my dude, you might wanna sit down, but the guy who won is even more okay with genocide than the last one.
And yet Biden supplied it at the same rate Trump has. Despite multiple people insisting that Biden was better, which he wasn't. Biden supplied the genocide just as much, and actually over-saw it as the vast majority of Gaza was flattened.
Is he though? Because on the Biden-Trump debate, I remember them fighting over who is the most zionist.
Trump wants to literally flatten Gaza and make a resort out of it.
And Biden would literally flatten Gaza and give it to Israel on a plate.
He wouldn't and he didn't.
Fuck you for being a fascist enabler with your pretend caring about genocides.
What constitutes it as "pretend caring"?
Being an overly-reactionary idiot
Meaning? Being OK with genocide?
You’re just yelling at air at this point. You fools chose not to vote, and you got the worst of the two options. Congratulations?
Last time I checked there were more than two parties.
Damn, you really need a reality check lol
Edit: ALL third-party candidates combined for less than 2% of total votes… so good luck with that in this country
So finally you admit it's not third party voters to blame for Trump?
It depends on what you value in a candidate. If you are willing to vote for genocide, I guess you bar for a candidate is already too low.
Again, I congratulate you for enabling the worst option we had
The Democratic Party enabled Trump. You can thank yourself too.
If that’s what makes you feel better about enabling Trump to be buddy-buddy with Netanyahu, level Gaza and turn it into a strip mall or a golf course, then sure lmao
In what fucking world is the president who said the genocide isn't going far enough the acceptable choice over literally any other candidate?