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Lemmy's political discourse when Republicans gutted the Voting Rights Act yesterday: (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 220 points 4 months ago (156 children)

One side aligns with my views 70% of the time. The other actively wants me and everyone like me to die. I refuse to acknowledge the differences between them. I’ll actually deploy this lack of understanding as a weapon to depress voter turnout and make sure the second group gets to wield power!

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  • [–] 53 points 4 months ago (73 children)

    Do you not care about GENOCIDE???

    /s

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  • [–] 33 points 4 months ago (15 children)

    Genocide Joe!

    Making sure the party that continually starts new wars in the Middle East gets elected will surely help my cause!

    “Yeah but you support GENOCIDE!”

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  • [–] [S] 24 points 4 months ago (40 children)

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (14 children)

    So, actually that question though? Genocide used to be a really, really bad thing, and here you're making light of it. I feel like people have lost the plot a bit if they talk about an actual genocide like this. "Yeah, sure they committed a bit of genocide, but have you seen the other guy?" I feel like I'm losing my mind

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago (36 children)

    One side aligns with my views 70% of the time

    False.

    One side SAYS they align with their views, and then do the same shit as Republicans, and kind of just expect you to swallow excuses. Meanwhile we've watched Donald act unilaterally with near absolute power for two years, so we know objectively that the lack of power was (and is) never the problem. It was that they didn't actually support what they said they did.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Still, this is very obviously the worse outcome. Democracy isn't make a wish. You grow up and vote for the least shitty option to prevent the even more shitty options like an adult. Or you can keep crying about not getting your will like a child in the toy isle.

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  • [+] 16 points 4 months ago (13 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    I am both brown and from a third world (both in the original unaligned sense and in the newer impoverished sense) country. You fucked us over with Trump.

    The slaves didn't care that Lincoln said in his debates with Douglas that whites were superior to blacks and that he supported an Illinois law against miscegenation. They cared that he removed them from bondage. Smart people take whatever progress they can get.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    One side aligns with my views 70% of the time.

    That's an optimistic percentage, and yet still not an excuse to avoid voting for them.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    it is propaganda method by the right, like your vote doesnt matter. thats how we end up getting schumers and hakeems of the congress, when less people vote, more conservative candidates are elected, this includes the DINOs. maine is currently fighting with susan collins, mills and platner 2 of them are conservatives.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Let's grant your premise. I don't think if I had a friend who liked 70% of the same shit as me but I found out the other 30 they're assaulting kids, killing minorities, sending money I gave them to genocidaires, doing unspeakable atrocities to ALL of the people outside our shared neighborhood, and being buddy buddy with the other dudes who do that shit 100% of the time, I would just not want to hang out with that guy.

    Maybe I'm built different tho.

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