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[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Looks like Holocaust Harris doesn't want my vote after all shrug-outta-hecks

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Kdolf Hitler is my favorite name for her

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

It’s the best and it’s not even close.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 95 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

First three answers of the interview.

No I will not ban fracking even though in 2019 I said I would on day one, my values have not changed.

No I wouldn't decriminalize entering the country we have to crack down on the border because we're a nation of laws.

Yes I would be willing to have a republican in my cabinet.

JJEEEEEEEZZZZZUUUUSSS well I guess that's about the end of her honeymoon period lmao.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's harm reduction because incase having a personal identity crisis wonder why the fuck I was agreeing with what the dems were doing electorally, appreciate them eliminating that confusion. I feel the exact same way about Harris that I did the day before Biden dropped out. This interview literally puts her to the right of Biden. Even Biden wouldn't repeatedly say "yes I said that now, now I'm saying this, my position has not changed despite you highlighting two mutually exclusive positions I have held."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

How is every Democrat candidate supposed to be worse if we don’t give them room to be worse? She’s just following a natural law of US politics.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Damn I do think that nothing about the United States is redeemable.

If the entire country was hit by a meteor and everyone in it fucking died, it would still be a net good for the world.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I don't want to give us too much credit cause we definitely do suck but: I do think its worth remembering that polls show a significant majority of Americans support a permanent ceasefire. This is just another example of democracy being a dog and pony show while the empire carries on doing whatever the hell it wants.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

i mean we'll see in the election results, no matter how much the americans pontificate about how theyre good on the inside actually and that its just the evil politicians guiding them astray, if more than 50% of them vote for the nazi parties two wings we know that those polls were wrong

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They doubtlessly will, but I think this just reinforces the fact that in every epoch, the ideas of the ruling class are the ideas of the working class. The same pattern holds for masking: certainly less than 10% of Americans mask, and even in California only about 15% are up to date with vaccines. America is the most brainwashed country in the world.

That being said, I don't mean to excuse the settler brainworms that just naturally come as a consequence of most Americans being labor aristocrats at best, and active Imperialist agents at worst.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

im not willing to give the americans the out of being brainwashed, i imagine if youve been on this site for a while youve probably already heard the critiques at least once, i agree the ideas of the ruling class of america are the ideas of the working class, but also that the working class of america are the junior party of the ruling class of the world, and their class position makes it beneficial for them to behave like they do, and the consumption the propaganda they consume is a subconcious effort to reaffirm that they arent the bad guys. This has never been clearer to me in the wake of gaza, seeing how these people choose to not see something and not believe something because it would shatter their self image if they were to accept it.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My enemy is not the American ruling class, I genuinely hate the American people

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

what passes for "culture" in American media is disgusting and worships freedom as atomization, "freedom" is not having any obligations to anyone and no community to "hold you back" from climbing to the top and dominating everyone else

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

"I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood."

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago

“Nothing will fundamentally change.” kamala-coconut-tree

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (2 children)

whelp that clinches it. voting third party in a swing state it is

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (4 children)

The party of harm reduction.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago

Oops! {All harm | no reduction}!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago

harm reduction

No more bombs

Oh they got this all screwed up

Harm reduction?

No, more bombs

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

By continuously publicly stating that they will do the exact same amount of harm or maybe even more than the Republicans.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago

“No” I say to voting for Kamala Harris

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago

I’M SPEAKING

speech-r i-am-adolf-hitler

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

lol the betting markets flipped back to Trump after this interview

Hey Mrs Harris the earth is dying and 99% of people under the age of like 30 will starve to death at some point in their life if we don't stop hitting the accelerator on climate change, but sure, keep fracking for oil.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How do you take up the reigns of an administration with like a 30% approval rating and then proudly proclaim you're not gonna change a fucking thing? Jesus christ, it really was just about Biden not being able to talk good anymore, wasn't it?

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Lemmings responding to this interview by saying they'd vote for Reagan if the alternative was Trump

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

so cool how they take the blatant failure of lesser evilism (both parties shifting to the right) and use it as an argument IN FAVOR OF LESSER EVILISM

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

At least Reagan was capable of telling “Israel” to fuck off when he had to.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago

Hey look, same answer as "Will you be voting for Harris?"

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago

Excuse me, but I'm busy projecting all my beliefs onto her. As long as she doesn't explicitly say that she won't l execute Biden for war crimes then I'm still voting for her

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago

Kid Killer Kamala strikes again

how-compelling paid-for-by-kamala-harris wall-flipped

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

(cw: Eli Valley)

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago

Fuck Kamala. It's Stein time xi-vote

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

fuck the morality of it this is one of the most unpopular positions of the biden admin. majority of independents and demotivated democrats want the weapons cut off from israel. why are democrats chasing some moderate republican voters that are never going to vote for them?

well it was a rhetorical question i know why. the interests of israel is aligned with their interests.

if you are registered to vote in united states, don't fall for the "lesser of two evils" narrative. you saw how people withholding their vote changed the democrats' candidate when most pundits deemed it impossible. withhold your vote and as loudly as you can condition your vote on stopping this genocide.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

I'm Speaking.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

the bar is in hell and she finds a way under it

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

we may have to start making excuses for the lack of terror

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

Remember, Trump will be MORE enthusiastic about supporting this genocide so if you don't vote blue you're a Nazi

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

I must not hope. Hope is the change killer. Hope is the little status quo that brings total Neolibification.

lisan-al-gaib obama-drone

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The new butcher of Gaza and the eventual rest of the world.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Habitual Harm Harris

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

I'm coming around to the idea that Trump might actually be the harm reduction candidate if only because libs might pretend to care about what cheeto-man is doing. Sure it'll still be in a useless "drumph bad! We even call him drumph!" way but it still might get some libs to decide that genocide is bad now that the Republicans are doing it

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was asking myself 'how do they sleep at night. How does lady Macbeth sleep at night with all the blood on her hands and then I remembered Soma ^tm

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