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

Gonna be honest, I'm failing to see how having your once vehement detractors campaign for you is somehow a bad move. It seems like, if anything, a power move. IDK.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Classic anime trope, even.

[+] [email protected] -15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Liberals love laughing at Trump when he brings up Tulsi Gabbard on stage like she's going to siphon votes from Dems

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

Y...es, I did read those words.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why do you think Liberals made fun of Trump parading Tusli Gabbard around? I believe Liberals were right to make fun of that.

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

We make fun of Trump and anyone who supports him for being a terrible person and a genuine idiot. Vance used to denigrate him too, now he's the running mate (and notorious couch fucker) so we rip on him as well.

We like Kamela since she's not a terrible person or a generally raving lunatic/narcissist.

Do you see the difference in these two situations?

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

Ignoring that, there's basically one democrat that decided to turn into a jackass, while Trump is so toxic there's a long list of party liners (for decades in many cases) openly endorsed a minority female democrat candidate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think that supporting genocide makes you a terrible person. I agree with the rest of that, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd buy into that point if I saw even a fraction as much effort put into pushing out Xi, Putin, or even Netanyahu as I ever do people arguing against the nominee for the US democratic party. Hardly a word against the ones actually doing the killing and war crimes, but lots of blame for a US presidential candidate...

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

Xi, Putin, and Netanyahu aren't US politicians. They don't represent me. Harris does.

I will happily call Putin and Netanyahu war criminals, but I don't know how I can affect them over here in the US. (I don't know enough about Xi to say that about him.)

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

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037

There's a start. The US is far from perfect, but at a baseline we don't have overt state sanctioned ethnic or theologic cleansings.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The US is far from perfect, but at a baseline we don’t have overt state sanctioned ethnic or theologic cleansings.

We do, though. That's what's happening in Gaza.

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

How did you go from "Netanyahu doesn't represent me, I'm an American" to "we have state sanctioned ethnic cleansing in Gaza" in a heartbeat without a single flash of self-awareness?

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

The people who are funding Netanyahu do represent me. It isn't that difficult. Do you need me to draw you a diagram?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, I do need you to draw me a diagram. Please include in the diagram at least a small semblance of understanding of how diplomacy and international politics work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Tulsi Gabbard was ridiculed for being a Russian plant long before she was running for Trump. The ridicule is because she never was serious about any Dem policy and it was obvious.

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

Turns out that an angry mob coming to your workplace with the intent of harming and/or murdering you can make you rethink your life choices.

Don't get me wrong, Liz Cheney is as conservative as they come. I am not going to try to defend her political ideology. Her campaigning for the democratic nominee is not something I would have ever seen coming only a few years ago. But she has a major axe to grind with Trump. Honestly, can you blame her?

This is not the same as the Republicans who go from criticizing Trump to boot licking overnight in hopes of getting a few scraps from the table. Liz got effectively exiled from the GOP and she will never have any standing with the Democrats. Her political career is most likely finished. She doesn't really stand to gain anything from this. She just really doesn't want Trump to be re-elected and is willing to do what she can to prevent that from happening. On that particular subject, Liz Cheney and I are in rare agreement.

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

Before that Trump performed like a perfectly stable individual. Nothing was wrong with him and then Jan6 happened out of nowhere! Everyone said he was the bestest most stablest and wisest! Who could have seen it coming?

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

This was a reasonable thing to point out, but the title you used ends up blunting your point completely.

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

The NATOist right-wing really felt disenfranchised by Trump and that's been playing out for about 8 years now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Oh, no! Not Portland and Seattle! The horror!