• Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works
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    Dude just needs to shut the fuck up. You voted for this you goddamn moron! You voted the guy in that wants to revert to a chattle system you absolute dunce.

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      Yes, he is a dumbass, but frankly this is exactly what’s needed. More and more of his base having reality hit them in the face, complaining loudly, and fracturing his support.

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        Sure would’ve been nice to have that without fucking over everyone else at the same time

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    The painful part is he didn’t even say anything like “I regret voting for you!” It was more like “I am strongly considering reducing the level of my support for you!”

    Not that Don needs his support anymore. I almost feel like one of the biggest messages to keep pushing is: “Don doesn’t care about you.” As far as I can find, he hasn’t even put out any comments on the pardoned Jan 6 rioter that was killed in a traffic stop.

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    What a surprising turn of events! Who could’ve possibly predicted this? Are you telling me that the party founded on hate for anyone who isn’t a rich white guy is making things harder for whoever isn’t a rich white guy? Preposterous!

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      I know this is nitpicky semantics and all, but the party technically was not founded on hate for anyone who isn’t a rich white guy, it was at one point the party of opposition to slavery but after the Civil War ended and reparations began the parties sort of shifted and became moderate and heavily bipartisan until that all changed in the 1960s when Democrat President Lindon B Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and political parties continued to polarize in the rise of the information era until reaching the peaks we’re currently at.

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    The irony here is that Trump’s coalition was so broad because these minority groups felt abandoned when Biden didn’t fulfill his promises, but everyone here is kind of just pretending Harris would have actually done something for them. Whether it was inflation, cop cities, endless war, abortion repeal, or assisting in the perpetration of child genocide, Dems did a really shitty job.

    And for those of you about to whine about ‘both sides-ism’, yes, both of you do lie and make extravagant promises during campaign time, and then always fail to deliver.

    But you still vote Democrat and Republican anyway.

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      When Democrats lose, there’s endless navel-gazing and wondering what went wrong. If there was enough minority outreach, if there was enough non-minority outreach, what policies should’ve been passed or left on the cutting room floor.

      When Republicans lose, they simply don’t give a fuck. No one on the right was asking after Trump’s loss in 2020 whether it was a mistake to let him run again or if he should’ve done an interview with Charlamagne the God. They just doubled down on Trump.

      The point isn’t to say Democrats should be more like Republicans. Republicans are a loony cult, no one should be like them. The point is that there is an extreme and insane double standard, and anyone who acts like Democrats are the ones who need to be harsher on their candidates is hard to take seriously.

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      The point is this guy VOTED for this. He’s not taking the both sides bs argument. He actively supported this, there is a bigggggg difference.

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        I do appreciate that he isn’t just pretending Trump is powerless like Democrats always do after the election.

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      Sure, let’s say “things didn’t improve much” and “they’re actively trying to kill us” is the very exact same thing, and justify taking sides with the later.

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      Yeah and I guess you vote third party or not at all which also is a vote for trump. Or maybe you’re not even in the US. Pie in the sky idealism is great but unless you’re organizing and changing the system BEFORE a generationally crucial election, and you voted third party (aka for trump) then you are just as naive and you’ll suffer along with everyone else for your ridiculous unrealistic ideals.

      Harris would not have doomed us all to climate change or borked the whole fed government (the consequences of which we’re already seeing and will only get much worse in the coming months) and definitely wouldn’t have blamed a plane crash on all non-white people with straight up Jim Crow era messaging. Your comment is disingenuous or severely misinformed.

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      That was my first thought. My heart bleeds for you. I wish I could help you. But you’re beyond help and I’m just gonna laugh instead.

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        And for the Arabs who voted for Trump thinking he’s going to help with Palestinians. How stupid do you have to be?

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          Maybe I’m just a bleeding heart librul, but I really do feel sorry for these people. They’re absolutely getting what they deserve, but they’ve been brainwashed. Propaganda is a powerful thing.

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            I am a liberal. But I have none left for these morons. Since I don’t understand them, I must be out of touch too. But I live in Canada, and I don’t have any poor black american friends.

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              I live in the Southern hemisphere. Far away from these idiots. But I still feel like their education system and their country as a whole has failed them, leading to this idiocy.

              ETA: That’s why I still feel somewhat sorry for them even though I’m laughing at how stupid it is.

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          I mean so far even if we give him no credit for the ceasefire he hasn’t done anything to Palestinians so far. I mean I get that you hate that Trump won but leopards haven’t ate that particular group of faces yet.

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              Yes, that ceasefire.

              Trump was definitely part of that ceasefire, as evidenced by how Netanyahu rejected this exact same deal when Biden proposed it last time in May. If you have a plausible reason that he suddenly changed his mind from even a month earlier (where there were no mentions at all of a ceasefire) then let’s hear it, otherwise Trump is the only explanation. We all hate the orange man here but objectively speaking Trump is a lot more plausible as a explanation than Biden’s lackluster “negotiations” finally bearing fruit coincidentally right before Trump’s inauguration.

  • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    Melik Abdul is one of the nation’s rising conservative voices.

    A radio host, political analyst and strategist with over 15 years of public and private sector experience; Melik’s unique ability to connect with audiences has made him a regular contributor across the ideological spectrum.

    Since walking away from the Democratic Party in 2016, he has embraced his role as a key player in advancing the conservative movement.

    https://www.melikabdul.com/

    A black Muslim MAGA? What a fucking moron.

    Wanna bet $50 he went to GOP because he hates queers?

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    There was a story I read 10 years ago about a guy in Florida. He was at a beach, and there were several signs and fences, and warnings not to be on the beach because there were alligators in those waters.

    A policeman saw the guy, wearing a bathing suit, headed for the water. He yelled at the guy "NO! STOP! THERE ARE ALLIGATORS IN THAT WATER! IT’S MATING SEASON WHICH MEANS THEY’RE HIGHLY AGGRESSIVE RIGHT NOW!

    Dude yells back “FUCK THE ALLIGATORS!!!”

    Goes into the water and within 30 seconds is ripped to shreds in front of his wife and children. When his emotional wife tried yelling at the cop “WHY DIDN’T YOU RUN IN TO SAVE HIM???” The cop answered “I’m not going in that water. There’s alligators in there. It’s not even safe to have a lifeguard on this beach.”

    I bring that up so you’ll understand the reference I make here.

    I don’t feel bad for “Blacks for trump”. I feel zero empathy for them and the problems trump causes them. Not because they’re black, or some racist thing, but because they ignored the alligator signs. All the signs were there. All the signs were there. All the signs said it would be bad for them. They still went into the lake. Fuck em.

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      Beach? Alligators don’t like saltwater. They like lakes and rivers and such. Maybe he was swimming in a lake. Lakes wouldn’t have lifeguards.

      Also, anyone in Florida knows you don’t swim in lakes. You treat all bodies of water as if they have a gator in them.

      Granted, we’re talking about an idiot that would swim with alligators. So that part might be true, but a lot of this story is suspect to me.

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        I think OP is misremembering a story where a drunk Texan jumps in a lake full of gators and promptly gets eaten.

        https://www.buzzfeed.com/thomas-golianopoulos/fuck-that-gator

        Not scared of gators as most around here are slightly smaller than me, won’t attack. But fuck me, a 10-FOOTER?!

        Saw one at the local swamp for the first time! Knew there had to be one in there but never got eyes on it.

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      Yup. I emphasize with every single person who was able to vote and voted Democrats, or those who were not eligible to vote. Everyone else? Especially if a minority who historically the R party have fucked over raw? Schadenfreude galore