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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What has she done?

What ceasefire? Which one, of the numerous conflicts now on Earth, is referred to here?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Pretty sure it’s in reference to this past weekend she got approached by someone demanding a ceasefire, and Pelosi’s response was for that person to go back to China because they are also genociding Uygurs. She later claimed she thought the reporter was a Russian plant or some unhinged bs.

So, not even the usual ceasefire bad because right to defend. Just ceasefire bad because whataboutism.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Let’s hope the trial is handled swiftly before the The Hague invasion act is activated.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (23 children)

I've said it before: Every Democrat I know in real life seems like an empathetic person, so it's astonishing they choose these ghouls to represent them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In my experience they appear to be until you bring up some issues, then they turn into bloodthirsty monsters.

For example, my my goes completely Ooga booga genocidal when Isreal is brought up.

Or on housing: She won’t even entertain any solutions that don’t let landlords keep exploiting people’s basic need for homes. She gets all “why should they have to give up property? They worked for it! Shouldn’t they be able to make money?” She can’t possibly empathize enough to value the basic needs of most people over the right for people who already own more than they need to profit off of others who have less than they need.

Honestly, I think most of them just don’t like the aesthetic of the Republican Party more than they’re actually opposed to conservative politics.

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

Yeah, that's probably why these horrible people end up in office. Most Democrats I know are my father, who says he's socialist and actually used to teach history, and local politicians who seem pretty good, but I imagine they're not necessarily a good cross section of the party.

That's why it literally surprised me when Biden won the primaries, like what

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My running theory from observing from across the Atlantic is that participating in American politics is mentally destructive. You are confronted by two frankly terrible options, so you either accept you live in an undemocratic country or you have to convince yourself that one of the parties is actually good. No matter what choice you make, it breaks something in you.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Maybe this is what leads to so much cultlike behavior and unquestioned loyalty to one party or the other. And if you're anywhere outside these parties, or you so much as criticize a sitting politician, then you're hated from all sides and accused of being a Russian bot, which is especially disappointing when you're someone who does hold your nose and vote blue, but that's not good enough -- you have to fully toe the line, or else it's perceived as interfering with a campaign, a campaign which never ends.

We're not really a democracy, are we?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

You nailed it

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