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[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 days ago (2 children)

On the DemocracyNOW broadcast today they called it social murder. I think that's more accurate.

"Theft" implies a transfer of wealth, but that's not how government funding works. They aren't taking money from the poor to give it to the rich, they are just taking money from the poor because they want them to die.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 80 points 2 days ago (45 children)

This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (5 children)

You guys literally wouldn't vote for someone who stood against this, and had many progressive policy goals.

You think you guys who sat at home are gonna pick up guns and fight? Lol.

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

Never going to happen. Americans are pathetic creatures who would rather blame others than ever act.

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

Lol the country has gone through two wars based around revolting... It can and will happen. Definitely not with this tho... You need people pissed off. Right now, we have some people pissed while a whooole lot of other people are not only happy with what's happening, but in a state of pure ecstasy.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

This evil Keebler elf and all the GOP are murderers and they should be treated as such.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They need all that Medicaid funding to help the legion of soon-to-be obese leopards.

[–] [email protected] 97 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is what I call "what America literally voted for".

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (16 children)

*Won the popular vote but still a minority (<50%) voted for this.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

That's the reality of America's FPTP system.

If you did not vote for Harris, then you helped (directly or indirectly) Trump get elected.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 days ago (16 children)

That's because 1/3 of voters tacitly support this shit by not voting.

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

That's the same number it's been for 100 years. You're never going to change that by pointing it out so what is the goal of this conversation?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That is the kind of aggressive apatheist mentality which got the US into this situation in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago

No, voter suppression and the two party system are what got us in this situation.

We don't have such low voter participation because of vibes. It's structural.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I said this a million times last year on the leftist threads to people crying about the lesser evil. I don't wish any pain on their lives but I also don't know how to get through their thick skulls how real life can get unless they experience it from time to time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

I hope they have the day they voted for.

Simple as that. My empathy for those people is gone.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"I'm not into politics. It doesn't impact my life."

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Eh those who stayed home also voted for this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

That's the usual reality of voting though. It doesn't mean every American wanted it, but it still means America voted for this.

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[–] [email protected] 168 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Americans have been poisoned with the idea that any kind of aid to poor people is the cause of poverty.

And now we're going to get a hard dose of what its like to live in a country without social benefits.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I wonder what the red states are going to think when their government cheques get cut?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They'll just die and be a cheap funeral.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago

Whatever they're told to think.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

WTF? "Thanks, Obama" is just over now? I reject this updated reality! We must get Obama a third term to rectify this madness!

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