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They let Trump take over the country...
People who voted for Trump or chose not to vote let Trump take over the country.
That's not fair to voters. Two elections in a row the democrats put forward candidates who were way too far right, and essentially told everyone to suck it up and vote for them anyways. You can hardly blame people for not voting. I'm not American, but I don't know if I would have voted in election either.
You’re in dreamland if you think Biden and Harris are far right.
I'm in Canada. Most of your democrats would have to run as conservatives here. And even Obama was drone-striking kids in the middle east, so maybe the lenses through which we look at the world are different.
Deal with your residential schools and get back to me about improving our country after.
Maybe you should brush up on your history before tossing around comments like that. (And that's not giving a pass to residential schools)
What part of history should I brush up on?
The part where the last residential schools shut down in 1996?
Thirty years ago?
Sounds like you just admitted they got dealt with 30 years ago. While Canada cleans up from that, get back to improving your country.
The trauma from them is still on going and the government isn't treating the natives well at all.
That would be the cleaning up I mentioned, get back to improving your country.
It’s not that they are far right, it’s that they are barely left if not dead center.
I mean they did help commit a genocide you can't really get any further right than that.
This is why American politics are fucked.
If Harris was president I guarantee you Israel would at least be restrained like they were when Biden was president.
There’s a reason that fuck Netanyahu wanted Trump to win and it’s not because the two parties are the same.
What restraint? Under Biden they killed countless and completely destroyed Gaza. Israel got everything they wanted from Biden who need I remind you supported Israel for 40 years while in the government.
Like every other politician until last year?
But things ramped up a hundred times after Trump got power.
For some reason a lot of people seem to think "putting conditions on defensive weaponry that can be withheld if they're being misused too egregiously" and "no conditions, full-throttle, actively encouraging ethnic cleansing and war crimes" are the same.
I wouldn't be surprised if Israel was propping up the "genocide joe" smear campaign the whole time. Do we think social media algorithms promoted that content organically, as if those algorithms are designed to show people content that they're interested in over content that the titans want them to see?
Israel openly loathed Joe Biden which makes his Zionism and deference to them even more bizarre and infuriating.
Center right*
Leftists think they’re right, right wingers think they’re communists.
Right wingers think airplanes are sky demons. So?
No they don’t.
And what about the democrats who refused to put Trump in prison for trying to overthrow the government and raping children?
You mean the trials that got put on hold because Americans decided they didn’t give a shit so they voted Trump back in?
Those trials?
That's not what happened at all. He was convicted on 34 counts, but Cannon refused to do her job and pass sentence.
Americans didn’t elect Trump?
Sitting presidents don’t get a pass?
Voting machines elected Trump.
Conspiracy theory.
Yes, the ones that didn't happen and weren't going to happen.
Oh man you mean the most complicated case the us justice system has ever seen didn’t get wrapped up nicely in four years?
The horror!
And Chuck helped in the name of Israel
Agreed. Them, too.