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Trump says Greenland will be under US control by the time he leaves office
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Sorry. A lot of people thought Harris was just as bad and don't like elections. Also, the quality of marksmanship has gone down significantly.
For a country obsessed with guns everyone is a lousy shot. Unless itβs a school.
And those kind of comments are how Trump got into office.
But also Putin isn't a war criminal right? And China hasn't been trying to slow walk a genocide in Tibet? There are no reeducation camps for Uighur muslims or Tibetans?
Okay.
I'd love for you to expand on the Chinese genocide in Tibet, lmao.
https://www.icj.org/new-report-the-question-of-tibet-and-the-rule-of-law/
So they want to reinstate the Tibetan law of slavery and boy fucking? That's what you're defending?
Classic.
Pathetic. You're crying up and down these comments about genocide and then when presented with it you aim for the lowest rung and defend it. Fuckin loser.
No, you're wrong. Comments like these push the dems further left, and actions like the ones kamela made are why she lost.
Chinese genocide in Tibet!? Lmfao!!!
If Israel did what China is doing in shinxiang, they'd get a fucking peace prize, lmao.
Edit: what about Russia? What about China? :(
Fuck off lol
Uh huh.
But the reeducation camps the United States government forced indigenous Americans into was definitely genocide. Same banana.
And no that is not how you get more leftists. Education is how you get more. This generation is 100% more right wing than the media wants to admit
Also it's spelled Kamala, maybe don't talk about a country you've probably never even been to so confidently.
Frightful times breed frightful people. Being βleftβ in the US means to be a hypocritical, moralist neoliberal, so donβt expect the revolution to start anytime soon.
I don't want a revolution. Revolutions look nice on paper and being decades or centuries away from them seem nice but revolutions cause extreme instability that open up space for corruption and allow the very people you're often trying to help fall through the cracks.
We didn't get the 40 hour work week because people fought and died for it, unfortunately. It might have brought the conversation forward but it likely delayed results as states prioritize control and stability and will increase their means of violence to do so. We got the 40 hour work week because the right people were elected.
Unfortunately the same with slavery but in an odd opposite way. The civil war ended slavery, but only because increasingly officials who were anti slavery were elected and that put pressure on southern states to engage in violence as they feared slavery would end. Which caused the government to increase their means of violence and force stability, ending slavery.
The solution is obvious, educated people make better decisions including electing better officials and they will steer society the right way. Currently the level of frustration has made people close off their opinions, disengage from electoral processes and regress back into factions prone to infighting. I fear a revolution, it will immediately land on the feet of the poor, destitute and desperate and harm them probably killing the very people a revolution is supposed to help.
I'm not preaching total non-violence here. There will be violence. But starting a full blown revolution is not the path forward in my opinion. Regardless of how people want to portray it stability is way closer than it seems, uniting together and education are the shortest paths to it.
And people who comment that harris and trump are the same are actively ruining those avenues to a solution because often they're not interested in a solution they're interested in being right and being heard and making people believe they are right.
That's just my take though.
Liberal corporatism may look different from conservative corporatism, but its still corporatism. The democrats are the go-to party for leftists, but not because they are actually a βleftβ party. Change would require a whole new political vision for US society. Weβve seen what the Republicans think is the right way to go, the Democrats are simply doing what they always do; moderate and conform.
But we aren't going to get there by smashing thousands of souls into a war likely not to end with results that are good.
Ranked voting, removing the two party dominance, term limits, openness about where funding is going and the end of this whole government hides behind choices to fight "terrorism" or whatever they sell needs to end. That won't happen with violence.
Lmfao. No the 100 million dead native Americans are what makes what the US did a genocide.
I agree, education is key, which is why china's leaders are 60% stem degree holders lol.
I couldn't give less of a fuck on how to spell a war criminal removed name.
But you're happy as a clam to defend the others. Okay
Wat?
wtf even is this comment. You know who the orange diaper-filler is besties with, right!? Fucking mouth-breathers.
What I am trying to say, and the reason you're getting down voted for a dumbass opinion, is that for any and ALL reasons you could possibly come up with about her being a bad candidate, trump is objectively 10-100x WORSE on exactly the same reason... Plus 100x extra insane and horrible policies for each of those 1 arguments you made a dumbass comment about.
No one said anything about "history starting" on Trump's 2nd term. I'm saying you OBJECTIVELY are ignoring facts, and it makes your comment, and you for making it, look stupid.
I HATE our two party system more than anyone, but I'll bet you either voted for trump, didn't vote, or voted third part during the recent presidential election. IMO, the current state of the US is a direct outcome of your stupidity, and stupid people like you. That, or your not from the US, in which case STFU.
And Americans are easily manipulated and believed trump when he pretended to be anti war, while kamala leaned into the war mongering. It's not the fault of Americans that they're tremendously stupid, but it should be a consideration to any intelligent politician. It wasn't this time around and now we have the acceleration of American fascism.
Edit: I'm not American. Death to America. Your piece of shit country will invade mine before your dumbass midterms.
Well, in this case I am sorry, my country shouldn't be invading any other countries. I will agree with this, death to American fascism. But don't let the these maga scum fool you, you say it's not their fault. While a small group were "useful" idiots and got scammed into this, a much larger group are just racist pos. It is absolutely insane the amount of brainwashed idiots walking around in this country.
Which party fully funded and accelerated the genocide in Gaza?
I'll give you a hint: their color is blue.
It's disgusting! It makes me fucking sick. It's called controlled opposition. The American political system is a total fucking joke and completely rigged against the American people, bought and paid for by large corporate interests. That's capitalism and is breaking our entire human society.
As an American tho, during the recent presidential election, I sadly knew that voting for her was the ONLY OPTION to prevent the COMPLETE FREE FALL into fascism we have right now. I know it sadly would not fix all the currently broken aspects of our country, but it prevent what now have... Genocide in Gaza, fully funded my my fucking tax dollars, while trump, his ghoulish family, and Nazi wanna be goons rape the rest of the world and laugh about it.
Even you have been fucking duped into thinking this is a red vs blue issue in America, this a fucking war being waged against the American people by billionaires man. Red Blue, dem republican... That's the talking points were supposed to be arguing over so stop regurgitating that bullshit and get it straight. This is the 0.01% vs the rest of the world.
Edit: not
So you voted for a party that's doing genocide? Wtf, lol.
To be fair, had he voted otherwise, he wouldβve supported a party that:
And you think that a country with those 2 options deserves to endure?
100%, Kamala actually promised to go around and give each man that voted for her a blow job personally, if they build and gift wrap an IED and send it to the IDF for the strip.
Lol
/s
I'm not laughing. You voted for a party that did a genocide.
What country are you from then? You mentioned yours will likely be invaded by America in the next few years so what Cuba? Greenland?
Is your country free of violence and oppression? No. Do I as a citizen run around laughing at you and your history? No.
Greenland forced inuit women into being infertile, Cuba has a history of massacring political dissidents.
So where are you from? What are your people responsible for? Americans are hyper aware of their history and have probably the highest awareness of their racism and their atrocities than any other country on the planet.
It's just so ignorant to sit there and try to act high and mighty when the truth is government hierarchy and the people with power are always the problem regardless of what country or region or culture they're from. America's issues aren't strictly American.
Wouldn't you like to know, lmfao.
Always with you fuckers, once someone points out how much of a shit hole your country is, you wanna know where I'm from so you can try and deflect.
Fuck off.
Exactly so shut the fuck up. You know your country is riddled with questionable choices and crimes against humanity.
Always you fuckers hiding behind your cowardice. Shut up loser. Lost all credibility there.
Probably a Russian shill and ashamed at how absolutely awful your country is.
Nah you're definitely a little Russian troll lol
I'd say get a life but I know you gotta get food on your table. Maybe ask your boss for more training you're transparent as hell
Anything to not get drafted and die in the meat grinder amirite?
I'm not from Russia but I'm unsurprised you're scared of them lmao. Spooky Russians made America do bad things, lmao.
Maybe ask your boss if you can have a sick day so you can do some research about why the rest of the world wants your country to fail!
Good luck with the civil war, I hope the socialists win!!
That's what I'd say too. Get more training. Get off your high horse too.
Don't reply to the Russian troll anymore. Even if they are not from Russia they are clearly pathetic.
People forget that in the rather crowded primary she was one of the least popular candidates and one of the first to crash out. And that was even before anyone knew about her dumber policy positions. So, justified or not, we knew people wouldn't enthusiastically show up for her.
And the genocide ended when she lost, right?
Oh wait, the genocide didn't stop. At least it caused America to pull away from cooperating with Israel militarily, right?
I was serious, but then you started insulting me.
What makes you think I'm not serious, too?
You're looking for someone to be angry at who will respond. You're likely not going to find it on your home instance, so you're here. You want to rage.
And you're not serious because you haven't responded to any of the arguments that I've made. You've chosen to insult then try to instill a civility that you won't abide by.
You don't want to be serious, you want to be angry.
Where did you get your psychology degree and when did you decide to throw away the rules of diagnoses?
Wait, there are rules for that? I must have missed that class.
Edit: Why'd you go to direct messages? You don't want others to see this?