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That man has helped kill millions of people.
Look, I want to piss on his grave as much as anyone, but it isn't retribution or justice when the individual suffering no longer remembers who they are or what they did. Makes me think of Nier: Automata with
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___ Popola and DevolaGreat game. Still don’t care. Dude has done imessurable harm to innocent and oppressed people. My grandma went like this and it’s horrible to watch. My grandma never heald a seat of power and helped destroy the United States and murder women and children. Fuck Mitch. Fuck the shell of Mitch and may his mindless bitch ass be as scared and unaware until he shuffles off this mortal coil. This is the great equalizer and just more evidence why we should be kind to each other and not tolerate Nazis. Mitch has been instrumental to where we are as a nation of Nazis right now. And we aren’t even fucking getting started. Sincerely one of his constituents.
Vote trump into prison. No quarter. No more sympathy. America lives or dies this November.
I understand, and if you get satisfaction then great! I just can't.
Absolutely vote Trump into prison for life. All 5-15 remaining years of it.
It’s not so much satisfaction in the sense that he is suffering but that his immense horrible power is coming to an end. And that nature and time are truly the great equalizer. I would be satisfied if he could experince all of this with the same lack of compassion and health insurance that his tenure has caused so many people to suffer like he is with zero help and care. Mitch is doing just fucking fine. The people he has voted to punish and destroy have not. And I hope they are waiting for him. Look up his voting record. And don’t loose that heart you have. But don’t let it let the pedophiles rape the earth.
Giving humans immortality would mean people like Mitch in his peak evil years would never die
The world fascists want also revels in the suffering of their enemies over weak, cowardly things like mercy and humanity.
It's one thing to think the world would be better without someone in it, it's something else to endorse torture rhetoric because "they deserve it."
You must not know much about McConnell. I’m not reveling I’m just happy it’s almost over for him because HE IS STILL VOTING AND HOLDING POWER KILLING PEOPLE YOU DIPSHIT.
Edit: Sorry about calling you a dipshit. I’m frustrated. This man is a political technical genius and he is fucking evil. The fact that he is now a zombie voter representing me makes me fucking furious. And he has been my senator my whole fucking life so please let me have a little break to celebrate the downfall of a Neo confederate Nazi who has never represented any of my interests nor my states and again has been instrumental in dismantling America and killing millions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance <-- you are here
He's the one who threw out the social contract. We're under no obligation to continue to observe it with regard to him.
True. He shouldn't get any part of the social contract. Doesn't make me happy a human can be that bad, but it's true.
People like to say Trump is the symptom, but the disease is Mitch and others like them. Old, worn out, ancient thoughts that need to die out sooner than later.
Kentucky would proudly vote for him again if he ran. They are dumb as fuuuuuuck.
Compassion is a virtue
Paradox of tolerance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
The paradox (or rather, Popper's solution) describes curbing their influence and participation in society. It doesn't necessitate personal spite. It's perfectly possible to both say "I'm sorry that you suffer" and "...but I don't want you having a say in my politics".
Anger is a gift
Is this sarcasm?