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How? Because you don’t love trump? You still think he’s accidentally great, or did that change in the last hour? You still don’t want US elections to mean anything? You still think the smartest and fastest way to get rid of US imperialism is by letting a country of 330mil people start a civil war with the biggest nuclear arsenal in their hands?
If you can’t outright condemn and want this dude out by all means necessary, then yes, I hope you can look the women in your life in the eye and live with yourself.
The "Great" figures of history weren't great in a colloquial sense. They were considered "great" because they had a large impact on the world, not because they were well loved. So describing Trump as an accidental great man of history is not a compliment, it's merely descriptive of the huge global impact he is having destroying US hegemony.
And if you don't know anything about politics what are you even doing here? I mean it's cute you are claiming to just be getting people to "get out and vote" but if they haven't made their mind up about that by now, why do you imagine your mewling here will make the slightest difference? The Democrats didn't lose last time because of leftists, they lost because they put up a terrible candidate, running on unpopular policies, who was deeply unpopular even within their own voting base. They couldn't even win over their own traditional demographics, and they were running against one of the most terrible candidates in US history.
You are wasting your breath here. Leftists don't need to be educated or encouraged about how to vote, or about the importance or otherwise of voting. We understand this stuff better than you do and we already vote for our preferred candidates. Also not everyone is American. You and your fucked-up country are not the sole focus of my attention on Lemmy and you don't get to badjacket leftists in our own communities just because its election season.
Why don't you stop spraying mouth foam, and instead think about what you intended to do here and what it has actually achieved. Who did you convince? Nobody. What did you change? Nothing. You are just doing the same sort of bullshit liberal performativity that makes the rest of us think you are a deeply unserious person.
Like seriously, if you have a problem with fascism in the US, why the fuck are you attacking the left? Just fuck off and focus on something real.
Thank you
You're confusing being great with being a great man of history, lol. He sucks, but his effect on the American empire is fucking dope.
Clearly you're biased, because you've been fed American propaganda since your birth. Was bombing Iran justified? Gaza? Syria? Yemen? Iraq? Afghanistan? Libya? Vietnam? Korea? Fucking nuking Japan?
Your country is full of bloodthirsty imperialists and you're only upset now because trump is turning the fascism inward, lol.
Hey, my man, you came through, all the way with presuming I’m american.
Yes, we have arrived at the finale. You wish death upon america. You love palestinians, but 330m americans, several hundred million who never wanted anything to do with Iran, Gaza, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Vietnam, Korea, Fucking nuking Japan - they can get stuffed, and thanks to Elon and some handy cambridge analyica in 2015 to install this dude who should hang, but while he’s there fucking up the planet, why not cheer him on. Enemy of my enemy, you know how it works.
One human life is worth more than another, all under the lipstick leftism of pretending to care about Palestinian people. Nothing left wing about you. In fact, after that statement, there’s nothing left.
Thanks for finally taking your hat off. Next time, less foreplay please.
No man, I'm gonna kindly ask that you stop putting words in my mouth. Nowhere in my entire post history have I wished death on anyone, actually.
America is a country, not a person. I want the American empire to end and I want the country to be sanctioned out of existence, so that it stops murdering millions of innocent civilians across the globe.
I'm really struggling to continue this conversation if you're not going to read what I'm saying and talk straight past me, lol.