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It blows my mind that anyone can be that wrong on all topics.

It's like the difference between choosing random answers on a multiple choice test versus knowing the right answers and actively avoiding them to get the worst result. It feels like they're trying to punish the US for something.

You're telling me all that is unpopular??! The "Don't Tread on Me" folks are falling over themselves to have this?

Sounds really non-tready, lol

Classifying transpeople as "pornographic"

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I always laugh when they say "ban contraceptives" because I guarantee that the men in congress voting for it have vasectomies. Are they going to reverse them?

ban IVF? why would they ban a safe and correct use of technology to help couples conceive what the actual fuck, I don't think there is a single nation on earth that does this, can you get IVF in the middle east? this is just mind-blowingly neardenthal

As most have noted, the right has no objective, they are just against whatever the left is for.

Yeah for anyone really paying attention Project 2025 wasn't the smoke, or even the fire. It's just a picture of the fire that's been burning since Barry Goldwater irrevocably shifted what the Republican party was and should be.That event shifted everything to the right because Democrats are still operating under the assumption that the two parties are left and right, and that the general populace sort of exists between the two. We see all those graphs about how only 40% of eligible American voters vote, and I think a lot of people read those charts wrong. Those aren't voters who don't give a shit, those are voters living in places where their jurisdiction is so skewed they don't feel the need to vote, and people who look at the whole political system and see a massive shell game where everyone's fighting to wield power, but no one's really challenging if it's good to live in such a top down administrative landscape where corporations are allowed to do whatever without accountability, and they don't see much of anyone trying to do anything about that. Think about if you're a DC or Hawaiian voter with deeply held social convictions and who's running for office is a neo-fascist and a neo-liberal. How motivated are you to get to the polls when you know all your neighbors see the same thing you're seeing. Your whole community is going to half heartedly show up for the neo-liberal, so you stay home, and then your jurisdiction goes 70% for the candidate you wanted. Sure, the margin could have been bigger if you showed up, but you're broke and poor, and working those hours that day got you enough that you can celebrate with your kids tonight that the neo-fascist didn't win. It's been months since you had pizza. It would really make them happy watch the results roll in while you have a special treat.

We need this election to be a total shit show for the republicans. Like totally painting the canvas with them kinds of beat down. And then, come January, when the Democrats take office, we need to show up in the streets and show them we don't like them either. Our politicians are so beholden to financiers and so isolated from our needs that I don't even think they realize we don't like any of them. Think about this. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, according to her positions, and according to polls of Americans, is completely aligned with American interests. She wants to do what we ALL want to do. And how many people see her as an evil virus from Satan because that's what Fox told them she was. How many people see her as a naive idealist who doesn't understand the full picture because that's what NBC and CBS told them she is. She's painted as a radical leftist when really... She's a centrist. She's the exact middle of America.

That's the fucked up political reality we live in.

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As someone currently serving, it fucking boggles my mind that anyone who has ever served could be in favor of the Republican party. Even without Project 2025 threatening veteran benefits.

So many of us have been to actual locations where the Church has a stranglehold on the government/is the government. My husband has stories from Afghanistan. I went to Qatar, which, is a "progressive" middle eastern country. I could wear tshirts and knee length shorts, but I was also not allowed to ride in an elevator with the opposite sex, and I was heavily questioned when I tried to buy cigarettes until a male coworker intervened and assured that I could. Not to mention the FUCKING INSANE wealth disparity. Palaces gilded in gold for the government/rich/churches and literal shacks made out of whatever material could be cobbled together in the rural areas outside of Doha.

Why the fuck would anyone who has seen that first hand want to support anything that could even remotely resemble a world like that?

Of course not. The heritage foundation has been doing this since the 70s. Reagan LOVED them.

They have NI INTENTION of stopping.

They will just double down for a while. Eventually, they will pretend they never supported any of it.

It's crazy that your comment was the purported Republican platform for a long time, and they transmogrified into the fascist trash party that Orwell wrote about, that the Empire was in films, and that the Nazis were in real life. All because a bunch of US-based domestic terrorist fundies are running a theocratic "war" against freedom, democracy, and choice. How Orange DonOld the Weird, the rapist with 34 felonies is their figurehead makes even less sense.

"Mind your own damn business."

- Tim Walz

It's probably like in many religions: they respond on what their priest is saying and want their side to win, but never really studied the scriptures.

I can forgive the 2016 Trump voters, Hillary campaigned with Kissinger after all, but America needs to wake up to the realization that a third of the country are actual monsters.

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