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[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago
[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

q level posting, mad respect but i will not vote for this weirdo

[-] VapeNoir@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago

god i am so glad i'm over electoralism

[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cornell West and Sarah Silverman are smoking the same shit that makes your tweets incoherent.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago
[-] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago
[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago
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[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

hell yeah jazzman you tell em

[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

I love honest unhinged tweets from politicians. This gave me a chuckle and brighten my day. It is legitimately entertaining, probably the reason why so many people were entertained by Trump's twitter account as well.

We follow politicians on social media for entertainment. Imagine unironically following standard politician like Obama, AOC, Bernie, Biden, DeSanctis, etc. they all so goddamn boring

[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

Can we just have one high profile third party candidate that isn't a crank?

[-] axont@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

I don't think Ralph Nader was a crank. Kind of a dull boring technocrat and a liberal, but he's otherwise normal.

[-] Poogona@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

At the very least Nader is responsible for two inarguably good things, even if they are just weak attempts to convince capital to be normal for once: nutrition labels on food and car engines being in the front

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[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

nobody in american politics knows what mentoring is

[-] star_wraith@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

PSL candidate seems pretty cool.

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[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not to mention he's got a blue check so he could go over the character limit to be able to write this roller coaster.

You can't even be mad at this. It's poetry.

In fact, I'm already imagining a guy getting mad at this, and I'm getting mad at them.

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

Tyrants like Stalin and Mao who...uh...checks notes...lifted up their masses.

[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

Harlan Crow - as in Clarence Thomas's completely non-influential benefactor??

Why would Crow give to West's campaign? Is he just hoping to have a spoiler for the dems or what?

[-] axont@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Could be one of several things but it's not unheard of for politicians to get donations from seeming ideological opponents:

  • trying to get West to be a spoiler like how Richard Egan donated money to Ralph Nader in 2004 (Egan was a George W. Bush campaign donor and Bush's ambassador to Ireland)
  • simply wanting influence, like how a lot of billionaires will donate equally to Republicans and Democrats
  • an attempt to torpedo West's leftist credentials because campaign donations are public, and taking money from a conservative rich guy is a bad look for a leftist candidate. Kind of like a scheme Roger Stone pulled where he donated money to one of Nixon's republican rivals in the name of a socialist organization
[-] Antiwork@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

So many people making this genocide about them personally and it’s hella weird and gross

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

Stalin, Mao, Hitler

Ooookay

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

putting my armchair psychoanalysis hat on: order of tyrants is very telling

[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 1 year ago

Calls Stalin and Mao tyrants, but sees no problem with 3 slavers.

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago
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[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago

Even combing these thoughts is gross, especially when the majority is whatever your petty bullshit is, but if you feel compelled then there's a non-word salad weirdo way to do it:

The genocide of Palestinians is morally unacceptable and must be resisted

A billionaire can give money to an anti-billionaire if they like. Not all their investments work out for them".

[-] GriffithDidNothingWrong@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The tragic reaction of the people in Palestine was regrettable but understandable in much the same way that my eating my roommates last mallomar was predictable if unfortunate when one considers that she had left it for a week already and it was drying out. Nonetheless as someone who enjoys backpack rap from the early 2000s I will be buying her another box #onward

[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

Look at my progressive movement Dawgggggg I'm trapped in the belly of this horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death😫🤯🤣

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

I'm not American but I say make him president anyway, just to see what happens.

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

they made Trump president and this guy is way smarter than Trump

being president now is like becoming manager of an on fire hotel what are you going to do fuck it up

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[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Right

"Never Forget" collections

Right

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago
[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Guy has managed the rare 1080 paragraph

[-] captcha@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago
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[-] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm glad I immediately dismissed him as another woke gibbering PMC radlib no different than the idealist/utopian socialist grifters and opportunists wandering around Jerusalem in Jesus's time.

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