• Xariphon@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Could we maybe compete to give less money to a genocidal apartheid ethnostate? That’d be nice.

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    11 months ago

    “I’m going to seize on the lazy ‘both parties are the same’ trope and use it to advance my grievance against Israel, which makes no sense cause Israel is not something that looms large in current American political controversies, in any way shape or form”

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      11 months ago

      no, they are not the same at all and what the fuck is this russian bullshit propaganda?

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        11 months ago

        A political party in favour of ever increasing military spending that continues to shit on workers’ rights and does absolutely nothing to address the biggest injustices in their own country, let alone the ones they actively fund abroad. One sometimes says nice words and one is additionally actively hateful towards queer people. World of a difference really.

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      11 months ago

      Republicans are a cult that tried to overthrow our democracy. They are standing proudly with guy who committed some of the most serious crimes in US history, even though the evidence is public, and they saw it happen on live TV.

      Not to mention that Republicans LITERALLY had no party platform last time.

      They don’t even hide that they have no plans to fix any of our problems. They just want power.

      Oh, and we can’t go without mentioning that they are suicidally (and homicidally) anti-science about basic germ theory and climate change.

      Democrats’ biggest sin is what … Being out of touch with the economic plight of the younger generations?

      These parties are not the same.

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        11 months ago

        That doesn’t change the fact that the Democrats are at most a little more center-leaning than the Republicans

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        11 months ago

        You never had a democracy to overthrow and every single president in your country’s history was a criminal, not just the latest dude. Your two parties are the same in all aspects that matter. Neither of them meaningfully addresses climate change, neither of them plans on doing what is necessary to prepare for the next zoonotic pandemic and neither of them gives a shit about you.