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  • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldtoCanada@lemmy.ca•Trump, the dumbest man on earth, just doubled down on his dumb.
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    1 month ago

    You do if you want to steal said car and then turn around and tell everyone that it was actually yours to begin with

    We know its a lie. He knows it’s a lie. Probably even the idiots who vote for him know its a lie. But if you say a lie enough times and people don’t tell you to fuck off, it becomes the truth.

    The same way that people are taught that the american civil war was fought for states rights, not slavery, when we know that most of the states seceded because of slavery

  • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•An unvaccinated child has died in the Texas measles outbreak
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    1 month ago

    The fact that it is not mandatory should not even register with anyone with half a brain cell.

    The US is just so stupidly backwards and going even further in that direction that it’s even an option to not vaccinate your kids.

    All that’s going to happen is that this country will push out all the intelligent people who will want to leave for somewhere with some intelligence and the oligarchs will be left to rule over a blatantly stupid populace who force themselves into slavery

  • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Jill Stein’s campaign manager: “Yeah, we are the bad guys, actually”
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    2 months ago

    Right now, it’s the same amount of genocide.

    I’m sure if trump gets his way, a lot more people will be hurt in the states as well.

    You are asking thousands of people in the US to walk over their families and relatives dead bodies in order to vote for someone who allowed and helped their murder to happen.

    Trump won by almost 3 million popular votes. If everyone who stayed home because of the genocide in Gaza voted for Harris, she still would not have won.

    Media has focused on those voters, black and latino voters, brown voters, etc. Why have they not focused on the fact that a majority of white males and a majority of white men voted for Trump? When they know he is actively eroding their rights?

  • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Jill Stein’s campaign manager: “Yeah, we are the bad guys, actually”
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    2 months ago

    Thing is, the Biden Harris administration could easily have put a stop to it at the very beginning.

    Harris could have said that she was opposed to the way Biden dealt with the war.

    Neither of those things happened.

    Harris had almost 3 million less popular votes than Trump. If everyone single person who stayed home because of the genocide in Gaza had still voted for Harris, Trump would still have won that popular vote by a huge amount.

    I’ve seen articles blaming the Gaza vote for it. I’ve seen articles saying Latinos and black people moved to trump. I’ve seen articles blaming literally everyone except the fact that the majority of white people voted for Trump.

    That’s something that needs to be talked about. Why did a majority of white men and a majority of white women vote for Trump?

    Why were the democrats so establishment oriented that they have, since 2016, refused to run any single candidate who appeals to the people?

    Biden won in 2020 because of how badly Trump managed Covid. People did not vote for him because they thought he was a great candidate, they voted for him because Trump royally fucked up.

    Democrats are owned by the same billionaires and lobbyists that control the Republicans. If that entire system is not broken up, there won’t be any change whatsoever.

    Democrats could easily have gotten more votes if they campaigned on what the regular person was asking for, but they didn’t. They spent all their time campaigning with other right wing people. The fault lies at their door for losing this election. And since trump has come in, they have not even had a unified opposition to him - most votes have had some Democrats siding with the Republicans for confirmations, etc.

    If people spend the next 4 years saying see you should have voted for kamala instead of addressing the root causes of the issue, all that’s going to happen is that within the next 4 to 8 years there won’t be another election.

    The windows in the US has shifted so far to the right its not even funny. The democrats themselves would be considered a centre right party at best in most of western Europe.

  • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Jill Stein’s campaign manager: “Yeah, we are the bad guys, actually”
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    2 months ago

    Getting mad at people for not being willing to condone a genocide is a really wild take to me.

    If you’re saying that genocide over there is okay so that genocide over here doesn’t happen as quickly then I don’t really know how to argue that.

    We got to this point because the Democrats themselves have been toothless for much of the last 25 years, and prop up the same system that the Republicans are fast tracking even more. The dems did not lose this election just because of the Gaza vote, they lost it because they wouldn’t listen to or support the regular people on the street. Dems had the chance to enshrine things into law - they controlled senate and house for the first two years of Biden. They did not codify any protections for trans rights or abortion rights, then used both as a fundraising event.

    Over 50% of white men and women voted for Trump this time around.

    So instead of getting mad at people who could not conscientiously condone a genocide, why not get mad and dismantle a system wherein a few billionaires get to buy the entire world and commit genocides on a massive scale? The US has been bombing half the world for almost its entire history. That doesn’t change because Republicans are in power or Democrats are in power.

    The current system is between ultra rich and everyone else. If everyone else keeps shitting on each other that won’t change.