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    10 hours ago

    A liberal would feed 100 people on the off chance one needed food. A conservative would deny 100 people food on the off chance one didn’t deserve it.

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      Maybe they’d give them a tax break after they filled out a dozen forms proving need.

      Libs hate universal programs and they hate direct aid. Hence why instead of free healthcare, we got obamacare. Instead of cash to help new parents buy the things they need, Kamala is promoting a tax break. Instead of free college, we got complicated loan forgiveness schemes that seem entirely random if it applies to you and how much.

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      You are not voting for libs or cons though. You are voting for one of two corporations the difference of which in actions, not words, on key policies is miniscule. Of those one is openly criminal and another is not, so you’re voting for the latter. You want the boot up your ass to be legally solid.

      It’s a pretty feudal dynamic.

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        I was going to post about how we should reform mental healthcare for the better.

        I had facts and figures, handy infographics; the whole 9 yards.

        After reading your comment, I don’t need to post anything at all. Everyone can see how dismal our mental healthcare is from those few sentences you typed up.

        Thank you!

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        9 hours ago

        Man, one group is actively creating policy and legislation to deny people who I care about the right to exist. The other is doing the opposite.

        Get that eighth grade both sides horseshit outta here. Grow up.

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          8 hours ago

          The other is arming Israel. I got that you don’t care about people they kill.

          You should give that intersectionism thing a try.

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            7 hours ago
            1. That’s a non-sequiter to what they said
            2. Both the GOP and the Democrats have stated they will continue to support and arm Israel. Trump has said that numerous times. About the only one pushing back is Bernie Sanders.
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              This is non sequitUr to what I said.

              I also didn’t say GOP doesn’t.

              Education is really the weakest part of your (USA) society.

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            7 hours ago

            Just because I didn’t mention a topic doesn’t give you a blank check to assume I have the worst opinion you can imagine. That’s for people who still go on twitter and fourteen year olds. Fuck off.

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    10 hours ago

    Yeah this is biased. The Democrats are only like 20% good, Republicans are 1% good.

    Remember folks if you have the option of voting for 99% Hitler or 100% Hitler, vote for 99% Hitler.

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      The ones who respond with excitement whenever there is bloodlust and retribution and suffering in the Bible. They enjoy those parts.

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      This isn’t surprising at all, if you look at their rhetoric.

      They need the world to self-destruct so Jesus will come back and give them their paradise. Nearly all Christian sects are doomsday cults, because Jesus was an apocalyptic preacher.

      Nuclear war? Good, that brings Jesus back. Climate apocalypse? Awesome, because Jesus will come back, as prophesied. Israel implodes? Best case scenario, because this is exactly how Jesus comes back.

      They want all of us to burn for the sake of their doomsday fantasies.

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      I saw an interesting video a few days ago that touched on this. It proposes that most liberals think of problems and how to solve them. Teenage pregnancy is up? How do we increase sex education and access to contraception?

      Where most conservatives think of problems and how to punish the people that cause them. Mostly stemming from the idea that living a just and moral life - like they do - means you won’t have those problems, so it’s your own fault if you do. Teenage pregnancy is up? Quit being a slut and instead raise this baby that was a result of your own slutty behavior.

      I’ve been looking at things through this lense the past few days and see this way of thinking popping up over and over again.

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    can we figure out a way to silence the both-sides’rs and the butwhataboutpalestines? i don’t care how it gets done. just make it so that no one has to see their bullshit any more.

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      11 hours ago

      Fuck off, drumpf would be doing the same or worse, like letting Putin have a free pass in Ukraine, which is also filled with children.

      What Israel is doing is WRONG, it should be stopped, but Donald dump isn’t the answer.

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      I’d love to see it happen but I don’t think it will until the Republicans are no longer able to waste everyone’s time flinging their own shit and screaming. Once the republican party is rendered irrelevant and the democratic party can actually fracture into proper left and right wing parties (without causing severe social problems) im hopeful we’ll see a great deal more progress.

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    The concept of Democrats doing helpful and useful things is utterly laughable. Straw-men for EVERYONE!!!

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            Like honestly this whole thing, my answer included, is pointless. Would you like to talk about it, in that case fine. If not, why don’t we try to stop trying to find fucking catharsis by burning strangers online. The world sucks right now, shouting at each other won’t fix that. I stand by my initial comment, and again, we can talk about it or not. After that my answer was as childish as theirs.

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                Way to prove his point. You’re not only as stupid as a conservative, you’re angrier online… fucking pathetic.

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                  Lol wut? Yes i am an angry person, but you dont get to just paint anyone as bad as conservatives. You are attempting to lessen the fucked up stuff conservatives do and say by poiting your ole little finger at a super drunk liberal. Fuck you.

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    Lets do something and help

    *offer only applies to first generation home buyers who have paid rent on time for 3 years and started a small business in a disadvantaged community that employs more than 2 people but less than 7 and is paying at least $50,000 in taxes in their first year, if your social security is divisible by 6 or 7, but not 3 or 5.

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      Lets do something and help

      Proceeds to shit propaganda all over every thread and can’t/won’t back up anything with facts

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        I cite academic sources all the time. This post is a joke, satirizing the dem’s love of means-testing by combining the requirements from 3 proposals Kamala has made. I can show you the proposals I’m mocking if you want.

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      11 hours ago

      Sorry to hear you’re struggling man, hope it changes for you

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        Reality is black and white to them. Zero nuance whatsoever. Same goes for the people on here who bitch about Dems and Gaza but never acknowledge how much worse the GOP are on that topic. The Dems could bend over backward and push their whole agenda and they’d still find something to bitch about.