A hardcore maga coworker told me that “if” it’s proven that Trump “was” in the Epstein files he will still vote for him because I’m his own words “I would rather vote for a pedophile than an honest democrat.”
And they wonder why their kids never visit anymore 🙄
Sad thing is he has 2 sons and they are also hardcore maga too. His oldest son has a toddler and he’s said he’s gonna raise his the right way in that to be conservative.
Ask him what specific conservative policies he supports. Don't even push back at first, just make him try and articulate what principles he even believes in that aren't in opposition to something. Like ask "if all the liberals vanished in an instant, what do you and your side believe in and want?"
So many of these people are so wrapped up in fighting boogymen they just truly haven't even realized how hollow the cart they've attached their horse to is
Making conservatives defend their own policies is like asking my dog to make dinner.
I always point to the Alabama Senate election between Roy Moore and Doug Jones. Roy Moore, known pedophile, vs. normal Democrat. Far too many conservatives went on record saying "better than a Democrat".
They are so anti-pedophile until suddenly they're not. What a disgusting thing to change your opinion on, person to person.
What a disgusting thing to change your opinion on, person to person.
That's the thing, they never changed their opinion, they just lied
Do these people mean it as democracy per se or just the democratic party? Just trying to understand your country's stage of fascism.
No they pearl clutch and love America and the democracy it has. But they have been taught that Democrats/Liberals are horrible, disgusting people. It's a knee jerk reaction at this point. My brother, who is hardcore maga, said "no I don't think they are talking about you. You aren't a 'liberal'". Like he was saving me from a terrible slur. And I had to nicely tell him that I am, in fact, liberal.
It kind of feels like the hatred against "the gays" in the 90s. They need someone to hate and right now it's the Democrats and liberals, and I guess everyone else the media has told them to hate (lgbtq, trans, etc).
They need to understand what you get when you remove 1 party from a 2 party system.
They don’t even know the rules, they just make up or move be flag pole as needed…
These people aren’t sophisticated enough to know that small-d democrats are a thing
Ackchyually it's not a democracy, it's a constitutional republic, and those are words I read off a screen. They mean that my political team is better than yours and that owning land should give my political team more voting rights than yours.
either that or its a low information i know one in my family, they either become defensive say "i dont care" or i dont know his policies, but still support him.
My visceral issue with that comic series is that either: 1) the faces are weirdly deformed, with their mouths where their noses should be, or 2) they have little Disney button noses, and no actual mouths.
Haha, much humanier.
This is divisive rhetoric.
Remember our shared enemy is the ruling class.
Both political parties serve the ruling class.
Do NOT let them divide US.
Apes together strong.
bOtH sIdEs BaD is a tool used to sanewash the right
“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.”
― Gore Vidal
One hand washes the other. They are different hands but they work together to sanewash each other. Biden sat on terrabytes of evidence but didn't go after the pedos because it implicates Israel. Boths sides are bad, but in appreciaticely different ways
Biden sitting on the pedo files is a symptom of Dems caring more about decorum than they do results. It's part of why they keep getting obliterated by Trump.
Biden didn't sit on the pedo files. It's the DOJ. Not the president.
We're already divided, and this comic is just making fun of those who put partisanship above all else so I don't see it as especially divisive. Moreover, there's no reason to seek any sort of "common cause" with the right, because they lick the boots of the ruling class and create division by attacking minority groups. Trying to find common ground with reactionary elements of the working class just dilutes the message and alienates their victims.
It's not division to say we shouldn't allow pedophiles to rule us. Saying that is divisive rather than accepting the unbelievable events that are here is more divisive than a comic.
Not american.
But while both parties are corrupt you can choose to use the better of the worse.
Like yeah eating bland dough sold as a steak is bad, but eating literal shit sold as a steak is worse. Both are bad, but one is not like the other.
The trick is, it's not just that they are shit labeled as food. It's that most Americans have never seen the steak they pretend to be, so they look at anyone else as crazy when they are told what they're eating isn't filet mignon and no one else wants it. They have no frame of reference to even understand what food is in that metaphor.
Really cause only under one political party my life as a trans person wasn't being put in danger.
If there's a realistic choice beyond "Corporate Whores" and "Corporate Whores who also want to institute Christian Sharia law in the US", and you still support the whores, then yes, I will be right there front and center to call those people scumbags all day long.
However, everyone knows that is not the case in US politics within the electoral mechanisms we're currently operating under. Through that lens, being the person that knowingly votes for some niche candidate that they know isn't going to win any election against those two, knowing full well that by doing that you're making it that much easier for the Christofascists to scrape out a win and continue pushing this morality horseshit on the people...no, you don't get a pass. Not anymore.
The cost of a dozen eggs is of no fucking consequence when LGBTQ+ society is under assault. The price of a gallon of gas pales in comparison to the fact that ICE is out there literally wiping their ass with the constitution every day and the courts have no recourse to stop them. The fact that your property taxes may be a point or two higher or lower means precisely dick when you're watching a war be instigated and fought that nobody wants solely to distract the people from the fact that our president belongs on a sex offender registry so his movements can be monitored for the rest of his disgusting life.
I haven't considered myself a supporter of the Democratic party since they sidelined Bernie, but if my choice is them, or someone that thinks the things I listed above are just fuckin great, you're goddamn right Im going to pick them. Because at least with them we can stop the fucking bleeding. With the other guys, we're just counting down until someone decides to trigger a nuke and once that happens elections as a concept are going to seem quaint let alone all the other luxuries we enjoy like running water or a functioning power grid.
Instructions unclear, formed a new political party whose platform is inclusive of pedos.
Both the republicans and democrats have plenty of billionaire pedo connections. The working class do not. This is another class issue - working class kids being abused by wealthy ruling class pedos.
Where's the mirror, or a fourth person with real integrity? Seriously, why not all three? I see not-one Left-of-Center, non-child-rapist-enabler portrayed here...
Oh wait, a shit-lib made this, didn't they.
Boy you triggered.
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