• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    What do you want them to do? They are journalists, they can only show you that these people are horrible.

    It’s up to the citizens of their country to drop whatever bullshit reasons they have for not acting like adults and voting to prevent these kinds of people from getting power. Even if that means voting for a different party than your parents. Even if that means voting for whatever your perfect paragon of a politician is supposed to be. Even if that means you’re not taking whatever “principled” stand some internet bullshit has convinced you is important. Even if that means admitting you were wrong for voting for these assholes or not voting at all in previous elections.

    It’s not the journalists that put these people into power, it’s apathy that got them there. Showing people like Kristi Noem they are horrible isn’t going to change them, but it might make the average citizen realize that maybe they need to stop sitting around blaming others for how bad things are and actually get past their own bullshit and put a stop to it.

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      5 days ago

      There is no choice when voting. The only options are capitalist monsters. Voting won’t fix anything, and doing it is masturbatory.

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        5 days ago

        You’re too busy going on the internet and masturbating over how great you are because you have “principles” to go vote. You’re part of the reason why Kristi Noem is running Homeland Security. Some really good principles you got there LOL.

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            4 days ago

            Sure… keep telling yourself that Kamala Harris would’ve made Kristi Noem the Secretary of Homeland Security. How dedicated are you to this fiction? Is there any line Trump could cross where you’d think “Hmmm… I don’t think Harris would’ve done that”?

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                2 days ago

                So you’ve given Trump carte blanche on anything he might do?

                You do know that convincing lefties to not vote is a strategy employed be the GOP. Apparently it worked on you.

                Who’s really the useful idiot?

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                  2 days ago

                  Question 1: Yes. Hopefully he makes it bad enough some balls start to drop.

                  Question 2: We’re too far gone, violence will be the only thing that saves us now.

                  Question 3: Very obviously you.