I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

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    18 hours ago

    We had a choice between voting in a system that allows us some power to dissent and have a voice versus… this. The frustrating thing is this situation was just as advertised in Project 25, and then some.

    We did not have an ideal choice, but we still had one. Now, here we find ourselves.

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        16 hours ago

        Precisely. Life rarely gives us a perfect choice. Short-sighted idealists would rather take their ball and go home rather than facing reality, so here we are.

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          Every once in a while I’ll point out that the USA had lynchings during WW2 and ask the perfectionists if the people who took weapons from the USA were enabling that terrible behavior. The mental gymnastics of the answers is mindboggling.

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        I love it, Ive been seying how stupid dems who did not vote are. And every single time someone is coming to tell me, yadi yada. It’s their conviction.

        I see the german, saying, it wasn’t an ideal choice. So, we got Hitler elected. What could go wrong??

        I think with Trump, it’s much more about the grift. So, hell rob the poor and feed the rich. But maybe I’m wrong and this time around he has lot more racist and dangerous friends with him… who know. Good luck to us.

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          Turned on the news this morning and found out he’s made himself the head of the Kennedy Center.

          He was too much of a coward to show up there his last term. This way he can fill the place with his lackeys and have a big party.

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            How long before they start building statues and monuments of him? I think they were literally talking about adding his face to Mount Rushmore. I wish that was the Onion.

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      There’s also the people who had no idea there was even a fight. There were actual people who were like “wait, Biden isn’t running?” on election day, some of whom just voted Trump because they recognized the name. People are fucking stupid. So between the protest votes, blind ignorance, blatant stupidity, and typical apathy we ended up with America being turned into a Christofascist nightmare.

      Then there’s the fact that an all out (non-nuclear) war with China over Taiwan will cripple both countries. I wonder if America will splinter, and where the lines will be drawn.

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      12 hours ago

      The neat part about nation-states is that I have to deal with the consequences of most of our population being fucking idiots.