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Sooner or later they’d get me for one thing if not for another…

[But if] a fellow ain’t got a soul of his own, just little piece of a big soul, the one big soul that belongs to everybody, then…Then it don’t matter. I’ll be all around in the dark – I’ll be everywhere.

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My favorite one:

Allow Them To Grow Older And More Disillusioned

Letting the world wring the idealism from them should make it easier for Gen Z to stomach a man who, in any other context but an American presidential election, is an unrepentant monster

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Hamas tunnels in their aorta

Biden plans to send $1bn arms shipment to Israel (www.bbc.com)

spoilerThe White House has told Congress it wants to send more than $1bn (£800m) in new weapons to Israel. This comes despite the US being opposed to a full-scale invasion by the Israeli military on the southern Gaza city of Rafah. It said last week it had paused a shipment of bombs to Israel over concerns civilians would be...

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Biden and the Dems could probably do a cynical if they wanted better optics, like just sending money (for aid ostensibly) to israel and letting them “misappropriate” the funds to buy weapons. Then he could even have free market types on his side, or at least a soupçon of non-culpability. Maybe that’s a literally a dumb idea but you get what I’m saying? They’re not even trying to lie to us anymore.

it’s easier to just not i guess. They feel quite comfortable in their position apparently, and openly send weapons, openly crush dissent. I kinda miss the mask now that they aren’t wearing it no more. It makes me scared, cuz it makes me think things are really gonna speed up now, no more ratcheting, we’re free falling into fascisms empty maw

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This is the only true canon ending for me ain’t no way I’m letting her go in favor of that worthless town yo

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Ah so he broke his own record. A 104 yo lady almost beat him but died (naturally and unrelated to the jump) before claiming her prize, so he must’ve done it for the love of the game right? I am fairly confident after reading that his record will now never be broken. How many centarians even think about shit like this? What a guy.

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Powerful words, and difficult to argue against.

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Ok 'bears! Finish this headline game! I’ll start

His mind is decaying faster than… American Democracy

His mind is decaying faster… and furioser.

His mind is decaying faster than fetterman’s bait n switch

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“Something something sheer fucking will”

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but frothingfash

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I already have me copy!

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Even if Trump and Biden are “essentially the same” with regard to genocide, you can treat that as a logically moot issue.

This is where we disagree. I can not use moral relativism when a party engages in genocide. Further, i don’t agree that voting for Biden is, as many pro Biden folk argue, a repudiation of Trump.

A vote for Biden (or any representative for that matter), to me, is an implicit acknowlegement i agree with his leadership. An approval and statement that he represents my beliefs and shares, a little, my values.

There is no such thing, in my mind, as negative voting (voting against a candidate). This is not how it works, not how i will not be coerced into thinking it works.

A vote for a representative is a positive action. I will not play a game of “what if the boogeyman tho!?” with a party shown time and again to be against my best interest, to ignore my very life in favor of the pocketbooks of donors…

Now, they ask me to help them stop the boogeyman as they simultaneously stand aside while he strips my right to protest, my right to privacy, rip families apart, refuse my brothers and sisters right to live, and kill tens of thousands.

Voting as you imagine it is nothing but reductive. Worse, venal. Finally, to consider genocide as “logically moot” is not logical. It’s fucking gross, and i feel absolutely sorry for you that you’ve come to this conclusion.

I can only hope you put more thought into this immediately

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Right? Who else are they gonna find with exactly the same takes and no political acumen to beat over the head with facts? It’s fun, but it’s like fighting in a dream. No matter how hard you hit, online libs have pillowskulls

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It’s only logically moot specifically because there’s only two options.

This is also not true, which is why i said your idea of what voting itself is reductive. There are of course more than two options this and every election.

Allowing your mind to bend to their narrative, believing that voting is a binary choice is one way their democracy-destroying little game works.

If voting were only two choices, i wouldn’t vote at all as you seem to suspect. but it isn’t. i will in fact be participating as i have done for 30 years. Just not gonna do it the way you’d like, an imaginary binary election. Before you say it, there is also no such thing as throwing a vote away.

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Ok lol, mask off. Every…ridiculous opinion you have shared? I have heard, considered, and through careful thought dismissed. Before. Long before.

You came here today show your knowlege. Which is limited to what you hear on tv? Cool. If i want to hear a parrot ill buy a bird.

So i don’t care if youve just got to get one more smug shot in, hurry and do it then get the fuck out of my face. No blocks homie, just get gone.

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So we’re eating leviathon reproductive organs? Sexy

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Gotta start wondering if Joey and the DMC et al are losing on purpose at this point. It would take nothing to win this presidency against Trump. 8 mean the barest break in the beatings would be enough for us plebs. But i think they kinda liked the open grift not to mention the donation train.

In a perverse way, a Trump presidency would legitimize the Dems (and this false democracy) for that much longer.

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“not doing enough to protect aid workers and civilians.”

Killing. Killing aid workers and civilians. Good Christ is libspeak fucking nauseating

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Ok i guess I’m Godwinning but how come nobody else said ‘hitler youth’ yet?

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This might help m.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnG53304Hk

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I actually just defedded myself from Lemmy.world after being reminded they’re doing some shit with Facebook andthe got rid of their largest piracy community. They can keep .world, most of the shittiest takes came from there (but don’t worry i haven’t forgotten about you guys .dbzer0 and .reddthat, you’re cesspits too) The absolute last straw was somebody from .world replying to me unironically with “who hurt you?”

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I like you yogthos but i ain’t takin a study from the heritage foundation as anything but horseshit. The only thing left to wonder once you see their involvement is what they’re lying/lobbying for.

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I think what bothers me the most is the initial call by law enforcement as his dying by “self inflicted” wounds. I dunno about police procedure, but don’t they treat suicides very differently (gathering evidence etc)?

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Right there with you. Liberals are liars. I hear em talking and i get ptsd cuz they sound like every upper middle manager that brought “the team” together to tell us how the company didn’t make enough to give us raises this year. That fucking smile. That fucking tone.

I hate em

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I think it’s super not real. So unreal it cycles back to real again. Poor thailand boy.

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is this the start of an attempt to whitewash and conflate anti-zionism with anti-semitism? I bet we see this term more and more since AIPAC has taken note that their wild claims of antisemitism are being called out as bullshit

Edit: i misspoke. You are right. Conflating the two had been going on since Israels inception.

I meant to say "the start of a quiet removal of “anti-semitism” from the lingo in favor of just outright using “anti-zionism”, because attempts to conflate the two by AIPAC aren’t working any more.

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