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    The supposed democracy advocates within the democratic party continue to refuse to fix the First-past-the-post voting system.

    Dont worry, you can count on them to point out all the flaws of the voting system during the midterm while doing nothing to fix it before or afterwards.

    Trump was inevitable under such conditions. If you capture one (or more) political parties in a two party system, clearly you can undo every single check and balance. Wake up blue MAGA, your continued use of the FPTP crutch is a national security threat and will cause the nation to crumble.

    Was it worth it keeping those safe blue states? Was it worth the easy elections against the worst of us all?

    America last, party over country at all costs.

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      the FPTP crutch is a national security threat and will cause the nation to crumble.

      Don’t threaten me with a good time

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    This thread is being targeted by a lot of no-content “correct the record” fediverse accounts, upvoting pro-genocide US democratic party and Israeli talking points. Please report them so we can ban them ASAP.

    Thank you to all the posters below doing great work debunking them.

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    Hey OP, you wanna go ahead and go to any neighborhood that’s been raided by ICE and tell them how the Dems are exactly just as bad as the GOP?

    Hell, go tell a bunch of drag queens and trans people.

    While you’re at it, go find some under aged girls who’ve been impregnated by adult men and tell them the Dems are just as bad as the GOP.

    I’m sure it’ll resonate with all of them /s

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      Hey OP, you wanna go ahead and go to any neighborhood that’s been raided by ICE and tell them how the Dems are exactly just as bad as the GOP?

      Obama Leaves Office As ‘Deporter-In-Chief’

      Democrats tried so fucking hard to outflank the Republicans from the Right for eight long years. But as soon as they lost, its those damned leftists at fault for not voting harder.

      Hell, go tell a bunch of drag queens and trans people.

      I’ve got a trans friend who has more rotten things to say about Joe Biden than your eardrums can handle.

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      Hey hypocrite.
      Want to tell all the deported and kids in cages under Genocide Joe how that was much better?
      Or that bombing brown people everywhere in the world, droning weddings or aiding genocide of Palestinians is better bcs it’s under those Dems who have those famous ‘democratic values’ they’re always crying about?
      Just say it like it is, libs only care about themselves.
      You all didn’t give a fuck about what you did to the world since forever.
      And you probably also don’t give a fuck about trans people either.
      The problem is now the fascism you supported has come home, and the libs don’t like the taste of their own medicine.
      That’s ALL that bothering you.

      Enjoy your karma, hope you get a lot of it.

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      While you’re at it, go find some under aged girls who’ve been impregnated by adult men and tell them the Dems are just as bad as the GOP.

      Sure, which victim of Clinton’s should we start with?

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      Hey OP, you wanna go ahead and go to any neighborhood that’s been raided by ICE and tell them how the Dems are exactly just as bad as the GOP?

      I’ll tell you.

      This shit was already happening. Yes, it’s taken another step under Trump, but the incrementalism occurred with Democratic fascists as well. What Trump is able to do now would be impossible if Democrats hadn’t seized on the illegal powers dreamed up by Clinton and Dubya and ran with them.

      Clinton, while fucking his interns, invented ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ and did nothing about persecution of gay people, and in fact, he was the one who signed DOMA. He invented “peacekeeping actions” so he could make war without calling it that, and he did just that. He cut the social safety net wholesale, making Americans poorer, and doubled down on poverty with his ‘free trade’ policies that helped usher in the era of companies moving offshore and killing US jobs. Oh, and he was a regular on Epstein’s island and the Lolita Express.

      Obama let police run roughshod in Ferguson and New York City, brutalizing victims of police violence and people who lost their homes and decided to participate in Occupy. He appointed Tom Homan and put kids in cages. He made torture explicitly extra-legal. He walked into Flint and performatively drank a glass of water. He dropped 26,000 bombs in the last year of his presidency and left office with American wars brewing in seven countries. We also learned under Obama that police departments in the US have black sites and his presidency was kidnapping renditioning people to black sites in foreign countries. He also ordered drone bombings that killed American citizens.

      We knew Biden was going to be shit when, in a time people wanted federal police reform, he mocked the change people wanted in his State of the Union address by calling for greater police militarization, and his presidency gave rise to ‘cop cities’. Even worse, it’s now possible for cops to hang out in a school that’s getting shot up, on camera, with zero consequences. After January 6 he did nothing meaningful to slow the evident rise of domestic fascism, showing a greater interest in keeping his scumbag son out of prison. He deported undocumented immigrants by the millions and continued the policy of caging kids. Biden earned the moniker ‘Genocide Joe’ for aiding and abetting the genocide in Israel, even when Israel escalated it into a manufactured famine, which is a war crime. Then he ran for president knowing he had dementia, paving the way for Trump’s second term, prioritizing his own ego over the country’s well-being.

      This isn’t a ‘Democrats are better’ scenario. Most people just haven’t really paid attention to what Democrats do or have the short-term memory of a goldfish.

      And before you try to argue they were powerless, consider that all three of these men had the presidency and control of Congress, just like Trump. They had all the power they needed to make real change. They just didn’t care.

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      Are you one of those? Or do you just talk over them, depriving them of their voice?

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      wanna go ahead and go to any neighborhood that’s been raided by ICE and tell them how the Dems are exactly just as bad as the GOP?

      Those neighborhoors will tell you that ICE had been around since 2002 and while happy you’re finally getting with the program, despite the current administration’s best attempts, 2012 was the worst year so far right after the democrats had their governmental trifecta and with the dreamers bait and switch.

      So yes, while different flavors, they have been equally bad.

      go tell a bunch of drag queens and trans people.

      Republicans despise them, Democrats love to use them. That isn’t necessarily better.

      go find some under aged girls who’ve been impregnated by adult men and tell them the Dems are just as bad as the GOP.

      Fucking yes, the big Epstein reveal is that it’s all of them. The Trumps and the Clinton’s.

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        Those neighborhoors will tell you that ICE had been around since 2002 and while happy you’re finally getting with the program, despite the current administration’s best attempts, 2012 was the worst year so far right after the democrats had their governmental trifecta and with the dreamers bait and switch.

        So yes, while different flavors, they have been equally bad.

        You are fucking delusional to the extreme.

        While ICE has been attacking immigrants for decades, you got to be a god damn idiot to equate ICE operating under Dems compared to Trump where ICE NOW HAS A BUDGET LARGER THAN THE MARINES, IS COMPLETELY EXEMPT FROM ANY LEGAL ACTION BECAUSE TRUMP HAS THROWN OUT THE CONSTITUTION, RAMPIDLY BUILT CONCENTRATION CAMPS AT A RECORD PASTETHAT ARE MORE RESTRICTED TO THE PUBLIC THAN EVER, AND NOW ARE MASS ARRESTING LEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND CITIZENS ALIKE.

        All while the rule of law has been entirely abandoned.

        It was bad for immigrants before, it’s actual Hell for everyone now.

        Not to mention it’s gotten so much worse that you can actually observe it on national economic data.

        Republicans despise them, Democrats love to use them. That isn’t necessarily better.

        I think any marginalized community would prefer having the wiggle room of being able to exist and organize under hollow virtue signals than ACTIVE AND RAPIDLY EXPANDING GENOCIDE.

        Call me crazy, but one seems a bit better than the other.

        Fucking yes, the big Epstein reveal is that it’s all of them. The Trumps and the Clinton’s.

        Completely avoiding the point. Are you playing stupid or is this just how you are?

        REPUBLICANS BANNED ABORTION

        REPUBLICANS WANT TO BAN CONTRACEPTIVES

        Dems, believe it or not, fucking didn’t.

        The only people you are helping by spreading this “both sides” BULLSHIT is the fascists. Take Trump’s tiny cock out of your mouth and smell the shit around you.

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          ICE NOW HAS A BUDGET LARGER THAN THE MARINES, IS COMPLETELY EXEMPT FROM ANY LEGAL ACTION BECAUSE TRUMP HAS THROWN OUT THE CONSTITUTION, RAMPIDLY BUILT CONCENTRATION CAMPS AT A RECORD PASTETHAT ARE MORE RESTRICTED TO THE PUBLIC THAN EVER, AND NOW ARE MASS ARRESTING LEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND CITIZENS ALIKE.

          The same can be said between Trump’s first term and Biden’ presidency. The level of funding and militancy isn’t a function of R vs D, but a function of time as they because increasingly less cost effective and require increasing force to attempt to maintain/increase the level of eliminations.

          All while the rule of law has been entirely abandoned.

          You’re delusional if you believe in the “rule of law”, that’s never been how the justice system has worked in the US.

          It was bad for immigrants before, it’s actual Hell for everyone now.

          Sorry you can no longer sleep through brunch and now have to face the realities that immigrants and others have been facing for decades.

          Not to mention it’s gotten so much worse that you can actually observe it on national economic data.

          … What? Can you clarify what you mean by this and what data? This feels like Facebook level finger pointing and not based on any actual data or proper analysis, but I’m happy to be proven wrong there.

          I think any marginalized community would prefer having the wiggle room of being able to exist and organize under hollow virtue signals than ACTIVE AND RAPIDLY EXPANDING GENOCIDE.

          Your “group” being spared genocide as a tool to influct genocide on others is not the “easy moral dilemma” you make it out to be.

          REPUBLICANS BANNED ABORTION

          The bipartisan nominated supreme court banned abortion during a democratic party trifecta.

          Blaming the Republicans primarily for that is as asinine as blaming the Democrats primarily for the current government shutdown.

          Dems, believe it or not, fucking didn’t.

          No? So they’re just completely powerless and their votes were forced even though they really, really didn’t want to?

          The only people you are helping by spreading this “both sides” BULLSHIT is the fascists.

          The difference is who we say are fascists. Yes, the Republicans are fascist, but so are the Democrats.

          Take Trump’s tiny cock out of your mouth and smell the shit around you.

          If there’s one thing we can agree on it’s that the elephant in the room is absolutely covered in shit. However, I’m busy trying to take the fucking animals outside and am currently begging for you to please, please stop sucking donkey cock, realize the problems, and help.

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        It’s relieving to see common sense on the internet, have upvote. It’s very interesting how the uniparty seems to get majority vote every single election.

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      “This is the problem with you Amerikkkan imperialists, you only care about your own people and don’t give a shit about anyone outside your country”

      ~(a paraphrase of) an actual reply I got one time when I shared this sentiment

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          Hey, NATO shill, why aren’t you fighting in Ukraine? I bet there’s a conscript there that would love to change places with your chickenhawk ass.

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            It’s so funny that the libs are downvoting this. So much for the ‘you have to look past her flaws for now, she’s our only chance against Trump’ rhetoric.

            The campaign is over. She lost. What’s the excuse for still supporting her now?

            Blue MAGA are doing their best to live up to the epithet. It was never about ideology or morality. Kamala is OUR TEAM and OUR TEAM GOOD.

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              The KHIVE is here to correct the record on her prison slave labor scandals, defense of white supremacist cops, disproportionate jailing of black people, and staunch support for Israel.

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              The point isn’t to defend her now, it’s to point out that it would have been much better if she won over trump. It’s to point out that If you didn’t vote for her, you are at fault for Trump’s win. It’s to point out that unless enough people figure out that concept real soon, we will lose the ability to gain some control in the midterms and we will probably lose our democracy for the foreseeable future.

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          “Let me mention a few negligeable differences like crypto and ignore all the blatant similarities which actually matter”

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      The Trump term has literally seen a truce to the genocide in Palestine. This isn’t an endorsement of Trump, he’s a fascist piece of shit, but to those constantly bickering about genocide being worse under Trump, where are you now?!

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          No one actually believes he ended the war

          There is no war, there is an ongoing genocide of Palestinians by the settler colony of Israel.

          And yes, the genocide very much didn’t end unfortunately, and it won’t end until Isntreal is driven out of the region. But it has been ameliorated. By all accounts, dem supporters constantly were ranting about how “not voting for Kamala worsens the genocide”, and this is, factually, not what we’re seeing.

          Trump has purposefully made the genocide in Ukraine far worse

          There isn’t genocide in Ukraine, there is an inter-imperialist war going on in Ukraine. Using the label “genocide” to every conflict is very harmful to people like Palestinians who are actively being starved en-masse and kept out of reach of basic medicine, healthcare and even fucking drinking water.

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            There isn’t genocide in Ukraine

            When Russia started relocating Ukrainian children into Russian families, that made it a coordinated effort to eliminate a people, which makes it a genocide.

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              You mean when they fulfilled their obligations under international law to move children away from active war zones?

              Fucking monsters, they didn’t even put a wall of them in front of their weapons like true humanitarians in Ukraine.

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              After 2 years of insisting, Ukraine provided list of 339 names of missing children of which 161 were found living with parents in Germany. The entire “kidnapped children” take is pure atrocity propaganda.

              On the other side, in 2014-2022 Ukraine killed 15000 people in Donbas and forced millions more to migrate. THIS is considtent with UN definition of genocide.

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              Most of the claims of relocation of Ukrainian children to Russian families come from the government of Ukraine, not from independent investigative journalism. The Ukrainian government has obvious reasons to do this atrocity propaganda. The Russian government itself justified the start of the war on similar grounds, arguing that Russian ethnics in eastern Ukraine were being genocided by Ukraine through forced Ukrainization and the banning of Russian language. I don’t take the Russian government seriously when it makes such claims because I haven’t seen much independent journalism confirming it, I apply the same reasoning to the claim of Ukrainian children being kidnapped en-masse and forcibly Russified.

              As far as I know, there are only a handful of independently confirmed cases of Ukrainian children being sent to adoptive families in Russia, and most children evacuated by the Russian military have been returned to their families in Ukraine. There aren’t many cases of either because, as you may expect, in an attrition war in which the movements of the frontline are slow, there are very few children near the frontlines.

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              Some of the countries that have officially labeled Russia’s brutal invasion as a genocide include [list of geopolitical enemies of Russia]

              France can’t even fucking recognize the state of Palestine until like a week ago, and now they’re authorities in genocide? Fuck them.

              As for your points list:

              #1 goes mostly from claims by the Ukrainian government. It is true that Russia has extracted children from the warzone and it is true that in some cases these children have been sent to adoptive families in Russia, which I heavily condemn, but it’s not a generalized thing and most confirmed extracted children have been returned eventually. The official numbers by the Ukrainian government aren’t confirmed by any investigative journalism and the invaded Ukrainian state has obvious motivations to claim abduction of Ukrainian children and violations of human rights. The Russian government makes similar claims of forced de-Russification of ethnic Russians in Donbas to justify its invasion of Ukraine, which I hope you don’t take seriously because it’s obviously state propaganda.

              #2 A statement doesn’t make a genocide.

              #3 Civilian deaths in the Ukrainian war, by any metric you want to use, are contained compared to any imperialist war carried out by the west. Civilian death ratio in the unlawful and horrifying invasion of Iraq was comparably much higher and it wasn’t a genocide in my opinion (probably not in yours either). However horrifying the invasion of Ukraine is, it responds to patterns of war between nations, not of genocide attempts against a population.

              #4 Isolated instances of war crimes don’t imply a generalized intent to massacre civilians of a given ethnicity. War crimes are horrible and the perpetrators should be brought to justice, but again, the scale you bring of “hundreds” doesn’t respond to genocidal goals. Massacres of civilians take place in many wars (see Vietnam, Libya…) and are war crimes, but not every war crime is genocide.

              Please, do not dillute the meaning of the word “genocide”. It’s meant to carry an extremely heavy connotation of attempt of total extermination of an ethnicity and culture, and throwing it around lightly is an injury to people suffering from it.

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          “Genocide in Ukraine” imagine believing this 🤡

          The War there is only noteworthy regarding its LOW number of civilian casualties. If you want to look at genocides look at Gaza, look at Sudan, look at Yemen.

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          And you’re upset because you wanted it to be Harris continuing to pretend there’s no way to stop shipping weapons to Israel, or . . . .?

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    With democrats at the (wheel?). Its the same trolley, the same track and the same people on it.

    But they mostly abide by a legal speed limit and in general go much slower.

    Sometimes they get to a full stopt and get out to clear some people manually to get back going.

    The gop sees this and cries out that these slow speed limits are the problem. Go fast, get there quicker.

    Neither party wants to talk seriously about where we’re going.

    Neither wants to stop.

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        The only reason there is a “truce” is cause the Trump regime causes so much chaos they think they can get away with a hypernormalized fake truce.

        Also Trump does not care one bit about what happens in reality as long as he believes that people believe him to be successful. Towards BN he is nothing but a useful fool.

        Most media channels are happy to stop reporting about this cause it was getting old but the war and famine are going on unchanged.

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          The only reason there is a “truce” is cause the Trump regime causes so much chaos they think they can get away with a hypernormalized fake truce

          So an amelioration of genocide is insufficient to you? Good, it’s insufficient to me too, that’s why I suggest voting against democrats too

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            Can you explain you reasoning because It just sounds like you fell for hypernormalization big time.

            Just to make things clear. The Genocide is still ongoing. Trump won last time and the biggest difference it made is a classic trick got deployed to manage public perception of what the media thinks is going on.

            I repeat voting against democracts does not remove any of the issues, we are just more Frequently gaslighted against forming resistanc under Trump

            The best strategy to move away from capitalism with the least bloodshed is to have people need to vote democrat during elections and then instantaneously organize mass protest against them after they win.

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              How are we more gaslighted against resistance with Trump? People are mobilizing in much higher numbers now, and they were quite literally shutting their ears during the Kamala campaign not to hear the names of genocide victims.

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                FIY

                Part of why Trump won is because the majority of people loath the democrats for their blatant support of Israel. Even Bernie took a big popularity hit because of it. I am not sure where you get the perception that the people mobilising now were somehow ignorant of genocide before.

                We are gaslighted against resistance because media is getting flooded with scandals and misinformation to be upset about, making it harder to unite because everyone has a different priority issue.

                The no kings protest is getting people outside because many people are realising there is a major issue which deserves priority, getting the dictator out the peoples house.

                You seem to confuse these people as belonging to the same groups as the weirdo democrat fans that show up to their events but its a feature by design of a two party system that the majority of voters dislike and loath the party they vote for.

                Verifiably Reality is AIPAC funds both parties and both support muslim genocide, towards the Palestinian people there is no effective difference.

                Also verifiable, the gop created a blueprint for turning the US in a literal fascist dictatorship, which they have been executing.

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          By all metrics, the genocide has slowed down in scope. It’s obviously insufficient and the genocide truly won’t be over until the settler colonial entity is driven out of the region, but what we are seeing isn’t a worsening of the genocide due to Trump as libs predicted.

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    More like…

    The lever can reduce the speed of the trolley depending on which way you turn it, but regardless the trolley will gradually accelerate either way.