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    The post is literally an image that has a two headed creature which is “fascists” and “Democrats doing resistance theatre”.

    That’s not a mild fucking criticism, it’s like calling Mr. Rogers a nazi gestapo accomplice because he didn’t wash his feet hard enough.

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        Dems literally distributed tens of millions of lbs of food they delivered on a floating dock they built, via landroutes, and via airdrop. Dems literally withheld large bombs from the out of control Netanyahu admin. Dems consistently held the message of peace and ceasefire in exchange for hostages being returned.

        Netanyahu literally endorsed Trump and Trump’s Pete Hegseth is literally promoting death or exodus of every Palestiniain.

        You care about Palestinians? Volunteer for the DNC.

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          Dems literally distributed tens of millions of lbs of food they delivered on a floating dock they built, via landroutes, and via airdrop.

          A floating dock that was operational for a grand total of 20 fucking days, land routes where aid trucks never reached their destination, and airdrops that all the experienced aid agencies referred to as a “grotesque distraction,” said “could never deliver the volume or the quality,” and are “expensive, inefficient, and can even kill starving civilians.”

          Dems literally withheld large bombs from the out of control Netanyahu admin.

          I’m certain the Palestinians are very grateful to have been killed with many smaller bombs rather than a few very big bombs. What a world of difference it makes.

          Dems consistently held the message of peace and ceasefire in exchange for hostages being returned.

          All while Israel refused to negotiate for the hostages’ return, even going so far as to kill the Palestinian negotiators, and always being the one to break ceasefires.

          Performative, ineffective, insulting “attempts” at delivering aid when Biden could have ended the genocide with a single fucking phonecall by conditioning defense spending to Israel on opening a humanitarian corridor and threatening sanctions if Israel continues violating international law. And I know for a fact that he could have done so because RONALD FUCKING REAGAN DID EXACTLY THAT in August 1982 when Israeli forces advanced beyond southern Lebanon and began shelling the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in Beirut. You cannot call yourself a leftist or even a liberal when you’re getting outclassed by Ronald Reagan.

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            I don’t think what Biden did was good enough. If it were me I wouldn’t have stopped at your suggestion, I’d have sent in the US military and deposed Netanyahu personally citing Israel’s own laws, international criminal justice, and defense of an ally nation under duress.

            But unlike you I don’t make that an excuse to justify the starvation of hundreds of thousands.

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              But unlike you I don’t make that an excuse to justify the starvation of hundreds of thousands.

              How, in all of the interactions I’ve had with you, have I ever given the impression that I’m justifying Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians? I’ve been ruthlessly criticizing Biden and the Democratic party’s complicity in the genocide and I agree that he should have gone as far as to depose Netanyahu by force if it came to it. I only mentioned conditioning defense spending and sanctions because that’s all it would have taken, and the most that could be reasonably expected of a neoliberal ghoul like Biden.

              And I don’t know what you’re trying to communicate with that chart. Perhaps you’re trying to use the fact that Trump is far worse as some sort of gotcha, as if I don’t already know that.

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                Uh, because you fight for the opposition, intensely waving and shouting that the lesser evil is just as bad?

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                  intensely waving and shouting that the lesser evil is just as bad?

                  I have explicitly stated otherwise, but no matter how many times I say it I’ll still be accused of equivocating the Democratic and Republican parties. Any criticism of Democrats for you centrist types is interpreted as support for the opposition.

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                There is no higher level of justifying genocide than ignoring what Trump is doing and deflecting blame onto their only opposition.

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      The Dems are doing so little to maintain the political norms of our society that they appear to be ok with them changing. They look like they’re just trying to make sure they each individually get to keep their seat. If that’s in a sham legislature, that’s fine for them. Bribes might be legal soon, so they’re getting a sweet deal.

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        The Dems have had 48 or less senators for over a decade, you might as well blame the Jackson Five for their innaction.

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            Ah look they finally got the vote manipulation bots in here to reverse all the ratios, I wonder what the delay was about?

            EDIT: To clarify, the Republican Loving Tankie bots have clearly been here.

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              Of course, can’t be that people legitimately disagree with you.

              How do you think the meme got popular enough for you to see it in the first place?

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                  I again refer you to the votes on the original meme.

                  Considering bots are faster than humans, it would imply the initial trend was bot manipulation.

                  Or you could just stop blaming bots for your terrible arguments.

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                    Bots are fast once given instructions. They don’t decide where to go or what to do on their own.

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          You know what, you’ve convinced me. Im gonna go grab a beer and relax. Dems have done everything that can be done. There is no point in trying to prevent a third Trump term. It was gonna happen no matter what anyway.

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            If we weren’t watching a replay of the early 1930’s, it would be funny that Democratic ideologues still pretend that Dems are powerless when Donald has had the same amount of power as Biden and Obama for eight months and he’s completely remade American culture and government.

            The problem isn’t power. The problem is Dems simply don’t care as along as their personal wealth continues to increase unimpeded.

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              Courts keep reversing Trump’s actions because they’re illegal, they also reversed several of Biden’s executive orders such as student loan forgiveness.

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                  It unfroze medicaid spending, rehired federal workers, and they’ve got the remainder of a 60 day order to shut down Alligator Auschwitz in Oct.

                  Biden also accomplished a lot despite the constant court battles, I think it’s disingenuous to say the two are displaying different levels of power.

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                    Oh good. No more fascism, the judge said so. Trump is known for listening to judge’s orders.

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            If your idea of preventing a third trump term was to spread Anti-DNC Propaganda then yes, please sit this one out.

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                lmao yeah sure bro, I’m the highly political one and you’re the resistance here

                as you vigourously defend an Anti-DNC meme

                Bootlicker.

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                  I don’t know why you’re so offended.

                  Your sternly-worded letters are just so impressive, and clearly, have been exceedingly effective. They actually inspired me to donate even more money. No joke.

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      I would expect politicians to have better ideas than the ineffective shit they have been doing this year so far. Considering that I don’t believe that politicians at the national level are all actually that dumb, it has to be on purpose. There’s certainly DNC politicians who are sincere about wanting avoid fascism, but they aren’t the ones who run the party.

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        Better ideas get filibustered. They could remove filibustered but since they’ve had 48 or less senate seats since 2013-2015 congress a literal decade ago that also means the GOP could potentially pass laws without a filibuster.

        What we need is a strong DNC majority like we had in 2010-2012 which expanded healthcare to tens of millions of people and proposed tax reforms that reduced individual rates to 10% and raised corporate and foreign effective rates to 25% (many companies pay 0%

        Instead we just reelected the fucking apeass bastard who keeps cutting taxes for the rich.

        And have people learned anything from all this? NO! THEY’RE ACTUALLY GETTING DUMBER AS TIME GOES ON.

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          Dems had the presidency for four years. They had Congress for two years. With that same amount of power Donald has accomplished everything he wants.

          Did you notice those special sessions Abbott just did in Texas?

          The US president has the same power. He could have kept Congress in session for four years straight until he got what he wanted by sheer force of will.

          But that assumes he gives a shit.

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            First of all

            1. Texas house and senate were also solid red.

            2. POTUS can’t keep congress in session because that would require power of the purse which belongs solely to the house.

            3. I JUST SENT YOU A LIST OF THINGS THEY ACCOMPLISHED DESPITE THEIR 50:50 MAJORITY, NOT COUNTING ANY EXECUTIVE ORDERS.

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          Don’t pretend like the DNC aren’t to blame for not getting enough votes. Look at how hard they fumbled the last national election, and how they’re treating Mamdani.

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      Which of the bills you listed were about resisting fascism? I noticed two that were about actively capitulating to it (the ones aimed at disarming the populace), but zero that were about resisting it.

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        Fascism feeds on desperate and angry people. Economic reforms pre-empt fascism, while neoliberal economic policy leads inevitably towards fascism. Come on, this is basic Marxian analysis.

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        Expunging the records of millions of marijuana offenses would also restore voting rights, and the American Dream and Promise Act would give voting rights to more people who lived their lives in this country.

        It’s funny that you mention the Aussault Weapons Ban, you realize Aussault Weapons were banned once before and Republicans allowed it to expire? Do you feel just as strongly about Firearms not requiring any background checks like Every Republican seems to think? Those are both in the list.

        What about the George Floyd namesake bill that would have created more avenues to try police for their crimes? You don’t like that one? You feel bad for those poor police? I’m just trying to guage what level of NRA and Military Industrial Complex shillery you do or do not condone.

        Edit: Let’s meet in the middle, you can put a scope on a magnum or semi-auto rifle and maybe kill 5 to 30 people before reloading, is that still too repressive for you?

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          You really don’t get it, do you?

          We are rapidly approaching the time in which it will be necessary for the militia to defend the United States against a domestic enemy, if we aren’t there already. For that, they need to be just as well-armed, up to and including burst-fire AR-15s.

          Assault rifles are the type of firearms most worthy of Constitutional protection, not least, specifically because they are the last defense against tyranny. The more useful a weapon is in a military tactical context, the more I want the citizenry to have it.

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            The “2nd amendment is important for a militia to protect us from tyranny” crowd is more ineffective than the Democrats.

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            Your AR-15s are gonna do fuck all to tanks and UAVs.

            And you think Russia and China are just going to sit back and watch the USA build up from the ashes after you get massacred by some inbreds?

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              the vc and mujahideen and Taliban stopped the greatest imperial forces in the world with small arms.

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                Didn’t help that Trump released 5000 Taliban Fighters and voluntarily withdrew from Afghanistan, and that Taliban received financial support from Iran which is backed by Russia and China, but you’re ignoring the fact that the Taliban’s most successful tactics involved high explosives and guerilla warfare which resulted in massive civilian casualties.

                Is that who you want to be? Dictatorship funded civilian murderers?