• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    What do you want from me, exactly? You just can’t keep people afraid of the same thing forever. People stopped paying attention to the terror threat level just three years after 9/11, which the entire country agreed was bad. That’s why their secret sauce is to keep rotating in new panics.

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      18 hours ago

      I would like it if you acknowledged that Republicans are the root of the problem and not Democrats. Sure, the Dems have a lot of room to improve, but there is no comparison! Republicans are fucking insane!

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        18 hours ago

        The root of what problem, exactly? Yes, republicans are insane, I hate everything about their entire platform and I hate that they’re in power. I want a real left party that will kick these stupid Nazis’ asses, which is why I’m not afraid of being critical of the democrats. Now’s the time. We’ve just been punched in the head and it’s time to decide how to proceed. Do we get our shit together and start swinging for the fences, or do we pout and blame the voters because we really deserved this win and they just didn’t understand that?

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          18 hours ago

          Okay, we agree that Republicans are insane Nazis. Good.

          What could the Democrats have done that is so bad that insane Nazis sound like the better option? What makes that a rational choice?

          I don’t think there is one. I don’t think anything the Democrats did mattered because voters weren’t voting based on reality.

          There is no democracy without an educated populace. We have something worse than that: a miseducated populace. The apathy towards voting and the hatred of the current administration are intentionally engineered by bad actors.