• pcalau12i@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 day ago

    I always say and always get flack for it, the US president legit doesn’t matter much. If you want to predict the course of the USA, you will be right far more often if you just ignore who is president and look at precedent. Every bad president people love to play around with counterfactuals that it would’ve been better under the other president but really it would’ve been the same because the US government is an utterly enormous institution with a lot of momentum in a particular direction which one person is not going to change much.

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    2 days ago

    Wait, I’ve been told that the reason I didn’t vote for Kamala Harris was because she was a black woman, not because she was just another genocide supporting, war-mongering part of the machine.

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        They prefer to be more subtle about it, I would imagine Trump: threatens to genocide all of Iran Liberals: would bomb the entire country without threatening genocide, even though they would probably be hitting civilian infrastructure “by accident”

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          Yeah to quote some lib coworkers I’ve had they’d just call it government infrastructure, and that collateral civilian damage is just an unfortunate part of liberating them because they only hate “the government not the people”.

          Same glee they’ve shown when discussing how breaking apart the USSR was the greatest human achievement despite all the fcking evidence of the suffering endured by regular people and children during the 90s and 2000s.

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            Sometimes, I wish the US would undergo some “liberation” á la Carpet Bombing just so that these fucks could get a real-life taste of what millions have been subjected to abroad and are now forced to live with the memory of massacred family members and friends.

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            And the racism they exhibit towards the DPRK and China are probably identical to how conservatives might exhibit racism (they both feel empowered by the ability to be racist without backlash).