• finitebanjo@piefed.world
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    Because the Republican Party sole purpose is to further the interests of wealthy and corporations but the only way they can do that is build a platform on racism and xenophobia to trick the less educated or informed into voting for them.

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      There’s an out, and it’s us standing outside before being driven to extreme violence. We should talk about that.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      the Republican Party sole purpose is to further the interests of wealthy and corporations

      Perhaps not SOLE, but that’s also the main purpose of the Dem leadership.

      That’s a big reason why they’re so bad at messaging: they’re having to appeal to a base who mostly loathe billionaires and big corporations while also making sure that the billionaires and corporations don’t get annoyed and stop enriching them.

      the only way they can do that is build a platform on racism and xenophobia to trick the less educated or informed into voting for them.

      Yeah, can’t have fascism without a million lies and constant scapegoating of already vulnerable groups of people.

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          a fucking centrist

          Nope. I’m a leftist. Unlike 99% of the corrupt party you’re shilling for.

          horrible things done specifically by Republicans

          Nope. Republicans do it even more/worse, but that doesn’t mean that the Dems are innocent of it. They aren’t.

          telling me both sides are bad.

          More accurately put, one’s awful and the other is a literal fascist party and thus much worse.

          Thanks, I really needed that in my life.

          A more nuanced view than "because they’re not fascists, the Dems are automatically great and don’t need to improve anything about themselves to better represent the will of the people“?

          Yeah, you really did.

          Go take your fucking pills

          After you, apparatchik.

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              Yeah ok, you’re clearly an absolute idiot and/or pathologically unable to admit when you’re wrong, so I’m not gonna waste any more time and effort explaining the obvious to you. Have the day you deserve.

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                If your only policy stance is to keep the fascist white national theocratic party in power you might actually just be alt right, consequently. Yeah, honestly, Centrist was too good a title for you.

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                  Yeah, because saying that they’re much worse than the other party means that my one goal in life is to keep them in power 🙄

                  Pack up your ridiculous army of strawmen and go waste someone else’s time, please.

    • PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world
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      Yuuup. The oligarchs would actually love to keep immigrant labor, but they see it as a worthwhile scapegoat to keep their voting bloc united.