• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      But actually the democratic candidate said this one thing i dont like and didn’t pass these random virtue tests I came up with, so I’m just not going to vote for them at all and anyone who votes for them is a genocide!!!

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    Yes, many of the Democrats are a waste of fucking space, granted. I get it. You all should be voting in the primaries if you want to change that.

    But can be PLEASE for the love of fucking Sweet Baby Jesus remove the Republican fascist enablers from power? Can we at least give it a fucking try this time?

    My hope is that sometime in my lifetime people will finally realize that letting go of the rope isn’t a good strategy for winning a tug-o-war. (So far, so bad.)

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    Geee, maybe they should have waited a little bit before going full on Christofascist on their constituents? I dunno. I’m not a smart man.

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      Wait for what? This is literally their best chance.

      Presidents almost always lose seats in Congress during midterms, and the Republicans have a pretty narrow gap as it is. If they waited until November, they’d have probably lost anyway, at least the House.

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    They are only surprised because they had their boot on the neck of the population for years while lining their pockets.

    You must contrive for your future rulers another and a better life than that of a ruler, and then you may have a well-ordered State; for only in the State which offers this, will they rule who are truly rich, not in silver and gold, but in virtue and wisdom, which are the true blessings of life. Whereas if they go to the administration of public affairs, poor and hungering after their own private advantage, thinking that hence they are to snatch the chief good, order there can never be; for they will be fighting about office, and the civil and domestic broils which thus arise will be the ruin of the rulers themselves and of the whole State.

    And…

    You have again forgotten, my friend, I said, the intention of the legislator, who did not aim at making any one class in the State happy above the rest; the happiness was to be in the whole State, and he held the citizens together by persuasion and necessity, making them benefactors of the State, and therefore benefactors of one another; to this end he created them, not to please themselves, but to be his instruments in binding up the State.

    Plato, The Republic

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    “Sometimes I think the ‘Panicans’ in our party would be better off spending their money on Depends to help control all their bedwetting,” one national GOP strategist told Axios.

    The GOP is trying to ban FUD from the party like r/wallstreetbets. I’ve never heard someone be so hostile to something that they also dismissed. That quote sounds canned; something they thought about.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    C’mon leftists! Remind everyone that voting is a seekrit scheme by the oppressors to steal the work of the proletariat! Make sure republicans stay in power!