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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 93 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

What's r/politics take on this lmao?

I mean libs have breathlessly told us Trump is a "danger to democracy" yet here Biden is inviting him to co-write legislation

Liberals are universally full of shit

Edit: Tried to post it in r/politics, deleted within minutes lmao

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 60 points 8 months ago (2 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1b3e6t8/trump_echoes_nazi_propaganda_in_border_speech/

I did however find this.

Any who stand with Trump are un-American pieces of shit.

MAGA proles won't understand until their own faces are being stomped upon by the very militarized Trumpists for whom they cheer.

not-immune-to-propaganda

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 34 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Wow, that's a terminal politics poster. Just deranged bluemaga energy for pages on end.

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[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 46 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They think Biden is playing 5D chess. Just blue anon shit

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[–] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why did it get deleted?

I mean, I know why it got deleted, but what did they say about it?

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 50 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The excuse was someone already submitted it hours before, but of course the one submitted hours before was deleted and that had no explanation lmao

Mods there are absolutely astroturfed and full of shit

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[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 77 points 8 months ago (3 children)

2024 is going to find Biden winning the election and then inviting Trump to be Chancellor.

First as tragedy, then as farce.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 54 points 8 months ago (3 children)

1000% could see Biden winning and then pardoning Trump / lobbying state AGs to drop charges in order to "heal the nation." Libs would turn on a dime and eat it up.

[–] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 45 points 8 months ago

Biden and Donald Trump together makes me have faith in America again

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[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 74 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I love it when everything you need to survive in the US hellscape is drastically more expensive than it was a few years ago and the chuds once again have the whole country focused on immigrants who have no money and no political power.

manhattan

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago

They believe that Biden is paying migrants tens of thousands of dollars, that they’re eating fancy steaks in 5 star hotels, and selling fentanyl as a side hustle. They’re not in this reality.

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 67 points 8 months ago (2 children)

We really need emojis of these two

[–] Spike@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

:kang: :kodos: :throw-your-vote-away: :board-with-nail: :two-party-system-1: :two-party-system-2: :dont-blame-me: :voted-for-kodos:

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

:abortions-for-all: :abortions-for-some:

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[–] YourMom@hexbear.net 57 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (12 children)
[–] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 52 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The Clymer types are the worst.

People who interpret things that are obvious on their face and then pretend it's 4D chess while saying things like "ah yes, brilliant maneuver"

Just the lib version of Scott Adams

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago

Scott Adams

My favorite example of how he's like somebody's batshit crazy right-wing Facebook uncle is after Trump said you could inject bleach to cure covid. Adams tied himself in knots tweeting explanations to the clueless masses about what Trump "actually meant".

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 40 points 8 months ago

Trust the plan. Patriots are in control.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago

Pictured: Breathless sycophant cretins in a personality cult when someone dares to question dear leader

[–] buttwater@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Charlotte still working the reply beat

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[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago

don't give up

[–] Afterthought_C@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 8 months ago

I know using pop culture to describe politics would be considered very... liberal by you guys but I feel like this is how I'm processing it; it feels like blue apologists engage with politics the same way a ttrpg player engages with a Blades in the Dark campaign. If something undesirable happens just do a Flashback to rewrite reality in your head.

[–] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

those who understand strategy stand in awe of Biden the master right now

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[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 48 points 8 months ago

a vote for biden is a vote for trump!

[–] Kaplya@hexbear.net 45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Look, it’s very clear what Biden is going for here.

Biden is showing the bourgeois elites of the country, and especially to the Republican donors, that he is the one who will get the gravy train going after the November election. So, if you’re part of the wealthy donor class, who will you choose?

At this point, merely 3 years into the Biden administration, if you had been a wealthy Republican donor, there is no way that you have not benefited from Biden’s policies. All of the right wingers crying about “Biden’s inflation” are seeing their asset portfolios shooting through the roof. Biden is showing that he has done everything Trump had promised to do yet failed to deliver, and with more to give.

The only thing that the Republicans are missing out on is the billions and billions of Ukraine laundering money, and it’s a Democrat exclusive club only. If you want that slice of the fat, you’re gonna to have to jump over to our side.

This is precisely why a certain segment of Republicans is so vehemently opposed to the Ukraine war, and doing everything they can to block Biden’s funding bill for Ukraine, and why the Ukraine funding will NOT end before the election. It’s a huge carrot worth more than $100 billion dangling in front of the Republican donors to constantly remind them of what they’re missing out.

It’s funny that people still think Biden ever gave a shit about pandering to the voter base, as if democracy is a thing, when everyone knows very well that the US electoral outcome is decided by campaign donors. Once you capture the support of the campaign contributors, you win the game.

What does Trump have? Record profits for the wealthy, ending Covid, anti-immigration, support for the police force, war profiteering - Biden has already done it all in just 3 years, and out-flanking Trump competently from every angle.

Trump only has his culture war stuff to cry about, and that’s what the future of the Republican party will be: a party of culture war fanatics. And it will implode within itself as the crazy MAGA donors chew each other out fighting for the last piece of pork, while the smart ones had already jumped ship to the other side. And you know what, one thing is constant for the bourgeoisie: they love money more than anything. As the campaign contributors continue to abandon the Republican party, it will no longer be able to amass the resources to mount serious campaigns against the Democrats.

Say what you will about Biden, but he is leading America towards a new era. Forget about the America you grew up in - that era is already over. Biden is leading the country into a new stage of American capitalism - the form of capitalism that no longer has to take the mask off for a moment to do the deed, but the capitalism that has decided to free itself by taking the mask off permanently. The final stage of liberal capitalism is always going to end up the same: fascism.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago (5 children)

So what are the libs going to do? Become full-throated fascists?

I know a lot of libs, and the one thing that seems to tie them all together is they honestly believe they are the "good" guys. We all see that when they twist themselves into knots trying to defend Israel when they are clearly wrong... are we just going to see more of that but for every ghoulish take Democrats have going forward?

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago

So what are the libs going to do? Become full-throated fascists?

No, they're going to remain what they are - the polite fascists. They do all the same policies, just as civil, adults in the room, making hard decisions, coming together to get things done

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The voters do believe that and many try to be that to some extent.

But they give carte blanche to lib politicians, almost all of whom (at the national level) are basically indistinguishable from conservatives of 10 years ago, in part due to what Kaplya describes; they are trying to outflank conservatives from the right, as they always have, but as conservatives get more and more unhinged, so too do dems shift further and further out. And voters desperately try to justify it all, because they don't know what else they can do besides vote.

Look at the rhetoric around immigration now, just 10-15 years ago it was about having sanctuary cities and how inhumane Bush had done it, now liberal politicians just flat out tell the press that 'we have border problems' and 'we need to securitize it', literally 3-5 years or less after they talked about how deranged Trump had been when he was doing the exact same stuff.

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[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago

Talk to your average Democrat. Go and speak to them or listen to what they have to say. And I don't mean voter, I mean person in the party. They are already there.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

So what are the libs going to do? Become full-throated fascists?

astronaut-2 astronaut-1

[–] Kaplya@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Holocaust wouldn’t have happened if the millions and millions of German libs hadn’t stayed quiet (and even actively collaborated) while the Nazis were shipping Jews and other minorities to the concentration camps.

At the end of the day, you know where the libs will stand. History has already taught us this lesson.

They’re probably genuinely good people when you meet them in person, but that doesn’t mean they won’t stay silent (or even secretly report you to the authorities, because that’s the “right thing to do”) while the fascists are rounding people up. You’ll probably get a “I’m so sorry this is happening” pity from them as you’re being executed.

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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 44 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Diet Hitler vs. Zero Sugar Hitler

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

And we’ll all still drink that garbage

[–] JealousCactus@hexbear.net 39 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Democrats could execute every male migrant and Republicans will say they are soft on immigration for not killing the women and children too.

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

dems will find a compromise: deport only half of every migrant child

[–] jaywalker@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

idk if this is a clever joke about cutting kids in half, but it should be

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[–] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 36 points 8 months ago

Instead of doing literally anything about abortion, healthcare, or the environment, lets instead do 99% of what the fascists want, so when they win, because their base wants 100%, they can get 100% within months.

[–] Freeanotherday@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Seriously, anyone that votes for either of them deserves [redacted].

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[–] radio_free_asgarthr@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago

unlimited-power I love ~~Democracy~~ Bipartisanship!

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago

Fascists of a feather stick together.

[–] GlueBear@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bro is speed running his L, I've never seen a dumber candidate

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[–] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago (3 children)
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[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago

someone should [removed by mods]

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