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'Call This What It Is—Theft': Republicans Approve Largest Medicaid, SNAP Cuts in US History
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Willingly. We collectively deserve it.
You're disgusting, you're okay with genocide as long as you get your comforts. We protested evil then, and we protest evil now. You only protest inconvenience.
You can stop parroting propaganda now, the elections over.
That genocide you are referring to has only gotten worse under this regime, not sure why you are patting yourself on the back so hard for retaining your moral high ground while fucking over our nation too.
Kinda fuck you honestly.
You didn't protest evil, you stepped aside and said, "I'm ok if the world gets more evil". Your "protest" did nothing to stop or reduce the genocide, it's gotten worse. You've made it less safe for people who actually want to protest the genocide. Your only action was that you feel moral superiority in your own mind.
Yep. Now protesters are being deported. I believe that everyone who sat this out over that issue has blood on their hands and I don’t care if it hurts their feelings to hear it.
We went from having a chance to having no chance.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy0ngd11yzo.amp
Their inaction isn’t entirely the reason, but a lot more people are going to be suffering than otherwise would have, all around the world.
The cuts to medical aid around the world, children going hungry, etc. Who knows, we might even get another pandemic. Wouldn’t that be rad?!
And you’re goddamn right. They ate propaganda and now get to feel good about doing nothing in their own minds.
You are not the fucking moral high ground. If this were a trolley problem, you've elected to kill five people instead of one. Even if the American left wasn't going to move on the issue, the situation would not have been nearly as genocidal. For Ukraine, for Trans and GNC, for the homeless.
Absolutely, unequivocally, and without remorse: Go fuck yourself with a rusty crowbar.
Correct. The problem is that you're not hearing the setup, or you don't care, which solidifies my decision.
The trolley was coming to kill a million of our children. There were two other tracks, one was empty, and one just took an extra loop to hit you first.
And you monsters simply pulled the brakes off and ripped the third completely empty track off so the trolley had no chance of missing anyone. So I made sure it takes you too.
There's no moral high ground, I said we collectively deserve it, I accept my punishment for living in and supporting the genocidal empire. You deserve it for your apathy.
Either way, at least when the US empire collapses when Trump is done with it, it'll stop genociding nations and getting stupid responses like yours.
Scum like you makes this world a darker place because you use "the children" as an excuse to justify your immorality. If you wanted to kill yourself, you could have done it without taking the lives of so many innocents. Instead not only are you the proxy perpetrator of a different genocide, you've simply allowed the world to burn because of your hatred. You can't modify the trolley problem by just saying "uhhh there's ackshually three tracks and one is on a loop so fuck you" or come at me with "but you didn't hear the setup!!". There is no other setup you fucking buffoon. There was a simple binary choice and you chose wrong. You are a moron, through and through. You are the kind of person that makes me realize that actual democracy may have been a mistake, because idiots don't deserve to make decisions. WE don't "collectively" deserve shit because there is no WE. May your precious God have mercy on your soul in the next life, you dishonourable bastard.
Could argue that everyone who didnt give a fuck about genocide because it didnt directly affect them voted to kill 100,000 plus people.
Could argue that the same violence happening in Gaza, the same thought process, is exactly what's happening here. The violence committed 3000 miles away for decades under US rule is coming home to roost.
If Americans were so pissed off about trump they would be out in the streets protesting every single day. But they're too fat and lazy and dont know how to protect their rights. So if you want to sit there and be dickslapped by democrats pointing at Republicans and aaying they're bad while half of them vote alongside them at every single point, then ya good luck. You're not gonna go anywhere except further right. Get in an actual left leaning party with an actual.policy that isn't "keep the status quo that has failed consistently going" and you might have a chance to have a democracy again.
Protests only work on politicians who are beholden to the people.
Trump is only driven by grift. The people who support him are only driven by power.
The whole country could protest, and it wouldn't mean a thing to them.
We are protesting every day, but I believe we've surpassed any option for a peaceful return to government. Maybe... Just maybe if republicans lose every seat in the next 2 congressional elections...
Maybe one should START WINNING LOCAL AND STATE ELECTIONS FIRST SO THEY CAN HAVE SOME FUCKING MEMBERS IN CONGRESS.
But yeah, let's join an effectively non-existent left leaning party with absolutely no clout because they can't even be bothered to focus what resources they have into taking the first realistic steps of winning local elections.
Oh yeah, you really helped stop the genocide. How many thousands did Israel murder this week because there's literally no one in the White House or congress even remotely trying to stop them?
And that would have been different had the woman who lied about trying to get a ceasefire how?
Y'all wanna argue over Israel like that's a winning point for you when it isn't at all close
Because it's your only stance dipshit
Homie can't read and is a hopeless idiot, sad
Let me check homie's notes and context. Yes, I concur that you are indeed a dipshit.
Lol.
Arguing things would be just as bad for Palestine if Kamala had won when Trump regularly fellates Netanyahu and has said he wants to kick Palestinians out to make a resort.
You are giving off hardcore loser vibes.
Biden got several cease fires out of Israel. Until Kamala lost the election they were willing to stop the violence and at least fake a willingness to negotiate. That all stopped cold after election day though. Now they have nothing holding them back.
You've killed everyone in Gaza thanks to your hubris.
You don't know how I voted and have made yourself look stupid because of it, oof
Your focus on the second part and glazing of the first speaks volumes.
This is what you voted for https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/republican-congressperson-wants-to-nuke-gaza-into-surrender/ar-AA1FiCdJ
Preventing people from starving and dying in the streets isn't comforts.
Blah blah blah.
Move on to the next boring catchphrase please. This is getting old.
Herp derp, I care more about two nations continuing an everlasting religious conflict on the other side of the planet than fascism in my own country.
We get it. You're dumb. You don't need to keep proving it to us.
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I will never, ever understand that logic. You had a choice, you made the wrong decisions, now own it. The more you justify saying that somehow orange turd mcgee was a better option makes you look like such a damn fool. And yes you said it by your action of "protest voting". You had infinitely more opportunities to protest and affect change if Kamela was elected. Now all of your opportunities are actively being removed and the people you wanted to save are going to be exiled for a new golf course because a lot of you of "moral high ground" contributed to this bleak future. Good job.
That's because there was no logic. Just emotions.
The pro-genocide protest (non-)voters have bought into the propaganda so thoroughly that I'm doubting that they'll accept responsibility even on their deathbeds at this point. They didn't give a shit about anyone or anything but performative actions to stroke their own egos and telling themselves that they are morally superior. There was one the other day who even admitted that they put their own SO's life at risk but still see no fault in their actions and blame dems and strategic voters for their own choice to support making genocide worse.
Whether you believe in the ends justifying the means or the means justifying the end.. the world you helped create was granting power to evil, putting evil in charge.
You straight up chose the side of evil. Congrats on being on the wrong side of history.
Suck it up, honey, this is partially your fault. If you didn’t vote for Kamala, you can’t outspin this, Truth Hurts.