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'Call This What It Is—Theft': Republicans Approve Largest Medicaid, SNAP Cuts in US History
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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.
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.
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...