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>Vote for the demented old man or never vote again. your choice.
Lmao this cope is incredible.
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@thegreatape tired: TRUMP IS BUILDING CAMPS
wired: "I wish Trump would send the person who called me a faggot online to the wagie camp"
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@thegreatape vote for politician who will work against you, then get excited for next politician who will work against you
Liberalism is a mental disease
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@thegreatape democracy.town is so back
Im sure this guy is a bot theres no way someone actually believes this and has the mental capacity to set up a mastodon instance or admin a server even
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@meso @thegreatape a bunch of these people really have psyopped themselves into believing this shit. While they are hacking your family to death with machetes to keep you from voting to protect democracy, they are imagining they are The Avengers.
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@Moon @meso @thegreatape are they fighting for a better way of life, or are they fighting to preserve an obviously corrupt form of democracy because they fear the unknown?
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@lewdthewides @Moon @meso @thegreatape Obviously the latter, they're scared of change and (IMO if speaking of material and social/interpersonal conditions *only*) rightfully so. Every year since 1970 has been the frog slowly boiling and now that the seams and cracks are starting to show they're having to double down on the received narrative and engage in a collective denial of reality in order to justify themselves relative to the standards they hold from a bygone era. The Democratic Party and the "moderate" Republicans have all the makings of a cargo cult now, while the radicals in the GOP serve to exploit those who have gone properly insane instead of just being wistful for the way "things used to be". And the 10% who are spared these afflictions regardless of age group are the ones who will be left to pick up the pieces when all is said and done.
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@lewdthewides @meso @thegreatape they are frozen at the "the two big parties are not equally bad" stage and have not progressed to the "neither big party works for you" stage.
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@allison @lewdthewides @meso @thegreatape some of these guys at the top also are freaking out because they can't differentiate between attacks on them and attacks on "democracy", they are literally the same thing to them.
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@Moon @lewdthewides @meso @thegreatape You know what the sad thing is? They're actually right. Attacks on the neoliberal status quo *are* attacks on democracy in the American context because Americans by and large literally can't be trusted with anything else. But because of their own democracy worship they don't put two and two together about the remedy to this.
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@allison @lewdthewides @meso @thegreatape they still think they are "nudging" not directly shaping.
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@Moon @lewdthewides @meso @thegreatape That's because they are delusional and they have by and large bought into their own narrative.
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@mischievoustomato @lewdthewides @meso @thegreatape there are also a lot of people that obviously know that Biden isn't great but they also know if they don't sound enthusiastic, Trump's more likely to win again. Honestly I can appreciate this practical tactic.
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they GENUINELY believe that preserving democracy at all costs means everything is fine and tomorrow will be better.