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The only conservative policies that aren’t a smokescreen for their desire to oppress others are the conservative policies that openly display their desire to oppress others.

  • getting a deadly infection and an eating disorder from an untreated shattered tooth because dental isn’t considered healthcare

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  • Are there deadly dental consequences from ignoring tooth issues that don't first involve lots of pain? Asking for a friend.

  • Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism

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  • It sort of does have that look, doesn't it.

  • Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism

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  • It's working out OK over here. No interactions with known magas (or any conservative for that matter) that aren't obligated by work or family.

    I'm about five years into that philosophy and really, yeah, I'm feeling loads better.

  • Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism

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  • In other news, water is wet. I can only think how fortunate that one person must be who has no maga in their life, and had to read this study to learn this.

  • Mother of boy, 15, held at gunpoint by US immigration agents files $1m claim

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  • It's the usual Law Enforcement pattern.

    Taxpayers fund Law Enforcement --> Law Enforcement Brutalizes Taxpayers --> Taxpayers pay the other Taxpayers that were brutalized --> Law Enforcement receives no incentive to improve --> Taxpayers fund Law Enforcement -->

  • UnitedHealthcare CEO's alleged killer Luigi Mangione inspiring others toward violence, prosecutors say

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  • Dems gonna Dem

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  • It’s always, for decades now, attempt after attempt to appeal to the “moderates” and “reach across the aisle” to get R’s to flip but never are they allowed to move the needle to the left otherwise they get ousted as being “too radical”

    100% entirely correct!

  • Inside a Virginia ICE office: One meal a day, 40 people in a room and no bathing for days

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  • They just give us one burrito with water

    You will never convince me that's not some overtly racist intentional cruelty.

  • Dems gonna Dem

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  • They keep trying to court voters who will never ever vote for them instead of the people who they claim to share values with.

    R stopped with that shit and surprise surprise they got Trump in. Tell me again how we could never have gotten Bernie in or how AOC is too radical...

  • Federal agents arrest firefighters working on Washington wildfire

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  • But also:

    I'm going in!

  • How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes | A clever new paper puts concrete numbers to the taxes paid by members of the Forbes 400.

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  • You know, I liked the meme format so much I didn't really think about it, but you are right. Not to worry I'm sure I have an actual wage theft meme (or one that better fits the point I was making) around somewhere, just give me a few...

  • How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes | A clever new paper puts concrete numbers to the taxes paid by members of the Forbes 400.

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  • Andrew Cuomo Has Unmasked Himself as a Full-Blown Trumpist

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  • It’s their job to show me they support my values

    Good day.

  • Andrew Cuomo Has Unmasked Himself as a Full-Blown Trumpist

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  • It's their job to show me they support my values, not my job to convince myself they do, then hope I'm right.

     

    Identifying the problems is how we come up with solutions.

    You are trying to treat the symptom, not the problem.

  • Andrew Cuomo Has Unmasked Himself as a Full-Blown Trumpist

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  • Choosing blame over change is a time honored establishment-Democrat tradition so I get it. You do you man, some people find that more comforting anyhow.

  • Andrew Cuomo Has Unmasked Himself as a Full-Blown Trumpist

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  • This should have been the easiest fucking choice and they blew it.

    Totally agreed. But do I blame them? No, I fucking get it. They need to own that they contributed in some way to what's going on, but that doesn't mean I don't get it.

    So do you want to blame them again next time, or would you rather kick D in the ass so they stop running the 2016 and earlier playbook?

    I'm not voting for R-lite again, and for whatever small degree of difference there is between the two, I'm not voting 2016-era-D again either.

    It's their job to show me they support my values, not my job to convince myself they do, then hope I'm right. I've been voting that way for decades and I'm done with it.

    Conservatives and centrists already elected modern Hitler. There's no bigger bogeyman to hang in front of us next time. It's time for D to be actual opposition. Time to stop ignoring progressives except to blame them for their own failure to evolve. Time to admit they've got a lot of people still in power who haven't been able to relate to most of the electorate for thirty years, and many of them are in those positions because of nothing but internal power brokerage and politicking. Otherwise D better hope there's enough non-crazy R and conservative D left to keep them in power on their own, if they still plan on winning elections fair and square. The pool of people who are about done with the old ways and the oligarchs isn't shrinking, it's getting bigger.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Bernie Sanders in urging US to end Gaza famine

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  • You know the past ten-ish years are enough to really have me seriously considering simulation theory.

    It's like someone applied a mod.

  • Andrew Cuomo Has Unmasked Himself as a Full-Blown Trumpist

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  • I disagree completely with ‘reaching out’ to moderates, but it’s obvious why the algorithm keeps spitting that out as a viable strategy.

    And equally obvious that it's a strategy that has outlived its usefulness for Dems.

    The more I think about this it's increasingly clear that D is at a threeway crossroads.

    A: Continue to blame voters for not buying what they are selling, and for wanting more than "Not Trump, sorry Gaza." This is the "Let's become the party for the Republicans that still like to use nice language for their policies of oppression, like the Cheneys and the Romneys" choice. (This is where I fully expect them to head, because it's clearly what Kamala was told she would be ushering in, and it's clearly why they have worked so hard against Bernie, Mamdani, AOC, etc.)

    If they hold out long enough, this will probably work to buy them votes since the non-maga Republicans are going to want someplace to go eventually, and maga isn't letting go of R. Non-maga R will see progressives becoming increasingly alienated from establishment D, listen to Cuomo (and plenty of others) talking like a Republican with D behind his name, and it will be an obvious destination for them.

    We can go back to 1980 or earlier with regard to social issues and civil rights, and conservatives can declare victory.

     

    B: Realize that anyone who could have brought themselves to vote Trump in 2024 (and frankly, in late 2020) and decided to pull the lever for him was never ever ever going to vote Kamala, no matter what she did, and for the love of god stop trying to win those voters, and instead integrate some progressive platform positions into core D principles, then fight for them instead of always falling back on the pearl-clutching about moderates who might go vote for Goebbels if we let kids get free lunches or give serious effort to police reform, or whatever badly needed improvement we're being told has to be thrown on the altar of appeasement this week.

    edit - and on the topic of appeasement, police reform seems to be the first thing a Democrat is pressured to abandon. Next will probably be Trans rights.

     

    C: Keep doing what they are doing, be useless to everyone but centrists, and watch R dominate and destroy and tear down everything we as a nation have always claimed we believe in and replace it with what it turns out we actually believe in, which is apparently profits above all, self above others, and oppression before charity based on what I've seen in recent decades. We can all get tossed in a mass grave in a few decades when we can no longer do something that helps the oligarchs obtain more wealth, but that's OK because we'll be in production mode with no abortions and a compliant, uneducated, working class.

    Edit: I realized that arguably C is potentially a fork of A, not a separate choice, but I'm leaving it anyway. It will remain true that there's only one choice where I will vote D in the future, and also true that A and/or C are the only plausible future destinations for the country if they don't choose B, IMO.

    My Kamala vote was my last R-lite vote after far too many in my life.

  • Andrew Cuomo Has Unmasked Himself as a Full-Blown Trumpist

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  • You’re missing the point. If we don’t back the imperfection in this FPTP system and then pass meaningful reforms the which we haven’t had enough senators to do in over 10 years, we’re going to end up in a racist theocratic dictatorship which will make even something as horrible as China or Russia blush.

    Well, we can pre-blame the voters for not liking what Democrats continue to sell, just like we blame the left for Kamala's decision to court Republican voters instead of Democrat voters, or we could recognize that I guess Newsom's got a very generous four years ahead to make himself an attractive choice on the basis of being something more than just not Trump and yet more warnings about the end of the world as we know it. (Which, by the way, I completely agree is happening-edit:the end of the world, not Newsom making himself attractive in more ways than that)

    Maybe modified maga AI memes will be all it takes for enough people. I'm not that enthused by just aping what maga does, but it seems like a lot of people are. The gerrymandering thing is good, but it's also a slam dunk because he's fucking with Abbot and Trump, so let's see if he abandons less safe positions or shows he'll fight for any of them.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Look, I'm not saying Trump's lying, but...

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Obama Will Start A War With Iran!

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Important Information For Our Modern Times

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Chicago Sun-Times caught publishing likely ChatGPT generated list of Summer Reading recommendations. 10 of 15 books don't exist.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    And they are hard sleepers.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    The same picture

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    They want to destroy anything and everything that nurtures.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Bingo

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Buncha fuckin' losers. In every sense.

  • Star Wars Memes @lemmy.world
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    Stormtroopers' 9/11

  • Leopards Ate My Face @lemmy.world
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    'Build your own manufacturing': Trump-voting business owner stung by tariffs savaged after asking for ways to keep company afloat

    www.dailydot.com /debug/tiktok-trump-tariffs-china/
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    History never repeats itself but it rhymes

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window

    www.thebaltimorebanner.com /community/local-news/video-ice-arrest-wesminster-elsy-noemi-berrios-QJ7CIME76ZGPZEBW5C3REEPZ6E/
  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    The party of wanton, intentional harm.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    I'm not convinced he knew the question was about current events. (Even in 2020 when this is from)

  • Leopards Ate My Face @lemmy.world
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    Meghan McCain Says She's 'Heartbroken' Over Massive Cuts To Brain Cancer Research

    www.huffpost.com /entry/meghan-mccain-brain-cancer-research_n_67ec2e38e4b0c630d0555e5d
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Missiles ready to fire: Iran warns of severe response to potential US attack

    www.iranintl.com /en/202503301060
  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Hmmm.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Not one.