• PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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    Considering that democrats haven’t budged a nanometer from the genocide despite the pressure, republicans by definition cannot be harden to pressure, at most they can be the same, but even then libs should also love this, reps inheriting dem policy straight up.

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    Man, these people are lost causes i swear. How do you see mangled children for like 15 months straight and go, that’s the preferable solution. Malcolm X was right about liberals, and that was decades ago. They have made zero progress whatsoever.

    And I mean this about both parties.

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      20 hours ago

      Past year made me despise liberals more than anyone else. The snobby attitudes, never admitting they could be wrong, I wish they could all die today and we could rebuild.

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    Electoral politics in the Empire almost feels like a cult. Hardly any of its proponents pause to consider that maybe abstention and protest votes are popular because the system is so horribly broken. They treat the process as sacred and antagonize everybody who refuses to fall in line.

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      2 party system where both do fundamentally the same politics, the only difference they have is identity politics. The americans vote against their interest either way, but support one party over the other over often times minuscule differences. (not to downplay the bans on abortion etc, but i think you get what i mean)

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      Because it is, each are worshipping their idols and commit to useless rituals every few years. In the meantime, they pamper their priests and persecute heretics.

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        An “apolitical” non-USian acquaintance of mine is reading Obama’s memoir of his time as president and is realizing that this “messiah-ification” of him is completely unfounded.

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          The whole thing of people calling themselves “apolitical” is so stupid, when every single aspect of life is in one way or the other influenced by the political system it exists under.

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            I agree, I only use that term to describe people who self-describe that way, knowing full well that it’s a bs term.

            I was brought up in an education system that framed politics as what happens in Parliament and around election time, everything else just is. So from that point of view it’s quite easy to be “apolitical”, because you were never taught and haven’t bothered to learn that your home, your job, your commute, your entertainment, etc are all political.