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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Won't someone PLEASE think about the CONSTITUTION!

Trump spent four years breaking the law and Biden spent four years not putting his ass in jail. Meanwhile, you've NYPD officers putting bullets into the heads of people adjacent to turnstill jumpers. You've got paramilitary raids on college campuses and suburban neighbors to thrash peaceful protesters. You've got pipeline companies stealing property with the government's blessing, while locals blocking the illegal construction are sprayed with tear gas. You've got a billionaire actively buying votes three weeks before an election, while the FEC twiddles its thumbs. You've got illegal overseas occupation of territory from Okinawa to Al Anbar to Guantanamo Bay. You've got a SCOTUS that's taking bribes to issue rulings and Congressmen taking bribes to write laws and Governors taking bribes to turn over public property to private interests.

Whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I would instead say if you don't vote for Kamala you have your head up your ass. Some people are too stupid to actually "hate" anything, they just don't know suicide from shinola. Sometimes you just want a good satisfying battle, so you look around for some evil to smite. But usually a good horse whippin' doesn't actually fix anybody.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Personally I don't think it's helpful to treat a slavers' pact like how some people treat the bible.

I couldn't give less of a turd about a constitution, especially one that's been the source of endless oppression and genocide. It's a fundamental reason why the usa is such a trash heap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

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[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 67 points 1 day ago

Idk who nuxcom is but is this really a contender for best of Lemmy? You see the same comment in every other post so is this person that special or do we have a slow day?

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My vote is very much on slow day and, given a choice, would nuke this thread entirely, if that helps.

If folk MUST steal other's work, at least pick something that is semi-uniquely them and not literally a post made while taking a shit.

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 121 points 2 days ago

What if I hate America and voted for Kamala?

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 92 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Thank you for having more mercy than hatred.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 56 points 2 days ago

I just hate Donald Trump more.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago
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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago

America is like 100x more powerful than Russia, so it's really fucking weird that an ex-president is beholden to Putin.

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

It's money and blackmail for sure.

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[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago

"If you don't vote Harris, you hate America"

Great way to convince the folks at hexbear and .ml to vote Trump

[-] m_f@midwest.social 72 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They weren't going to vote for Harris anyways. If she magically brought peace to the middle east tomorrow, they'd find some other reason to not vote for her.

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago

They won’t be voting in the election because 85% of them are not American.

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago

"see what you made me do? You made me do the exact opposite of what you're asking me to do."

Yeah, nah, bro, that's not how this works. They were already going to vote Trump, no matter what.

[-] MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Refusing to vote for Harris and actually voting for Trump are 2 different things, I know you can make the argument that both lead to the same outcome but they are 2 different choices

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I mean, sure. In the same way that when you pull up to a traffic circle, you can go left or right. After all, they'll both lead to the same place, right?

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They are two different things, in the same way that running towards a rabid dog, and sitting still while a rabid dog runs towards you, are two different things

"I just don't think the dog should have rabies in the first place" is a perfectly reasonable thing to say, and it's not going to make the dog not have rabies

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