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Deplatforming conservative speech shouldn't just happen on Twitter it should happen everywhere including some random pilot on a Southwest flight.
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Gumball Gumption posted:I do not know how people square believing that half the country wants to commit a genocide and also the strongest action to take against them is not visiting for Thanksgiving. If you're not violently attacking your grandma you're not doing enough.
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Nov 1, 2021 20:17
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Nix Panicus posted:If the only way to save democracy is to vote for a candidate you do not agree with over a candidate that you do, then democracy has already failed That's quite literally the American political system though and has been since it was started? Because the person who wins gets 100% of the power you have to go with the person who has the highest likelihood of winning and also agrees the closest to your politics. And McAuliffe at least will rubber stamp a lot of progressive legislation going through VA. I agree it should be different but without a massive upheaval and complete change of the constitution we're stuck with bullshit. Gripweed posted:There's one thing I've never understood about the anti-third party argument. If a vote for Blanding is actually a vote for Youngkin because it's taking a vote away from McAuliffe, wouldn't a vote for Youngkin then technically be two votes for Youngkin because it's taking away a vote for McAuliffe and giving it to Youngkin? Because generally people who want more progressive candidates don't protest vote by voting for superfascist.
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Nov 2, 2021 15:49
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Cranappleberry posted:I see that you agree that it should be different so general question- how has this worked out for us so far? In the most recent democratic presidential primary? I mean, in the 2016 primary for Republicans the shittier side definitely got Their Guy in and then a bunch of poo poo rear end "moderate" Republicans bit the bullet and voted for a person they didn't necessarily agree with but gently caress it we're Republicans! Nix Panicus posted:So American democracy has always been a sham to funnel power towards people you disagree with who are willing to take hostages. Not a take I expected to see D&D admit to, but I can't disagree with the truth of the statement. I figured it's a pretty popular idea in D&D that America is a broken political system built by slave owning rich white men to keep power for themselves and we're all just trying to do our best in this nightmare.
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Nov 2, 2021 16:02
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There were a bunch of people blaming Trump's 2020 loss on Libertarian voters just like there were a bunch of people blaming his 2016 win on Green Party candidates.
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Nov 2, 2021 16:26
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:This are a lot of posts with a lot of words that do zero reflection on the failure of the Dem party to run a candidate that would energize people to voting for policies that would benefit their community. Except that in Virginia people's lives objectively got better under the bad Dems. How much better is arguable but it did get better. Life will not get better at all under Republicans. Them winning is not, in any way, good. No not even as a lesson to the establishment or whatever.
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Nov 3, 2021 04:57
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virtualboyCOLOR posted:Voting is not a hostage situation or an abusive partner promising to change if we take them back. You can bold it however much you want but it doesn't make it true. It has been posted many times the things Dems have passed in Virginia that directly helped people including things like Medicaid expansions that gave 400,000 low income people insurance. It's not a "hostage situation" to say these "bad dems" have done things to change Virginia for the better and people have been working their asses off, including people on this forum, to make it that way.
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Nov 3, 2021 05:17
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drat it we were finally shipping Rahm out of the country and this guy is screwing it up. We had it all planned, just lock the doors and turn out the lights as soon as he was gone.
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Nov 3, 2021 18:27
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Is it really that dumb to try to tie a politician to another incredibly unpopular politician? Hold on I'm getting word about the 2020 election... HE GOT HOW MANY VOTES?
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Nov 3, 2021 22:10
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Any politician that does away with those lovely high power headlights and somehow stops robocalls will have a job for life.
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Nov 9, 2021 23:15
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CommieGIR posted:He went seeking trouble, found it, and reacted poorly to the environment, murdering two people. That is not self-defense. In a world of George Zimmermans it apparently is. Just follow people you don't like with your gun, antagonize them, and shoot them, and it's all legal.
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Nov 12, 2021 15:30
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Wait I thought the liberals were the ones who didn't want us to punish fascists because "they're human beings and we don't want to stoop to their level"? Did that change? Can I no longer laugh when a Nazi gets punched?
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Nov 17, 2021 22:10
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Fister Roboto posted:I know this is quibbling, but I really wish people would stop calling them moderate Dems. They're conservatives. American conservatism is about drowning anyone who isn't a rich white man in a well. American moderates are about giving those people in the well some snorkels. There is a subtle difference.
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Nov 19, 2021 02:47
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Not to get political or anything but I think Weird Al isn't all that weird in the grand scheme of things.
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Nov 23, 2021 03:21
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TGLT posted:While it's definitely a gun that would have killed some one, it is also a Taurus Judge so it's probably the worst handgun he could have picked. It's basically a gun for idiots that want to look cool. So every gun you see someone open carrying.
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Kalli posted:Yes, note that most of the defendants are broke / in prison / were in prison so this trial was mostly about preventing them from getting funding in the future and publicly pantsing them. It also works the other way around. You can get blood from Nazis with stones.
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