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  • EstraDoll [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    “HAHAHA YES I LOVE KILLING PEOPLE! NO WE WON’T STOP! NO YOU WON’T GET HEALTHCARE! NO YOU WON’T GET CLIMATE ACTION! NO YOU WON’T GET AFFORDABLE RENT, WE’RE HIKING UP THE PRICE OF GROCERIES TOO! DIE OF COVID, WE DON’T CARE! WE FUCKING HATE YOU AND CAN’T BE BOTHERED TO PRETEND OTHERWISE wait why aren’t you voting for us come back we need you at the polls trump bad”

    mystery-emote speech-l
    biden-alert

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    At this point I’m calling this a dedicated campaign on the part of Biden and the democrats to get Trump elected. If they were trying their best to get Trump to win it would look no different from what they’re currently doing so i have to assume that’s what they’re doing.

  • betelgeuse [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Democrats get elected after the most important election of our lives, with the mandate to end populist fascism and bring back the Obama years. Then they spend 3 years fucking up, then calling anyone who notices a dumb hick russian bot. Now it’s a few months out and it’s time for the most important election again.

    It’s how we always slide to the right. They never do shit, just hop from one gaff to another with a smug attitude.

    • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      They’re not even pretending to pander like they usually do. There’s no gestures at minimum wage increases, there’s no promises about making homes more affordable or bringing down cost of living generally, who has even heard about healthcare reform since 2021?

      We’re dying young and poor and they’re telling us to “be grateful for it, or else!” Or else what?! The largest orangest adult son will embarrass the bourgeoisie to their cultured European friends? Who gives a shit?! Couldn’t triangulate a worse position if you tried.

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    Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as lol, the second time as lmao, even.

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    With the electoral college, Trump really only lost by ~80K total votes across four swing states and that’s with Brandon winning the popular vote by 6M and historic voter turnout. All that to say that the country barely DIDN’T elect Trump last time so I’m not surprised that he has a shot this time.

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    Yeah they act as if Biden himself magically invented inflation and Trump will magically fix it. Breaking news: that’s not how that works.

    Uh breaking news when inflation happens people kick out the ones in power even if the ones they replace them with don’t actually change anything.

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    God what fucking world are these people living in? The economy is good??? Inflation is solved??? My grocery and gas bills are still nearly double what they were before Biden took office so I’m going with “That’s a fucking lie”

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      Don’t you see they have statistics on their side though!

      I’m so tired of hearing “real wage growth has rebounded faster than ever before!”

      Really? In what fucking jobs that working class people are working? You telling me grocery store workers are getting paid more? Or delivery drivers? Looking into the data I’m sure the growth is entirely driven by the top 40% of earners who don’t love in anything close to the precarity that average working class folks do.

      The only reason there is any gains at all is because unions are striking and just vaguely point at rent increases and grocery food prices and even company negotiators are forced to grant giant raises because public perception would annihilate them otherwise.

      Claiming Biden caused any of this is ludicrous. He made the rich get richer and we have to fight tooth and nail for every cent we claw back from them. Fuck Biden he deserves to lose, and it’s a shame Trump is the alternative, because the path forward is bad or worse.

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    Guy who says he will do something about the rapidly lowering working class quality of life is running against guy who says he will not do something about the rapidly lowering working class quality of life. Both are fascists with nearly identical beliefs