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Trump ends speech to 'mostly boos' after going 'off prompter' and 'making fun of' his host (www.rawstory.com)

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[-] S_204@lemm.ee 41 points 5 months ago

It's crazy this asshole is going to win again. Biden has done exponentially more for Americans than Trump but he's still going to lose.

Crazy Town. Top to bottom.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

This country is jam packed full of morons.

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I am going to be more generous to people, there is a saying that you should be charitable to people and ruthless to systems.

Much of the Republican base ultimately have the same hardships as working class democrats, but republicans are able to exploit those hardships and stoke racism sentiment.

The white supremacists and bigots can get fucked, but the majority of people are exploited workers looking for an answer to how to feed their families. I am by no means saying republicans will give to them, they will make it worse, but in a word where you are looking for food, you aren't going to be looking at the true underlying platform of the candidates

[-] S_204@lemm.ee -2 points 5 months ago

Lots of them hang out here LoL.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

Democracy cannot fix idiotism. This is long in the making dumbing down of a population.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

If you call the folks that you want to vote for your guy idiots, then they're probably not going to vote for your guy.

[-] sparkle@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

When most humans are idiots or ignorant (they are), direct democracy doesn't work. And other forms of democracy also don't work that well. But the alternative is... authoritarianism, which also doesn't work.

The only way to achieve a truly liberated society is to have a direct democracy of a well-informed populace and an elimination of social hierarchies, but that's just a pipe dream... any form of socialism that isn't Marxist-Leninism or "Democratic Socialism" (begging the capitalists to pls give us at least a crumb of socialism, the false belief that socialism is achievable through peaceful reform under an inequal/capitalist society) is never gonna happen.

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