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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 111 points 10 months ago

These people are crazy and very dangerous. I hope Americans - and especially American media - can stop bothsidering Joe and unhinged fascist craziness like this.

[-] HWK_290@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

But Joe didn't stop the genocide!

You know, by acting unilaterally... In a foreign country over which he has no authority... Mired by centuries of dissent...

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Right, he didn't actively say he's a Zionist and pledge support no matter what Israel's actions.

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[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

he could have stopped all military aid and placed sanctions to the maximal extent of presidential authority and pressured congress into doing what he alone can't. he hasn't even denounced the genocide. the CIA has couped countries for much less bad things, why not now?

[-] alternative_factor@kbin.social 29 points 10 months ago

Listen I don't like Biden's support of Isreal right now either but to not vote for him just because of that is lunacy- allowing Trump to win will result in a genocide within our own nation. Just look at project 2025, the Trump crowd is planning it.

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[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

"Ok, so he did stop the genocide. But he didn't stop it fast enough! Oh, the same day you say? Well he didn't stop it from happening in the first place!"

You can't argue with people who aren't really arguing.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's not the average American you have to worry about .... it's the corporate controlled media companies that are pushing this narrative.

If you opened up the stage for people to speak up, they wouldn't want any of the people that are in place right now.

The media and the establishment are the ones who drive the narratives because they are the ones with all the money and control.

So average people aren't deciding on wanting someone like Trump ... it's corporate heads and wealthy backers who are promoting, advertising and pushing this narrative because that's what they want.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

If these stories didn't sell, the media wouldn't run them. Yes, they should be objective and stop being culpable in this ongoing assault on American democracy... but they're serving a market.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 10 points 10 months ago

They're not serving a market ... they're serving a master.

The general media is not an independent entity that does things to make a bit of money ... they are a tool that is used by corporations and the wealthy elite to corral people into a certain mindset and beliefs ... that eventually lead everyone into electing only those people that are marketed to them.

"It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls." - George Carlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Zqbg6QThg

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[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

The fate of the country doesn’t matter silly, ratings do!

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[-] GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 44 points 10 months ago

I didn't read the article, but I watched the "rally."

It's been a while since all this shit gave me the chills. That is, or rather should be, legitimately very, very concerning language...

History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. Let's punch it in the throat before it can finish this bar.

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[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 42 points 10 months ago

Yeah that's what the Catholic Church told us in Québec during the great darkness. (La Grande Noirceur) That if we didn't vote for the then leader of the Union Nationale party, Maurice Duplessis, we would go to hell.

The Catholic Church was promptly kicked out when the boomer generation finally reached voting age and the silent revolution began.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

Until every Catholic school is removed from public funding, I'm gonna continue to be pissed at the Canadian government for giving those fucks my tax money.

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[-] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

Christcucks commit more blasphemy than actual pagans.

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[-] alternative_factor@kbin.social 36 points 10 months ago

There's no way either outcome in the 2024 election will resolve without at least some sort of attacks from the far-right, and I can't imagine what would happen after a Trump victory. The fate of the nation hangs by a silver thread.

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

And next time, project 2025 will ensure there are no more threads for our democracy to hang from, in addition to helping Putin to destabilize the cis region and boost his ussr resurrection dream, catapulting us ever closer to wwiii

[-] jandar_fett@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

May we stop living in interesting times....

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[-] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

Oh really? So why hasn't God smote the Democrats already? Why is retribution always an in-the-future threat?

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[-] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 30 points 10 months ago

I hate my country, the UK, for its crimes against humanity. We've done some shitty, shitty stuff; stuff that makes you sick. But nothing, nothing makes me more embarrassed than the thought that the USA was our mistake. We created the worst mistake in history.

[-] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

In your country's defense, you didn't create it. You did everything in your power to stop it, and failed miserably. All the rest... yes.

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

God could come down from the Heavens and say that to my face and I'd still flip him off. Fuck Trump.

[-] Minarble@aussie.zone 25 points 10 months ago

Trump fits all the definitions of the antichrist

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[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

The "pastor" commanding everyone to worship the golden calf is worried about "demonic forces." Look in the mirror.

[-] badaboomxx@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

If there was a god, i am sure that he wouldbe with a cheater, grifter, liar, misogynistic, adulterer, idiot like the mango mussolini

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

I mean the Christian god is a yuge egotistical asshole so would be right up his alley.

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[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

If god was real he would have smote every last republican by now.

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[-] blazera@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago

it's a pet peeve when religious folk make claims that are in fact testable hypotheses. Like we could measure various metrics of "god's wrath" in relation to regions of voting preference. Poverty, famine, disease, mortality, natural disasters.

[-] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

Same feeling when they talk about prayers healing the sick. That's neat, but apparently the effect isn't statistically significant.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Oh yeah? Well remember that one time he flooded New Orleans and that other time he sent a hurricane to New York and those fires in California and literally nowhere else on the planet has ever had catastrophic weather in the history of ever?

Atheistmate, lib!

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[-] 108@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

I’m always confused on this. Is god supposed to be directly effecting people and their lives or is it supposed to be free will?

[-] Beakerfullofdeath@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

A lot of these super crazy religious people are Calvinists. There are different levels of Calvinism, but as you go higher it means that there is no free will. All humans are "on rails" essentially, just completing the design of God. Even to the point that all humans who exist have been pre-sorted into going to heaven or hell before they are even born. Individual actions don't matter, and if you're going to hell there's nothing you can do to change it. It's the will of God.

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[-] Ibex0@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Weirdos worship the government, but not the current government?

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Just a heads-up: The site linked here just bombarded me with porn ads.

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

It's probably targeted advertising 😂

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[-] BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 10 months ago

Christofascists just being christofascists..

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

Joke’s on them, I like being punished. ✋🍑

[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

As long as they rely on God to do it, I'm ok with that. If the almighty smiter has the need to break its divine silence to punish me, not much I can do.

However, if they try the whole "God is working through my human hands" bullshit, I'm calling swat

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I'm calling swat

They are the ones that work forces tho.

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[-] anarchy79@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

You know, at first I thought like, if they are going to worship a god, surely there must be a better choice.

Then I remembered these people also believe in the Old Testament god, and it made sense.

You'd think the old one had seen something like this coming and made royal succession a cardinal sin.

[-] HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

"The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic." - H. L. Mencken

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Needs more Burger King.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Fuck the republican traitor filth.

[-] Nipplecreek@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Republicans today are wild.

[-] diannetea@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Republicans have been wild for a long time, these days they're rabid

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