• WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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      18 hours ago

      At this point, I assume anyone still harping on this is a conservative provocative looking to stir up division.

      The truth is it’s possible for more than one group to be at fault. Those who stayed home have a ton of blame, the centrist dipshits at the DNC have a ton of blame, and the Republicans themselves have the most blame of all.

      Quit trying to sew division. We need unity now, not to rehash old grievances.

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      The left:

      If we don’t give voters what they want, we’re gonna end up with fascism.

      Fascists:

      Take over a country because “moderates” fight the left harder than fascism

      “Moderates”:

      Why dont we just blame the left again?

      Do you legitimately not understand what’s happening now?

      Because it’s literally the same way Nazis came to power the first time; “moderates” fighting the left

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        Absolutely incredible to acknowledge that voters chose fascism because the alternative wasn’t perfect enough, yet still act like they’re blameless.

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          Yes

          The voters weren’t given a good enough choice to hold their nose for the 4th time in a row…

          You’re acting like people just chose this election to sit out and havent been disenfranchised for (for the majority of Dem voters) their entire lives.

          Because for you personally, things haven’t been that bad yet, so you refused to help anyone else because “what are they gonna do, vote Republican?”

          Completely ignorant of how voting works and that the result would just be checking out of politics and not voting. Which when enough Americans do, Republicans win elections

          You didn’t want to help anyone, and now you’re mad the people you weren’t going to help no matter who won the election didn’t help you

          As I told someone else, the solution is helping everyone so people will be motivated to vote because they have something to lose.

          Like, how the fuck does someone make it to 2025 and realize that people with nothing to lose act like they have nothing to lose?

          The “moderate” wing followed the same playbook that got Hitler elected by fighting the left harder than they fight the right…

          And are now acting shocked when the same result happened.

          So you’re mad at everyone that warned you like people in the 1500s burning a woman for being a witch because she said a storm was coming.

          Fucking ridiculous mate. But at least you feel self important, that’s what matters to some people I guess.

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              In 2012 I did, most of my friends at the time did.

              Was glad to vote for him in 08 tho, even tho I was in the military and we literally got lined up to have a senior officer tell us voting D was voting against giving all of us a pay raise.

              But by 2012…

              I voted for the least evil option and have in every general election ever since.

              Maybe you had no issues with him, but how is it surprising that some people felt let down by 2010, let alone 2012?

              You didn’t have any friends back then who were already disillusioned?

              I guess you might have just still been in school back then and weren’t paying attention. I know when I was a kid I thought Bill Clinton was great, it wasn’t till I grew up that I saw more than his MTV appearances or when he had “sexual relations” with an intern.

              I did learn that the coverup is worse than the crime though from all that.

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          People are dumb emotional animal, and propaganda works. Bitching about this fact won’t change it. We live in a system where everyone gets to vote, even the stupid. If you as a politician fail to appeal to everyone, regardless of intelligence, then you are the one to blame.

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      Do I need to change my name to name-name-3digits to join your trollfarm?

      Edit: they got me boys, there goes all my karma. Hahah.

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        I think you might have me confused with someone else. I do have 4-5 accounts on different instances, but only because I abandon my current one every few months and use my email provider to generate a new alias for a new instance and use the alias as my username.

        This is for anonymity purposes because I’ve been vocally critical of the current US administration, but I guess my writing style is unique enough that you could follow me. Thanks for letting me know I need to step up my game.

        It does follow the pattern you noticed, but I’m sure I’m not the only user who does this. And I never re-login to an account once I make a new one.

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        Can confirm. No pony was offered and several people on here loudly proclaimed they would be allowing trump to win because of it.

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          18 hours ago

          But could you imagine Ent wine? Like, what does a tree get drunk on?

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            Fermented orc blood. Distilled for a really good time. There was a really good vintage out of the East recently.

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          I think it’s ent wine, but I just use the email alias that my provider generates for me when I change accounts and instances every few months for a layer of anonymity.

          I guess I piss off ByteData enough that he’s noticed the pattern my provider uses, but didn’t notice that once I switch accounts I never use the old one again.

          Plus, I’m probably not the only one who does this.