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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • "Let’s talk about how Trump is the primary nominee, and he raped a woman and threatens everyone. "

    Go for it, make another thread about how dumb it is to vote for Trump. You can do that. People do it all the time. We are talking about a different person in a different party.

    “There’s literally no reason that Biden can’t be a good leader. He’s demonstrated it over the past few years. And it’s normal for the current president to be given a second shot.”

    Not representing a majority in policy and having a super low approval rating isn’t a reason he can’t be a good leader? Is there any reason my neice can’t be a good leader? Also, it is not normal for the president to be this old. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_by_age The president should be between 45 years old and 65 years old.

    “The only real objection most people could arguably make for Biden is regarding Israel”

    This is a wild take. The only possible reason that is REAL is this one issue!

    court takes away bodily autonomy from 51% of the population

    government does nothing to pass a law to fix it after Biden campaigned on fixing it

    “There is not a single reason anyone has to be mad at Biden!”

    Bro.





  • What are you even talking about? I don’t have to do anything. And I don’t at all understand why you told me that tge definition of democracy is in fact, not where, “what you can’t do is to say, “everything is rigged because the outcome is not what I wanted” and call it a day.” That is wild.

    Everything is rigged, and I can’t imagine anyone being crazy enough to say otherwise. I make okay money and would need to work for like ten thousand years to make what some others in our country make in a second. Are you telling me that a system where one person can be placed on such a pedestal could ever be a good thing?




  • No? My hope would be we would overthrow the ruling class, but we’ve never even gotten close to deciding as a nation that 12 people having all of the money is a bad idea. So it all only really matters so much.

    But again no, my hope was for a leftist party in America, ranked voting and at least 5 competitive parties trying to attract voters, a removal of jerrymandering, senate votes in some way tied to population size, so whatever insane percent of the population California is, is not represented by 2% of the voting power. I want a lot of things, and on a lot of these the majority of Americans agree. The IRS should send you a bill for the taxes owed like other developed nations, but because of lobbies we can’t have that. I want a health care system that makes sense and doesn’t have to charge $600 for an Ace bandage. I want and I want and I want. Most Americans do. I want children to not be starving in a nation that screams we are the greatest Earth has ever, or will ever see. We have plenty and we refuse to spread it to those in need. People need to petition the government for years and hire lawyers just to ask for help because they can’t work anymore. We continue to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars testing unemployment benefits receivers for drugs ever though almost no one has been caught and kicked off benefits for it. We have legalized slave labor with our prison system hiring out manual laborers for dollars on the hour and paying tge inmates pennies as low as 13 cents an hour. We have legalized child labor still because the agricultural sector has always been exempt from that rule. Our wages are kept as low as possible for the price of goods to still be purchased, slowly pushing more and more people into the lower class. We have more homes with no one living in them than we have homeless people by something like 2.6 times. We regularly refuse ambulance trips when they are required because they are so expensive, there are ways to not pay, but most people who know that can afford to pay it.

    If this is a functioning democracy how do you defend it? If this is a developed nation why do we insist on grinding people at the bottom for fuel?