• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    You don’t need 5D chess to know that Trump would be worse. We have already seen it. Only last time he had sane people limiting his destruction. Now the lunatics are running the asylum.

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      8 days ago

      We already saw that he didn’t destroy democracy or start WW3. You can credit that to “sane people” limiting him but the fact is that what we saw wasn’t the Fourth Reich. It was just a shitty Republican president.

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            8 days ago

            If you remember that parable, the sky actually did fall that last time.

            Also, for the 1.2 million Americans who died from Covid, the sky did fall last time.

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              7 days ago

              If you remember the lesson of that parable, no one believes the chicken when the sky falls and the chicken has no one to blame but himself. You can’t keep saying it’s the most important election of our lifetimes because we stop believing it.

              And maybe the sky falls this time, but it’s the chicken’s fault that we don’t believe it.

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                  6 days ago

                  That’s definitely not why people use Chicken Little as an Aesop. The lesson is that if you lie over and over, people won’t believe you when it matters.

                  I certainly don’t.

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                    5 days ago

                    Then judge by actions, not words. Since you care so much about Palestinians, how about voting for a candidate that is part of an administration that allows them to seek asylum in the US like Harris. Meanwhile Trump’s whole thing is expelling immigrants and he initiated a Muslim ban the last time he was in office. Surely saving some Palestinians vs saving none is worth a vote?