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    If that’s what henry mcmaster says, there is no doubt in my mind that 1/2 of what he does is just as bad and disgusting as those words. If theres a hell he going to it. Lol

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    I used to think people were generally good, and bad things happening was the exception.

    Not anymore, everyone is capable of bad things, but especially the sociopaths in charge who don’t care about anything bit themselves.

    I should have learned that lesson in high school when slavery was taught. We haven’t evolved from that. We just got better at hiding it in prisons.

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      And we’re those sociopaths in charge ALWAYS sociopaths? Is that why they were drawn to the position to begin with? Or did they start off well-intentioned? Could YOU turn into someone like that if you were elected to a similar position?

      Love these questions

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        There’s a ton of research that people drawn to these positions score high on dark triad personality traits. It’s definitely them being sociopaths with anti-personality disorder.

        Obviously circumstances can turn someone into a psychopath, but that’s not what’s happening here with people who have a ton of money. They just lack empathy, which is something people tend to have less of the more money they have.

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    he doesn’t “know” the history, he’s still part of it. he’s a klansman and should be treated as such.

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    Republican - “We want to hunt Democrats!”

    Democrat - “WTF?!”

    Republican - “Why are Democrats so violent in their rhetoric? This is why bad things happen.”

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              MTG quit congress so that she has zero ability to do anything about it.

              Republicans 100% understand what they’re doing. They lie. That’s their job. The second their job doesn’t depend on keeping an obese pedophile happy they can start expressing themselves more honestly.

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                  At least with the Dems we had a president who was openly stating his disapproval and trying to help broker a peace deal, a subset of the Democrat party that was very vocally against what was happening, and a shit ton of very angry liberal voters.

                  Now we have a president sucking Netanyahu’s cock while cracking jokes about opening resorts on stolen land while every single congressional Republican and conservative voter claps while on their knees.

                  Oops.

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              So now MTG is the whole “side”… clearly indicated by her still being part of the whole MAGA thing and Trump loving her so much, right?

              Disclaimer: I’m still not fond of her. Not even a bit. She’s just a broken-clock-being-right-twice-a-day type of person.

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              MTG isn’t a sitting member of Congress, her opinion is irrelevant; AOC still is a lawmaker.

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                  Yet AOC said it, and she’s still a Rep, destined for the US Senate or Presidency :)

                  Their point still stands, untouched.

                  Also, AOC isn’t an antisemite unlike MTG so that’s nice.

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          People should note, I have this person tagged as “Pro CCP,” so yeah… Tracks.

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          Every single liberal was. Some just didn’t possess enough brain cells to vote Democrat to avoid abject fascism. So here we are.

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            Everybody should read One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. We are almost at that point. Back in 2023-2024, multiple millions of liberals and democrats were willing to genocide Gaza. After all, “If Kamala won, we’d all be at brunch, right?”

            Everbody now is pretending to be against Israel and the genocide. The Dem platform in 2023-2024 was specifically/explicitly to continue the genocide.

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            That’s just ahistorical. The Democratic party’s achmowledgement of the genocide has been very slowand gradual over the past 3 years, despite Dem voters being almost unified in the first or 2nd year.

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    She’s trying to highlight the shocking nature of his remarks, but really his base’s reaction is just “duh”. They’re past civil discussion.

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      They are not “people with different opinions”. They are America’s enemy, and the majority of citizens really need to start recognizing that.

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    Sherman shouldn’t have stopped. And when the next time comes, and it looks like it could, then whoever the new Sherman is really, really shouldn’t stop.

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      Exactly. They said he would have created hundreds of southern martyrs and bolstered their guerrilla resolve… Good. He should have fucked them as hard as humanly possible and beyond.

      If the south had moved up north far enough they would have razed Philadelphia and New York City to the ground and made the massacres national holidays.

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        It’s frankly embarrassing that so many people are out there waving a traitor’s flag (that also represents slavery) without repercussion

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    “Something something, I can not cope with people havivg a different opinion than me, so I want to kill them, but I call myself freedom and democracy loving.”

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    “Gilead didn’t happen overnight. Politicians started saying things that were taken as hyperbolic and then they were elected and these things came true” - The Testaments, episode 3 [paraphrased]

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    Ask Great Grampa what the cure for Nazis is. I know what it is, but I’d rather not get banned here too.

    (hint: It sure as hell ain’t “inclusion and education.”)

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    Once your party doesn’t need your vote, they don’t have to listen to you.

    And it doesn’t matter if it’s because they secured their positions with voter suppression and election rigging, or because the opposing party is so despicable that no one votes for them.

    As per Timothy Snyder’s rules #3, Beware the one party state.