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    With the whole Glastonbury kerfuffle I’ve come to know more about this band called Bob Vylan. They have this lovely song, and it goes ike this:

    I heard you want your country back
    Shut the fuck up
    I heard you want your country back
    Uh-uh, you can't have that
    The only place I know
    Stolen right under my nose
    By ignorant scum
    Tryna lay claim to a land that ain't theirs anyway
    Wait - what did you say?
    I heard you want your country back
    Ha! Shut the fuck up
    I heard you want your country back
    Uh-uh, you can't have that
    I heard you want your country back
    Ha! Shut the fuck up
    I heard you want your country back
    Well shit, me too
    
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    I had a hotdog and fries for dinner last night. I ate watermelon and a butter tart for dessert. I ate everything with my hands. These magazi hystreonics are disgusting.

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    Yeah if he doesn’t win the election after these attacks then the US has passed the point of no return. If even New Yorkers are too stupid to fall for this smear campaign then the US can’t be saved.

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      This guy’s wife had to declare that she doesn’t eat with her hands because her husband is so racist.

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      There is nothing wrong with living in a rural area or being a blue collar worker. The last sentence there is unnecessary.

      As someone who has been in both those demographics, this guy doesn’t represent me or the hardworking albeit sometimes simple people I grew up around.

      Please don’t use those words as a cudgel. It drives those undereducated and uninvolved people to identify more with this asshole than the progressives that have more in common with them beneath the surface.

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        So you’re not even acknowledging the full fledged racism that is the topic in this little whataboutism speech you put together there?

        Nothing about the racism. Not one word to nod to the overarching story here.

        So which part of you missed that? The rural part?

        US is currently burning wheat farms cuz the world has shifted off of cheap wheat for something more stable.

        And the world knows which ones are the red states and are boycotting.

        So You have two choices: take it personally or acknowledge a consequence of ignoring racism and self interest replacing it with apathy and revenge. Just know this: Neither will make a difference in the long run. You’re still headed to the same destination. So even now with at this point you’re begging to ignore it. Noted.

        You’re just echoing the overall problem here by not even acknowledging the topic.

        It drives those undereducated and uninvolved people to identify more with this asshole

        Don’t even pretend you were ever an ally.

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          When Trump fucks up do you call him a fatty?

          When a black judge says women belong in the kitchen do you say “go back to the plantation!”

          A woman supports Trump. “Shut up cumdumpster, go make me sandwich if you want to be trad”

          That guy brought up something said HERE ON THIS WEBSITE. Someone HERE threw out redneck for living in the sticks. You’re fucking dumb if you think people need to write an essay on what they think of a topic before they can point out issues in discourse.

          See that? I don’t need to prove anything to call you out. I don’t need to call out racism to call out dumb posts.

          Before you reply, make sure to write an essay about why it’s ok to insult unrelated groups of people in order to hurt an individual. At least follow your own weird rules.

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          So your plan to have him removed from power is what?

          Genuine question since you don’t seem to want to win elections.

          Obviously he’s a cunt, so winning against him should be a cakewalk then.

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        “Go back to the third world”

        “Go back to your recheck farm”

        so only then it got offensive for you.

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          Only one of those things was said here on this site, in this thread, by a lemming that we can directly criticize.

          Shouldn’t the space we occupy and the people we are immediately surrounded with be put above performative anger at external topics?

          The politician said terrible things. Posting about it only goes so far.

          A lemming said bad things. We can affect that.

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    Gill married Danielle D’Souza, the daughter of conservative political commentator Dinesh D’Souza, in 2017. They have two children and live in Flower Mound, Texas.

    So Gill’s father and wife are okay but a foreigner with differing political opinions is crossing the line?

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    Who? Man nobody has heard of desperate for warmth of spotlight.

    Didnt they have the same reaction when somebody ate a cheese steak with a knife and fork? The things they fixate on…

    Maybe if we keep squawking about a bunch of dumb shit, nobody will notice how many rural Americans are about to be fucked 6 ways from Sunday by this big beautiful bill. Then we can spin it as this guy eating with his hands made you lose your healthcare.

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    Go back to the third world where you’ll have healthcare, and food is cheap, and many services are provided by the government. Go back to where medicine can be bought without 4 doctors turning their medi-square tip screen around, where self made men can become something without the financial backing of a sexual terrorist. Go back to a land of opportunity, of potential, of downtrodden poor people in need of a voice. Go back and help them rise to the top.

    We’re trying to become the world’s last 3rd world country here.

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    Oh, I’m sorry. Which country is it again that can’t do UHC but can spend billions on blowing up rockets while people starve and or can’t find homes/shelter in this same “first world country”?

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      Is it India? Because that’s where Gill’s father in law, political commentator and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza is from. Maybe the D’Souzas can leave and take Gill with them.

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    Words cannot describe the hate I have for the entire American establishment with the exception of Bernie, Zohran, and AOC.

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        Don’t forget Scott Kelly, not a politician but spaceman and just as cool as his twin.

        Maybe we need more astronauts in government, take a good look at the big blue ball before making life and death decisions.

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          Not really sure that’s his stance. Pretty sure he’s made it clear they shouldn’t be killing Palestinian kids

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            Tim Walz said it was his stance during the debates, live on CNN.

            MB: Thank you, Norah. Earlier today, Iran launched its largest attack yet on Israel. But that attack failed thanks to joint U.S. and Israeli defensive action. President Biden has deployed more than 40,000 U.S. military personnel and assets to that region over the past year to try to prevent a regional war. Iran is weakened, but the U.S. still considers it the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, and it has drastically reduced the time it would take to develop a nuclear weapon. It is down now to one or two weeks time. Governor Walz, if you are the final voice in the situation room, would you support or oppose a preemptive strike by Israel on Iran? You have two minutes.

            TW: Well, thank you. And thank you for those joining at home tonight. Let’s keep in mind where this started. October 7th, Hamas terrorists massacred over 1400 Israelis and took prisoners. Iran, or, Israel’s ability to be able to defend itself is absolutely fundamental, getting its hostages back, fundamental, and ending the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. But the expansion of Israel and its proxies is an absolute, fundamental necessity for the United States to have the steady leadership there. You saw it experienced today, where, along with our Israeli partners and our coalition, able to stop the incoming attack. But what’s fundamental here is that steady leadership is going to matter. It’s clear. And the world saw it on that debate stage a few weeks ago. A nearly 80 year old Donald Trump talking about crowd sizes is not what we need in this moment. But it’s not just that. It’s those that were closest to Donald Trump that understand how dangerous he is when the world is this dangerous. His Chief of Staff, John Kelly, said that he was the most flawed humanity being he’d ever met. And both of his Secretaries of Defense and his national security advisors said he should be nowhere near the White House. Now, the person closest to them, to Donald Trump, said he’s unfit for the highest office. That was Senator Vance. What we’ve seen out of Vice President Harris is we’ve seen steady leadership. We’ve seen a calmness that is able to be able to draw on the coalitions, to bring them together, understanding that our allies matter. When our allies see Donald Trump turn towards Vladimir Putin, turn towards North Korea, when we start to see that type of fickleness around holding the coalitions together, we will stay committed. And as the Vice President said today, is we will protect our forces and our allied forces, and there will be consequences.

            Now don’t get me wrong, I voted for him as Harris’ VP and I would do it again, but I do not like him and I would not be happy if he runs again.

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              So your quoting something that was clearly misspoken as why you dislike him so greatly. The sentence makes no sense as many pointed out on every news station at the time saying he misspoke.

              If it wasn’t two sentences garbled together like everyone assumed, who exactly are Israel proxies that he wants to expand? It very clearly was meant to be something along the line of Iran and it’s proxies (referring to the actual subject of the conversation, Hezbollah) are expanding. Hezbollah “expanding” at the time was considered a big threat because the U.S. was dumping shit tons of cash to stop the attacks on ships instead of telling Israel we would sanction them and cut all further support unless they withdrew from Gaza and called an immediate permanent ceasefire. (Which is why Hezbollah was shooting at ships).

              Biden should have made an executive order to do so and demanded the sanctions be placed. (which Congress would have said no too, but if the president bluffed, we don’t know if Israel would have stopped or been certain they could wait for Congress to say no).