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    It’s incredible how Democrat sentiment is so bad in the face of this. Millions poured into consultants, and they can’t figure it out?

    Their vocabulary should be two words:

    • Epstein.

    • Trumpcare.

    That’s it.

    That’s all they need to say to win.

    If they’re feeling frisky, sprinkle in a “huh, you know, maybe a few near-trillionaire buddies of the president shouldn’t rob you with AI?”

    They were literally handed a actual pedo cabal and a direct existential crisis even hardcore Republicans are feeling anxiety over, on a silver platter. And somehow they’re messing that up?

    I’m dysfunctional as hell, and even I couldn’t mess that up.

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    20 million George Carlin Americans who will be losing shitty, yet at least some medical coverage, due to their own Idiocracy and the complete incompetence of the Democrats who continue to capitulate in the face of adversity.

    Color me not that sympathetic.

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    Good. I am enjoying every time I see some backlash for the american People from the current retard administration. Gives me just a tiny bit of Hope, that the american People also will be tired of the “america first” policies. I’m not holding my breath though. The People of the USA, has shown they don’t give a shit about the rest of the world, nor their allys for the past 10 years. I see this more as a change of direction of the country, more than it is just a political “flop/mistake”.

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      Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

      If I were you, I’d take a hard look at rising right wing extremism across the EU, and spread the word. Before it happens to you, too.

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      the grass roots culture across the us is “stay off my property or I will shoot you”. so what’ya expect? the largest cultural influences we have are pioneer culture and capitalism. it isn’t a mature society by any measure, it is the pinnacle of what you get from colonialism.

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      “people who did not vote for this must suffer because i am not one of them and i want to watch the dumpster fire from afar with glee”

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        I’m watching this dumpster fire from afar in horror.

        Surely those Americans who claim not to want this will band together and put a stop to it soon?

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    The 2nd Amendment is more important than health care. The dumbfucks who voted for this would buy ammunition over insulin shots.

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    So glad we ended the shutdown and got nothing out of it because democrats were promised a vote on this that they knew they wouldn’t win on.

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    I have a clinical colleague who worked in the US for a few years. I think their description of US healthcare is best summarized as follows. Has the potential to be the greatest on Earth. In reality, the quality of care provided is far below European standards. She was mortified to discover that diabetics routinely had below knee amputations whereas in the rest of the world, with the exact same clinical picture, care would be provided to prevent worsening of diabetic foot.

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      The question is: how broken will their spirit be by the time that happens?

      Will they just lay down in fear and exhaustion rather than rising up against the people and system that abused them for so long?

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        Yeah, I think a lot of people want to speedrun this happening without realizing that in reality it’s just gonna lead to a lot more crime and a lot lower quality of life.

        The glorious revolution that results in a brand new glorious era for America is not that likely to happen in this scenario. Most revolutions don’t really turn out that great, if you ever even get to the revolution phase as everyone is just robbing and killing each other out of desperation.

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    Remember when the government was shut down specifically because the Democrats refused to go along with a bill that ended the health insurance subsidies, and they had the Republicans up against the ropes because no matter how much they tried to dodge the responsibility, the majority of people blamed Republican intransigence for the shutdown?

    Then remember how the Schumer-led Democrats just completely folded, passed the bill, then stood idly by as the chance to extend the subsidies vanished?

    Every single one of those stinking traitorous shitbags needs to be primaried.

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        Of course not. Don’t be a simpleton.

        The Republicans rather obviously bear the lion’s share of the blame.

        However, that was the Republicans’ designated role from the start. Their job was to represent the interests of their plutocratic cronies and patrons by killing a program that spent money to benefit poor people, so they were just doing what they were meant to do and what they were expected to do.

        On the other hand, the Democrats’ job was to protect a program that benefitted poor people, and they miserably failed at that job. In fact, they didn’t even simply fail - they forfeited. They gave up even trying.

        And they very much deserve condemnation for that.

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      So, the problem is the “primaried” thing isn’t enough at this point. People are going to die because of these choices. Eye for an eye.

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            Fuck Palantir, it’s Google that’s the devil.

            Don’t fear the state, fear the profit driven corporations.

            They’re the future, and it begins now.

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                I am fairly confident that’s what all these AI companies and GPUs are for to make their own Palantirs or just to run their software. Palantir is basically creating Skynet or any of those cyberpunk type movies where a cop plugs in a persons name and it gives every detail of who they are and a summary of what they did the last week.

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          The political violence has already been perpetrated upon us. What we are talking about now is political defense against a violent aggressor.

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          20 hours ago

          You only say that because you’re in favor of, or not directly affected by, the direction we are currently going.

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      Yes, primary all of them, but ESPECIALLY primary Schumer and Jeffries. They are absolutely toxic to democracy. If someone is claiming it’s a bad idea to primary them, that person is working against the people on behalf of the rich and corporations. Just like current Dem leadership.

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      What? The media was making the democrats out to be the ones shutting down the nations airports.

      Go ahead and turn on the democrats and further empower the republicans. You might be a russian troll…