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Who do you hope wins the US Election?

Trump
9
39%
Biden
9
39%
Don't Care
5
22%
 
Total votes: 23

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stui magpie wrote:
David wrote:
think positive wrote: WTAF!! what the **** are you smokin!
Did I say something particularly controversial/astonishing here? What exactly are you taking issue with?
Well my opinion was you completely mis read what I said and this post above was utter bullshit, well see what part annoyed TP.
read without the context of your post its just damn bizarre!

and id still like to know why they think Oprah is a multimillionaire? im guessing id disagree, with them and David!
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
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It showed she was a phoney, sure, but all the stuff about "Harris being mean to Biden" or this being some barrier to her vice-presidential nomination is pretty cringeworthy. It was a primary contest, and he deserved to have his record criticised. I only wish Sanders had had the fortitude to go this hard against him in the later debates. Politics isn’t about making friends.
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Kyle from Secular Talk on why actual leftists aren't happy with Kamala Harris.
https://youtu.be/YARe_gXoQxs
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^ Actually, any leftist with a brain cell is fully in support of Harris and Biden at this time. Having three or possibly even more than three functioning brain cells, said Leftist knows that the important, indeed the only, priority right now is to stop the wholesale destruction of almost everything good about America known as "Trump".

In a seven alarm fire, nothing else matters.

First, you put the fire out.

You can argue later. First, put the fire out.
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Oh no. I don't have a braincell because I won't pick one group of war mongering corporate shills over the other. The fire was raging before Trump got there. He's the symptom not the problem. Both parties are unacceptable choices served up by a broken system and I reject the proposition of supporting one over the other. It's the not the fault of progressives that the majority of people take their cues on who to vote for by the corporate media.

Btw: It's not a good idea to direct a comment at someone that begins with 'any leftist with a braincell'. It makes you sound like a condescending turd.
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Tannin wrote:^ Actually, any leftist with a brain cell is fully in support of Harris and Biden at this time. Having three or possibly even more than three functioning brain cells, said Leftist knows that the important, indeed the only, priority right now is to stop the wholesale destruction of almost everything good about America known as "Trump".

In a seven alarm fire, nothing else matters.

First, you put the fire out.

You can argue later. First, put the fire out.
Correct on all counts.
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^Bullshit.
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Sicks Bux wrote:^Bullshit.
You’re entitled to your opinion now matter how irrelevant.
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It's no more or less relevant than yours.
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"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
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Great post, David. If only the press would spend more time looking at the similarities of the two parties and candidates, rather than exaggerating about their differences.
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Sicks Bux wrote:^Bullshit.
Agree.

There are many leftists who are quite disappointed with where a lot of the movement has headed, and it's that "you're stupid if you don't agree with me" attitude of the current followers that will keep the conservatives in power for a long time.

And yes, great post, David.
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I'd be very surprised to find that any of you were further to the left than I am. Yes, you would have to be an idiot not to see that a Biden-Harris administration will be a right-wing and conservative one, somewhere around about where the moderate wing (such as it as remains) of the Liberal Party sits, of the right wing of the Labor Party. Not what any of us would call a wonderful administration.

But that is not the point. You would have to be downright brain dead not to appreciate the hard, cold fact that the choice here - the ONLY choice - is between the not-so-goodness of Biden-Harris and the insanity, gross corruption, and mindless destruction which is Trump.

You are faced with a choice between catching a common cold and being infected with Ebola, and you are hyperventilating about the evils of the common cold?

Good grief.

For the first time in my life - and I really mean that - I'm starting to appreciate what hard-right people mean when they say that "the left is really stupid". Anyone too stupid to recognise the overwhelming disaster that is the Trump administration is no smarter than a Trump voter.
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