• IamSparticles@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    “It is shameful,” wrote an ICE spokesman who declined to be named

    I… I am really having trouble reconciling the sheer irony of this single line. A SPOKESMAN for a federal agency refusing to be named while making a statement criticizing other government officials who are questioning their methods.

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    He who saves his county breaks no law, right? Goes both ways. We have the right to protect our neighbors. It’s our duty.

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    So your saying that bystanders should just ensure that ICE is left in a condition where they won’t be able to communicate effectively or identify any of them…

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    So an administration not only making enemies of all our allies, but of our own citizens as well.

    Maybe the knuckledraggers that stayed home or voted 3rd party should rub some brain cells together next time.

    Edit: I love ruffling the feathers of all the dumbasses that abstained from voting or voted 3rd party because they weren’t capable of critically thinking. I know you’re mad with how things turned out, and on some level you grasp that you made a mistake, but are too full of pride to admit it, and will probably make the same mistake next time around too.

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      I voted for Harris. I just think your comment is worthless trash.

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        That’s ok. You’re entitled to defend the dumbfucks that didn’t vote or voted 3rd party. Even morons need someone in their corner.

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          The moron factor cannot be stressed enough. Or ignorant rube factor, or internet troll voter factor, or however anyone that either voted for him or protest non-voted wants to identify. Voting against fascism to save some semblance of what we already lie to ourselves about being an American Dream was so fucking easy. When someone says they’ll do fascist things, after having tried a coup once already and gotten away with it, and they subsequently get voted back into office despite everything beforehand, I start to lose words to describe my frustration. Things won’t get better by voting worse actors into decision making positions.

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            Yeah.

            I mean, I don’t fantasize that my pointing out that a 3rd party candidate for president cannot win and why is going to change the mind of anyone stupid enough to vote 3rd party in a presidential election.

            Part of why I do it is because I’m really fucking mad at their concentrated stupidity and want to talk some shit to idiots who were partially responsible for the situation we find ourselves in. The other part is to hopefully get through to some people that aren’t that stupid, so they can see how stupid these people are and hopefully avoid also being that stupid. Ideally I’d be calling them stupid then including the reasons why, which I do all the time. But sometimes I’m just tired and only have the energy to point out that they are very, very stupid idiots.

            This was probably the easiest election we’ll ever have and Americans essentially failed an open book test. I do not care that Kamala was maybe not a stellar candidate. Any candidate opposing Donald Fucking Trump and his enablers in the year of our lord 2024 is a stellar candidate by comparison. And this is one of those times when I’m too tired to type out why voting 3rd party for president is akin to punching yourself in the face. If anyone cares they can check my comment history. I explain it to idiots all the time.