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      “The parliamentarian blocking a vote from even happening is completely different though. It’s procedure.”

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    behave like authoritarians

    Democracy is about theatrical performative helplessness in the face of human suffering. The more performative helplessness in the face of human suffering, the more democratic. marx-joker

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      I prefer when Representatives elected for gerrymandered districts and Senators (who are explicitly there to counter democracy) prevent the President from doing things that are overwhelmingly popular because the Founders distrusted “the masses”. That is True Democracy.

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      I don’t think you can really word it any simpler and shorter than that. That really is just the most base description of the democracy liberals want.

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    “It’s authoritarian to reduce child poverty without considering the feelings of rich people”

    Perfect distillation of liberalism, simply don’t believe in anything

    Just continuously define yourself by an imagined loyalty to a capitalist state that doesn’t even know you exist, while you defend the right of monsters to immiserate your fellow citizens and their children

    Definition of moral cowards

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      Authoritarianism is a meaningless term and anyone who uses it immediately outs themselves as politically unserious and at best academically infantile.

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        Government takes your home to redistribute to the people while ensuring you still have a place to stay: Horrible Authoritarianism

        Bank takes your home to redistribute to rich land developers leaving you homeless: Liberal Democracy

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    I mean their political goal is to destroy the entire system

    Oh yeah, just for the fun of it. We just hate everything. What does “destroying the entire system” mean to this person? Because it sounds a lot like the good ol’ “Judeo-Bolshevik Asiatic hordes coming to destroy our superior Western culture” talking point.

    And what’s this talk about us being in bad faith? If libs that came here weren’t the most obnoxious terminally online Redditbrained smuglords that refuse to read anything longer than 2 paragraphs of text then people wouldn’t be taking the piss on them as much.

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      “bad faith” just means “anything I don’t agree with”. It’s a thought terminating cliche so they can keep smelling each other’s farts and congratulating themselves for having the only good opinions™

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      Bad faith would be like “we should enact these specific policies (secret evil policies that will wreak havoc on the institutions) to make America better uwuu”

      No I’m telling you to abolish that shit, firebomb your local PD for more Genshin Impact pulls, drain everything in your landlord into their pool

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    Haven’t you considered the precedent? The norms? The rules-based order and the law?

    We are not like them, because we don’t want children poor. We are also not like them, because we won’t step on any toes to accomplish our goals. We are morally superior, and it only cost us some other people’s kids having to live in poverty

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    if i ever saw a tankie on internet i would scream and scream and my mom would ask whats wrong and id say tankies and then id keep screaming i wouldnt be able to stop

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      “oh yeah we’d love to prevent children from starving to death, but one of our friends who hangs out with oil billionaires says we can’t, sorry” oh yeah that’s a great and sustainable system

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      They don’t like it when the government gets political. We should all just follow the rules laid out to us by God The Founding Fathers. Anything else is blasphemy creating mistrust in The System.

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      Weird that they say that we want them to be like “republicans” then, aren’t republicans supposed to be all about small government?

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        Yea it’s pretty funny the party of small government is setting up genital inspection checkpoints in high-school locker rooms and the party of big government is constantly explaining why the government doesn’t actually have the power to do anything.

        Democrats are the party of small government, so small their position seems to be “if you don’t like what governments doing why don’t you personally do it for us”

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      They literally just want vibes based governance where the current system continues to benefit them but like, everybody chills out and is nice to each other.

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    ok but why even bother having a government if all it can ever feasibly do is write checks for weapons manufacturers and think of creative ways to coerce poor people to work harder?

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    I just don’t know how much more of this I can handle. Like in life. I’m so sick of lib shit being everywhere. I’m about to throw my phone in a fucking lake and take mushrooms til the end of time.

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    Republicans: Fuck impoverished children. They should work at Wendy’s and pull themselves up by the bootstraps

    Democrats: Child poverty is bad but we are not going to end it because that would be authoritarian. I am a good person. Please pat me on the back

    The libs are infinitely more annoying. Chuds are at least honest about being worthless shitheads

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      Yup republicans say they’re going to do fascism and then they do it as hard as they can.

      Democrats say you have to vote for them because they’re the only people that can stop fascism and then they lecture you on why you’re unreasonable for expecting them to do anything to stop fascism and blame you for the fascists.

      And then say actually you support the fascists because you’re not enthusiastic enough about voting for them.