Post B2RFZoNuMePtKTNFvU by ryan@bemrose.social
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(DIR) Post #B2Qw4NL2yOLxLCKfRI by TikToc@noauthority.social
2026-01-19T02:34:50Z
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(DIR) Post #B2QyXyGiwiIMBUYBKC by nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
2026-01-19T06:17:57Z
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@TikToc I'm not seeing how that is unique to Democrats? A Republican majority has started several wars, not stopped one, sent three billion to a nation involved in genocide, as near as I can tell done nothing to resolve world tensions, build infrastructure or bring about any improvement in our living conditions. Not stating that the Democrats have either but that is precisely the point, this is NOT a party problem and NOT a problem party politics will solve.
(DIR) Post #B2R4NxyJnJP85oYOe0 by ryan@bemrose.social
2026-01-19T07:23:34.364516Z
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@nanook @TikToc Please remind me exactly what "wars" the Republicans have started? In the last hundred years, Congress has only declared war once, and it was in 1941. Both sides of Congress were controlled by the Democrat party.The last time before that was 109 years ago - in 1917 - with a Democrat-controlled Senate and a House that was controlled by a coalition of Democrats and the Socialist party.So I assume you must mean the undeclared "police actions" since then, which are started by Presidents and not Congress.Did you mean Korea? Oh, wait, that was started by Truman, a Democrat. Maybe Vietnam... Oh, nope, technically started by Truman, but really the significant US troop commitment was by Johnson (another Democrat). Okay, what could you mean. Maybe the Contra thing? Nope. Started by Carter (a Democrat). No, no no.What's really considered a war? Oh, I know, the Gulf war. Started by Bush, of the Globalist Deep State party. Okay, I'll give you that. Not technically a Democrat. What's next? Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo? No, those were all Clinton (a Democrat).Ah, here we are. Afghanistan and Iraq. Totally started by another Bush (still of the Deep State party). This must be what you're talking about. Anything after that? Libya, Benghazi, Iraq, Iran.... Nope, all Obama (a Democrat)What's next? Peace for four years? I don't believe it. Here we go - Ukraine and Gaza! Oh, nevermind. Started by Biden (a Democrat).Tell me again how the Republicans are somehow the party of sending Americans off to war?
(DIR) Post #B2RFZTUa2eHAX5KmuW by 10021f8f5dd8f699e933387997947b87d156eb7a5466287dcdd716dd43c70c40@mostr.pub
2026-01-19T08:30:58.000Z
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I don’t know what started this conversation as I can’t seem to see the whole thread, but if you are in any way defending the republicans right now, you’re either MAGA, ignorant or both. But don’t take my word for it, the rest of the planet feels the same way.And while the democrats, of which I am not affiliated, may have started more foreign wars, the republicans will be the first party in history to not only turn our military against it’s own citizens, but against our own armed forces (national guard) as well. Add in the inevitable dissolution of NATO and they have managed a hat trick, well done..🤦🏻♂️
(DIR) Post #B2RFZUWkC5bJk5M1vE by ryan@bemrose.social
2026-01-19T09:28:08.968246Z
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@10021f8f5dd8f699e933387997947b87d156eb7a5466287dcdd716dd43c70c40 @nanook @TikToc > I don’t know what started this conversationAll you needed to say.> the rest of the planet feels the same way.Even if you were correct, the truth is not a popularity contest.> first party in history to not only turn our military against it’s own citizensHoly fuck, read a history book, dude.> the inevitable dissolution of NATOOne of the few things I'll congratulate the current administration on, if they manage to pull it off. NATO is a HUGE welfare check from America to all of the freeloading commies in Europe who start their own petty bullshit wars with impunity, knowing that daddy America will come and fix everything once their tantrum is over. We would do well to go back to the age when Europeans could kill each other without meddling from anyone on the other side of the world.
(DIR) Post #B2RFZoNuMePtKTNFvU by ryan@bemrose.social
2026-01-19T09:28:59.742074Z
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@10021f8f5dd8f699e933387997947b87d156eb7a5466287dcdd716dd43c70c40 You seem to have an undiagnosed case of Trump Derangement Syndrome which is occluding your perspective, so I'll lay it out for you. Trump is a classic New York liberal who was in the Dem party for decades. He jumped to the opposition party, which was rudderless since Reagan, and brought with him a huge dose of the populism that the Dems abandoned when they became the party of Bankers, Globalists, and Warmongers.Trump's actions only seem out of place in response to the left going full-on Communist and declaring war on humanity. All the sane and moral people jumped ship and needed a place to land. "Republican" is just a label. As is "far right"; a label which the leftist media paints with a wide brush, but really it's a catch-all for everyone who isn't on board with the new Marxist world order.
(DIR) Post #B2T4NkqIzsvNgncnI0 by nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
2026-01-20T06:32:37Z
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@10021f8f5dd8f699e933387997947b87d156eb7a5466287dcdd716dd43c70c40 @TikToc @ryan I see if I don't agree with you then I am some label, well here is the thing, I am an individual with my own opinions, I agree with MAGA on some things, with Trump on some things, with Republicans in general on some things, and disgree with one or two or all of the above on others, and I know the idea of thinking for oneself and not merely choosing an alliance is foreign to many but that is how I operate and I do not need your permission to do so.
(DIR) Post #B2T4xec5dQCgnK5sB6 by nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
2026-01-20T06:39:20Z
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@ryan @10021f8f5dd8f699e933387997947b87d156eb7a5466287dcdd716dd43c70c40 I think we would have a better chance at arriving at real solutions, mapping a path to a better future for all of humanity, if we dropped the tribalism, accept the fact that our current versions of governments involve humans who are fallible but also temporary and that rather than getting over engaged in personalities our energy would be better spent developing solutions. What I see is a pie too small for the people, with everyone fighting over dwindling pieces and those pieces dwindling further because of the pie, energy, resources, and human lives, being spent on said fight when we now have at our disposal both the technology and the resources to make a pie large enough to satiate us all.
(DIR) Post #B2T8DVbRCesNLR2ZBA by DrFell@freeatlantis.com
2026-01-20T06:55:31Z
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@nanook @ryan @10021f8f5dd8f699e933387997947b87d156eb7a5466287dcdd716dd43c70c40 We tried that already
(DIR) Post #B2T8DWiZ3eAenpNlvU by nanook@friendica.eskimo.com
2026-01-20T07:15:46Z
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@DrFell @ryan @10021f8f5dd8f699e933387997947b87d156eb7a5466287dcdd716dd43c70c40 Because we don't get it right on the first attempt doesn't mean we should give up, I didn't survive this long by giving up, not going to start now.