Post B4NrS850HE0YygdenQ by demonofustio@poa.st
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 (DIR) Post #B4FhvDAvrC4ONCxeHw by aral@mastodon.ar.al
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       Dear USA,Donald Trump is exactly who you are.Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time. The same USA Native Americans and African Americans have always known. Until you fully grasp that and start learning about, accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.“This is not who we are.”Bullshit.This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.You want to change?Start by accepting that.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Ft0We3zkGrhZK7MW by FrancoisPrague@mastodon.social
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       @aral  Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky. They don't pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07w9K2XR3f0&pp=ygUSY2FybGluIHBvbGl0aWNpYW5z
       
 (DIR) Post #B4HF62IQ8ZK1SlC1JI by coleenwalter@mastodon.social
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       @aral I understand your point and share your outrage and frustration. I do feel some of your comments include the fallacy of division. There are many, at great personal and financial cost, fighting book bans, protesting, investigative journalism, standing up for themselves and other vulnerable people. I don’t know whether we are a plutocracy or an oligarchy but individuals are trying to act like  sea wall to push back against relentless money and power.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4HF62VBN7Ww6LADCa by aral@mastodon.ar.al
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       @coleenwalter And none of those listed people will take offence at what I wrote because it doesn’t pertain to them but rather to those they are struggling against.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4HF62p2BJPT5uS492 by julieofthespirits@kolektiva.social
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       @aral @coleenwalter it's the I Hate Men rule, it's not literally about all men but it is about all the men who get upset
       
 (DIR) Post #B4HF6301WSCTdzaqH2 by aral@mastodon.ar.al
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       @julieofthespirits @coleenwalter This.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4HF63Dqh3G8Ks3sp6 by violetmadder@kolektiva.social
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       @aral @julieofthespirits @coleenwalterThere's a tricky tipping point, almost invisible.Somewhere between, "Things are bad but a lot of us are trying to fix this!", which is true, and "Things are basically okay, bad guys aren't normal!" which is the dangerous delusion of enablers. Bad IS normal and nobody is okay. This is the norm. Look, the planet is burning. ENOUGH of us are like this, and holding enough positions of power, to mean our overall trajectory is dropping fast in the Trump direction. Even when we're dutifully trying to do the whole Dem incremental harm reduction thing, we're still headed for the SAME evils just a bit more slowly and dressed up with a few more comforting lies. Abusers don't just get away with abuse, abuse is propped up and rewarded as good go-getter business sense, and we go along with it if we think it'll score us a few extra treats to ride an abuser's coattails and not rock the boat. I know he's bad but I'm doing the best I can from inside his office, okay so I'm carrying water for a fascist but I'm still a good guy. The "moderate" liberal gets to pretend they're not part of the problem if they set the bad guys way out at some freakish distance they are not responsible for. They get to pretend that real estate flipping is a perfectly wholesome reasonable vocation, and that calling the cops on that nasty annoying homeless camp is a perfectly wholesome way to protect the neighborhood-- with zero awareness that they're doing shit like, say, casually talking over the women in the room, singing along to songs about rape, voting for people participating in crimes against humanity, benefitting from exploitative settler colonialism, and upholding capitalism.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4HF63VDeT9bCkBktk by mahadevank@mastodon.social
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       @violetmadder @aral @julieofthespirits @coleenwalter i so agree. I dropped out of corporate because I realized this.There's this horrible sense that the guys on top mean well and have the best of humanity at heart, but they just don't have a choice given the circumstances they are in.No, the guys on top don't mean well, and anybody aligning with them is a disaster for the human race.We should be panicking and revolting like our lives depended on it.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4HFN02rl7xZPA0S7U by bardmoss@autistics.life
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       @aral I'm 73 years old. What you are saying is not how I was raised. The people who hold the beliefs that you are outlining are in the 1%. Most of America is or tries to become what the myth is. We are fighting against our corporate overlords and always have been, since the first Pullman strike in Chicago.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4HFN0JAmV0IDjdTXM by aral@mastodon.ar.al
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       @bardmoss It’s fascinating that 1% of the population was able to win Trump the popular vote at the last election.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4IMzGQoB56O4DMFk0 by Deplorable_Degenerate@eveningzoo.club
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       So when you suck dicks are they exclusively brown, or do you care what color they are? 🤔
       
 (DIR) Post #B4IMzGhp9oiGuzJqGO by wizardmanperson@poa.st
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       @Deplorable_Degenerate @aral "i don't see color, just size" --humongous retard faggot
       
 (DIR) Post #B4NCDdHfshR1IAXBJY by alpha60@poa.st
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       @rashunda @aral Nobody cares, nigger. LOL
       
 (DIR) Post #B4NFNSt1h4HZnqNwcy by grey@poa.st
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       @rashunda @aral Shut up, nigger.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4NFNT4izZdkO7rHrU by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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       @grey @rashunda @aral This
       
 (DIR) Post #B4NrEdZYOI7Ab3Uji4 by Smirking@poa.st
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       @aral Donald Trump is actually just the goyish manifestation of the egregore of Judaism. Utterly solipsistic, never admits wrongdoing, pathalogically lies etc... etc..For those reasons - that's actually why I'm not entirely interested in writing off the idea that he's the antchrist (jewish messiah) the more that time goes by.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4NrS850HE0YygdenQ by demonofustio@poa.st
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       @aral Ok mossad. Hows BB doing? MossadMy Asian Jap White Dick is bigger than your micro diaper penis.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4Nrwqr2MzkoX1ku0W by jmw150@poa.st
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       @aral Don't be mistaken. He won popular vote. Most people want him to keep his innitial promises, not change, not pretend to be some socially detached leftist for a Turk.