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JD Vance said that ‘American power comes with certain strings attached’

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Holding Western stability hostage in the name of the oligarchs, good job voting everyone…

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The sad part is that that also describes what the Democrats did to get us into this mess.

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stfu, leftist extremists had one fucking chance to stop this from happening but they got fucking greedy.

now we all have to pat the price.

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Dunno if it was enough to change the results, but I agree 100%. As a progressive myself: fuck these people.

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You are delusional

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You have data to back that up I assume?

Biden had polling in his hands that said Trump would get 400 electoral votes against him on the day he decided to run for a second term. Then he held on just long enough to make certain we would have no primary and be stuck with a candidate who couldn’t shake the stink of his presidency.

Harris lost the popular vote by over 4-million votes. There aren’t that many “leftist extremists” in the whole damn country, and only a small subset of those wouldn’t have voted for Harris.

The vast bulk of those who stayed home were left leaning apolitical normies. Most of the country fits in that group.

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No no no, you see, we showed the democrats by not showing up to vote! /s

uuugh… I made myself sick quoting those jackass fucktards. (I did vote, and screamed until I was blue in the face to get people to vote. About every year.)

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Trump and Vance hold no actual power. Musk is now the shadow president of the USA.

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I wish this were true… You should probably read some history about fascism/totalitarianism. Musk, and his corporations, are just another arm of the authoritarian government, to be used on the whim of our singular leader. Usually to mete out vengeance for perceived slights, and occasionally reward a crony for their loyalty (until they’re no longer needed, of course).

This is how all corporations function under this system, otherwise they are eliminated.

Welcome back to the political spoils system.

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What a weird tactic for such a weird, little person.

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Yes. Attacking peoples appearance will surely teach the opposition not to do the same.

Perfectly executed strategy.

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haha they’re so WEIRD said the liberal on the way to the concentration camp

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Does cheering on the Nazis make you feel good about yourself?

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they’re so quirky let’s normalize their rhetoric, those weirdos are so silly. you wouldn’t wanna be seen as lame by voting for them.

I’m so glad Democrats pulled out all the stops

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Lol. He’s actually 6’3" though (190.5cm), so pretty tall.

Still, I absolutely hate mixing diplomatic/military policy and economic policy. Screw all of that. Doesn’t change his height though.

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This is expected. A hallmark of fascism is state capitalism — a fusion of the corporation and the state — with corporations administered more like org units of the fascist party.

Many of us have been saying that this is the natural end state of capitalism all along, if it’s allowed to run its course.

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Problem is that it’s hurting the economy, meaning that if your hypothesis is right, capitalism collapses rather quickly if left on it’s on devices.

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🤨… You ever heard of a place called China?

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Yeah that’s exactly what I mean. It’s the best example that state capitalism is extremely destructive and cannibalizing the economy.

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Yeah, but you just distract the idiots with “illegal” immigrants, and abortion, and perceived “enemies within”, etc. etc.

It works every single time.

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It only ever works for a decade or two before it obliterates the economy every single time.

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