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“We don’t want to be told what to do. We only want to tell other people what to do.”

- every conservative

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Oh, they like being told what do. As long as it’s by the right people, as long as they’re told that they get to make others’ lives worse.

That’s the secret. Just about every “alpha” (with VERY few exceptions) is also a submissive “beta”. They’ll give up their morals, their daughters, their god, their freedom, whatever.

That’s the fundamental difference between the left and the right. The left believes in cooperation, the right believes in the authority-submissive, alpha-beta dynamic.

These people just aren’t in on the secret. As soon as they really start complaining they’ll be told to fall in line.

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AKA, the Southern notion of liberty.

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The right to deprive others of their rights?

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My in-laws voted for him because - no joke - they didn’t want Kamala to give money to “poor people.” My in-laws are on social security and Medicare. They ARE the poor people. If they think we will be paying for their shit after benefits are cut, I’ve got news for them. FAFO.

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“Those other people didn’t earn it…like us. They are lazy welfare mommas. They need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, like we did.”

- your in-laws probably

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I was going to ask if the in-laws just use “poor people” as coded language for non-whites.

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of course… trump is hella racist and so is america and that’s why he won….
it’s just about impossible for someone to support him without being racist. that’s why when you pin a trump supporter down on “why trump though?” it’s always some bullshit reason, and if you break it down or disprove it, they eventually regress to “i don’t care”.
all their hypocritical outrage over supposed moral violations of the left? they don’t actually care about that… they just want to yell something at the anti-racist people and they can’t get away with overt racism just yet….

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I’ve straight up heard someone say that about her disability. She claimed she earned it by going through the stuff that traumatized her to unemployability. It’s wild

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This is what Trump ran on. This is what President Musk promised on Xitter pre-election.

Why would you think otherwise?

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He also ran on ‘i won’t touch social security’ and they heard the option they wanted to hear despite it being an obvious lie he will if he can.

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Yes, but it was mapped out pre election. Project 2025. I get it, no one wants to even skim a 996 page document, but it was all right there.

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I doubt even Trump himself read it. That’s a lot of reading. Or, in other words…

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Yeah, but donvict said he don’t know her!

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And bush sr. said “read my lips: no new taxes.”

When will people learn these fuckers are all liars? That shit was almost 35 years ago. We never learn.

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“they should steal the benefits of OTHERS not mine!!! 😡😡😡”

“others” often being Black people and immigrants…

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Or the fictional welfare queen.

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Have they tried not taking handouts and pulling themselves up by their bootstraps?

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No, you see, their social support is ok, because they are down on their luck, through no fault of their own. Buts it’s those other free loaders are the problem.

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Take away everybody else’s social security & Medicaid, but leave ours alone!!!

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Get fukt

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