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[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 0 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Fuck off with the ad hominem I'm not even American. I just so happen to be someone who doesn't share the strategic read of your social media bubble.

The American mind can't even comprehend different takes without resorting to name calling. What a brain dead culture. Fuck all the way off.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

I’m not from the US either, chief. Besides, where you’re from has no bearing on my comment.

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And yet you talk vicious like they do, when someone doesn't 100% align with their moronic takes. You didn't even address 1% of my comment before resorting to insults. Fuck you and your kind.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Literally your entire comment is based entirely on screaming at me ynder the assumption that I was from the US. Now you’re big mad that you look like an idiot and taking it out on me because you’re so painfully insecure you nothing can ever be your fault. The only “insult” in my comment was that I called you “chief.”

No insult I can throw at you will ever be as impactful as what you seem to think about yourself, so I’ll let you do your thing.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 1 points 16 hours ago

Yeah I know. It's just so generalized on us-dominated platforms. It's frustrating.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You're going around blaming people for fascism who have nothing to do with it.

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

They had nothing to do with it but if they had voted, the US and to some extent the world wouldn't be in this mess. And they're trying to blame Dem strategists for their own failure to do the easiest thing, which was to hold your nose and vote for a stinking liberal rather than let a literal fascist win.

Western electorates are so deep in the main character syndrome that when they fail they have to spin it as somebody else's strategic error. Classic golden child bullshit.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Politicians blaming the voters, you mean

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 1 points 19 hours ago

I mean, yeah, definitely also true. Kind of the pre-condition for this whole fiasco.