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“This is how we should order our lives together,” he said. “And frankly, yes, we are going to impose it upon you. If you don’t like it, I’m sorry, but this is good and right and just if it lines up with God’s standards, and I am going to enforce my morality on you in as much as our morality is God’s morality.”

“You should always check yourselves,” he continued. “Do I believe what God believes? Am I defending what God says is good?”

“And if it is, then you should have the courage to say, ‘This is how we’re going to run our town, this is how we’re going to run our county, this is how we’re going to run our state, and this is how we should run the United States of America by legislating the morality that we can find in the Bible.'”

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[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The non Harris voters here defiantly standing on their own in the corner pretending this is somehow equal to Harris being president are pathetic.

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Harris is a neoliberal so not nearly as progressive as I would like but on election day I still voted for her.

She was orders of magnitude the less awful candidate.

[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah agreed I wanted Warren. But like, anyone trying to semantic argue staying home, or saying they're proud they didn't vote this time are worse than trump supporters.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Let's be real, you had to be bad at your job to loose that race. It's pathetic we're making excuses for our "leaders" when they led us down this path for so long. Still would vote for her again though .

[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

What excuses did I make for them? I'm calling out the people who didn't pull the fucking lever, or stayed at home because they were pissed they were going to get 30% of what they wanted instead of 0% of what they're getting.

To sit at home while you could prevent all this bullshit is tacit approval for what trump is doing. It's as simple as that.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 3 hours ago

You are right that is how voters act, to expect otherwise is to excuse leadership that refuses to grapple with that reality.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Mmm yes I'm sure the fact she is a woman of colour had no influence whatsoever

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 22 hours ago

The main thing is that you know better then the consultants the Democrats hired who said it would be okay. Does that make their leadership sound any more capable?