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Imagine believing that the best days of the US are ahead of you...
I'm sure improvements will be made, but the United States is dying, thanks in large part due to the cancer that's rightwing propaganda networks
Honestly, I don't want the United states to be a thing anymore. It is time for the nation to break up, so that people can choose what sort of government they want to live in. In my case, I would like something modeled after European socialism. I am sick of Fascist America dragging down my state with its evil and stupidity.
The problem with that plan is that you get an outwardly fascist neighbor with no guardrails at all. Yes it will burn itself out eventually but before that it's going to be just as much of a problem as when it was states.
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Not sure what you mean by European socialism, but you do NOT want the socialism that was attempted in eastern European countries.
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Good luck with that. Honestly.
That about sums it up. There are no obviously good options for the situation, so we are all left to gamble on a guess and a prayer that things work out.
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If I ever get diagnosed with a terminal disease. I know what I’m doing before I go out.
"Everyone that disagrees with me is a Democrat"
Not only that, but Democrats by default do not matter and shouldn't be considered at all.
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I'd PPV Nana Slap Fight Championships.
You'd think farmers at least would understand the relationship between what you sow and what you reap.
They never have to think about because they use migrant labor
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He had tattoos on his body? I keep mine in a drawer in the shed.
Ok, hear me out.
David Beckham has tattoos on his body AND is an immigrant. Therefore he must be a part of the ms13 gang and should be deported. It's the only thing that makes sense!!!!!
I've also heard Dolly Parton has tattoos...
How many cops have gang tattoos in 'murica? The internet tells me a good deal of them do.
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I heard Beckham was part of Bend de Aragua
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This country is so fucked.
They never should have shot that gorilla.
That's when we entered the worst timeline.
Right? I.swear this is all some butterfly effect, parallel universe, quantum leap bs from that exact moment.
It is out.
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“That man is a criminal,” she declared of Garcia.
“What was he convicted of?” someone asked.
“He had tattoos on his body,” she replied triumphantly.
MAGA morons are the bottom of the barrel
Im trying in my head to make that response of "he had tattoos on his body" less stupid than it is, but cannot come up with a scenario where someone would get tattoos anywhere else.
You're focused on the word, "body", when the one that makes the difference is "on".
If he had tattoos in his body, it would be ok.
It's just a bit more difficult to find a tattoo artist who is willing to work on the inside.
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Trying to get into magas heads is a bit like entering the Kaiju minds: dangerous with extensive psychological side effects, and to be avoided
Surely he'd be more of a criminal if he had tattoos on someone else's skin
There are no more dangerous gang tattoos than the ankle dolphin or butterfly tramp stamp
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The stupidity of some people in that article is jaw dropping.
Also, if they shout at each other now, just wait for the SSA, Medicare, and Medicaid cuts that make hearing aids too expensive for rural boomers.
As if MAGAts are sufficiently self-aware to admit they need hearing aids.
Specifically boycotting anything that comes from Iowa would be a great trade policy for our former allies to adopt
Boycotting stupidity? How would that even work?!?
Studies show that two out of every three Trump voters are just as stupid as the third one.
Grew up near Iowa, can confirm a lot of stupid people who think they're smart.
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Just a matter of time before conservative media finds a suitable scapegoat. They'll get a wall of "Transgender Mexican ISIS stole the last bits of New Deal social contract" news articles for six months and come out more rabid than when they started.
This isn't merely "Iowans are uniquely gullible", either. The toxic nature of modern media is everywhere. And it produces as many Eric Adams Democrats as Donald Trump Republicans.
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I’m sick of you democrats and your *checks notes* due process under the law.
I’m sick of you democrats
The utterance of someone so desperately grasping at straws because she can't make an actual argument about the things she's parroting from the TV so she relies on logical fallacies to shut down the argument completely.
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Iowa was improving in the 90s, improving in the 2000s. They were blue then.
Now I hate going back, it's not the same state I grew up in. Abortion billboards and porn stores, same as the bible belt now.
The state is not improving but they don't care anymore, long as the right people (like me) get hurt.
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