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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • You wanting an ideal world isn’t just going to magically make it happen. Unfortunately we have to live in reality where nuance is real.

    You could drag me into a voting booth at gunpoint, and I’d tell you to pull the trigger. This is the thing that you fuckers need to get through your thick fucking skulls.

    No we get it. You’re an extremist and live in a fantasy world where nuance doesn’t exist and your extreme idea of morality is the only option.

    Unfortunately we have to live with you (who you honestly seem like a moral person but unfortunately don’t understand that politics and most of life is about compromise) and the sociopaths on the other side who will exploit your morality to get everything they want. Your inability to understand the nuance is only good for the sociopaths.

    Us, the realists, who understand that Obama couldn’t just pack up and leave also understand that you can’t understand that.


  • Yeah I don’t get it from some of these people.

    One side took a dollar from the take-a-penny-leave-a-penny tray and stole a pack of smokes. The other side shot the brown teller behind the counter and emptied the till. Then lit the store on fire while yelling about the brown guy being an illegal immigrant.

    We’re talking about orders of magnitude of shenanigans. And being wrong like Carter and being a traitorous, lying sack of shit like Reagan. Are completely different things.

    The both sides are the same crowd are going to get us all killed.


  • Fair enough but he kind of did.

    The reason why we’re here is not because we failed to chose Carter over Reagan, but because those were the two choices we were stuck with…

    Yeah we’re here because we chose Reagan over Carter. And out of those choices we picked the one who was the piece of shit. I am pretty sure that Carter would have been capable of reversing course or realizing mistakes. Reagan was all in on the destruction.

    Same as we’re here because we chose Bush over Gore, Obama over McCain… Trump over Clinton/Harris etc.

    One side is trying to do the right thing as best they can (even if they fail or get some bad apples). The other is actively (and purposefully) trying to make things worse. Our choices are what got us here. Saying things would be the same is how Republicans keep winning and the Overton Window only seems to move right and never left.


  • That’s not relevant to OP’s post.

    OP was talking about how things would be better. This guy said they (Carter and Reagan) would be the same and cherry picked some data.

    70s was a mix Stagflation, inflation and high unemployment meant hard choices. Carter made hard choices some very likely bad because he was too conservative.

    Carter tried some questionable things and definitely shares some blame but he wasn’t a traitor and he sure isn’t the same as Reagan.