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Nov 2Liked by The Dissident

yes empires bitches do what they're told by leadershit

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The blob controls the figure heads. Trump occasionally speaks the truth. The ruling class will ultimately decided the winner of the "election." Just like they installed Shrub Jr. in 2000 because Gore wouldn't invade Iraq. The blob allowed the insurrection to happen. They've had 4 years now to strengthen the "security state." They've allowed dangerous criminals to run free and stir up racism and Christofascism. The Biden administration has illegally locked down the southern border and is building the wall. They have blimps monitoring the Canadian border. They have the latest surveillance tech installed at both borders and airports. Local law enforcement also has it. The US cops are being trained by the IDF and cop cities are being built nationwide. We all saw the crackdown on the pro Palestinian and BLM protests. No matter who wins the "election", we lose๐Ÿ˜ž Wars with Iran, Russia, and China are being planned. The military needs bodies. The draft is coming.

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It hurts to say it but this article is perfect. It hurts because I liked the young Bill Clinton. He had a political gift seldom seen in the US but he has turned into something I couldn't have imagined thirty years ago. His record is accurately described here. Probably his best achievement was in bringing a degree of peace to Ireland, and yes, I was unduly pleased by his saxophone playing in Prague. I won't waste words on Dick Cheney other than to say that welcoming his support should be enough to convince any decent human being to not vote for Kamala Harris. She, like Hillary Clinton before her, appears to be completely tone deaf. The politics of joy when we are actively engaged in genocide?

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Bill was certainly charming during his presidency. But then, people said Ted Bundy was charming, too. โ€œCharmingโ€ is often a synonym for โ€œnarcissistโ€.

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Ted Bundy was a pyscopath, as are most people in power today.

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I donโ€™t think the two terms are mutually exclusive.

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I have a good female friend. Highly educated, very smart, served in the National Guard years ago. When president Clinton reviewed her unit. All she could say was and I quote โ€œHe stopped for a moment in front of each of us and when he got to me he looked directly in my eyes and made contact.โ€ She nearly swooned this out. Hard to believe this stuff. She was well aware of the guyโ€™s womanizing reputation. I asked her if she approved of him and she said not really but she could see why women fell for it. Power, the great aphrodisiac.

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That wasnโ€™t gentlemanly charm he was projecting, that was predatory.

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The Clintons (along with the whole of the Democratic Party leadership) have grown delusional enough while floating in their sealed wealth bubble to think they are widely respected rather than reviled.

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You express such disgust at all the players on the political stage, as if the state of the world is expressly their fault. I dislike them too, but it hasnโ€™t gotten past me that we are exactly where we are because we bought into their narratives and cultural makeover.

We were taught to idolize the rich, the talented, the screen legends, the tech heroes. And we fell in, lock, stock and barrel. We fought our way up to bigger houses and cars and shopped at Target and watched on MTV as Mariah Carey gave us a tour of her closet. We stopped going to church, stopped disciplining our kids, bought into consumerism, lost touch with our values, played on our phones, forgot about fresh air, didnโ€™t prioritize our families. We stopped learning, reading, thinking, rationalizing. We donโ€™t know art, history, or composers. We are an embarrassing blight on the blindingly beautiful template that is life.

We have this one lifeโ€”-this one chance to be part of a magical universe, to seek knowledge and purpose and to add our own threads to the fabric of time, and what do we do with it? We upload TikTok videos, eat plastic food, listen to music about depravity, pollute our beautiful planet, float on giant cruise ships to prove on social media we are living the good lifeโ€”-just like our mortal gods.

And you can blame all your anti-heroesโ€”Clinton, and Hillary and Trump. But they are us and we are them. We are a microcosm of the macrocosm. And it isnโ€™t pretty. We are lost, but we let it happen. We willingly followed the piper and itโ€™s no oneโ€™s fault but our own.

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Nov 2Liked by The Dissident

WELL said Great Reflect and very Straight ON.

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Right, blame the victims.

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You have free will. You are always at choice.

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When you're propagandized 24/7? Chained to a job you hate for the health insurance? Narrows the choices, I'd say.

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Itโ€™s important to maintain your values. Keep an eye on whatโ€™s important, what really matters no matter how the wind blows.

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Nov 2Liked by The Dissident

Nailed it.

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Nov 3Liked by The Dissident

Yes. Yes they are.

Nobody wants to be holding the bag when it all goes down

Itโ€™s a game of hot potato.

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Short answer yes; for four years and counting.

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โ€œIsraelโ€™s massacring of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Gaza is actually justified.โ€โ€ฆ hundreds of thousands?? Your own link says 41,000 ๐Ÿคก

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I put the wrong link, just fixed it.

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Lancet reports that at this point, the death toll in Gaza is around 200,000 from not only direct hits, but death after injuries, starvation, dehydration, infection, and illness. The 42,000 number is laughable, unless Israel has the most inefficient 2 ton bombs ever invented.

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Both Trump and Kamala seem to be trying everything they can to lose the election

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I am not a fan of Trump, nor all the things people lists under 'toxic masculinity', but I think failing to stand up against the neo cons and providing some real alternative to the establishment has been part of the feminist influence on this election. I think women and feminists were understandably desperate when Trump won in 2016, and then again when Roe vs Wade was upturned. The reaction has played into the personality politics of Trump and the polarization of politics powered by social media. Harris has learned some lessons from the failures of Hillary's campaign, but since 2016, the Democrats have failed to offer and alternative to the establishment. They also alienated male voters with the discourse on toxic masculinity that developed after Trump was elected. Please check out my piece on this, I would love it if any of you would share it.

https://interpocula.substack.com/p/the-figure-of-feminism-since-2016

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Just be a bit kind to the "Chinese sweatshops". The CPC (China) desperately wanted to industrialize and without the kind of stimulus offered by American industry, they would have progressed to the current level, but slowly. So, the Chinese played the American capitalists and offered terms such as technology transfer that in the long run were vastly more favorable to China. Still, one or two generations of Chinese workers sacrificed themselves so their children and grandchildren would enjoy prosperous lives.

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The only part of your question that is really shocking is WHY it takes so long for someone to ask it. Red and Blue both drink from the same Purple trough. Why bother to actually run the country on behalf of the "mob with pitchforks" when they all profit no matter who wins. With WW3 on the imminent horizon, it's possible the Dems may prefer to let Trump have the "honor."

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It reads like Democrats are conspiring to help Trump win. If not on the same team why wasnโ€™t Trump prosecuted for Jan 6th? Perhaps the many who live in the U.S. being a stolen land and raped by greed, will relish the idea of joining its indigenous people to form a resistance. Taking out Trumpโ€™s fascist narcissists could turn out to be great fun; finally bury the idea of Empires once and for all with world revolution. Remember the greedy, corrupt and obscenely wealthy ecocide death cultists are the few, not the many! Trotsky rises. #TheFederation #ThePrimeDirective #EmpireIsEcocide #DemocraticRightsInterests

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You Will Like The BUGS! The Rape shall continues, Now lay back & cooperate. Plebs.

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Kamala Harris wants to move Halloween to Election Day November 5 and to change the name of the New Democrats to The Halloween Party.

If only Saturday Night Live knew how to do Satire of Demoncrats.

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