• defunct_punk@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Right wing agents in full swing today on Lemmy.

    Understand: all this would be stopped in a second if Republicans accepted the Democrat budget proposal. This isnt the D’s fault, no matter how many scaremongering propaganda headlines you see trying to convince you that the Democrats should just sign the Republican budget and move on. Things are much better right now in a shutdown than they would be if the Republicans get their budget passed.

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      7 days ago

      Demcrats refused to sign a budget that cut people healthcare. But CNN anchors dont mention that.

      I totally see now (as a non american) how magas were so easily duped into considering all MSM bullshit.

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        They didn’t just refuse to sign it, they actually did their job and made a counterproposal that protected funding for Healthcare (among other things). Republicans refused to even acknowledge it and shut the government down.

        As an American, your empathy is appreciated but honestly save it for people more worthwhile. There was genuinely a good defense for being MAGA in like 2016, but these people have spent a decade doing nothing but choosing to stick their head in the sand further and further while proof of how fucking bad Trump is piles up around them. They’re not duped, they’re not brainwashed. They’re just cruel, cruel, hateful people.

        ETA this photo

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          As an American, your empathy is appreciated but honestly save it for people more worthwhile.

          Like my dumbass maga family members maybe? Maple MAGA is a thing up here eh.

          All I’m saying is that from an outsider’s perspective… seeing how your media is reacting to this live… it’s not surprising things went this way.

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        6 days ago

        They also haven’t been mentioning how this power that is supposedly being given away, was already handed to the Administration by the Republican Congress and illegitimate Supreme Court.

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      Yeah, I’ve seen some of these right wing folks. They are trying to get us to respond to Trump’s inflammatory raids with violence.