Many of you might have noticed a fairly standard rightoid tactic when backed into a corner, confronted with a tough reality is to simply declare "both sides" or something similar, without ever actually presenting those examples. When they do present them almost invariably they are wildly disparate events with no connection to each other.
This might seem like random rightoid coping, but it's actually an engineered response woven into the fabric of American society by conservatives.
The cons understand a few truths dems do not:
A) Americans love the perception of being politically independent.
B) Americans are fricking r-slurred.
"But both sides" serves a few important roles.
it allows idiots to elevate themselves and feel special by creating the illusion of independent thought.
it allows republicans to get away with the
Indefensible because the idiots from 1) will never apply any deep thought to these events.
it removes the need for substantive discussion at all. It allows the poorly informed to engage in performative political discussion in which everything is the exact same, and therefore the consequences of their political ignorance no longer exist.
"But both sides" has been carefully cultivated by conservative politicians. It's the perfect weapon, second only to "voting doesn't matter" which is heavily aided by both siderism.
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Or maybe people dont want to vote for their tax money to go to droning children in the middle east just because u think peeepee fartuglicans are r-slurred?
It literally doesnt except in like what, four states? It's amazing how feckless your system is when your centrist party can get more votes than the fascist party and still end up with an equal amount of power. Then your centrist party can just throw its hands up and go βoh well!β and then collaborate with that fascist party
There are literally bigger prison sentences for carjackings in DC than there have been for the jan six r-slurs. One got five years. In DC the highest a carjacker has gotten in jail is twelve, to a max of 40 because Biden vetoed an attempt at a reform down to a βmereβ 20 in order to lick the butt of republicans and prove he's rough on crime
You can shit on rightoids all you want for making a false equivalence between fascism and centrism, but to act as it your acting of going into a voting booth is actively doing anything to curb that while your president practically gurgles the c*m of the fascist party in public in order to get a semblance of progress - despite being the most power man on earth - then you're an idiot
Even from the perspective of stopping republicans you voting for democrats has done nothing. They are literally above the law thanks to SCOTUS, and even when you vote a dem in they pull a fast one and become anti-abortion, anti-minimum wage βcentristsβ after the election. Like Marie Perez for example
Until there stops being two parties for billionaires and nicer billionaires who are happy with paying a million dollars in taxes in exchange for ten million in tax cuts and federal money your country is fricked. Enjoy your lead drinking water in your abandoned cities with sky high rent, or your untamed trailer parks ruled by an oligarchy of fentanyl-addicted black-executing boomers
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eh but the votes in 2020 stopped the fascist and now the government is imprisoning the center of the fascist movement. because the fascist movement is limited only to a select subset of the republican party there is still a maneuver for the republicans to perform to clean house.
Pence will testify and then become the frontrunner of the Republican party, where he will probably lose but will at least set the party up for a 2028 reset.
I wish I could believe that we would rid ourselves of these two parties. It's a long shot but it's possible only in that dreamy imagination...
oh you're not even from here? opinion disregarded. like the US is fricked in a lot of ways but it's also still got a ridiculously strong hand, geopolitically speaking.
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Youre right on all accounts but at the same time youre doing all this in order to then have a stronger uniparty to crush unions, get into wars and kill immigrants and the homeless. So a clean house will be better but it still wont be good. America's pretty much done, tho i could just be wishful thinking because i often flirt with radical politics because i hate the american government for various reasons but mostly ive always disliked bombing brown people and also americans have ruined my country's culture by importing their stupid βold wacky man who wants to execute browns versus screeching sjwβ politics here
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yeah that's the perilous part of being at the pinnacle of power, our culture just becomes world culture whether or not that's a good thing. certainly the notion that Barbie will have an entry in history textbooks as an example of US cultural influence on China is deeply fascinating.
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people would have less of an issue with US hegemony if their pop culture wasn't so fricking sloppy and r-slurred.
I'm sure normie Romans were dumb in ways that weren't reflected in records, but they still had a tonne of achievements in literature, art, architecture etc. America has sucked in this regard for probably more than 50 years.
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I root for China to win and nuke the USA so that they can rewrite history post-the release of hot fuzz on DVD to be less shit
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literally seething
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