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> not really awful, I just can't help but say fuck you to the other side in the current climate

No, you're saying "fuck you" to anyone and everyone who isn't waving their "I hate Trump" card right out of the gate. Near as I can tell reading through past comments, OP is in the sizable contingent that thinks that recent US politics has resembled nothing so much as an all-out war between toddlers and that left-wing hatred and bile like what you are manifesting bears at least some responsibility for getting us Trump in the first place.

It's possible to hate Trump, hate MAGA, and also think that the actions of liberals through the last decade directly contributed to the environment that led to his rise. Apparently that position counts as "the other side" to you, which is exactly what led us here: if there are only two sides then it's too easy to be a Trump supporter.

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if there are only two sides then it's too easy to be a Trump supporter.

I'll concede that, that's a great point. However, the key to maintaining a balanced diet is first you must get to a target weight you would like to balance from. You can't just be 300lbs and begin eating a balanced diet. There is no time to sit here and argue about anything you mentioned. We are simply in crisis and this involves wiping the slate clean of the mindshare that is sitting right before us. We can discuss our old hatreds afterwards, which pale in comparison. Basically, we need to restart the game from the last save point, as much is it sucks. We can't take the balanced diet of all sides bad because we're extremely obese at the moment.

Some disagree, to which I generally just leave a Fuck You.

> We are simply in crisis and this involves wiping the slate clean of the mindshare that is sitting right before us. We can discuss our old hatreds afterwards, which pale in comparison. Basically, we need to restart the game from the last save point, as much is it sucks. We can't take the balanced diet of all sides bad because we're extremely obese at the moment.

The only way that any of this makes any kind of sense is if you're proposing that we lean into the abolition of democracy, and if you were going to propose that then the time to do it was sometime before Jan 20 2025. The far right are the ones with the militias, so an armed revolt isn't going to go our way, and now that Trump is in office abolishing democracy from the top down would obviously not lead to the outcome you want.

Like it or not, we're stuck with white knuckling it and trying to persuade people to vote our way in the midterms, and this style of rhetoric is decidedly counterproductive towards that end.

Yes, we need a blowout midterms. I said this in another comment, and I'll paraphrase again. The Left does not need to win back a single Republican voter. We just need to clearly show their face, and I believe this will be enough to rally them to a blowout in 2025. When you see the rotten greedy values of the Right, it will immediately activate the larger Left demographic (which will dwarf anything you've ever seen). Many closet-maga came out of the woodwork just in this thread alone, with zero shame. So necessary to just see.

We don't need to dismantle democracy. That's their game.

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