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As if this had anything to do with right and left or conservative and liberal. How are there still people who see the world like that in 2026?

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You’re not wrong. But in America there is only one party that is thoroughly owned by Russia and that’s the party in charge of the executive branch right now.

Owned by Russia? How'd you reach that conclusion? Just take a look at the sanctions imposed on them and the US support for Ukraine in the war. Also: it seems you've fallen into the "Russia is our enemy" propaganda trap.

>US support

Remind everyone, which party was blocking this support for as long as possible, with a hole lot of media circus and scaremongering?

From the first Trump campaign, to Jared Kushner, to Tulsi Gabbard, to all the things happening with this campaign, its abundantly clear that conservatives are communicating with Russia very much. The question is if it is illegal or not, and generally, considering Superme Court and DOJ are Trumps puppets, it really doesn't matter.

Also, I would highly urge you to consider the fact that you are defending pdf files running the government. You really don't want to go down the road of political arguments and out yourself as one.

Objectively the evidence has been out in the open for many years so obviously you are choosing to believe in “alternative facts”.

As long as russia bombs apartment buildings and terrorizes a soverein nation while waging hybrid war against a multitude of others, it's going to be the enemy. I hope russia crumbles, and people like you stop pretending that russia is innocent.

Did the innocent ever win a war?

Russia paid bounties to ISIS for every dead US soldier. This was happening while Trump was president. They're America's enemy, full stop.

>> it seems you've fallen into the "Russia is our enemy" propaganda trap.

Well, we did have an entire decades long war about it. That we magically assume ended November 9, 1989 but doesn't look like it really ever did, for them.

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So Russia is not our enemy? Huh.

But both are owned by corporate interests. I don't really give a crap about Russia, they have thrown so much capital away on Ukraine that they have no chance against anybody else. I find large corporations and billionaires as the biggest, strongest, and most threatening actors. Even some of the US's most leftist politicians, like AOC, voted against allowing rail workers to strike, which only benefits the investor class and corporate interests.

How do you see the world?

The mega rich and the rest of us.

If you look at voting distribution by income level this doesn't make sense.

And if you are gonna make the argument that people are brainwashed to think its left vs right, then you are automatically in favor of an authoritarian ruling class because people can't be trusted to make the right choice.

What choice? There is no real choice when a democracy is based on money - campaign funding, "donations", lobbying, etc.

Are you saying that people are gonna vote based only on who can "out media" the other candidate?

I didn't say anything about voting at all. I am saying the rich influence policies with their money.

Technological determinism and post-abundance scarcity. Everything is so WWI once again. Ideologies largely don't matter at all.

Ah yes, because your side is a dumpster fire, the only way out that doesn't make you look like a complete fool is just to claim "both sides are bad".

Point to any such activity under the Democratic rule where federal government was specifically requesting data on in individuals that are simply critical of them if you wanna prove me wrong.

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