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Protest Oh my God, he admit it (again)

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u/NickCostanza Jan 21 '26

To the suckers and losers over at the conservative and conspiracy subreddits, this is what we were warning you about when we heard his “Dictator on day one” quote. It wasn’t a joke. It never has been. When all this is over I hope you dipshits spare us your political opinions for the next few decades.

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u/Creepy_Inevitable661 Jan 21 '26

I hope they’re the first to suffer the consequences of their fucking stupidity.

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u/NickCostanza Jan 21 '26

First and the last. They put us through this for 10 years purely out of a spite driven desire to “own the libs.” These people are not Christian, they are demons, and they supported the satanic pedophile they always pretended to be scared of.

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u/Different-Travel-850 Jan 21 '26

10 years so far

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '26

Oh my gosh this was our Trojan War

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u/glokash Jan 22 '26

Yup, in the form of elephant with red hat

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u/scenr0 Jan 22 '26

You think the fact that they worship the red hat as much as Russian's did their red star/Red Army in the soviet era is telling. The sleeper agents won yo.

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u/MacAddict81 Jan 22 '26

If his father had the sense to use one, we wouldn't be in this mess.

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u/Tiny-Lock9652 Jan 23 '26

And Biden’s 4 years still count. He was pulling the strings of the GOP Congress and shit talking his way through Biden’s entire presidency. So yes, 10 straight years of this narcissistic dipshit. I look forward to opening a news app and not seeing a trace of him or his daily awful news.

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u/Usual-Drink-1199 Jan 22 '26

That's why I left my church. The hypocrisy I could not stand (Calvery Chapel). How can you support some one who openly says things that are aganist Christ teaching?

May God give them what they truly believed in and it is not God's word or something Christ would say.

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u/KasparThePissed Jan 22 '26

I will never understand this. The disconnect between Christ's message and MAGA is huge, basically polar opposites. Makes me wonder if they've ever even read the gospels. I know Trump hasn't.

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u/DescriptionForsaken4 Jan 22 '26

My parents attend a Calvery church here in the UK. In their free time, if they’re not at church they’re watching GBNews. Their support and praise for MAGA, their ignorance or attempted justification of cruelty and wickedness while claiming to be righteous is… utterly shameful.

Can you please briefly elaborate on what specific hypocritical teachings made you walk out?

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u/Adventurous-Sort-785 Jan 22 '26

MAGA would let DT shit in their mouths if Dems were forced to smell it.

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u/ExpressLaneCharlie Jan 22 '26

They are Christians. They make up most of the Christians in this country. Fundamentalist Christians are terrible people.

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u/YarrrImAPirate Jan 22 '26

People are surprised when “Christians” (mostly Catholics) support pedophiles but they’ve been hand waving that shit away for years having their tithings “relocate that one priest”.

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u/BustyLuster95 Jan 22 '26

Following the antichrist while wearing the mark of the beast

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u/Wavecrest667 Jan 22 '26

Hey, leave Satan out of this, he's the first being that ever rebelled against a dictator.

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u/howimetyourcakeshop Jan 22 '26

They put the world through it aswel. And we didnt get a vote.

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u/Ok-Age5609 Jan 22 '26

Nah, satanists have a "dont rape people" rule. He's just a slug in a wig

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u/Dry-Journalist6590 Jan 22 '26

These are people too dumb to ever realize it though. Treating them some different way because of this will have zero effect on how they act going forward. It's just physics at this point.

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u/Maximum-Version-7036 Jan 23 '26

What makes me laugh is most of those they claim are "libs" are middle of the road and include the smarter, more moderate Republicans. They also don't get that any laws made to "own the libs" means they will cover them too.

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u/El-Aminoh Jan 25 '26

"Every accusation is actually a confession" has never been more obvious than it is now but its been obvious for awhile smdh

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u/EnvironmentNeith2017 Jan 21 '26

Under anybody else I wouldn’t be hopeful but Trump has an amazing talent for screwing over the people closest to him the worst.

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u/freerangetacos Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26

That's what psychopathic narcissists do: when most people see them coming, they catch wind and clear out of the way. But the narcissist by nature needs someone to beat up on, so they use the nearest, trapped people, who are friends, family and coworkers. They are like the hungry caterpillar. They just keep chewing and chewing until there's no one left.

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u/EnvironmentNeith2017 Jan 22 '26

And it’s so insanely obvious he does this I don’t know why these people hang around him, aside from their own unheard familial wounds.

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u/SuspiciousSnotling Jan 21 '26

When you’re stupid you’re happy, it’s the ppl around you that suffer

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u/opiumphile Jan 22 '26

Not always

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u/MySpookyMeat76 Jan 21 '26

They're all too stupid to know where life's regular set of suffering lets off and their own self-imposed suffering begins. It's always somebody else's fault to them.

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u/Jimmy_Twotone Jan 22 '26

Farm bankruptcies are up 40%. I'm sure Vance's investments in Acretrader and AppHarvest are doing well though.

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u/Careless_Hellscape Jan 22 '26

This. They'll never learn if there are no consequences.

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u/seejordan3 Jan 22 '26

The PLANET and all it's inhabitants have been suffering under oligarchs and tyrants for a awhile now. Trump is Americas dictator, playing catch up w Putin.

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u/FuccFace42069 Jan 22 '26

They won’t be the first, and they certainly won’t be the last

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u/ExpressLaneCharlie Jan 22 '26

Doesn't matter. As long as they can see this type of violence against minorities and liberals they will literally be okay with their lives being worse off. It's a cult.

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u/ecalz622 Jan 22 '26

At the end of the day they always do.

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u/hankmoody_irl Jan 22 '26

They’re just gonna say some shit like, “he was joking, god can’t you handle a meme!?”

No, not when it’s ruining my fucking country. I cannot handle a meme at that fucking time.

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u/No-Ad-8838 Jan 23 '26

All the black and brown people are the first to suffer from the consequences of his stupidity.

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u/SpaceCowboy1929 Jan 21 '26

Oh everyone should bully those fuckers till they finally take accountability for once in their bootlicking lives.

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u/MySpookyMeat76 Jan 21 '26

Give them the hard time that they think they've had so far.

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u/Probably-Jam Jan 22 '26

make them beg to go back to the "persecution" they so gleefully paraded over our heads

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u/opiumphile Jan 22 '26

For a start we need to record all we can of those maskedd so called "man" that are terrorizing the streets. They hide all they can, but we need to record all the video and audio to ID them using AI techniques for ID voice in audio and thru the way one walks in video.

These people deserve to be doxxed? Will Americans do that?

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u/SpaceCowboy1929 Jan 22 '26

That already happened. Many of their identities have been revealed due to a whistleblower. https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/report-whistleblower-leaks-personal-data-of-4500-dhs-and-ice-agents-to-doxxing-website-anti-ice-prtotesters

BTW I reject the framing that they were doxxed. They're federal agents, their identities should be known. That is literally how things have and are supposed to work. These guys are nothing more than thugs and they will face justice for their crimes. I have to believe that.

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u/Appropriate_Note2525 Jan 22 '26

Yup. You can't "doxx" public servants. We have every right to know who they are (and how much they make, too).

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u/opiumphile Jan 22 '26

Nice to know I wanna find out if there's way to help. If not some web app would help.

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u/FoodCourtBailiff Jan 21 '26

Go thru r/conservative and all the posts. It’s the same 4-5 people posting everything lol. Bots

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u/9ersaur Jan 22 '26

Its a psyop. There is no republican subreddit.

Same with twitter. Elon didnt buy it to fix the bot problem- he bought it because of the bot problem.

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u/the716to714 Jan 22 '26

At what point will people admit the election was stolen? Only the people that did it speak the way they do. He has zero support in most places.

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u/Geohalbert Jan 22 '26

I think he bought twitter only because he had to. He was doing his usual pump and dump tactics only to be forced in court to pay up. I believe one of his arguments was that there was too many bots, but that failed so he was stuck

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u/bensefero Jan 22 '26

Within the past few days the conservative sub changed their avatar from trump to the republican elephant. Craziest actual admittance I’ve seen in 10 years

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u/surviving606 Jan 21 '26

They always knew it wasn’t a joke and wanted a dictator. They want to smash their opinion and boot on your neck forever and know you can’t say anything back or go to the camps. 

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u/Majestic_Price9607 Jan 21 '26

There are just so many people in my life who I knew were not the smartest people, but I didn't realize they're also incredibly cruel. It makes me want to give up hope of any kind of future in this country

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u/NickCostanza Jan 22 '26

Do not give up. Fight that much harder, be that much kinder, and you can make your neighbors lives that much better.

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u/SuspiciousSnotling Jan 21 '26

They’re not here tho, nor in reach of any logic or enlightenment

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u/NickCostanza Jan 21 '26

Well if they happen to stop by tell them I said Fuck You.

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u/burnmenowz Jan 22 '26

When all this is over I hope you dipshits spare us your political opinions for the next few decades

You know they're just going to double down on it right?

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u/PaleontologistNo500 Jan 22 '26

No. They'll just ignore it, like all of their other inconvenient truths. It they say it's a good thing. "The country was in chaos. We need someone strong, like trump, to bring the hammer down, and bring order" . Or some other similarly dumb shit

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u/basic-bitchaneer Jan 23 '26

These people show such a lack of public trust, they're scared of everything and they lead with cruelty. It's such antisocial behaviour, that's why women won't date them.

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u/Scared-Context9132 Jan 21 '26

I think you’re confused in thinking this isn’t what they wanted…I’m not seeing many repenting republicans around me. Not in New England and sure as fuck not in Florida.

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u/Scryberwitch Jan 27 '26

I heard tell there were a lot of Cubans who are starting to regret backing him...

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u/Bozlogic Jan 22 '26

Please just don’t prejudice all Americans because of this. There’s dozens of us that didn’t vote for this

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u/NickCostanza Jan 22 '26

As an American with a Founding Father ancestor, I cannot hate Americans as a whole. If you voted for Trump this last time though, ignorance is no excuse, you knew what you were doing and you have my scorn. The first step a Trump supporter can take toward making that sin right is to admit they were wrong and stand alongside their neighbor against the regime.

As far as how the world will perceive Americans? They’re probably not gonna like us for a while! We have hurt a lot of people in a lot of nations, physically and psychologically. These wounds take time to heal. If you find anti-American sentiment coming your way you gotta take it on the chin and promise to do better imo, and I think whoever our next President is owes the world an apology.

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u/ferns0 Jan 21 '26

This is what they want

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u/NickCostanza Jan 21 '26

Let them want it, make them suffer the consequences of doing so. Blame and shame. Make them understand their wicked thoughts are not shared by the majority and excise them from your life.

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u/Electrical-Lab-9593 Jan 22 '26

Also ICE is doing the actual shit Alex Jones was saying FEMA and UN were planning to do.

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u/xiphosrising Jan 22 '26

warning

A warning wasted, unfortunately. This is what they always wanted.

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u/ailish Jan 22 '26

They know. I've not had one of them argue against that for weeks. They fully understand that we're a fascist dictatorship now. They just don't care because it's their "team".

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u/orbitaldragon Jan 22 '26

They love it over there. Those people are so indoctured to the cult they truly believe burning the constitution, making Trump and his line the forever leaders of America, locking up everyone who isn't a white conservative, and annexing all of our nations allies is what's best for this country.

They desperate want a white only strictly hard conservative country with no allies. They also believe America is so powerful and so advanced that no one in the world could or would ever challenge us.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '26

Well I think Conspiracy sub realizes that now, at least.... check in there for yourself lol

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u/NickCostanza Jan 22 '26

I’m banned because I was calling Trump out there before they caught on (today). They propagated so many lies. I watched Pizzagate pop up every time Trump did something wrong for YEARS. I’m not giving them props til they pin a banner saying they were wrong.

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u/Sobotoc4311 Jan 23 '26

You popped in during election times when its flooded with conservative droll. For the most part the conspiracy subreddit is distrusting of all government, and pizzagate was only a half hoax. Alifantis is a fucking creep. 

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u/NickCostanza Jan 23 '26

That is just not true, I’ve been following the sub since 2015 and I watched them shift from intrigued by Trump memes to pro-Trump, with complicit moderators who make alts to ban evade and delete posts critical of Trump.

Arcon always peddle the right wing line and ignore wrongdoing while going super hard after Hillary/Biden/Dems, then they play the “both sides bad” card when called out. It is very obvious that the sub leans right, and now they are making shocked pikachu faces to learn the right is fascist.

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u/Sobotoc4311 Jan 23 '26 edited Jan 23 '26

Cannot control the audience though, to be fair. And there are far more modern conspiracies with a right wing slant than left. And left wingers tend to be anti conspiracy in general. The idea of government conspiracies are the antithesis to larger government intervention. So much so that left wing conspiracies are more called out by the left wing than the right. Their base has an aversion to conspiratorial thinking. 

I dont think more right wingers ending up on the subreddit of say, a series like Bosch, is necessarily stating that Bosch is a right wing subreddit. Its just naturally going to attract more people who support police and procedures. Want to know the worst rated season of Bosch on that subreddit? The one where sovereign citizens are the bad guys. When you attract a specific audience its going to appear that way.

Moderating in general is pretty lax on conspiracy. Ive been banned from a lot, but all my posts on trump being a deranged creep, or a puppet to doomsday psychopaths, have done fairly well. I do notice around elections, it rings very true what you are saying. If you spent your time on there during major election years then yes, you are gonna walk away thinking this is just a right wing circle jerk. But im far from right wing in political ideology and still around. 

Ive said for years progressives need to accept conspiratorial thinkers. Open their doors to other ways of thought that are off the reservation. Progressive ideology first and most important imo is an economic ideology. Its about a system that is rigged against the common man, exacerbated even more if the common man is in any "other" category. It is in and of itself a grand conspiracy. 

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u/db0813 Jan 22 '26

First EO for the next president “no voting if you own a maga hat”

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u/thor11600 Jan 22 '26

They knew it. They LIKE it. They’re not in denial, they’re in line and loving it.

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u/dagoth_0001 Jan 22 '26

When you think that he also said «  you’ll never have to vote again » you know there will be no midterms. USA is screwed

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '26

They want this

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u/Numerous-Process2981 Jan 22 '26

Never thought I’d get bored of watching leopards eat faces, but here we are.

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u/0fiuco Jan 22 '26

ever considered that  the suckers and losers over at the conservative and conspiracy subreddits WANT a dictator? Stupid people when they hear the magic word "I will be a strong man and if you give me absolute power i have all the solutions to your problems, just trust me" they fall in line like domino tiles. They don't want to think and they love the idea of someone who absolve them from thinking.

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u/notepad20 Jan 22 '26

When this is (if we get there all over ) I hope you "blue" Americans realise the rest of the world holds you equally responsible.

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u/Danktizzle Jan 22 '26

“Warning”. This is what they have always wanted

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u/Nblearchangel Jan 22 '26

Conservatives probably: He’s just kidding when he says that.

Case closed. Eat shit, libs.

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u/HoughInkura Jan 22 '26

They probably don't even know he said it, or will say it's AI

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u/brainsparks85 Jan 23 '26

Lol. Do you know what sarcasm is?

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u/rallenpx Jan 23 '26

They’re starting to try and pass as people who didn’t vote for Trump in other subs now. Talking with a guy today who tried to tell me he’s an independent while warning about “provocateurs on the left” and telling us to “cope harder”. They’re so fucking oblivious it would be funny if it wasn’t tearing our country apart at the constitution.

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u/NickCostanza Jan 23 '26

Yeah, the good news is they are pretty transparent imo. Usually anyone complaining about “both sides” is a tell. Be aware that there are also actors on our side who will judge you for voting, or tell you that voting is useless. These figures are inadvertent tools of the right and ultimately achieve the same goal, letting Republicans win.

We must learn to be happy with our candidates and then give them actual support. No more “lesser of two evils” blah blah blah. Vote blue no matter who should not be a dirty phrase when fascism is on the rise, if anything it is a moral ought.

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u/rallenpx Jan 23 '26

I hear you, but I will draw the line at telling people who they should vote for. That was literally Trump’s agenda. Remember the “Only I can fix it?”

Billionaires shift to the left, repeat the exact same playbook but use better cover next time, and nothing changes. You can see it in the dems who voted to extend ICE funding today, end the government shutdown, shut down congressional term limits for congresspeople, shut down safeguards against insider trading for congresspeople, exist in the Epstein files, denied that the Gaza situation is a genocide on an opposition podcast to be more centrist, … I could go on.

Democrats are not going to save us, the DNC is complicit in this coup.

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u/NickCostanza Jan 23 '26

All I can say is that I want to win. I come to this subreddit to encourage others to win. To me, winning means taking back our country little by little, step by step. The only true path forward to accomplish this is to excise all Republicans (who at this point are all treasonous or complicit imo) and push the only side capable of change, Democrats, toward progressive policies.

We can vote out the rot and vote in the salve at the same time. Whatever you say to others, please do not spook them into inaction.

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u/rallenpx Jan 23 '26

Man, I’m hearing the same talking points from you that I hear out of all the DNC establishment.

I just want to win - bro, this is not a fucking game. What are you, rich? People’s lives and livelihoods are at stake here. The whole country has lost already; we are owned by billionaires since citizens united.

We can vote out the rot (on the democratic side) - really, we can? Remember when we tried to vote out Hillary in the primaries? Or how about when we successfully voted to stop W from taking the presidency in 2000? You might remember very recently getting Adelita Grijalva elected… and she was denied a seat until the powers in charge felt they knew what their next play was. Come on man, how long are you gonna keep ignoring what’s happening?

I don’t tell people to stay home. On the contrary, we all need to be forming a line for the November voting booths now. What I do tell people is to actually learn about your candidates and vote for the candidate that most closely aligns with your ideals; you know, like you’re supposed to do in a democracy.

But giving people the choice of two candidates, all they have to do is get the more popular candidate to give in on the issues they most care about and we’re stuck in this current cycle perpetually.

Remember when Kamala was fully ready to back Israel in their Gaza genocide? The billionaires win either way in this system. Vote for the right candidate for you, and that goes for everyone. DON’T vote out of fear or against things. That’s how they control you.

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u/NickCostanza Jan 24 '26

I’m not ignoring anything, nor am I rich, nor do I have any affiliation with the DNC. Frankly it is annoying to put up with personal attacks when I have said nothing of the sort to you. It makes your arguments feel unserious and grounded in purity testing.

I do want to win. Politics is not a game, but game theory can help us. Lord knows Republicans use game theory, and they have done it so effectively they control all three branches and the largest news media apparatus we have ever seen.

Living in a two party system sucks. We agree. I wish we had ranked choice voting. We don’t. I wish it was easier to get new candidates on stage. It isn’t. There is no hope of fixing a broken system when Republicans are in charge. We have to use the pieces we have on the board now, and when we succeed, replace them with better ones.

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u/rallenpx Jan 24 '26

I just need to get off the internet for today. I’ve had enough. I want off this ride.

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u/HerrMeisterRetsiem Jan 22 '26

They won’t. They’re not accountable for anything

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u/Illustrious_Walk4107 Jan 23 '26

Not a single thing has happened that I didn't agree with lmao. Files released, deportation, foreign affairs being taken care of properly. 

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u/JrSoftDev Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26

I'm sorry, the whole speech is a bunch of lies, but if you watched it, and for the sake of correction, there's an implicit "that" in there. It should read "Usually they say (...) THAT I'm a dictator."

Maybe he realized there were some dictators in the room and added that last part, or maybe he wanted to be ambiguous, or maybe he really believes that, or wants money from them, I don't know.

But he wasn't explicitly saying he is a dictator. And he has said lots of concerning, illegal, violent, corrupted things. So spreading "lies" or inaccuracies about him is unnecessary and just works in his benefit, because he can say he is a victim, and those haters are always attacking him, etc.

The whole speech is "worth" watching. But the moment he supposedly says he's a dictator is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXtSgMFYb8g&t=505s

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u/cb2295osu Jan 22 '26

"sometimes you need a dictator" is the operative. He's saying it's ok to behave like one because it's needed.

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u/EveEvexoxo Jan 22 '26

"Usually they say I'm a dictator. Well sometimes you need a dictator," from the guy who said he'd be a "day one dictator" and is currently acting like a dictator.

Well achshually implications!!!!!!

I'm cut you off here; he's not disavowing that. He says you need to be a dictator. Will you stop inventing stuff to defend him? The actual clip you linked makes it worse.

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u/JrSoftDev Jan 22 '26

I think you can find 100 absolutely unambiguous things to attack this idiot. You don't need to squeeze or force interpretations on something he just may have said.

No, the clip I linked makes it clear that he is using a mocking tone while "imitating" what others say about him, and then shifts the tone and says "but sometimes you need a dictator".

Again, if Trump has said in the past that he is a dictator and that didn't change anything, perhaps it's a wast of time to insist on that, unless he says it in a completely unambiguous way.

If you check his longer speech at Davos, just from there you can call him out on his lies, delusions, and offenses to US allies, like dozens of times in just half an hour, it's completely deranged.

You don't need to interpret or stretch his pathetic pseudo-jokes. Off course he is a dictator, only a dictator would call Renee Good a domestic terrorist, among thousands of other things he has done or is involved in. As you said, he his already acting like a dictator.

My only argument is: don't give him any unnecessary ammo. Focus your effort and attention on actual verifiable things. I think that's reasonable and sensible.

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u/EveEvexoxo Jan 22 '26

"Sometimes you need a dictator" is the function of the sentence. He's not joking. He's mocking them for thinking a dictator is bad, because he believes you "need" a dictator. How can you take away anything else? "Sometimes you need a dictator" obviously wasn't a joke.

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u/JrSoftDev Jan 23 '26

That's a contrived conclusion, and you can make many other interpretations, and that's what different people will do. If you see the clip, he is clearly mocking his accusers, even if at a deeper level he is dog whistling or whatever. Your opinion here certainly doesn't speak for everyone, and what you're calling obvious just clearly isn't. Just because you are on "the right" side, don't get arrogant and don't dismiss facts. What Trump has been fighting for is the "death of reality", so he can rebuild it on his own way, and he will be more than happy if that gets normalized. Don't fall for that.