• katy ✨
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    and yet people will still say both sides are the same

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        Yeah the Republicans want to drag me out into the street, murder me, and then drag my corpse through the town behind their Dodge Ram 1500 or Ford F150.

        Democrats don’t like that and would prefer Republicans not do it, but most of them won’t do anything to stop it as long as they’re not forced to watch it happen and can pretend it’s not happening.

        A real, but grotesque, difference.

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          Democrats don’t like that and would prefer Republicans not do it, but most of them won’t do anything to stop it as long as they’re not forced to watch it happen and can pretend it’s not happening.

          That doesn’t sound like the Democrats I know! They would post a comment on social media about how sad they are about it and then say “vote blue, no matter who!” before defending some softer form of transphobia as a middle ground.

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          Whoa hell no, I’d stop the fuck outta that, at step 1. Who the fuck are you??

          E: downvotes because you’re afraid to help? Aight then.

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            There are a lot of people who like saying pretty things when their name is visible but when it comes to the anonymous vote they will not vote the same way. This goes down both sides of the aisle, but people don’t stand back and take an objective view of their parties and what their mouthpieces actually stand for.

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              There’s not much that can really be done about liars hiding behind anonymity. But there are a bunch of us who truly want to help others succeed, more than there are malicious liars.

              The dark ages could have continued forever… But they didn’t, because humans like building societies, whether simple or complex.

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        democrats wanting to expand education, healthcare, immigration, reproductive freedom, and queer rights is totally the same as republicans wanting to ban books, force a christian ethnostate, and ban immigrants…