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[–] [email protected] 130 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Obviously the democrats are more corrupt because they're getting away with all of their crimes /s

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's funny, the guy below you at the time of my reply is basically saying that without the /s.

By the way, nice to see you again!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

obama bombed the fuck out of syria and no one batted an eye. all technically legal.

biden is signing some hefty sums (and bombs) to israel, pretty sure thats legal too.

so, like, yeah maybe. republicans are probably doing more corruption at home too to upset your legal system.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

Imagine how much of a criminal you have to be to end up arrested in a system where you have the advantage as a political criminal tho.

That's how messed up the Republicans are

[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Careful, you’ll upset the propagandists.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (3 children)

how bout I take a propa ganda at them honkers

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This isn’t even my style of humor but that’s fucking funny

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

I honestly have no clue why I posted this

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

That was pretty good.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (3 children)

There's only one thing the gop loves more than LOUD projection and that's abusing kids. The party of the grand ol' pedophiles


  • NOTE: I'm reaching the character limit on Reddit posts, so here's a website with a list of about 1000 of these republican shit stains on humanity.
[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm reaching the character limit on Reddit posts

Reeeeee

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago

Every US president I remember was a (war) criminal. But it's not about the individuals, but rather the systemic changes enacted.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Blagojevich maybe? I’m not sure exactly what we’re measuring here.

Who, by the way, was pardoned. Want to guess who pardoned him?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

I don’t know but I’m betting that they were voted in by the great state of New Jersey.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Is this all elected officials? I'm confused where these numbers are coming from.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

They're coming directly from a well meaning individual's asshole

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's only federal numbers and I think they might be a few years out of date but I'm too lazy to check.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

If this were up to date, it would absolutely list a criminal president

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They are not the same, the republicans are the psychopath shooting up a classroom of kids, and the democrats are the Uvalde cops tasing those that try to stop it.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (5 children)

As a non-american just watching the democratic shitshow I can't believe why on earth there are only two parties. If the parties are fucked up, build a new one. That's what democracy is made for.

Macrons party in France was fresh up from the ground at his first election.

PS. I'm aware that France is a bad example actually, but the fact about his party is still true.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

First past the post elections. If we had ranked choice or runoff elections, more parties would appear.

Instead, in FPTP, every vote that is not for one of the two highest-polling candidates is objectively a wasted vote. Game theory dictates that the only rational choice is a vote for one of those two candidates, since the possibility of a third party gaining enough votes to win in any single election is nearly infinitesimal. So instead of many parties, all candidates self-sort into one of the two viable parties. Any candidate that does not is a protest candidate or deluded, but in either case, there is no hope of actually winning.

So what about primaries? The primary system decides the candidates, but even that is tainted by FPTP, because primary voters have to guess which will perform better in a FPTP general election and often vote against their ideal candidate in the hopes of winning (or, not losing) the general.

In short, until we structurally reform elections to be ranked/STAR/runoff/etc to remove the punitive effect of voting for your actual ideal candidate, we're stuck with a prisoner's dilemma election every time.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

Diarrhea and constipation are on separate ends of the scale. But both are the same in that they are shit, and no one wants them.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're not the same, but they do work together to thwart the will and prosperity of the people. The game wouldn't work if they were exactly the same.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Oh so the party of law and order was meaning the party that keeps law enforcement busy

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

Which party do I vote for that stops spending money on weapons or war?

Or, at the very fucking least, spent less money on weapons or war than the year before?

EDIT: I notice all the downvoters don't actually respond to a point in which both parties are the same that literally drives a lot of the domestic issues we have.

Stop defending murdering people in other countries. It's also pretty racist as most of those people are not white.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah well you didn't include tan suit scandals so it doesn't count

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

I have no idea if these numbers are correct. For me I don't need any history though. One party is standing behind a guy who has been charged with 91 felony counts in four different jurisdictions and convicted of 34 and counting, and that's just for stuff he did while in office or as a candidate. He attempted a coup. He fomented a terrorist attack on the Capitol. Still, the Republicans are like, "Yep, that's our guy!" all while the Democrats tear themselves apart over Biden being old and doing old person things. Yeah it would be nice to have a better option for president, but this is not a difficult decision.

Please vote, friends!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm actually confused because I know Jesse Jackson Jr. did a prions sentence of 2 and a half years for wire and mail fraud and Anthony Weiner did 18 months for sexual offenses. Frank Ballance was sentanced to 4 years for money laundering and mail fraud and William J. Jefferson was sentanced to 13 years for bribery. Jim Traficant was sentanced to 8 years for financial corruption. Which one of these is the 1 prison sentence?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Who knows? There's no citation as far as I can tell.

Its not like we don't have Bob Menendez pending trial for smuggling gold bars down his pant legs or Henry Cueller queued up for $600k in bribery charges (both of which are apparently fine, according to the GOP aligned SCOTUS...)

But you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel when your case for a 2024 candidate slate requires you to call back to the Keating Five and Abscam.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Vote for the ones that don't get caught.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's more likely:

  1. A grand conspiracy that's lasted for 50 years, that somehow has infected every branch of govt, but somehow still doesn't guarantee victory in elections, presidential and otherwise.

  2. Democrats are less corrupt.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Succinct. 😂

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If the Republicans have been in power more than Democrats, why haven't they investigated all the Democrats and sued them? Are you saying that the Republicans are incompetent? Tell me this also, which party holds the majority in Supreme Court right now?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

So even if what you're insinuating were true: do you really want to vote for the corrupt and stupid rather than the corrupt and smart? I'd at least trust the corrupt and smart people to run the country in a way that doesn't lead to catastrophic failure.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because Latin America gets fucked over either way

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (5 children)

They both serve the rich first and foremost which is a critical issue for them to be "both sides" on. Yes, republicans are worse, but that doesn't make democrats good.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They aren't the same. They are bad in different ways. One side are corporate shills who are looking to depress the power of workers the other wants to kill blacks, lgbtqa+, Latinos and turn women into sex slave baby machines.

One is clearly worse and we should vote against them, but don't tell me the Democrats aren't bad.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Aren't republicans also corporate shills who are looking to depress the power of workers? And aren't they much more open about being so?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (5 children)

This is pretty meaningless if it doesn't include which levels are counted. Is this just congress? Is it the national level? Does this include the state and local levels? Without proper context this turns from an insightful piece of information to propaganda.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

This isn't true. Off the top of my head I can think of at least two democrats who've been sentenced to prison. I vote democratic party 99% of the time and I don't disagree with the premise but I don't want like-minded folks going around with bad info

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