LMAOOOO

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My bet is they will all be saying their Orange God will save the day once he defeats evil. It seems all part of their approach to supporting the real needs of real people: Do nothing, or even better, set up roadblocks. Create a "Crisis" that only he can solve, or that the "ruling party" can profit from.

Despicable fucking assholes, all of 'em.

Ron DeSantis has also refused a call from VP Harris offering aid in the wake of the hurricane. Letting your constituents go without aid because you don't like who's in power is actually insane. Promoting the suffering of others to promote your political agenda is unconscionable.

Despicable is an excellent descriptor.

As Florida braces for a Category 5 hurricane:

I do. I even go through spells where I prefer/crave one over the other.

Do you like tattoos?

Of course.

Do you take any daily vitamins/supplements?

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Actually I have family that live in Springfield OHIO and it’s totally true as is killing park ducks and geese. Not saying anything political here but those were true facts along with many Haitians driving without license insurance or even valid car tags and causing accidents left and right.

Being that you're a person with an outside perspective, what's your view on intelligence?

And have a care, we don't tolerate racism/xenophobia on Lush. Your comments here toe the line. I won't be repeating myself in this regard.

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I don't believe the occasional joke here causes (such) harm, as it's essentially the trope itself that has become the butt of such jokes. I could be wrong of course

The occasional joke absolutely causes harm, especially when marginalized groups are the butt of the joke. If the marginalized group chooses to mock the trope, that's their right, but not the right of those who aren't impacted by the trope.

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Trump's claim that Haitians are eating people's pets is similar to the urban myth in the UK that Chinese restaurants catch stray cats and serve them in take aways. Totally untrue of course.

It's not just an urban myth, it's a racist stereotype/trope, and it's important to acknowledge it as such when referencing it. It's a racist trope in the US as well.

An urban myth is a fun story to tell at a slumber party. Racist tropes cause actual harm to groups of people.

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You asked…

Don’t ask scary questions if you can’t handle scary answers.

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If the US does not want Mr. Musk to live there, we will gladly let him live in France. We know how to build rockets (and we are very good at it), so lots of engineers are happy to make more with him. We know how to make cars, too. We have constitutionally protected free speech, better than the First Amendment, and we know how to upset everyone - equally.

So, do you want him in the US or not? We have better cuisine, fashion, style, and... well, we could use his taxes (we are broke).

Yes?

Well these are certainly words...

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[Picture of one of the worst things I've ever seen]

Why would you do this?

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Wow, trump really embarrassed himself in that debate against Kamala.

And his neck pussy was distracting.

Neck pussy?

Jack...

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I think the only person who was clamoring for RFK Jr on here was the gwak gwak champ with a dozen accounts.

I lowkey regret we "caught" him when we did. His shitposts would have been better than SNL skits (not that that's difficult these days).

Also, it's spelled gawk gawk, you ignorant twat.

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In the Atlanta Metro, African-American females might still be the largest gun buying demographic.

Not all African American women are liberal. Remember tantaleyes?🤣

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You follow Chryses on Twitter?

LMAO. I'm pretty sure Chryses and his many personalities are back around these parts. We know he could never stay away this long.

I think the concession would have been far more impactful if Biden conceded the presidency to VP Harris now. Let her take the reins now and rally the people that way.

Either way, we’re still fucked, but let’s see how it pans out.

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You dumbasses aren't asking the right questions. The shadow government is on the move.

I acknowledge that this whole thing being a hoax isn't at all far-fetched, which again, indicates how fucked up we are as a country, specifically pertaining to our "democracy."

With that being said, don't tinfoil hat too close to the sun, my dude. Rock on.

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No actual footage of the bullet hitting his ear... a bullet that would have blown it off probably. His ear looks intact.

Apparently it wasn't a bullet that reportedly hit his ear, it was a piece of the teleprompter-turned-projectile that clipped his ear.

At any rate, I'm not too keen on calling this a hoax without supporting evidence. For what it's worth, I hope it isn't a hoax because turning this election season into even more of a farce than what it is, by way of a fake assassination attempt no less, does not bode well for this country. Not to mention the precedent this sets for potential copycats.

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At first?! Every damn time I scroll through the forum, my eyes see "A Question About Titties."

Exactly! It's so deceiving.

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Brutal

I bet she saw Hamilton the musical and thought it was about signing the Declaration of Independence. 🤣

Enjoy tonight’s debate!

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Don’t jack me offer an answer

You can be so many ways, yet you choose to be this way. Why?

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What is the iron dome for though? I’m not trolling. It’s a catch 22.

I mean Finland and South Korea have conscription. Finland is a peaceful nation. Is it xenophobic to say they do that because they share a border with Russia?

Jack...

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What y’all fail to mention is that America didn’t just give Israel weapons to kill Palestinians. They gave Israel weapons so that the Muslim world would genocide the Israelis. I mean the Palestinians have done pretty bad things too, just like Israel. If we leave Israel to fend for itself and the Muslim world decides to invade them and kill them all then what? Whose fault is that? Or would we blame whoever the Muslim world got their weapons from?

You’re trolling way too close to the sun right now, dude.

Unfortunately, many folks here are too keen to believe you’re a lowlife piece of shit to ever acknowledge that you’re satirically highlighting xenophobic agendas right now.

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I am simply voting for a change. Any context you try to assign it is your own.

I’m not hoping for the worst outcome, I’m hoping for the only outcome that holds any possibility of changing things in the extremely short time table we’re dealing with.

Why do I bring up kids? Because if we fail as a generation we are leaving them the world in a state that will be in a legitimate apocalyptic scenario, The I’ve caps are melting, the east coast is going to set record temps multiple times in one week, the Biden administration is calling for a proliferation of America’s nuclear strike capabilities. Maybe people feel as though they can just ride it out but that’s not something that holds true for the younger generations.

And I think constantly slagging off any forum of discussion is a lazy argument. The ‘it doesn’t matter, this is a fuck site’ casts aside that sexual liberation leads to leftist politics. I have found a few people who’ve I learned from and made lots of connections from the forums alone.

At least own what you’ve said, for fuck’s sake. You’ve outright said several times that you hope the Republicans win due to the siphoning of votes from the Green Party so the left gets a fucking spine again, when you know it’s the worst possible outcome. Stand in that.

And don’t play that game with me. You didn’t bring up children in the context that children are the future and that they deserve a better world (which I agree). You specifically brought up the fact that I don’t have children, and you did so in order to diminish my perspective and the stakes I have in the current political games, compared to you, a person with children. I won’t even go into peeling back the layers of you dismissively pointing out that I’m a woman without children, whether that was your intent or not, so you’re welcome. Suffice it to say, that was pretty low of you, but you’ve shown me how low you’re willing to stoop to feel like you’ve won a debate, so no surprises there.

And to the rest of your bullshit in me pointing out how low the stakes are here, you know exactly what I’m saying. I know you love a high horse, but you know that I’m not scorning forums in general when I point out how low the stakes are here, in particular. I’m speaking specifically to the slice of the internet known as Lush, where the Think Tank here exists solely for people to tell each other how right they think they are. If that’s not the case, where are the threads you’ve created on brainstorming solutions versus touting how your chosen party is our salvation and everyone else is a coward? And I mean genuinely so, not as an “I told you so” because someone didn’t take you as seriously as you would have liked. And I keep telling you, quit trying to teach me lessons regarding the intricacies of our sociopolitical landscape. Your understanding is paltry at best.

In all of your posts in your thread, ask yourself this: As someone who claims so much that they believe in the greater good in a sociopolitical context, why is it that you often end up scorning aspects of people’s identities over which they have no control, and even if they did, it wouldn’t define them or make their experiences or perspectives less valid? Furthermore, when such scorning is pointed out to you, why do you ignore it or dismiss it? And please don’t ask me to pinpoint when. It’s happened at least twice now in this thread alone. Go through your own post history instead of outsourcing that labor to someone who deserves better than to clock your bullshit. It speaks volumes if you don’t notice.

Perhaps you should devote some time in correcting the inconsistencies in the views you champion regarding this election and the way that you treat people that you deem as beneath you before claiming your political focus is what’s best for the future of this country.

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I don’t know where you get the idea that I’m safe from the impact of a Trump election. I live in America and unlike you I have young children who will have to face the long term ramifications of the liberal apathy and right wing power grabs. Bending the knee to either is leaving my children to a future of hyper violence, food and water shortages, and nuclear war.

You aren’t fighting, you’re giving up on your terms. You’re enabling every problem you claim to fight.

Like I don’t know what you do off this site, you obviously don’t know what I do but you are quick to judge anyway. Don’t know anything about my family,, don’t know about the community service and activism I join. As far as I can tell I have far more to lose than you do, maybe that’s why I can’t settle like you can.

You have the privilege of cowing to the Democrats, my family doesn’t.

Nah. You don’t have more to lose, and you don’t have less privileges, but if it’s comforting for you to believe you do, I won’t take that from you. I also won’t begrudge you of your beliefs regarding what/how I fight and to what extent. One thing I am not is apathetic, so tread carefully there. You can snivel about the rest to your heart’s content.

Not sure what my not having children has to do with any of this, as if that’s the only motivation for not wanting the world to be a shit show for future generations, so I don’t have that much to say in that regard. But again, if it makes you feel superior, have at it. Because that’s what this has all been about, right? Your vehement beliefs that your approach to fucking people over in ways that we both know won’t impact you is the superior belief system. And that the fuckass Green Party is the superior party that will save us all. You believe that so much that you’ll intentionally sacrifice your kids’ future as a lesson. I’d love to be a fly on the wall of the conversations you’ll have if this shit goes the way you want it. “See kids? This unprecedented suffering was all in daddy’s plan. Doesn’t matter that your body no longer belongs to you and your rights are stripped on a regular basis. We gotta teach these folks a lesson!”

You know what else is telling? I’ve never said which direction I’d be casting my vote, or if I’m even voting. All I said was that I’d vote for what I believe is a shot at the least dismal future, and you assumed I was going with the Democrats. You’re literally voting for a party hoping for the aftermath of a Republican victory. You say melodramatic bullshit like “cowing to the Democrats” while taking pride in bending over for the Republicans. LMAO

Even if I am cowing to the Democrats as you say, I’m grateful that my ego hasn’t deceived me to the extent that your blind devotion has. The only point I’ve been making in all of this is that there is no “least” amount of suffering in this election. But voicing hope for the worst outcome is incredibly fucked, even if the end goal is a possibility that it fucks the system that’s fucking us.

Actually, having typed all that, maybe you have to feel superior and like you’re doing what’s best for everyone because desperation has led you there. I know that desperation is born out of circumstances beyond your control, so I sincerely empathize with you there. The world’s so shit that two strangers are trying to convince each other that their chosen turd is the shiniest, on a sex site of all places. Kinda fucked when you think about it. No pun intended.

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Look at the leading 3rd party's webpage.

https://www.gp.org

Just try to Imagine these guys coming in and doing anything. They don't even have a candidate yet. lol

Just you wait. This party's gonna save us all.

When has unwavering faith in a political party ever steered us wrong as a nation?

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I find the stance of accepting the status quo to be what’s truly privileged. That means you acknowledge the suffering and hardships of others but refuse to take action.

From a place of comfort you accept the exact system that has made things progressively worse for decades because you have the privilege to make due.

And I think the idea that we can change this country’s hyper violence and colonial grip on the world without subverting and dismantling the current system is lazy idealism. One that is die for many to accept, especially those without kids who won’t have to see them suffering in a world of climate chaos and genocidal state violence. I do feel the moral high ground in this case.

I’m voting 3rd party because I refuse to believe the steady march to climate destruction and colonial tyranny is not acceptable. That yielding to ‘the lesser of two evils’ is still the firm and unwavering support of those evils. All I hear from you is empty rhetoric with no real action. Not good enough for me.

Frankly if you don’t believe you’re on the moral high ground how are you living you’re life?

Yeah, this sounds really pretty, and I'm sure it feels nice convincing yourself that hoping for suffering that you, yourself will hardly experience (if at all) is the morally sound decision. But in reality, it makes you no different than those against whom you claim to rally. Sacrificing others and not yourself for a good cause is cool, I guess.

I assure you, there's no comfort in how I navigate the systems that impact me. Quite privileged of you to assume so, LOL. Being that I have vast experience in being trampled by systems in ways that you never will be, I understand all to well the push and pull of political games and the impact therein. I live this shit every day. Tell me of the most recent right(s) and privilege(s) taken from and/or denied to you and I'll tell you mine. I hate to play that card, but you toss around words like privilege as if you and I are the same in that regard. I quite literally can't have a privileged perspective, or it would mean my demise. Anything I've ever "accepted" about these systems have been entirely against my will. Therefore I'm fully aware of how dismantling these fucked systems is the only safe and productive way forward, so please spare me the lesson in that regard. You, in particular, will never have the range to teach me anything in that vein, and it's cringey to see you try.

With that being said, if the lesser of evil that we all know how to navigate is what we got, then that's what I choose. I don't claim to know the way forward because I'm still figuring this shit out myself, but I do know that blind faith in any political party or affiliation is how we end up in this same spot every 4 years. The part that seems to escape you is that your faith in the Green Party or whatever party you'll have the privilege of tossing your vote is also a part of that system. It is asinine to think any party born out of our current system, even the ones claiming to combat them, will be impactful enough to change it, especially when the goal is to claim the same level of power and status as the current parties. It's just supremacy in a different outfit. No system made in the image of our current system, regardless of how great their principles are, will ever resist reverting back to its previous dysfunction. Your failure to recognize that will always be counterintuitive to whatever moral standard you believe you embody.

As far as me having empty rhetoric and no action, you have no idea what actions I take towards dismantling systems, or at the very least supporting and empowering others with the resources at my disposal as they navigate the same fucked systems as myself. I'm just not inclined to share them on a fuck site. Even if this is the Think Tank, I have my limits. However, I assure you, my actions extend much further than meaningless arguments in a Think Tank on a sex site under the guise of an Elle Varner avatar. I come here to blow off steam, not to invoke change. I know where my voice and actions are the most productive and impactful, so that's where I use them.

You're voting third party because if it goes to shit in the ways that you're hoping, it will impact you the least. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't be. It's easy to make sacrifices when you're not the one that's actually gonna be sacrificed. I'd entertain your faulty sense of morality if it was your ass on the line in your decision-making process. But again, you know it's not. That's why your belief of yourself as having a moral high ground is tainted and empty at best. It's actually quite telling that you believe you have a moral high ground. No morally sound person would claim such a thing.

I appreciate you informing me that my approach isn't good enough for you. I use the disapproval of people like you as my moral compass. Lets me know I'm on the right track in this endless puddle of shit we're trying to escape.

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That’s the part that I find the most crazy.

Like they expect Trump winning will make Palestine hold out for 5 years while the Green Party wins the presidency, senate and house because people with be THAT mad at Trump?

I'm just more concerned about the people being offered up as martyrs for this cause. It's supposed to be for the greater good and the future of democracy and all of that, but much like our current system of checks and balances, it'll just be yet another situation where those with the least power and privilege who will suffer the most from this line of decision-making.