Current Events > Sitting down and talking and compromising with your political enemies is

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mybbqrules posted...

Also, how has RealDill's latest alt not been clapped yet?

This whole topic is blatant trolling. Yeah, I'm sure the longtime Trump supporter and sewer subreddit chud is totally legitimately interested in compromise and working with dems.

I didn't even know he was still around. I thought he gave up a couple years ago, but idk if he's been posting on other accounts

ClayGuida posted...

Wonder if both of those guys are dead now.

Odds are one or both succumbed to covid, if they even lived that long.

ItsNotA2Mer posted...

I checked their tag. This definitely tracks.

Yeah, I've had them tagged as a chud for a long time.

IMNOTRAGED posted...

The fucking speaker of the house claimed that his god spoke directly to him and told him he's to be the next Moses. What compromise exists with the people who choose that lunatic as their representative

Didn't Barry Goldwater warn about this? I seem to remember a quote where he said the evangelical right were the biggest danger to the republican party if they took over because "they believe they're doing God's work, and there is no compromise with that."

mybbqrules posted...

If there's anything I've learned from gamefaqs, it's that people with post counts literally 10 times as high as their karma are always good faith posters who are truly interested in spirited debate.

AMP is kinda useless right now in all fairness, since it doesn't go down.

But for new accounts, yeah.

CSCA33 posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/1fa1a889.jpg

I love this and will steal it.

DrizztLink posted...

AMP is kinda useless right now in all fairness, since it doesn't go down.

But for new accounts, yeah.

Yeah, I was specifically referring to the new accounts with like 27 karma and 900 posts.

You can not compromise with fascists.

If you want to debate fascists, consider visiting Twitter.

Cemith posted...

If you want to debate fascists, consider visiting Twitter.

I would rather try to climb a string of razor wire.

Westernwolf4 posted...

This is right, but it is even worse than that. The GOP isnt just embracing bigotry, misogyny etc. when the Party realized no one in the mainstream was going to vote for their dumb platform, they sought out extremists and embraced them as sort of an untapped pool of voters. The anger stoked by the GOP wasnt just a random thing-they actively started tailoring their message to draw in voters who hold vile beliefs.

It is a fine distraction I am making here, but I think an important one. The GOP didnt just evolve into a party of deplorables. They saw bringing extremists in as a way to cling to power when the majority of society rejected their dumb policies-and spent decades actively reaching out to the kind of gullible, hateful moron who would participate in an attempt to overturn a fair election.

The GOP actively chose this instead of, you know, coming up with some policies a rational person might actually support.

This. It is why I despise never-Trump Republicans who supposedly want to take their party back from Trump just as much as I do the MAGAt cretins.

Trump is the culmination of everything the GOP and movement conservatism have worked toward ever since racist opposition to civil right progress gave birth to the Religious Right as a political force. The GOP base is presently the most aggressively stupid and proudly malicious large group of people on the planet because that's what the GOP establishment has programmed them to be.

In particular, the GOP base has been fascist-curious sheeple seeking their Fuhrer for decades, and Trump fell into that pattern like the Hideous Transcendent Pig entering its Sty of Destiny. That's why the 2016 GOP primary was effectively uncontested, despite so many other candidates supposedly opposing Trump.

Where's that graphic of the left compromising while the right keeps moving more right to the point where the left is now more right than the center of decades ago?

EPR-radar posted...

Trump is the culmination of everything the GOP and movement conservatism have worked toward ever since racist opposition to civil right progress gave birth to the Religious Right as a political force. The GOP base is presently the most aggressively stupid and proudly malicious large group of people on the planet because that's what the GOP establishment has programmed them to be.

I find it slightly amusing that for all the planning they've done, they never thought of what would happen when the true-believers got elected. Now they are jumping ship as they are losing control of the monster they created. What pisses me off most is that they will likely get away with no repurcussions while the rest of the country has to suffer and deal with the damage they've done and will keep doing.

GuerillaGorilla posted...

Where's that graphic of the left compromising while the right keeps moving more right to the point where the left is now more right than the center of decades ago?

I know of this one.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/675f297b.jpg

But here's Robert Reich with his own and actually explaining it for anyone you want to link it to.

https://youtu.be/x_Q9ynm2Rfg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/337dccef.jpg

EPR-radar posted...

This. It is why I despise never-Trump Republicans who supposedly want to take their party back from Trump just as much as I do the MAGAt cretins.

Trump is the culmination of everything the GOP and movement conservatism have worked toward ever since racist opposition to civil right progress gave birth to the Religious Right as a political force. The GOP base is presently the most aggressively stupid and proudly malicious large group of people on the planet because that's what the GOP establishment has programmed them to be.

In particular, the GOP base has been fascist-curious sheeple seeking their Fuhrer for decades, and Trump fell into that pattern like the Hideous Transcendent Pig entering its Sty of Destiny. That's why the 2016 GOP primary was effectively uncontested, despite so many other candidates supposedly opposing Trump.

Yeah, they created the monster, but they thought they would be in control of it. Now that they aren't they want to wash their hands of it and absolutely should not be allowed to do so.

GuerillaGorilla posted...

Where's that graphic of the left compromising while the right keeps moving more right to the point where the left is now more right than the center of decades ago?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/31d16be1.jpg

Remember when stock-buybacks were illegal? Good times