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[–] Subverb@lemmy.world 98 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This election is so seriously fucked up that Dick Chaney and AOC are voting for the same candidate.

Weird timeline we're in.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No, who are you calling a weird timeline? this timeline is extremely solid. It's a very solid timeline. When we're talking these kinds of numbers, then we tax countries when they ship stuff here, and they will not like it, but we can see how solid the timeline is...

I feel like I should have left out all punctuation in that paragraph.

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Whoa there, let's keep it PG for the children.

-J.D. Vance

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Nnnnnhhhhh ~ Vance, probably

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh yes, yes YES! Maybe we could do a casting call for unknown voluptuous clean shaven chesterfield couches?

Does bring a different meaning to the backroom casting couch concept.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

And also Added a bunch of random Capitalized Words for NO REASON.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Weird timeline we’re in.

neoliberals and conservatives are flip sides of the same coin to be spent in the same vending machine of american hegemony; whether or not they select the same flavor makes little difference compared to the very real choices available in some other vending machines rich enough to effectively defend itself from the american machine.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

This reminds me of the current French politics. After the previous legislative elections were won by the left, neoliberal president Macron nonetheless appointed a conservative as his prime minister.

At the end of the day, it's all about the bottomline.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So, are you considering AOC to be a neoliberal or to be a conservative?

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

how she contrasts with cheney has little impact on the genocide; future the cia induced coups; nor the continuing widening wealth gap; etc.

cheney is an accelerant and aoc is an inhibitor to the same child bombing, rich guy party we're calling a country since people like cheney hold all of he cards and the best people like aoc can hope for is play along and act surprised each time they re-discover that the game is rigged toward's cheney's side each time people like aoc fail and cling on increasingly rarer watered down victories to justify the relatively tiny distinctions between the two.

and even when they fail it's simply because you didn't vote hard enough and ABSOLUTELY NOT because your vote is diminished or suppressed because only lazy non-voting americans are simply too lazy to overcome studied, coordinated, and court-busting-proven astro-turfed national conservative movements financed by unknown multi-milion/bilion dollar interests in coordination with most states and the federal governments since 1980, all intent on keeping them from voting..