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[–] RichCaffeineFlavor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

investing in infrastructure

The republican approved toll road bill that we got Elizabeth Warren style "let's split it into two bills!" except only the bad bill got passed?

energy independence

Are you seriously listing Obama fracking the shit out of the midwest as a positive?? And who the fuck benefited from the US becoming an energy exporter?

college tuition assistance

The fuck are you listing this for? Who's the one who not only refused to jubilee student debt but turned payments back on during an inflationary spike?

NATO dealing with Ukraine

What?? Again, who the fuck is the constituency for this? How is that going to change my landlord taking half my paycheck? And it's not like Ukraine even won the war.

ending the war on drugs

???? ??? ???

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Again, who the fuck is the constituency for this?

Me.

[–] RichCaffeineFlavor@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is the democrats only appeal to people so comfortable in life that their biggest problem is not enough dead people

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] RichCaffeineFlavor@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You clutch your pearls but you can't deny it's true. All that war is to you is recreational reading. And if that's what earns your vote then you live a charmed life. Even if you are a bloodthirsty psychopath.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, me hoping my ex's country and rising democracy Ukraine can fight off a Russian invasion force is "recreational reading." How silly of me

[–] RichCaffeineFlavor@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

rising democracy

Democracy is when the result of a fair election is a coup that chases the president over the border and you ban opposition parties and you shell the regions that voted against you. Yeah, sure. Democracy is the thing that's rising over there. And that's why we support them. We've been sending them weapons for over half a decade because democracy. Just like everywhere else.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Democracy is when the result of a fair election is a coup that chases the president over the border

Lol that's certainly one way to describe Maidan, comrade.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fuck are you listing this for? Who’s the one who not only refused to jubilee student debt but turned payments back on during an inflationary spike?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-11/student-loan-debt-biden-forgives-127-billion-bringing-borrowers-relief

I mean if $127 billion is nothing to you, could you spot me a hundred billion?

[–] RichCaffeineFlavor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

1.77 trillion and rising.

And not a penny of what he discharged was without a preexisting situation where the debt would have automatically been discharged anyway if the government was actually functional.

And he took credit for it. And people like you carry the message like a game of telephone believing he did something.

[–] HandBreadedTools@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Holy shit your reality is as fucked up as a qanoners. Genuinely impressive, the mental hurdles on display here.