• gregorum@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Another Republican who wants to angry-cry impeach Biden?

    Get in line, weenie!

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    8 months ago

    While otherwise staunchly pro-Israel, Mills has said that he is only supportive of a version of the Israel aid package that included billions in cuts to the Internal Revenue Service — a complete non-starter for Democrats, who control the Senate and White House.

    Not so much of a hypocrit as the title implies, but a shithead that tried abusing our idiotic system to force a completely unrelated budget cut to the IRS to be bundled with an otherwise popular (among politicians) bill to give support to Isreal.

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      8 months ago

      When is a reason more of an excuse?

      This is what is called a poison pill. With it, Democrats would be forced to choose between swallowing the pill or voting down a foreign aid bill. Now Mills is having a fit that his childish game didn’t work.

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      Also, unless you are doing tax evasion why would one support budget cuts to the IRS?! I thought republicans cared about financial responsibility?

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        With a smaller budget they can’t afford to go after people that can afford actual accountants and lawyers to delay constantly.

        They instead can really only go after low earners who can’t afford a lawyer at all and have to deal with the IRS directly by themselves, and will just take whatever deal is offered.

        It’s literally the reason why the IRS recently had their budget increased and so they’ve been going after the rich that everyone knows aren’t even paying the lower percentage they are supposed to.

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        It is fiscally responsible for them to neuter the IRS. It means they can save more money! Personally, I mean. Not the government.

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      8 months ago

      Your comment, while accurate and true, adds nothing to the discussion at hand. These sort of comments are useless which should be left in the realm of Reddit. Do better, try harder

      “Sky is blue” “water is wet” were first recognized by Russian propagandists to disarm outrage. As In, essentially telling people “You’re stupid if you didn’t already know this.” For people out of the loop, it works.

      Informing people of this technique is bad for some reason

      Edit: Even when attempting to politely Inform someone they are using propaganda techniques you get pedantic hate from people who claim to be progressives.

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        Even when attempting to politely Inform someone they are using propaganda techniques you get hate from fellow pedantic progressives.

        Nah, you’re just being a smug pos and coming off like a gatekeeper. But keep crying about how progressives are being mean to you.

        Also, calling someone stupid isn’t “politely informing”.

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          I never claimed authority here. I identify and understand propaganda. Lemmy seems to be full of critical thinking adults who understand such things and the bad habits of cesspool Reddit. I believe everyone agrees the negatives of Reddit need to die, with Reddit.

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          Repeatedly attacking other users gets your comments removed and earns you a 3 day timeout.

          Please use the time to read the Sidebar.

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            No vitriol here, but feedback that this was indeed a very well-meaning but gatekeepy comment.

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            Lmao, okay guy.

            I don’t understand why you keep editing your comments. It doesn’t make your arguments any better. Very shady, too. Again, you’re a fucking baby.

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        Even when attempting to politely Inform someone they are using propaganda techniques you get pedantic hate from fellow people who claim to be progressives, who don’t seem to understand English.

        Lol, I sure am hurting your feelings, huh? And how does me calling you out make me any less of a progressive? Such a baby.

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    Remember the bOtH siDeS antagonists who will tell you not to vote this year? This is the shit they ignore and look past when they post their Biden-BAD hit pieces. Vote this year because lives depend on it. And as an added bonus- it’ll piss them off.

    So VOTE.

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    It’s nice to see centrists finally pull back their support for genocide.

    Centrists are now acting like they weren’t ever fully on board with selling weapons to Netanyahu for genocide.

    The standard response to “Biden should stop supporting genocide” was “You think Trump would be better?” followed by abuse and false accusations.