• TechyDad@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      “Look, Trump wants 100% of the power and to send 100% of the people on the left into camps. Why don’t you compromise by giving him 50% of the power and then he’ll only send 50% of you to camps? … Now he has 50% and wants 100%, you should compromise and give him 75%…”

      (And I say this as someone who thinks compromise can be a useful political tool. But only when the group you’re compromising with is bargaining in good faith. The Republicans of today - and certainly MAGAs like Trump - aren’t bargaining in good faith.)

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        That’s been the only kind of compromise for decades, to the point that people behave as though this is normal.

        I miss clippy memes all of a sudden.

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      Ok I can agree with the republicans that there’s an existential threat to the country from within, I just think it’s the people marching with swastikas and whose candidates slip in a sonnenrad to campaign videos.

      I want communism, sure, but I want to convince my country to embrace the seizure of the means of production, not to force it to.