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ismnotwasm

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3. This is why I remain very angry
Thu Jul 27, 2017, 05:50 PM
Jul 2017

This is damage in real-time--a direct result of not voting, presenting one-liners and memes as political arguments (oligarchs, anyone?), or, allowing a racist brother in law say, tell his "Mexican" jokes without slapping that motherfucker down hard. It's a result of overt sexism from the "lighten up" crowd. It's the result of pretending words and phrases don't matter, that they don't contain the weight of our entire cultural freight. It's the result of "All lives matter" as a response to black deaths. It's a result of complacency once Gay people were "allowed" to marry. It's a result of sitting in relative comfort and pretending that equals revolution.

I knew, I mean I fucking KNEW what was going to happen if Trump got elected. A sheer epic clusterfuck of appealing to the very worst of us, and the very worst in us.

Fuck Trump voters and fuck Hillary haters.

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,eh, I guess were with her DonCoquixote Jul 2017 #1
. it's the apathy I was more alluding to.. JHan Jul 2017 #2
I only see JHan talking about those that did not vote. sheshe2 Jul 2017 #4
also, the apathy and faux piety and the other crap also had an effect on "Enthusiasm"... JHan Jul 2017 #7
This is why I remain very angry ismnotwasm Jul 2017 #3
You're probably a coastal elitist to be fair.... JHan Jul 2017 #5
Oh yeah. ismnotwasm Jul 2017 #6
+1000 sheshe2 Jul 2017 #8
Simulated KICK AND REC The Polack MSgt Jul 2017 #9
Big kick and rec The Polack MSgt Jul 2017 #10
Anyone who didn't see this coming brer cat Jul 2017 #11
They are already at it again. leftofcool Aug 2017 #13
Yes. brer cat Aug 2017 #14
K&R! betsuni Jul 2017 #12
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