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Not A Bunny said:
I've been not following the news for the weekend, so I'm just catching up with the whole "Trump working at McDonald's" thing.

That is fucking brilliant. Like holy shit, the guy has had now multiple assassination attempts on his life, and then he shows up at a random McDonald's and starts slinging fries. I can't even with how fucking on point that is. There's something about a guy just smiling and laughing with regular people that clears down the fuck out of all of the whole "Trump is a threat, Trump is a fascist" talk.
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Holy shit you are so fucking stupid and gullible.

If Kim Jong Un started serving fast food instead of eating it, that wouldn’t make him le hecking relatable wholesome chungus.
 
gamerweeb1 said:
Holy shit you are so fucking stupid and gullible.

If Kim Jong Un started serving fast food instead of eating it, that wouldn’t make him le hecking relatable wholesome chungus.
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Have you watched the videos? It isn’t that Trump is working in a McDonalds that makes him relatable. He’s just relatable because he doesn’t always behave like a pod person.

Humans like other humans more than pod people.
 
Absurdist Laughter said:
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How do I feel right now, glad ya asked!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-FrpuPLYnvY
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Slight powerlevel: Having lived in PA I can tell you that the health inspectors here are fucking Soup Nazi level of anal retentive. To not be cited once means you have to meet damn near impossible standards, AKA nobody. The local newspaper would publish results of inspections and it would read like an obituary page during a war.

It's still pathetic and petty on Kamala's bitchy PR team, but I think it's good for everyone to know that.
 
HOMO FOR LIFE RETURNS said:
After 10 hours shift, you come home. You are paid like shit and nothing you do in your life seem to work. You hit the grocery store after finding out that your fridge has nothing. You pay. You have nothing left over. You owe money. You come home. You eat. Turn on tv. You see the man who made your life so much better working at McDonald and serving drive thru. You feel the rage you haven't felt in a long time. Your rage turns into action. You enter the voting booth. You dot the line. The line says "Donald J Trump."
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This moment really encapsulates that the main theme of this election is working class vs anti-working class. The idea that the common retail and blue collar workers deserve a good life for their labor or do they simply exist to serve their bureaucratic masters?
 
Pig Cups said:
The thing I find most concerning, however, is the fact that they have the full, vicious weight of the state on their side. And not just the state- they have the media, Silicon Valley, NGOs, corporations, etc. all pulling for them.
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A bunch of business barons have been moving much closer to the center lately. I suspect it's because the left couldn't keep its promises to them - woke ideology was supposed to create a cowed, divided population of ideal consumers but instead leftist policies are collapsing the country they do business in.
LeChampion1992 said:
The problem is some people will unplug and realize it was all bullshit. The rest however will double down and argue no were not in the wrong it's those evil conservatives. Some will self reflect and mature and you might see some even drop out. But a not insignificant number of people will feel so radicalized by the loss of power that you might see J6th but with actual oomph and not boomers waltzing around the capital.
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You're right that if Trump wins and he's as bad as the media says, the only recourse for the left is violence. That's what you have to do if you take their ideas to their logical conclusion. But do they have the stomach for it? The number of people they have who can fight effectively is small. I suspect most of them will consider what a civil war will actually entail and back down. They won't realize their ideas were wrong, but they will stop engaging much with politics.

It's similar to what happened to the communist student movements in the 70s. They believed for a while that revolution was just around the corner, but as Vietnam would down people lost interest and they realized their time was coming to an end. They broke down into smaller, increasingly irrelevant pieces, like the Weatherman organization and finally vanished. The important thing this time around will be to ensure they are eradicated completely and don't form sleeper cells to wait for another chance, as they did in universities after the 70s.
 
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