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    18 days ago

    Yeah. Plus the continuation of that conversation tends to go:

    “Okay. He raised literally about a trillion dollars via corporate tax increases, which he then spent on climate change and working people, achieving incremental but quite significant results.”

    “Yeah but did he OVERTURN CAPITALISM AND AMERICAN IMPERIALISM? Because if not PROJECT 2025 BECOMES ALL THE DEMOCRATS FAULT

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      18 days ago

      AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

      Ironically most of these people also tend to make arguments in favor of Russian imperialism when they talk about how NATO is actually to blame for the war and Ukraine should accept a peace agreement.

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        18 days ago

        Almost as if…

        I asked one of them randomly earlier what they think of the war in Ukraine, and they don’t want to discuss it, just keep talking to me about Joe Biden