Sorry for the headline. I don’t know why they don’t just say it’s Vivek Ramaswamy.

To that end, I will accept Russian control of the occupied territories and pledge to block Ukraine’s candidacy for NATO in exchange for Russia exiting its military alliance with China. I will end sanctions and bring Russia back into the world market. In this way, I will elevate Russia as a strategic check on China’s designs in East Asia.

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    Dont give this stupid ass a platform. Just dont talk about him. All the negative press is what gave credence to Trump by the anti crowd.

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    Of course, because Republicans get money from Russia to betray their country. What’s sad is that it doesn’t take much.

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    Republicans at this point are just fighting over who will be the worst and most fucked up and evil mother fucker. They are basically debating over who is going to fuck their people (and the rest of the world in this instance) harder. I can never understand why anyone would vote for these goons.

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      You know whats the funny thing here?

      Republicans at this point are just fighting over who will be the worst and most fucked up and evil mother fucker?

      Thats what attracts the republican voters.

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    How the actual fuck are the Republicans not getting hammered in the polls?

    Americans have been brainwashed for decades with ‘communism bad’ propaganda, so it seems mind-boggling that Republicans are so willing to give the former Soviet Union any control over Ukrainian soil. Part of the reason we’ve been fighting back against Russia’s invasion with sanctions and equipment donations has been because they’ve been NATO’s ideological enemy for decades.

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        So have I.

        I’m not even from the same continent and it hurts my head to think of how a party whose supporters are synonymous with highly patriotic rednecks are willing to continue supporting their team after they’ve shown a categorical willingness to sell out to the enemy.

        Like… I truly think some big corporation has put something in our food or drink that is making us terminally stupid.

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        At this point being a Republican should be considered synonymous to being part of a conspiracy to commit treason and be treated as such.

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          This is why some kind of civil conflict is likely. Because they are and either we are going to live in their republican hell world or they are going to make the rest of the rest of.us kill them to stop it. It is likely bc they will escalate to killing.

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    These debates seem more and more like massive focus groups. They get the non-contenders to say preposterous things with two goals: see what sticks and propagate lies.

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      It’s the one part of Idiocracy we’re actually performing.

      Elections are no longer about who’s the best for the job. It’s now a popularity contest. Intelligence and capability mean nothing anymore.

      And honestly I partially blame Obama for being to relaxed with the memes. Yeah it was funny af but it opened the gates to what we have now.

      It’s like how satire can quickly become real. So… Thanks Obama…

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        Elections are no longer about who’s the best for the job.

        They were never about that. It was about which person will get my group what I want. The country could do fine for a long time without any political leadership. The mechanisms of government would just continue to operate. Look at the last admin, how many empty posts were there. I bet your trash still got picked up, I bet you still had to pay taxes, etc.

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        Modernizing engagement by going on talk shows and using social media is smart. The message is what makes the difference. Republicans stopped caring about a message that progressed the country around Bush jr. Ever since then been a decline into tribalism and gaslighting. At least Obama ran on something positive.

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    I’m not into US politics other than the basics, but let me tell every American that the consequences of something like this happening will be catastrophic, and then you’ll “fight” China alone, if not with more opponents.

    Trump was already a huge liability to European foreign policy, if it happens again, the EU will dissociate from the US, weaponize and go nuclear. The eastern countries will enter direct conflict with Russia eventually (sooner than later), and the whole continent will get dragged into the war. At the end who ever is left will not support the US, actively be against it, and have nuclear weapons.

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      In terms of European nuclear weapons, the UK and France already have their own nuclear arsenals. But the broader content of your comment is bang on.

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      So you’re saying I should support Trump to stop the US empire. Interesting proposal.

      'Course that assumes US allies aren’t already looking for the exists regardless of the next election…

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        Not the OP, but they never said to support Trump. In fact, they said he was also bad.

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          Yeah I’m just teasing - ultimately I can’t bring myself to vote for someone that’ll enable my own internment in a concentration camp. As much as I hate America I also don’t really want to die anymore lol

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    Russia can’t even control it’s own military with success, how the fuck are they gonna challenge China and put them on check. Lol this fuckin puppet has the whole arm in him.

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    Never vote Conservative/Republican/Tory or whatever name these RW crazies choose.

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      I mean, at this point the self parody either has some limit, or were all fucked. Maybe this is just a lesson we need to learn every few generations