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Eminem said he doesn’t care if he loses half of his fan base he still is going to stand up against trump and call him a fucking turd. I stand with Eminem. At least he’s sane and not full of shit and dementia
3442 upvotes, 123 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in Confessions. "Eminem said he doesn’t care if he loses half of his fan base he still is going to stand up against trump and call him a fucking turd. I stand with Eminem. At least he’s sane and not full of shit and dementia"
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Anonymous 4w

always loved him hes so real

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Anonymous 4w

W’ Eminem !!

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Anonymous 4w

Eminem has made great music but literally what cognition in people’s brains makes them think his opinion has any relevance to what’s best for our country? If you’re a millionaire for 25 years anyone would become a liberal lol

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Anonymous 4w

Eminem has a brain. Trump and his worshippers do not.

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Anonymous 4w

🙌🏾

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Anonymous 4w

I don’t like Eminem for his treatment of Mariah Carey with his beef and diss tracks against a female pop star, but a broken clock is right at least twice a day. Eminem grew up in poverty in a majority minority city and sees the echos of segregation and redlining.

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Anonymous 4w

and that's why em will always be my fav

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Anonymous 4w

Eminem isn’t sane either lol

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Anonymous 4w

Biden is the one with dementia, idiot. You're a stupid libtard.

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Anonymous 4w

it’s crazy to me that people put so much hate solely towards trump and not the entirety of the government. Like they all child fucking criminals bruh

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Anonymous 4w

TRUMP IS KINGGG

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Anonymous 4w

Fat L. Biden was the one with dementia. Trump atleast gives a fuck & knows what he said 3 seconds ago 😂

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

Hell yea

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

i would trust eminem as a president more than the child molester in office quit ur bs

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Anonymous 4w

oh pls hush we all know he did it. Also, eminem making misogynistic music isnt the same as R*PING CHILDREN HOLY FUCK

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Anonymous 4w

im jot arguing with a weird ass trump defender hush we all know he did it

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Anonymous 4w

Trump has dementia and rapes people, he even said he’s sexually attracted to his daughter. And I seen the interview of him saying that. The fucker is a orange ugly POS

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Anonymous 4w

fuck biden too…. being against trump doesnt mean pro biden ur so dense

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Anonymous 4w

I’m from the UK so I don’t give a shit, Trump is one step away from killing a whole civilisation and yes he does have dementia. Trump have frontal temporal dementia. I have worked with dementia for 13 years now. And I see all the symptoms. I’m guessing it doesn’t bother you that he finds his daughter sexually attractive but Trump is against people like me because I’m ftm trans. He hates us just for being ourselves. But he thinks its okay to have sex with minors

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Anonymous 4w

i didnt vote for him u dont even know me idiot

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4w

So original honey I’m so proud of you shit insults

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 4w

ew dont call me what u call ur mother in bed

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Anonymous 4w

From the way you speak I don’t think it’s going to be possible to have a productive conversation here. For your own good, do your best to rid yourself of the hatred they’re trying to fill you with. It’s not going to bring you anywhere better

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

No it dose but why are you concerning yourself with the country? You don’t even live in . Also the reason why people dislike the LGBTQ it’s because all you do is shove it down peoples throats like can’t you be normal and not have to always bring it up in every conversation when it’s totally irrelevant love who you want be who you want but there’s no reason to always bring it up

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 4w

“My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge That’ll stab you in the head, whether you’re a f*g or l*z… Hate f*gs? The answer’s yes” yeah this guys sane alright

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4w

That’s crazy your projecting what you do onto me

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

I see now. It’s critical to validating your own specific identity as a trans person to hate Trump. It’s going to take a lot of mindfulness to release yourself from that. I’m just sorry you’ve been put in that place, and I wish you the best.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

I hate Trump because he’s a lier, a rapist, he sexualise his own daughter and he was apart of the Epstein files and now he wants to bomb the whole of Iran because he thinks he has the power to do what he wants.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

Also interesting though considering the amount of offensive anti LGBTQ language in Eminem’s music. But I guess he said “I have no issues with them” so that makes it all satire? Idk. Listen to what you like and do what you want, if it’s British tax dollars I couldn’t care less

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

I think the disconnect here is that none of your perspective has to do with policy. It’s all just girlboss politics “He’s a liar 💅🏼”. Lmao yeah, every president and PM in history can be considered a liar. The types of people that campaign and run are generally awful by nature. Yes, Trump is particularly bad and there are a lot of heinous allegations that should be investigated. But frankly, I don’t care. As an American citizen, I just want our democratic laws enforced. That’s it.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

You don’t care that he’s raped kids? Are you actually insane?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

If that is true, of course it is deeply, deeply terrible and he should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And he would be, if there were ample proof of that. That said, given the choice between someone who even likely did something unimaginably horrible in their personal life but will uphold the laws produced by our democratic system, and an angel who simply doesn’t have the country’s best interest reflected by their policies, I would choose the former.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

youre disgusting

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

I didn’t vote in 2024 because I support Trumps policies but couldn’t bring myself to vote for him as a person. It would have been SO EASY for Harris to simply say they would make enforcing border policy a priority going forward, protect children/parents from making uninformed decisions, and ensure equal opportunity for citizens regardless of immutable characteristics. But they couldn’t. Because that would be considered racist and anti-LGBTQ by what they think is their base. So they blew it.

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Anonymous 4w

They skip due process HERE dumbfuck🤦🏾‍♂️

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 4w

Again sure.. no system is perfect. But the cases are few and far between. Can you site an example from the last decade that has not been corrected?

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Anonymous 4w

this isn’t true whatsoever lmfao

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Anonymous 4w

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/04/video-donald-trump-on-his-1-year-old-daughter-s-breasts.html

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

he was literally held civilly liable for rape and wasn’t prosecuted. you truly think he would get prosecuted for the rape of children when EVERYONE ELSE IN THERE RAPED CHILDREN

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 4w

Okay… Where. Is. Your. Evidence? Or your argument? This is why we need to mandate intelligence tests to vote

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

it’s odd that you choose to not believe the literal children and instead believe trump

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

oh like they did in jim crow?? what a disgusting piece of shit you are. the proof is LITERALLY ABLE TO BE FOUND ON GOOGLE DUDE. LOOK IT UP

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4w

So you’re just voting on vibe. This is why we need to mandate intelligence tests to vote.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

i can gladly give you a list of the reasons why i know this man is a piece of shit! let’s start with him claiming he can grab women by the pussy. he has bombed 7 countries. claimed he wants to be president of 2 countries. 10 territories he has claimed he wants to invade / take over. claimed he has stopped 8 wars and has stopped none. 20 million americans saw their healthcare insurance premiums skyrocket due to him removing the affordable care act tax credits. $44 billion in losses for american-

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

-farmers due to his tariffs. spent approximately $400 million on his new ballroom. an estimated $126 million tax dollars spent on golf trips. illegally added his name to the kennedy center. $2 trillion dollar tax cut for the rich. $1 trillion cut from food stamps. had taken THREE dementia tests. tried to defund 5 blue states over unsubstantiated fraud. 6 vaccines the CDC has stopped recommending for children and over 2000 measles cases (highest # in decades). 300,000 federal jobs cut. doge cost-

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

-the US $135 billion. $6 billion cut from NIH medical research into curing cancer, alzheimer’s, and other diseases. 1600 pardons for violent criminals. 36% end of 1st year approval rating. signed for the elimination of the federal department of education. claimed obama would start a war with iran “because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. he’s weak and he’s ineffective, so the only way he figures he’s going to get reelected is to start a war with iran.” his name appears over a million-

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 4w

It’s odd that you don’t understand how our justice system works. I’m not believing anyone. “Just believe the victim” is a terrible MO. We have collectively decided as a country that people are innocent until proven guilty. Even when it’s inconvenient for you

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 4w

The Jim Crow Era was more than a decade ago. Of course I’m not arguing the US has never been discriminatory lmao. But I’ll give you an opportunity to calm down and try again. Provide an example from the last decade where due process was “skipped”. And it wasn’t corrected.

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 4w

Yeah these are all perfectly valid reasons to claim Trump is a piece of shit. I’m with you 100%. Thank you for actually providing something substantive

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

-times in the epstein files (more than jesus is mentioned in the bible). speaks disgustingly about women (i could go into detail if needed) including his own daughter and wife. buried his own wife on his golf course to avoid taxes. shall i go on?

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

yea yw

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

you can’t truly think a mandated intelligence test will not be racially motivated.

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 4w

It sounds like you truly believe black Americans have lower intelligence

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

How about everyone that was sent to El Salvador concentration camps?? Ice does not do due process at all. If your skin is brown you’re as good as fucked

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

where did i say that?????

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 4w

The process that is “due” is determined by Congress and the SCOTUS. Congress has explicitly resolved that certain noncitizens are to be deported without hearings. So I can see how that would be confusing for you, but no. Try again. Also as a note- I don’t care what color you are, if you entered this country illegally, you should be removed and placed in line to become a citizen with everyone else. This preserves the very order and fairness that attract people to this country in the first place

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 4w

You said an intelligence test would be racially motivated. If you believe intelligence is mutually exclusive to race, as I do, you wouldn’t have made this statement. But you did, so you don’t. You believe some races are more intelligent than others and therefore an intelligence test requirement to vote would be unfair. Would you like to clarify?

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

this is not true whatsoever. due process is an amendment, a right.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

yeah i’m not explaining to some pos that’s calling me racist and supports trump 😭😭💔💔

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 4w

You very simply don’t understand the constitution. You’d have a personal vested interest in preventing an intelligence test. And instead of making your point clear, you’re lashing out at me lol. It’s because you have no explanation. You have a cartoonish perception of how the real world, and by extension this country, works. And that’s why you don’t understand it, and it makes you upset.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

He was literally like close friends with Elton John who helped him into sobriety and Eminem is very comfortable with either cross dressing or being portrayed as gay. Only reason he’s considered LGBTQ is because he uses the f slur south park style

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Anonymous replying to -> #14 4w

I have gay friends, and am comfortable cross dressing/being portrayed as gay. Is it acceptable for me to say it South Park style?

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

It isn’t that intelligence is determined by race, as that has been thoroughly disproven. Rather, the issue is that there is ample evidence that quality of education is highly dependent on wealth, and wealth concentrations *are* highly correlated to race.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

Yeah Congress which is republican controlled. The CONSTITUTION SAYS ALL PEOPLE have the right to due process. And “certain non-citizens” DONT GET THE CHANCE TO PROVE IF THEY ARE CITIZENS OR NOT. THATS THE WHOLE POINT YOU FUCKING MORON

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

So no, intelligence has nothing to do with race, but education—the quality of it and how much funding your school gets, as well as average educational level—is highly related to race, not because white people value education more, but because of system inequality. This is the result of centuries of discrimination post-reconstruction, through Jim Crow, and even past desegregation—mainly due to the war on drugs and mass incarceration unjustly targeting black people.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

There is ample evidence of all of this online. Plenty of books and academic articles discuss this. I can find and post sources if you would like, but you should be able to find them.

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Anonymous replying to -> #15 4w

I will bet you one hundred trillion dollars that Donald Trump has a brain

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 4w

Yeah, you’re still claiming that white people are collectively more intelligent. You’re just explaining around that because you know you can’t say it, because it’s racist. Do you agree that education/intelligence allows people to make better informed decisions for society?

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

If you’re worried bout your pocket that’s because dipshit republicans got put in power not that these democrats are much better but trump is literally scraping this country like junk car that a different type of evil

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

With wrinkles on it?

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Anonymous replying to -> #15 4w

Yep

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Anonymous replying to -> #17 4w

In what ways is he “scraping this country”? Again, I don’t disagree with you, it’s just important that you actually provide substantive information to back up your claim

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Anonymous 4w

LMAO is this not enough proof for you?? keep licking that pedo boot bud..

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Anonymous 4w

There are plenty of government files that say exactly what Donald Trump paid to do to those kids. Comparing the information in the Epstein files to AI in terms of accuracy is the type of argument that blatantly exposes you as a Trump apologist. You don’t need to defend him… unless you care so deeply for a rich asshole who sure as shit doesn’t give a fuck about you.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

His crypto, advertisement as president, cutting funds to government groups that protect and help the United States public only to give tax breaks especially tariff breaks on his own tariffs when they line his own pocket how about the fact he just cut off us as well as the rest of the world from oil which I might add we are only so reliant on because cunts like him only to propose a partnership on the toll through the Hormuz

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

This is much easier said than done. Not only would that be considered unconstitutional, but IQ tests only represent math, some logic, and pattern recognition. This doesn’t say anything about one’s social or emotional intelligence, both which can be taken advantage of to bait or guilt someone into voting for someone they otherwise wouldn’t.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

Btw really doubt you agree with me on this shit when the “substantive information” is literally on public fucking television dipshit

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Anonymous replying to -> #19 4w

I never said anything about an IQ test. Please use your critical reading skills.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

no ones lashing out i’m just not entertaining a pedophile supporter

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 4w

thank you bc this dude deadass doesn’t get it

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

funny that you’re asking someone else this after i already told you how much money is being lost and wasted under trump

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 4w

Mj exposed mariah carey and jay-z for their hollywood pedo ring especially with grooming justin timberlake and justin bieber. They were p diddy’s biggest supporters and now mj is dead

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Anonymous replying to -> #11 4w

mind you trump has admitted to taking 3 dementia tests 😭😭😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #17 4w

Lol you can’t go into a conversation assuming everyone else consumes the same media as you. Your ignorant, dismissive, and angry attitude is exactly what allows people like Donald Trump to end up in office. The 2024 election was decidedly NOT some triumph of Trumps base. In fact Trump got ≈the same number of votes in 2024 than he did in 2020. What it IS is a reflection of how disorganized and misrepresented the Democratic Party is.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 4w

He does disses from the perspective of his rivals. He’s done this multiple times to expose others for it. Yk that eminem was one of elton john’s biggest supporters and even elton john approved of him as one of the biggest lgbtq allies

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Anonymous replying to -> #10 4w

Everyone who disagrees with me has just assigned an outgroup label to me like “dipshit” or “pos” or whatever. That’s lashing out lol. You’ll notice I have not retaliated. But this is how people are radicalized. This is how we end up with hate crimes against random minorities. With blanket policies that debase them. Because of people like YOU. Because you are never held accountable for your own reckless non-policies and it can seem the only way to suppress your ignorance is to destroy it.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

What the fuck are you even on about? you did not even vote this last election, if you actually cared about this country or anything you are talking about, you’d actually use your voice, instead of letting our current president radicalize random minorities that you apparently care so much about, if you actually cared about that sort of thing, you would’ve voted in 2024, because now our own president is committing hate crimes through ICE, great job

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

umm if someone called you a pos or a dipshit, it’s because it’s true. supporting a pedophile makes you a piece of shit and dumbass

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

Honestly, every word that you write just sounds like projection, I don’t believe you’ve ever been held accountable, you yourself seem extremely ignorant, and you are definitely dismissive of every single person who has disagreed with you. I don’t know if you think you sound smart, but you sound insane

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

Absolutely. I do it

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

Here’s the problem: you’re equating being educated with being intelligent. It is possible to be uneducated and intelligent, and it is possible to be educated and unintelligent. They are not one and the same. So no, I am not saying white people are collectively more intelligent; I am claiming they are collectively more educated. This is caused by systemic inequalities. Similarly, education levels are not caused by intelligence. That’s an absurd claim.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

I hope you understand what I mean by differences in assumption and definition here. If you assume intelligence *is just*, or *is nothing more than*, education, then I am saying that white people are more intelligent. I don’t think it reasonable to assume that, so I don’t believe I am saying that. As to your other point, yes, I do believe that education *can* make people better decision makers politically. You know what else can? Empathy and compassion.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

You make a lot of claims here about laws. But laws are not just political, they are also moral. In fact, everything that is political is based on moral reasoning about collectives and individuals. What is the basis of rights? Moral reasoning. Just because something is a law does not make it moral. In a similar sense, education can make one a better voter—I would not deny that. But so can compassion. Laws don’t exist in a vacuum, they dictate the lives of *humans*.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

Laws are about the lives of people. Compassion for other people, as such, would likely make you better at determining which laws will be on the whole better for people, will improve the lives of the people. This seems intuitive. In order to know what will make people’s lives better, you must be able to actually *see* their lives, their struggles. And compassion or empathy are what allow us to truly understand each other. It follows that they would make one a better political decision maker

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 4w

This app doesn’t have a high enough character limit to explain how actually dumb what you just said is

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Anonymous replying to -> #17 4w

It’s an important skill to be able to distill an argument into a mere sentence or two. Give it a try, I might be able to figure out what possible issues my statements have if you give me something to go off of. Or I might at least be able to see *where* we disagree. You could also DM me, I suppose. Discourse of this sort is important, and I’d prefer to be confronted about my ideas than just sit on them ignorantly.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

Nah

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Anonymous replying to -> #11 4w
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Anonymous replying to -> #11 4w

I don’t think anyone agrees with you bro judging by the dislikes 😂👌😂

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Anonymous replying to -> #11 4w

AGREED

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

I don’t need people to agree with me. This is a liberal run app and page. Dipshit

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Anonymous replying to -> #11 4w

Brother has licked the boot so hard that he really believes in MAGA vs liberal, keep licking that boot buddy and pull up trumps pants when you’re done down there

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

Your just so incorrect I hope i can sleep at night

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Anonymous replying to -> #13 4w

we do hate all of them but jfc HE is the president not surprising people are focused on him…

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Anonymous replying to -> #21 4w

Trump has admitted to taking 3 dementia tests because he has said he is becoming forgetful 🫶🏽

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

Have you not read the Epstein files ?

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 4w

ugh shut up

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 4w

This is actually breathtaking. YOU are equating being educated with being intelligent. That is the flaw in YOUR argument lmao. If white people are collectively more educated (which could be perceived as a racist claim itself) but not necessarily more intelligent, then what is wrong with a test that measures intelligence? That’s MY position. It’s like I’m helping you argue with yourself lol

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

I see the issue. I assumed a test that measures intelligence would automatically be a test of education. I guess that would be my question then: how can you test intelligence in a way that doesn’t simply measure education? Since most intelligence tests are notoriously dependent on education or cultural knowledge.

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 4w

Yeah, you did lol. It’s an understandable assumption. Of course there is some overlap, but it’s certainly possible to design a test that addresses only certain basic *objective* information about our country and its government and gauges ability to make sound moral decisions with long-term positive benefits for society.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

wouldn’t a millionaire have an equal chance of going maga that literally makes 0 sense

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

That’s fair. It would certainly be great if we could design such a test. I guess my question would be what information is there about our government that isn’t dependent on your education covering it. Obviously most curricula in the US do cover US history, but the quality and depth range immensely between states and cities. And for testing moral reasoning, you’d have to make sure you’re testing reasoning ability and not the answers themselves.

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Anonymous replying to -> #24 4w

Almost 80% of pop artists/celebrities consider themselves blue. The fact that Em as a musician is a millionaire is what’s relevant to my comment, but yes millionaires themselves are roughly evenly divided

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 4w

Yep, totally agree. It would have to be well designed to control for bias. That said, our democracy is not built to favor long term consequences or skilled decision making. Those are subjective. It’s built to uphold people’s will through representation. Having a test might yield better candidates, processes, etc as you and I see it, but if it’s not objectively popular then it abandons the tenets of our gov. Which yk is why whoever can convince people they’ll get more money is who gets elected

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 4w

I said that about intelligence tests because it’s frustrating to argue with people who can’t offer more than an ambiguous claim, “orange man bad”, and then a personal insult before leaving the conversation. Yes, Trump is not the kind of person we want anywhere near the White House. But candidates come and go, what matters is the policy they’re instilling for generations of Americans to come.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

That is true. It is unfortunately true that a democracy is really just a popularity contest of personality and rhetoric, and the rise of corporate short-termism over the past 40-50 years combined with our traditional inidivualist rhetoric means that most people tend to value short term gains. That and how little people study and understand history, consequently not understanding why we know certain policies just largely don’t work.

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 4w

Solution-focused discussion is a skill. It has conventions and guidelines for how to actually solve problems through collaboration. And it just pains me to see educated Americans abandon that. I know I’m asking too much of yy lol but this is just how I am. You seem alright though, even if we don’t agree on everything I appreciate working through this conversation with you

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 4w

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Between work/supporting family and consuming media, the average American doesn’t have enough time in their day to actually collaborate with others to improve their communities. (I have a rant about local politics being overlooked but I’ll spare you). That’s why we end up with these polarizing, oversimplified positions canned into headlines to be lobbed at whoever we perceive as contradicting our held beliefs. We need to be open to real, uncomfy conversations

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 4w

You seem alright too, and I very much appreciated working through this—I always appreciate people that are willing to discuss things. I’d be curious to hear your rant about local politics, but I do realize this is definitely not a conducive forum for lengthier discussions.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4w

the down votes on my comment say otherwise. it seems people only hate trump and not the government itself because they are sheeple who cant see the real issue

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Anonymous replying to -> #13 4w

No we hate them all. The downvotes are because that’s a dumbass comment to make. WE KNOW.

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Anonymous replying to -> #13 4w

Yeah like #20 said, you’re argument is stupid when it’s quite literally common knowledge, that’s why you got the downvotes

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Anonymous replying to -> #22 4w

“For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.” Matthew’s 24:24.

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