• Omega@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I completely respect Gaza making people reluctant voters. But don’t tell me you’re doing everything in your power for LGBTQ+ if you’re not going to support the only candidate who supports those rights. Just don’t even mention it if you’re going to contradict it.

    Now, I only discovered who this person is this week (I heard one of her songs before all this stuff blew up). I don’t hate this person. My issues with her stance is about as minor as it can possibly be.

    I’m just a passive observer who is watching half the country vote for a megalomaniac, a sliver of ill informed cynics vote for a Russian stooge, and a bunch of otherwise rational Americans pretend they don’t STRONGLY side with one party of another on 95% of issues.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t think Trump should win. I also don’t think the status quo works for all Americans, and I would be skeptical of someone who recently bragged about Dick Cheney endorsements and seems to be shifting right on policy. Chappell wants voters to come to their own decision, and I think that best. Even Bernie said something similar of just don’t blindly listen to me if you think I’m wrong. It is healthy for democracy.

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        I watch enough cable news to know that they don’t take the extremism on the right seriously enough. And they’re too chicken shit to call it out 90% of the time because then they’ll look biased. They try to attack the left over literally anything to appear impartial.

        I pay attention to politics. And I notice the shit that happens that gets ignored.

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          I think it’s because the corporate media supports corporate status quo of corporate politicians on both sides.

          They manufacture culture wars when a real leftist starts to get their message out, for example the millionaire cable news hosts called out Bernie for having a million dollars after he wrote a New York Times best seller. lol, wtaf.

          That’s one small example, but the corporate cable news doesn’t want us to see past R good D bad, or vice versa.

          We actually have a lot more in common than we realize. Every body is pissed pff about money in politics, for example.

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          I think it’s because the corporate media supports corporate status quo of corporate politicians on both sides.

          They manufacture culture wars when a real leftist starts to get their message out, for example the millionaire cable news hosts called out Bernie for having a million dollars after he wrote a New York Times best seller. lol, wtaf.

          That’s one small example, but the corporate cable news doesn’t want us to see past R good D bad, or vice versa.

          We actually have a lot more in common than we realize. Every body is pissed pff about money in politics, for example.