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$5_000 for every american adult if the GOP wins! But wait, that doesn’t just mean you… black people, hispanics, and your annoying neighbour Nate are going to get the same amount of money. Worse yet: People who didn’t vote AND those who voted democrat get this money as well!!! This is free money, handed out equally and (nearly) unconditionally among US citizens. Do you know the proper term for this? IT’S SOCIALISM!!! You’re right, Donald Trump is enticing you to vote for him with COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA. You hate communism, don’t you? You don’t want lazy bastards to get money for doing nothing! The path forward is clear: If you hate black people, if you hate communism, and if you want America to REMAIN GREAT you must vote democrat or the communist devil will get you
So this is election interference right?
Do you think the Republican base thinks about this so seriously? There are two options:
- I have always been a Republican
- I hate brown people
That is their constituency.
The only way for them to recognize there is a problem is when a family member or them are detained by ICE or brutalized by police. Even then it is a gamble if they just say “there are some bad apples”.
Right-wingers are unable to consider societal problems and systemic oppression.
At the risk of being “that guy”…
Cash handouts are not socialism.
I realize what community this is, but… there is so much noise in this conversation, I think it’s a bad idea for those of you who support actual socialism (or socialist ideas) to add to the noise by stooping to the colloquial misunderstanding.
A cash payout from a capitalist republic government like the US is at most a tax rebate.
Well yeah but it’s a slippery slope from here. For now it’s just a one-time handout and I agree that THAT isn’t socialism. But what happens in 2 years when Trump doesn’t just need to win the midterms but the full-fledged election? Is he gonna promise UBI? Healthcare for all? Who knows what other crazy socialist ideas that man has floating in his brain.
What is actually socialism is the Trump administration taking a share of Intel stock. Funny how state-owned industry is just “good business” but funding public transit and healthcare is “evil socialism”.
Winning argument. If you vote for Trump non-white citizens get $5000. They should put that stuff on billboards.
Yep, Trump just created the Socialist Republicans to combat the Socialist Democrats…
Except that Trump always lies, but well, MAGA always believes…
Except no one will ever see that $5k.
Who’s that creeping on Picard?
It’s the Star Trek character named Q.
He’s one of the most annoying yet necessary characters in the series.
People who don’t like Star Trek are like “Nothing ever happens. They can just create anything they need in a replicator, teleport everywhere and shoot lasers to make things go away. All they do is talk.”
Well, that’s the fucking point, isn’t it? The series investigates what issues are even worth thinking about once we rule out the ordinary troubles of violence, physical needs and money.
Q is the catalyst for some of those ethical and philosophical dilemmas. It’s an interdimensional being that transcends both space and time. Not exactly a god, but just a being from a higher plane of existence. He likes to play around with Picard the same way that the cartoonist of La Linea (the line guy) plays around with his 2d drawing.
His husband.
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