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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml to c/politics@hexbear.net

no need to write an essay or anything

some libs and baby leftists are kinda baffled by the trump banter here and don't know what's serious and what's irony

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[-] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Praise for Trump here comes in three flavours (none of them are actual approval of his policies):

-Just blatant sarcasm/irony/nonseriousness.

-Accelerationism. His blatant idiocy you'd think would make it obvious to more people that the USA's system of liberal democracy is deliberately and unsaveably flawed, and his awful policies might bring about change sooner. Just the fact that he was on the ballot without a riot at every polling station seems to indicate this 'acceleration' didn't really happen.

-Equivocacy. A bit like the previous point, his time in office illustrated how much it really doesn't fucking matter, Biden has overseen Roe v Wade being overturned and done absolutely nothing about it. The choices you get in elections are very close to meaningless and basically nothing but a bit of performance art while the ruling class carry on as normal. It forces the question to be more focused if we're going to engage in absolute bullshittery of 'blue v red are the only choices ever'.

this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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