• SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Octogenarian who has reached the stage of life where memory loss is truly a credible criminal defense vs septuagenarian who is one of the dumbest people on planet earth

      One of them will be in charge of arguably the most militarized country to ever exist

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        The best part is their leadership is virtually indistinguishable and their policies are identical so it doesn’t really matter who wins, yet everyone puts on an act that this is the most important election of our lifetimes

        The death machine is on autopilot and sitting in the driver seat is a formality and symbol more than anything real. The political vultures will still squabble over the seat because their careers depend on taking bribes for warming it

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      Like we’ve been totally normalized to it—the frog in water thing. But by any objective standard, the US is a sick, sick country if this is the only outcome possible for an election. We must look so bizarre to other countries.