re: Aren't all these Republican doomsdayers just proving our point?

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The "GOP and Democrats are the same" meme is one of the dumbest thing ever repeated on this board

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It's up there.

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The "GOP and Democrats are the same" meme is one of the dumbest thing ever repeated on this board.

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Well not the same, but too close. It's rigged.

It's wrestling. It's the Harlem Globetrotters in the Washington Generals.

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The "GOP and Democrats are the same" meme is one of the dumbest thing ever repeated on this board.

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Okay, explain how they are not the same. Using McCONNELL, McCarthy and Romney, as examples.

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and those in your echo chamber

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It’s possible that one day you’ll be able to present an idea without attempting to denigrate people who see it differently than you do. Today ain’t it. I know you think it makes you look intelligent and sophisticated; it doesn’t. It just makes you look like an arse.

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SlowFlowPro

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:PretzelMeme:

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No, but that's how it's being framed by the coordinated outlets that you (and those in your echo chamber) follow. It's what they call a self fulfilling prophecy. The 20 have framed this to produce just the thought experiment in your head. It's all they have because they are such a small minority they have no real power. The "GOP and Democrats are the same" meme is one of the dumbest thing ever repeated on this board. It's something that only people who shelter themselves and don't ever actually engage with any Leftists would believe. The danger of following this stupidity is that you ARE going to allow Leftism more power and more power quickly. Of course, radicals will just spin this within the same meme and the useful idiots will eat it up.

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Well said.

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SlowFlowPro

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It's what they call a self fulfilling prophecy.

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No, no it's not. This is the type of thing said by people that step over dollars to pick up dimes; that want to talk to you about the lessons from War and Peace when all you asked was how they like their new Subaru; that think the rest of us are heathens and they discovered some great revelation after skimming a manuscript in The Philosophical Review and insist on educating us on their discovery.

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The 20 have framed this to produce just the thought experiment in your head.

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Oh, so it's a mind control conspiracy. It's not them pointing out things that others see and that many have reported on for years. It's just mind control...ok.

Nothing really captures the idea that someone is talking down to you, or talking at you, rather than to you, like when they tell you that others have created an experiment in your brain. You have such little faculty and apparently no autonomy, such that a group of people in DC have executed a mind control experiment in your brain. No no...don't you trouble your feeble little mind with this, let the smart folk like SFP let you know that others are tinkering with your brain. Don't you dare believe your lying eyes.

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It's all they have because they are such a small minority they have no real power.

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McCarthy had already granted them committee seats. They had "power". Plenty of it. They wanted substantive change.

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The "GOP and Democrats are the same" meme is one of the dumbest thing ever repeated on this board. It's something that only people who shelter themselves and don't ever actually engage with any Leftists would believe.

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I'll respond to this and ignore the fact that you use Democrats and then mention Leftists.

This is one of the dumbest comments ever posted to the internet. And it reinforces the point of looking for explanations everywhere but right in front of you and thinking you're not just smarter than everyone else, but you're much smarter than you give yourself credit for being.

It's like seeing a red hot burner on a stove and saying, "Well, at this time of day, the sun is shining through this particular arc in the atmosphere and the gamma product at this latitude can produce an amplification of red light sensed by corneal Macoby cells, as demonstrated by Ronald and colleagues back in 1924, so it is very likely that the burner is not in fact on, but just appears to be so, and thus one may place one's hand upon it without fear of injury" - when you could just check the fricking knob and see if it's on.

People call McCarthy, "Pelosi Light".

Former Speaker Boehner just cried and slobbered all over Pelosi.

GOP and Dems jointly passed the Omnibus and pushed through Ukraine aid.

Since 9/11, both parties have created enormous amounts of debt.

They jointly gave us the Patriot Act and have jointly abused the powers within the Act.

Both have called for increased censorship on social media.

Both have guided us to endless war and a wide open border.

Both are owned by the MIC and Big Tech and Big Pharma.

People like Victoria Nuland migrate from D to R administrations, doing the same thing in each. And it was two Republicans and one Democrat that visited Ukraine back in 2016, after Nuland and crew installed a new government there, to tell the Ukrainians that "your fight is our fight". And here we are, meddling in Ukraine under a Dem administration.

Jointly they have taken the nation in the same direction for decades now. Ralph Nader, Ron Paul, George Carlin...and many others have been pointing this stuff out for decades. Jimmy Dore and Glenn Greenwald point this out just about every day. (most people would consider them both to be Leftists, by the way)

Since 2000, at least, we have seen massive growth in government, erosion of key institutions, degradation of our educational system, downward trend in the efficiency of our healthcare system, continuous war, continuous deficits and debt growth, erosion of civil liberties, and increasing centralization across the board. And that has gone on in every administration, whether D or R. I'm sure we could extend this back to 1990 if we wanted to, and maybe before.

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The danger of following this stupidity is that you ARE going to allow Leftism more power and more power quickly.

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That has been going on, and it is not exacerbated by pointing out the equivalence between Dems and Reps with regard to their behavior at the federal level and the trajectory they set for the country.

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Of course, radicals will just spin this within the same meme and the useful idiots will eat it up.

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The two parties take the nation in the same direction. That trajectory is indisputable. It's not "radical" to point that out. And the people that "eat it up" are not idiots, they're just observing reality.

It's not surprising, of course, that you cast such a net over others. Much like Sam Harris, your hubris and mental instability make you think you're just that much smarter and an overall better person than the rest of us. We're just heathens, a bunch of rubes without enough sense for calculus and lawyerin' and other dubious things, right? We're just gettin' that mind control from Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert.

If only we had a bunch of SFP's to keep us safe and tell us which laundry detergent to buy and how to wash our hands. Maybe then we'd get somewhere in life. But, surely we should leave these important things to people like SFP, he won't fall for those Gaetz and Boebert mind control experiments. Oh no, he's too smart for that. And Trump didn't affect him at all. Not one bit. Too dang smart fer it.

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The "GOP and Democrats are the same" meme is one of the dumbest thing ever repeated on this board. It's something that only people who shelter themselves and don't ever actually engage with any Leftists would believe.

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You clearly don’t understand what that phrase means.