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    I’m a Republican and THIS type of RHETORIC is Why this Country is So DIVISIVE! WHY can’t you Just Treat us like PEOPLE? GOSH! SO WHAT if I want Trans and Gay Kids to be Slaughtered like Sheep while Blue States literally BURN? YOU need to STOP being so DIVISIVE!

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    I mean yeah.

    If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

    LBJ was taking about race but the quote “give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you” applies pretty much universally to a third of the population, maybe more. Probably more.

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    Every fuck time there is a Republican president they claim he is sent from God. A new Messiah and anyone who doesn’t pray to him isn’t a real Christian.

    It’s manipulation and using Christianity as a weapon for political gain. Only the weak willed ones fall for that.

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      This is why I laugh when anyone claims that church and government is separate in America. You literally swear on the Bible before taking office. Honestly, to me, America has always had a similar air of religious fundamentalism as some middle eastern countries. I have always seen them as extreme af. The whole abortion debacle is totally about religious values and religious control. No one can convince me otherwise.

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      Only the weak willed ones fall for that.

      So, half the voting population.

      Also, there has to be something else because I wouldn’t consider myself strong-willed but I’d never fall for this sort of kneejerk rhetoric leading straight to kneejerk voting.

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    Conservatives will shit their pants if it means liberals are grossed out by the smell.

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    For the cult? Yes. 100% and they will never come around. There were people in the concentration camps (single digit not trying to rewrite history, this is all according to eye whiteness accounts of soldiers that freed the camps) who were still 100% dedicated to nazism and Hitler.

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    “My foot has a bullet wound if I keep shooting my foot until no foot, then problem solved”