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I'm glad that you can admit Lincoln was a progressive who was in direct opposition to the conservatives of the time. You know the parties switched political orientations during the 1930's-1960's, don't you?
There's a reason modern Republicans love statues of the rebels and their precious confederate flags. You remember the confederates, right? They were the conservative slave-holders who fought AGAINST Lincoln and his progressive agenda of human rights.
Every word uttered by a conservative is either deception or manipulation. A conservative is simply not capable of entering any conversation in good faith.
You're glad I admit what now? Lmao I know your country is literally burning in division of catastrophic proportions but no need to assume that anyone who disagrees with you is on the other side of the political spectrum.
Indeed conservatives shifted further right, and democrats also shifted right to the point that they don't represent the actual left leaning portion of the US, but by your tone on the matter, I wasn't sure you were aware of this shift. Are you also aware that the division between parties has been growing at alarming rates in recent years, whereas before you didn't have such ridiculous takes from either side? Every news channel and social media platform just keeps radicalizing and dividing and villanizing to the point where you actually come to believe the other side is the literal boogeyman that wants to burn the world down.
Reality is just a bit more nuanced than that. In the end, both sides will fuck you over because money, because the economy, because capitalism in general. Let's not pretend things would be different if everything was under the democrats' control. Sure, it can get Trump worse or DeSantis worse, but there's no "better" on the other side, just status quo and wall street money. The real truth is the political system in the US, and a lot of other countries, has been hijacked by money and corruption for a while now, and everyone is just cannon fodder to keep the money going and the power flowing.
Keep waging your war, just be mindful of spewing utter nonsense that just divides and radicalizes for the sake of dividing and radicalizing (such as that last paragraph). There are villains out there, and the GOO is absolutely rotten to the core, but we have to be mindful of just spewing utter hate like they do in their own bubbles, and we do have to remember that power corrupts no matter the side, take it from someone whose country got thrown under the bus by the Obama administration for the sake of "fighting communism", and Obama's been my favorite US president from recent years (Carter takes the crown, though). I don't know what the solution is to such ridiculous division in the US, but I'd wager it's not more hate and division.
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But by skimming a few lines here and there, I can see that you never addressed any of your false statements. Instead, you seemed to blather on about political divides or some nonsense. Going on an unrelated tirade is a typical defense tactic used by conservatives attempting to obfuscate their deception when called out. They are still the ramblings of someone who thinks Lincoln was the leader of the conservatives of his time! 🤣LOL 😅
Nothing in your panicked, defensive comment suggests that you are capable of entering a dialogue in good faith. So, run along back to Truth Social or NAMBLA or wherever your kind linger these days and tell them all how cool you are for trolling the libs. You sure got us! Good one!
What the fuck is NAMBLA, you know so much about right wing bubbles, you kinda sound like a troll account used only for screenshots to show how "unhinged" the left is. Either that or you're actually unhinged. Stop speaking for us on the left, please.
Honestly, I feel like something fucky is going on. Dude's definitely acting unhinged and not trying to engage in actual discussion. You've been fairly level-headed but are being showered in downvotes? Very weird.
Honestly I did lose my cool for a moment there, as is evident by my sudden spam of insults lol... Not fun being on the receiving end of...whatever the hell that was.
But yeah, I don't understand wtf is up with this comment chain or maybe even the news community as a whole. Feels exceedingly toxic compared to other communities, even the notoriously toxic ones. Hell, for a moment I considered maybe I was being downvoted with bots or brigaded...?