• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Nice imagination you got there. Do you have more things to imagine about what my political positions are, while calling me a fucking traitor?

    Some people man.

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      2 days ago

      Consequences matter. Maybe you are full of leftwing virtue but no one sane or intelligent cares.

      Valuing your virtue over consequences makes you a threat to everyone, including yourself. You’ll sink the ship for your principles and drag everyone down with you. So yes, if it minimizes you or your group’s political influence it makes sense to call you a traitor.

      Its what got my country Trump. I now feel a visceral internal rage when anyone tells me “Democrats and Republicans are the same.” Regardless of what their actual politics are. Because I know they did not vote, they let this shit happen so they wouldn’t “dirty their hands”. I hate them. I despise them.

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        2 days ago

        Buddy, your political system is nothing like ours. We don’t have one all-or-nothing election. We have a Westminster system, we have a multiparty democracy, we have minority governments and the capacity for coalitions. Our supreme Court justices retire, our federalism is not broken like yours and we don’t have founding daddy issues that cripple us to blindly worshipping some 200 year old piece of paper.

        Keep your rage your side of the border, your frame of reference does not translate to our system. Pipe down.