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It is sad to think about how many working class people will funnel their earned money into his pockets.

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It’s worse than gambling. At least when you gamble you have a (meager) chance to make some money back. Political donations are black holes and DJT’s has radioactive, acidic sewage at the bottom.

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85 points

fuckin losers

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You know they are, but legitimately I’m pretty sure a large percentage of them actually have solvable/manageable mental illnesses. I’m starting to pity them more than anything now.

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It can be hard for most to pity the spiteful and hateful.

Get what you give

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I’ll reserve my pity for those more deserving.

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My pity isn’t just for them, but for the families destroyed by the rhetoric and the love lost between people.

People are so divided now on everything, everyone’s caught up in trying to apply labels to themselves so they can be further divided into categories and discriminated against.

I’m really tired of the labels. Republican, Democrat, Right Wing, Left Wing, Fascist, Socialist, blah blah blah… these labels just help external influencers drive that wedge a little better.

Can’t we all just be human and start to talk to one another? I think we’ll find we have more in common than not. The only way to bring people over to your side is to befriend them, and slowly work on it. The fighting just causes everyone to dig their heels in so much more.

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Don’t donate to politicians.

There’s refugee resettlement charities if you need people to help. Like, in Atlanta, New American Pathways helps families fleeing awful situations to get English classes. jobs, housing, enroll kids in school, etc. Lots of cities have similar charities. People who teach English at libraries and the like.

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I read somewhere that traumatic brain injuries are correlated with voting Republican, but I don’t know if there’s any causation or in which direction it goes. A lot of Republicans might just have lives where they’re more at risk of getting injured.

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57 points

How many of those are legit voters and how many are bots micro donating to mask Russian oligarch campaign financing?

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13 points

Ah, pulling the ol’ breaking bad scene. Of course.

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Who cares? Anybody who still supports Trump even knowing he’s a wannabe dictator, convicted felon, serial rapist, and buddy of Epstein, need their fucking head checked. At this point I really hope these bozos give Trump all of their money. Knock yourselves out, dumb fucks.

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I recall an adage that says something about fools and their money. What was it again?

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They sure do seem to have a lot of it

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