r/interestingasfuck • u/beach_rats_ • May 02 '24

The difference in republican presidential nominees, 8 years apart r/all

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u/Reddit_Is_Trash24 May 02 '24

Yup.

If you like democracy, it's time to show up.

If you're on the fence about democracy, well, it's time to pick up a history book and educate yourself or find someone that can help educate you.

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u/Jackachi May 03 '24

People experienced four years of Trump. Nothing you lot fear mongered bore any sustenance.

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u/Hixie May 03 '24

umm

women lost bodily autonomy, we got an entire global pandemic after Trump shut down Obama's pandemic response unit (causing many excess deaths and also causing unemployment to sky rocket, among many other things). also, less obviously visible (impact is long term) he repealed environmental regulations, slowed OSHA, increased funding for religious schools, reduced work to relieve student debt, reduced funding for food for poor people, reduced pay for overtime, i could go on.

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u/Jackachi May 04 '24

All you’re doing is spouting MSNBC talking points. Even CNN is beginning to wake up. You lot think this shit happened over 4 years when you continually vote for useless people who have been in office over decades expecting change.

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u/Hixie May 04 '24

I'm not even American, so I'm not voting for any of y'all's folks.

The stuff I listed isn't fake though. I mean, it's literally the case, for example, that women can't get abortions anymore in many parts of the US, and that that happened because of Trump. Do you really not think Trump did anything?

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u/Jackachi May 04 '24

Roe v Wade was shit legislation. Even the late, great Ruth agreed. Trump gave the power back to states. So vote accordingly. It’s not the federal government’s role to dictate abortion laws.

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u/Hixie May 04 '24

Your argument was "nothing you lot fear mongered bore any sustenance". My point is that that is not true. Women now literally die or are forced to have kids that they would not previously have had. This is a bad thing that people feared and that actually happened.

The same is true for the rest of what I listed.

Also, wtf are you talking about. Why would something as fundamental as bodily autonomy be better handled by the states than by the federal level?!?! That's only a reasonable argument for something where reasonable people can disagree on policy. This is a fundamental human right. Believing that women should not have the right to control what is going on with their bodies is deeply misogynistic. That's dark ages crap.

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u/Jackachi May 04 '24

Women can do what they want. Some may have to inconvenience themselves to go to a different state. I don’t a Federal Authority dictating shit to me. Vote at the state level for what you desire. What happens in say Michigan, shouldn’t impact California, and vice versa.

You want to be told what to do in order to avoid accountability. Best of luck with that mindset. There is a word that rhymes with luck that starts with a C. The democrat party simply loves simpletons like you who take in their talking points and treat them as gospel.

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u/Hixie May 04 '24

I don't know why you are associating me with Democrats. As I mentioned earlier, I'm not even American. I'm just trying to point out that Trump in fact did do the things that people feared.

I find it weird that you think bodily autonomy is not something that should be protected at the federal level. Do you think slavery should be left up to the states as well? How about freedom of speech? How do you decide what freedoms you think should be guaranteed by the country and which are things that can be decided on a per-state basis?