• Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    11 months ago

    Then you get older…

    Then you get even older and realize that choosing the douche or the turd sandwich ends up with you holding a douche or a turd sandwich.

    At 52 I’m done with these games. Its too important to my children, my nation, and the actual environment I live in.

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      11 months ago

      I don’t think these people will ever get it. It’s the same mentality that keeps climate change raging on, “I can’t change anything on my own, so I’ll just keep doing the same thing until someone else fixes it.”

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      11 months ago

      Fair to be fed up, but I feel that was more a concern when the two sides of the coin were very close to being the same. I’m not much behind you on age but I can still see that only one option TODAY is trying to blatantly and openly destroy most of the progress we made in your 52 years. I’d rather hold the douche and have a chance at getting out clean than hold the turd and assuredly end up covered in shit.

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        11 months ago

        …but I can still see that only one option TODAY is trying to blatantly and openly destroy most of the progress we made in your 52 years.

        They both are, one is just more open about it and willing to get there a bit faster on some issues. Yes, the bulk of Conservatives are somewhere between “Awful” and “JFC this person needs to be beamed into outer space!” but the Authoritarianism and Stupidity are running just as rampant among the so-called Liberals.

        I’d rather hold the douche and have a chance at getting out clean than hold the turd and assuredly end up covered in shit.

        You know what a douche is for, right? That’s the point of that skit, it’s a Hobsons Choice. It"s amazing to me people continually bring that skit up without understanding what it really meant.

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          11 months ago

          Of course I know what one is for, the point I was making is that what SEEMS to be the same to you and what may have been is no longer the case.

          You’ve clearly already checked out and, at best, listen to mainstream media if you’re still in the “they are the same” or “one hides it better” camp. Lost cause.