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Republicans get a pass though?
No. Abraham Lincoln was the last republican us tankies voted for. We don’t normally vote republican.
But that doesn’t sound like groveling to me. So I guess you do want republicans to win. Which is a shame, becuase I really wanted democrats to win and was going to vote for them. But since you’re not groveling I can’t.
But it makes sense, Trump is attacking our ‘greatest adversary’ ensuring we have ‘the most lethal fighting force in the world’ and continuing the genocide. So you’re getting what you voted for either way.
But the all powerful tankies have made our decision and there was nothing the poor, powerless, helpless president of the United States, Joe Biden or his VP could have done. They couldn’t have stopped the funding for the genocide, Kamala couldn’t have run on popular polices like Medicare for all or against militarism. The democrats were just poor little guys, helpless to stop the all-powerful tankies. Muahahaha
I’ll never understand why anyone would vote for someone who supports republican/Trump policies… SAD :(
Bruh, I'm not even the other guy you responded to, so maybe cool your jets a bit. I'm also not a Democrat. I'm not even US. I was poking fun at "We won't let Democrats hold office until they apologise for genocide" by wondering whether you'd let Republicans hold office then, or whether they'd need to apologise too.
Me not begging you for forgiveness for a party's policies means I want the other party to win? That's one hell of a false equivalence.
It also implies that you'd rather let Republicans win if the Democrats don't come crawling, in which case I don't see the meaningful difference between actively or passively supporting the Republicans.
Oh I understand your confusion now. Let me clarify. We tankies only have the magical powers to control if democrats win office that conservative democrats think we have. We can’t control who actually wins. If a Green, PSL or, Republican candidate got enough votes there’s nothing us tankies could do. Sorry.
And don’t feel bad about your confusion, it’s a common misconception. Especially for someone not from the US, you must be unfamiliar with US politics and culture. Everyone in America knows about this, it’s just like the three shells.
You not groveling will probably be fine… probably. You’re not from the US as we’ve already established. But if you were a conservative American democrat that wanted democrats to win, the tankies have already decided that if they don’t see groveling they won’t use their democrats winning power. I’m sorry that’s all I can divulge from the tankie meeting at this time. But just know we have greater considerations for our choices.
I personally was an advocate for the democrats winning in the last meeting but I’m just one tankie.
Okay, I jist now realise that I probably ate the onion hard on this. Good job!
If Republicans start apologizing for their mistakes then we can talk. Never will happen though, best we get is "I was wrong this time but I learned nothing"