This is Lemmy, not Reddit. You can say “shoot Republicans” here :)

and they might not get into heaven if they don’t

That’s it. That’s the entire reasoning. This is why MAGA had that mass-psychosis about the “Rapture” late last September. This is the stated reason our Republican Senators and house Reps echo when supporting Israel. Because the Bible says those who support Israel will be raptured… except the Bible doesn’t actually say that. MAGA just wants to be free of this world.

Even with their politicians in office, MAGA hates this time as much as the most devout leftist. We’re all suffering, everywhere, unless you have Big money. Republicans just think that suffering under their Dear Leader is how they ascend into the afterlife, so they can finally be free of their pain. Rather than support actual policy changes, they’ll try to unlock some “secret ending” they heard about in their churches.

It’s actual insanity. You’d have better luck quoting scripture to getting these people to believe different nonsense, than to get them to touch base with reality. Fuck… I can’t really blame them. The last year has made me lose my mind, and I don’t want it back.

I’d look the other way if the Republicans start culling their own.

IMO it’s simpler than that. Overwhelmingly USAmerican political turnout is highest among those dissatisfied with the sitting administration. It’s why we’ve had these 2-term party swaps, which became 1-term swaps after Trump-1; and is why Presidents tend to lose political power in Congress as their terms go on. That can change with an actually inspiring candidate (and I think Mamdani is that type, as was Bernie in 2016).

Generally though, if people are picking what they deem as a lesser evil, hate of the current administration is the main way to push them to action on Election Day.

Mamdani will run bread lines. Republicans grab you off the streets and send you to labor camps.

And they completely drowned out all their 9/11 memorials with mourning Kirk. 2025 was they year they forgor💀

yes - did mean “conflating”. mb.

This is actually what Al Qaeda wanted - to provoke destabilization of the USA by baiting over-extension in the Middle East. War sucks for the people of all nations involved, and an empire in constant war will inevitably brew dissatisfaction and dissent among its people.

It seems you’re correlating conflating “polyamory” (non-monogamous relationships) with “polycules” (relationships with more than two people). Not all polyamory is a polycule and not all polycules are necessarily permanent; nor have their members exclusive with each other.

Sometimes polyamory looks like a marriage where both members have okayed having sex with other people. Sometimes it’s groups of “swinger” marriages where they “swap” members. Sometimes it’s just a person who regularly casually hooks up with others. I’d argue that what people consider monogamous relationships have a bit of wiggle room. Life is complicated; people are complicated.

I remain as shocked as you. When Trump was the candidate in 2024 I figured Kamala’s victory was guaranteed. What I’ve come to realize in recent years is that USAmericans are fundamentally unwise. They really vote based on what they feel in the moment, hence why as the country gets worse, the elections keep flip-flopping.

Trump lost in 2020 because of Covid-19 and won in 2024 because of “grocery prices” and being the opposite major party to the current guy. The fact that he’s an insurrectionist rapist conman who pioneered division and destruction just doesn’t matter to them. The 2016-2020 term? The Pandemic he failed to maintain? Forgotten about. The embarrassments in the Republican-held congress? Most voters don’t even recall them. How any of us live with this is beyond me. It’s like being held hostage by self destructive parents.

Only time will tell, but I don’t think this story should be spread until the Election closes tomorrow. I don’t want to risk scaring Mamdani voters to vote for Cuomo to appease these terrorist Republicans.

You don’t get it! Mamdani just doesn’t get 9/11 culture! He doesn’t even like Israel! He’s just not one of The Boys™

I wonder if these public statements are meant to persuade Mamdani voters to switch to Cuomo as a “lesser evil” from this chaos. IMO the less attention we give these threats, the better. Congress isn’t even in session right now, and should they reconvene; swearing in Adelita Grijalva and voting on the Epstein files are going to be the main points of contention.

Yeah, same… How wrong I was.

Worse. Bounty Hunters have already been wrecking havoc on the USA, years before Trump. Take everything bad about greedy corporate attitude, and give those people the ego of a police officer. This is exactly what ICE wants - with the bonus that if any case gets extremely bad press, some private citizen takes the fall.

I recall watching a story - 2 months ago, a man named Hussein Alsaadi was kidnapped from Richardson, Texas by a team of bounty hunters - they abducted him from his home on a warrant for a different man. But, again, this is not Just a 2025 problem, it’s been like this for a while.

Also the USA has nukes. No one’s going to invade us, because doing so would be a destructive act, and the final order of any armed state is to nuke its attackers. This is the same reason North Korea gets to remain its defiant self when their army could be obliterated in a few bombing runs. This isn’t even counting all the non-nuclear weaponry we have. Think of that annual budget of hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending that keeps getting raised every year…

I mean, moreso, that we’re just taking it. Conservatives stormed stores with mask mandates and forcefully “bought” items while being refused service. In Canada, they had that whole Truck convoy. All of this, over conspiracy theories and inconveniences.

Meanwhile ICE is running mass “deportations” (to random countries the victims never belonged to) and people are… just letting it happen??

I think this says something more about the Left and Liberals in the USA :P

This is probably why USA politics is so swayed by large donations. Only big money can afford buying TV ads over a year.

*years of supposed Reddit posts showing a clear new ideology, which Graham didn’t even want shown. These were dug up by opposition. That just makes those posts feel more genuine in my mind. Maybe he broke free of the Military’s cult ideology and now this is him making amends. Can we accept an apology from a person is trying to save us?