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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
giving high fives to each other about it
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come on--evollove has some great fucking turns of phrase
that baby bottle + hymen thing was an epic burn
if you weren't butthurt you would have been laughing too. admit it, he's good
besides, it's not just good-sounding words, the concepts behind them are correct--it's civic not personal; it's about what's best from the available options and not about waiting for "the one"-- etc.
this is of course why the joke works so well. and maybe it touched a nerve, but it did so with good reason-- it really found the flaw in your position. it's not really about "your conscience," but rather what is best for the country. etc etc
and being a civics teacher you know the differences in funding of programs like wic and headstart, in judicial appointments, in environmental policies, etc etc
on top of that-- you ask for hillary's positives, which are in the policies she champions and you admit that she can get shit done. but hillary is not without context--things don't happen in a vacuum.
my position here is that trump must not just be defeated, but thoroughly humiliated, so that never again another monster like him is allowed to rise-- and the despicables know once and for all that the country stands against racism, xenophobia, willful ignorance and many other things too long and sad to list over & over on a lazy sunday morning.