inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 21 hours agoTrump said to lift all military restrictions on Israel on 1st day in office according to reportswww.foxnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square161fedilinkarrow-up1378arrow-down119file-text
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minus-squaredistantsounds@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down12·14 hours agoThat sounds like some extortion. Not exactly something I would want to champion or believe to be a viable political platform
minus-squareBilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down6·13 hours agoBlinks That… is nothing the fuck like extortion. “Vote for me or I’ll release these pictures of you fucking your dog” is extortion. “Vote for me because my opponent will make this issue you claim to care about worse” is not.
minus-squarefutatorius@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·7 hours ago That sounds like some extortion. Life gives us hard choices. Whining that they don’t perfectly suit your pristine moral absolutism doesn’t change that.
minus-squareHamartia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·4 hours agoThat reads like exactly how republicans describe democrats. Can you not see how far to the right you have strayed?
That sounds like some extortion. Not exactly something I would want to champion or believe to be a viable political platform
Blinks
That… is nothing the fuck like extortion.
“Vote for me or I’ll release these pictures of you fucking your dog” is extortion.
“Vote for me because my opponent will make this issue you claim to care about worse” is not.
Life gives us hard choices. Whining that they don’t perfectly suit your pristine moral absolutism doesn’t change that.
That reads like exactly how republicans describe democrats. Can you not see how far to the right you have strayed?