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Remember how huge this was when it happened? How unbelievably and insanely unacceptable it was? Well it’s been accepted.

What has been done about it? What came from all of that gnashing of teeth and saber rattling from the right?

Example 7,648,623,424 that nothing will ever come from anything. We’ve been hearing for years about what is supposedly coming, arrests, tribunals, people getting fed up, people fighting back, taking the house, taking the Senate, or whatever we’ve distracted ourselves with At the moment, whatever we think is the thing we should do, but none of it ever matters. Years pass. Years! You know that years do eventually become decades and decades eventually become centuries. Nothing is going to change. At all.

Our republic is not only dead, it’s cold.

We aren’t even focused on the right things nonetheless accomplishing anything. Every single motherfucking day, another article was posted somewhere, maybe in a place like this, maybe somewhere else, that sparks outrage.

Look at what they are doing now!

And?

Nothing. The republic is dead because the men inside of it are dead.

And then half of the people who are awake, alert and intelligent enough to see through this shit are themselves fooled and misled because half of the shit they believe is beyond insane, and unsupported by facts or evidence, and yet they still believe it. And these are the sane people!

These are the ones who don’t just believe what the TV tells them, but their failing is that they believe what the “alternative media“ tells them. Even when that media is wrong, even when that media is lying, even when that media has a track record of never getting anything right. They still regurgitate it. They still uncritically post links to articles that make absolutely no sense when put into context.

But it’s a context they will never see, it is one they will reject when it’s brought to them, because they are, in fact, exactly the same as their counterparts on the left. They believe what they want to and refuse any new information that goes against what they already believe.

Our republic is so goddamn gay I can’t wait for it to just burn.

I went from loving this republic to hating it. I hate just about everyone in it, from all political stripes, hate them all. They are disgusting, ignorant, myopic, and all think exactly that of everyone else who disagrees with them.

Each one of them is addicted to the information they get from their own masters but they think they are the ones with the “real” information. It’s so embarrassing. No one cares about truth anymore, they care about picking a side, digging in their heels, and refusing to budge.

One side treats Covid exact same way the other side treats vaccine deaths, and you can flip it around, and it wouldn’t matter. They both doing the exact same thing. They are both doing the exact same thing with data, news reports, numbers, statistics, the exact same thing. Exact. Same. Thing. And I want them all to just die. All of them they are insufferable.

They’re not worth saving.

Remember how huge this was when it happened? How unbelievably and insanely unacceptable it was? Well it’s been accepted. What has been done about it? What came from all of that gnashing of teeth and saber rattling from the right? Example 7,648,623,424 that nothing will ever come from anything. We’ve been hearing for years about what is supposedly coming, arrests, tribunals, people getting fed up, people fighting back, taking the house, taking the Senate, or whatever we’ve distracted ourselves with At the moment, whatever we think is the thing we should do, but none of it ever matters. Years pass. Years! You know that years do eventually become decades and decades eventually become centuries. Nothing is going to change. At all. Our republic is not only dead, it’s cold. We aren’t even focused on the right things nonetheless accomplishing anything. Every single motherfucking day, another article was posted somewhere, maybe in a place like this, maybe somewhere else, that sparks outrage. Look at what they are doing now! And? Nothing. The republic is dead because the men inside of it are dead. And then half of the people who are awake, alert and intelligent enough to see through this shit are themselves fooled and misled because half of the shit they believe is beyond insane, and unsupported by facts or evidence, and yet they still believe it. And these are the sane people! These are the ones who don’t just believe what the TV tells them, but their failing is that they believe what the “alternative media“ tells them. Even when that media is wrong, even when that media is lying, even when that media has a track record of never getting anything right. They still regurgitate it. They still uncritically post links to articles that make absolutely no sense when put into context. But it’s a context they will never see, it is one they will reject when it’s brought to them, because they are, in fact, exactly the same as their counterparts on the left. They believe what they want to and refuse any new information that goes against what they already believe. Our republic is so goddamn gay I can’t wait for it to just burn. I went from loving this republic to hating it. I hate just about everyone in it, from all political stripes, hate them all. They are disgusting, ignorant, myopic, and all think exactly that of everyone else who disagrees with them. Each one of them is addicted to the information they get from their own masters but they think they are the ones with the “real” information. It’s so embarrassing. No one cares about truth anymore, they care about picking a side, digging in their heels, and refusing to budge. One side treats Covid exact same way the other side treats vaccine deaths, and you can flip it around, and it wouldn’t matter. They both doing the exact same thing. They are both doing the exact same thing with data, news reports, numbers, statistics, the exact same thing. Exact. Same. Thing. And I want them all to just die. All of them they are insufferable. They’re not worth saving.

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