I highly doubt the left will do anything uncivil. How can they win back the country? Is it too late?

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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      Ekſkyuz M f heziteıtıŋ ėbaut bııŋ frendlı ƿið pıpėl hu “diſėgrı” ðæt Uı hæv ineılıėbél hyumin ruıtſ.

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      Excuse me for hesitating about being friendly with people who "disagree* that I have inaliable human rights.

      İf ðiſ z’n dju̇ſt ė muıkrokȯzm v kėnſṙvėtiv pėtṙnėlizm. “Y did’n ækt greıtfᵫl inu̇f t M f letıŋ Y hæv livıŋ privlidjz, ſ nau Y kæn hæv ðem bæk ƿen Y lṙn t pleı nuıſ ƿið M æ a muı frendz hu aṙ teıkıŋ ðem frėm Y!.”

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      If this isn’t just a microcosm of conservative paternalism. "You didn’t act grateful enough to me for letting you have living privileges, so now you can have them back when you learn to play nice with me and my friends who are taking them from you.

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    Democracy is just the tyranny of the majority.

    I think that most of the Americans want this, even if people on the outside do not understand. So in that sense they are right now winning back their country, as confusing as it might sound.

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      No, there is a concerted effort by conservatives to use voter suppression to subvert the will of the majority in the US.

      conservatives are clawing back the country right now by hook and by crook.

      can’t go on forever, but I don’t know which is going to last longer: the country or the aging frightened conservatives willing to subvert democracy to hang on to control.

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      I think that most of the Americans want this

      Maybe, but none of the facts directly support this.

      There have been large campaigns to disenfranchise several types of voters for decades in the country. The Electoral College was designed to be unfair to appease Slave states. Voter turnout is abysmal, only about 35% of eligible citizens vote. Out of those turnout is usually around the same percentage. The highest turnout recently was 2020 only because mail in voting was expanded so dramatically, and even then it was only 67% of registered voters, so it was still only 67% of that original 37% of eligible voters. So with the highest recent turnout, we’re looking at about 25% of eligible citizens actually voting.

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        Dafuk are you talking about? Voter turnout is 67% of all eligible voters. It’s highest since it’s ever been. And Trump won the popular vote. At least look at the facts instead of crying “stolen election”.