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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Three deadliest words: “I’m a moderate”. Featured on front page of the Times online, a NC woman explaining why she, a moderate Republican, is voting for Kamala. It tells us what the Times thinks is important — the status quo, obviously, that America remain the nightmare to itself and the rest of the planet. And it tells us that the mentality of the Democrats and Kamala is stuck idling in neutral, somewhere in the 1970s, when there actually were moderate Republicans like John Lindsay. Most of all, it tells us few awake Americans to get off our asses and recognize that moderates and the Times are incompatible with real revolutionary change, that flapping jaws about choosing red or blue is just a profoundly deep pile of happy horseshit to slip on and fall into on the way to the empire’s demise.

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Ari Prashaad's avatar

Coming from a minority’s perspective I believe the majority is now realizing what America has always been which was known to most minorities. They and I have known the evil and the greed that America was built on and continues to forge with. This is a perspective you can find in the Global South. It is known to us as common knowledge. I would consider this time period as the Awakening of Americans. Americans have had such a privileged life compared to other countries that were forcefully subjugated by the U.S. for the U.S in the name of “democracy”. Falsely presenting to the American public for most of its history if not all of its history, that the U.S. are the “good guys” while every other country that doesn’t concede to American ideology are “evil”, barbaric, terrorists.

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David Baird's avatar

Right, Ari. And we, here in Australia, are constantly reminded that we are 'joined at the hip' with Uncle Sam and such being the case, must recognise that we are equally guilty. It's only a matter of scale; the crime of supporting and supplying the Israeli rogue state with its tools of death makes us just as reprehensible in our 'moderation' and with our mealy-mouthed 'voice of reason'.

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Ari Prashaad's avatar

As an American as a Veteran, I have so much guilt for being indoctrinated by the western propaganda even when I knew all of this information prior. I still wished and wanted to be proven wrong. Time and time again I was proven right. In my opinion now it is our time to hold the torch of truth and educate others, help people understand through the lies.

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Patrick Powers's avatar

I see continuing zombiehood. It's quite disturbing in people you felt certain would never succumb. I just stay away from them

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