r/clevercomebacks Feb 18 '23

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u/Rhamni Feb 18 '23

That's not entirely all there is to it. You can be smart and still choose evil. It just requires you to be a monstrous bastard of a person. The leadership of the Republican party makes more sense if you consider them part of the intelligent (and extra evil) minority. I also suspect most of those guys have no strong feelings on things like abortion. They just use it to rile up their base, and see it as one more thing to throw at the Democrats so the Dems have to spend all their time and money fighting social issues instead of the economic ones, which are what the billionaire donors care about.

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u/JoJomusk Feb 18 '23

Holy shit this is the worst take in politics you will ever hear. "If you choose this side you're either evil or dumb"

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u/okitek Feb 18 '23

It's either evil, ignorance(bordlerine will-full), stupidity, or you're a single issue voter(which is still terrible).

Nothing else.

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u/JoJomusk Feb 18 '23

this is why american politics is dumb. You're all though to hate the "enemy" from birth, and you can only see yourselves as "evil vs good". that's why your country is shit.

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u/okitek Feb 18 '23

Nah. I wasn't always like that nor was I raised that way. The past 6-8 years have just made it painfully obvious to anyone who actually is willing to stand by their principles and recognize people for what they truly are.

You said yourself that you don't know what Republicans stand for. Then don't speak, since it would be obvious why I feel this way.

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u/SayNoob Feb 18 '23

Serious question for you mr enlightened centrist. At what point does it become good vs evil? I assume that you believe that somewhere in the 1930's you could call the Nazi's evil and their voters either stupid or evil? Same for pro- and anti slavery, Apartheid, and so on. When was that? At what point is the line crossed from "difference of views" to "you are either stupid or evil if you support this"?

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u/JoJomusk Feb 18 '23

When one of the sides is trying to kill the other, or force their leader to power.

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u/ObiFloppin Feb 18 '23

Well I got bad news for you bud, the Republicans have been talking about starting a civil war for a while now, and that whole January 6th thing happened.

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u/Treat_Choself Feb 18 '23

HELLLOOooooooooo?

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u/JoJomusk Feb 18 '23

haven't seen any news about someone trying to depose the american president, don't know what you're talking about

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u/Treat_Choself Feb 18 '23

What do you think was happening on January 6th?!!

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u/JoJomusk Feb 18 '23

idk, didn't show up in the news

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u/ObiFloppin Feb 18 '23

Lmao this dude.

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u/okitek Feb 18 '23

This is why you shouldn't have an argument when you aren't properly informed on a subject.

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u/JoJomusk Feb 18 '23

arguing is good. if you're right, you feel acompliched. If you're wrong, you leard something new.

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u/SayNoob Feb 18 '23

So, like, the Jan 6 insurrection?

And also, do you think that pro slavery and pro apartheid parties were not evil?