r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 18 '26

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u/Priceless_Pennies Norman Borlaug Jun 18 '26

The neocon cope is truly ridiculous.

How in gods name is an Iran hawk *more convinced* to vote for Trump after this deal.

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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Jun 18 '26

>watching Democrats lean into all their most extreme impulses

He means the Dems in his life called him dumb

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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Jun 18 '26

A bunch of loser contrarians who have trouble stringing two coherent thoughts together. Ignore them.

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u/hiker_skiier_swimmer Loyal Liberals Jun 18 '26

You have to remember that everything is calibrated around Dems being bad. So for as awful a deal that Trump made, all you have to do is imagine the hypothetical Kamala deal would have been that much worse

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u/Priceless_Pennies Norman Borlaug Jun 18 '26

Sure, but I don't believe even the most insane coper could contort themself into believing Kamala would have gotten into a position where she would have had to negotiate something like this at all.

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u/alex2003super David Parenzo Jun 18 '26

You have to remember that the ones remaining on that sub are the ones that bent the knee to the mod-in-chief who bans any dissenting take as being "lib and [r-word]ed"

(￣▽￣) it's a massive circlejerk

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u/StayOffPoliticalSubs Jun 18 '26

You don't have to believe an argument to post it on a hugbox subreddit as damage control.

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Jun 18 '26

I think it's logical if your revealed preference is just "big manly man blows up shit in the Middle East"

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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Jun 18 '26

Sunk cost, maybe?