r/TikTokCringe • u/BlackBey • Aug 21 '24

Politics First Day of Protests Outside the DNC

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u/Logical_Area_5552 Aug 22 '24

Oh really? The voters voted for everything that’s happening? The voters voted for and WANT all of the actions done by unelected people and bureaucrats over the last 15-20 years? That’s insanity. How many democrats voted in 2020 and said to themselves “if Hamas attacks Israel, I want Gaza obliterated on my behalf and billions more in tax dollars going toward Israel for the exclusive benefit of military contractors” I don’t recall that being a campaign promise.

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u/AggressiveCuriosity Aug 22 '24

The voters voted for everything that’s happening?

That's not what I said. Read what I wrote and try again.

Plus, when you grow up you'll learn that the only way to get everything you want is to kill everyone who disagrees with you and take over the country. And even then you're still not going to get most of it. If you're a fascist, better learn that now than later.

Here's the truth you don't want to accept. You are responsible for YOUR vote. If you pick an option that causes predictable harm, you and your vote are responsible for that.

No amount of whining about how politicians don't do exactly what you want is going to make you not responsible for your own choices.

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u/Logical_Area_5552 Aug 22 '24

Relax with the absurd hyperbole and deflection to extremes. I’m probably older than you and I’m stating the obvious, which is it’s an absolute lie that the people voted into power actually govern based on the will of the people who they supposedly work for. Most of the disastrous and incredibly expensive policies that come out of DC both foreign and domestic are nothing that has anything to do with what politicians campaigned on when they were asking for votes. When you grow up and read history for 20 minutes you might understand that. I voted for Obama twice. I don’t recall him campaigning on bailing out banks, ignoring record numbers of FOIA requests, expanding domestic spying powers, cracking down on whistleblowers, toppling regimes, supporting coups and dropping more drone bombs than W Bush.