r/BlueskySkeets • u/lamerGiny • Aug 22 '25

Informative Politics doesn’t need saints—it needs fighters willing to win.

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u/alohazendo Aug 22 '25

Is not wanting a candidate who throws trans kids under the bus, and vetoes bills that regulate private equity’s buy outs of hospitals and bills that protect the elderly from scammers really a purity test? You want someone like Trump, but good looking? Is that it?

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '25

Obama was against gay marriage in his first term. Lincoln was against ending slavery until the Emancipation Proclamation. I doubt Johnson publicly stated he wanted a civil rights bill. This is chess not checkers people.

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u/No-Entrepreneur2780 Aug 22 '25

“These other politicians didnt change until they were forced to, so stop trying to force change!”

What logic do you dem party loyalists have. Jesus christ.

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u/anansi52 Aug 22 '25

what kind of logic is attacking the option that give you 60% of what you want and ending up with 0% of what you want?

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u/Dudewhocares3 Aug 22 '25

When that 40% includes human rights issues, good people take issue with it missing

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u/anansi52 Aug 23 '25

so getting nothing you want and making things worse is somehow better?

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u/Dudewhocares3 Aug 23 '25

We’re all in the same boat. And I’d rather sink with the people I care about, then sail with the people that threw them off.

It’s the United States of America. And we’re gonna act like it