• barooboodoo@lemmy.zip
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    20 hours ago

    Trust them to do what exactly? Were y’all asleep during covid? You can’t trust humans to put a mask on during a pandemic. But I don’t go into every interaction assuming the worst of the other person. Now if we’re talking about the American government? Yeah that’s a valid sentiment.

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      15 hours ago

      Trust them to have basic human decency, trust them to not invade Canada, trust them to rigorously oppose a criminal regime?

      As George Carlin said: “Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.”

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      14 hours ago

      Or any time during NAFTA.

      Too many lemmy conservatives left onguardforthee now it’s full of pro US posters.