• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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    3 months ago

    It is expected but still sad that only some can admit not being at war with Iran nor closing the strait of Hormuz, IN HINDSIGHT, would have led to cheaper fuel.

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      Even sadder is that so many of those people care more about gas prices going up than the illegality of the war itself and its civilian casualties in Iran.

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        3 months ago

        Republicans do not care about human lives. They barely care about American lives.

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          They don’t care about any loves other than their own. They lack empathy. Everyone other than them is expendable.

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            That’s not fair, they also care about lives they aren’t alive yet. Once they’re born they can get fucked though.

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        I don’t think people realize the humanitarian crisis that’s going to occur if the desalination plant attacks spiral any further. It’ll consume not just Iran but the entire region.

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    Can’t even get it right when these idiots are admitting they’re wrong.

    GAS WOULD BE SIGNIFICANTLY LESS OF AN ISSUE EITHER WAY BECAUSE WE WOULDN’T HAVE PISSED AWAY 2 YEARS PRETENDING ELECTRIFICATION WERE DEAD.

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      For real, the removal of federal incentives caused a huge wave of EV cancellations, which will inevitably increase demand for oil, which will increase prices.

      But as always the bipartisan support for higher oil prices comes from the lack of regulation around them. Big Oil is taking this opportunity to drive up prices artificially and recording record profits (again). You would think with the importance of oil on our entire economy that someone would reign them in but alas their pockets are too deep.

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    3 months ago

    FTA:

    Thirty-five percent said gas prices would have gone up the same amount under a Democrat, while only 34 percent of Trump’s 2024 voters believe gas prices would have gone up more under a Democratic administration.

    Am I reading this correctly? 69% of Trump voters think gas would have been the same or worse with Harris?

    I seriously doubt that any of these people thought for one moment about what they said, but this is actually a complicated issue. Would Iran have closed the Strait of Hormuz if only Israel had attacked them? My guess is that they wouldn’t, but it’s just a guess.

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      It could very well be that Israel wouldn’t have attacked Iran in the first place if Trump wasn’t president.

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      if only Israel had attacked

      Do you think Harris wouldn’t have backed Israel? Biden’s policy on Israel seemed to be publicly aligning 100% while quietly whispering, “Are you sure you know what you’re doing, Bebe?”

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        Love it when people know everything that might have happened, as long as it makes Republicans look less shitty

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          I can’t believe I’m the first you’re hearing this from, but a common criticism of Harris’ campaign was her failure to distinguish herself from Biden.

          “What, if anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?”

          “There is not a thing that comes to mind”

          She even campaigned as the only one who could stop Trump. Which sounded very similar to Biden’s campaign for the soul of America.

          So, yeah, I guess I was misled into thinking they both might govern the same way.

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      Tarrifs, corruption, ICE funding, concentration camps, protest response, extra assassination attempts, remodeling the white house every six months, the ballroom, setting up adversarial trade relations with most of the world, lawsuits (sometimes against himself in order to extract money from the government), Trump has spent more than any other president and has greatly increased the debt ceiling.

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    3 months ago

    Some Trump supporters believe in objective reality? Well, that’s a start.

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    I didn’t vote for trump, but I might have if I knew that he would make gas prices higher than $100/gallon permanently.

    We can’t afford the cost of low gas prices.

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    This voter thinks that gas would have been cheaper and there wouldn’t have been a paramilitary force grabbing people off the street if Kamala had won.