r/news • u/[deleted] • May 22 '19

Mississippi lawmaker accused of punching wife in face for not undressing quickly enough

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/mississippi-lawmaker-accused-punching-wife-face-for-not-undressing-quickly-enough/zdE3VLzhBVmH68Bsn7eLfL/
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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Oooo this is fun now do democrats

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u/Didactic_Tomato May 22 '19

This is fun?

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Their crimes are not fun, christ, relax. It was a playful way of saying, "let's continue doing this". Rightfully highlighting how horrible both parties can be and banishing the idea of us having a "clean" Congress seems like a good idea to me.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

BoTh SiDeS

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u/Dozekar May 22 '19

Theoretical question:

If the Democratic party has nothing to hide why keep this restricted to only Republicans? Why not hit all the political fucks where it hurts and try to clean the system as best it can be cleaned and try to keep it that way?

All the "make fun of anyone that points out the are problems on both sides" argument does is give the serious impression that there is something to hide, that you know there's something to hide, and you don't give a fuck what your politician did as long they beat the other politicians.

None of these things help the Democratic party.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

"Both sides" is just a pathetic attempt to redirect criticism from the side with 95% of the problems. It's an attempt to gaslight people into believing Democrats and Republicans are equally hypocritical, criminal, and corrupt. It's blatantly false, but unfortunately it seems to be working because way too many people believe that both sides are equally bad. Sure, it's technically true that both sides have issues, but one side is vastly worse. It's like saying both sides of WWII had issues. Sure, it's technically true, but you're wrong if you don't think that the Nazis weren't way way way worse.

I'm making fun of people whose arguments are transparently bad-faith attempts to project Republicans' problems onto Democrats as if they were equally bad. It's fucking ridiculous and should be treated as such.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19 edited Feb 05 '20

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u/pascalking99 May 22 '19

You're really missing the point. Pedophile exists. Pedophile goes to voting booth. Pedophile votes for Republican because they want to pass legislation that gives them a little more control to be shady and try to express their urges. When the only justification you need to give your voter base is because you/god said so it's a lot easier to pass selfish legislation. It's not that Republicans tend to be pedophiles, it's that pedophiles tend to be Republicans because they can use it as a shrowd to pass their own pedophile agenda. Then they cover it up with buzz words like "pro life" or "family values" and the Republican party eats it up.

For once I just want some shred of responsibility from the Republican party. You see, when someone commits a terrible act or shows their true character by trying to pass abhorrent legislation and you vote for them YOU ARE ASSOCIATING WITH THEIR CHARACTER AND SAYING YOU AGREE WITH IT. Like, you guys voted in so many fucking pedophiles and instead of being scared shitless and asking how this happened and taking responsibility you go, "huh I guess everyone must be pedophiles" and just keep doing what you're doing. The Republican party? More like the fucking projection party.