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Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
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In reply to the discussion: Tulsi Gabbard's "Regime-Change War" is the language of Putin and Russia [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)32. Sophistry, unintentional or otherwise. If RUSSIA is using it,
and if Gabbard is using it, you shouldn't. You don't actually need to understand why they're pushing this idea. That Russia is trying to destroy your wellbeing is all you should to know to realize you have to stop them.
You wouldn't like living the rest of your life in a destroyed, impoverished, despotic nation. If that seems a lot to imagine Russia capable of, please remember climate change and imagine not addressing it and the end of work as we know it. Famine is common in Russia, just not allowed to be widespread enough to give a bad appearance to the faux elections they put on.
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Tulsi Gabbard's "Regime-Change War" is the language of Putin and Russia [View all]
scheming daemons
Oct 2019
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I remember trolls hard at work repeating that President Obama was doing regime change.
betsuni
Oct 2019
#6
you do not win propaganda wars by saying things that simply are not true (ie. that Syria was never
Celerity
Oct 2019
#31
I simply disagree, and the original point I was making still stands. Regime change in Syria was the
Celerity
Oct 2019
#33
I do not support Gabbard at all, and I recently changed my mind and now think she will (and should)
Celerity
Oct 2019
#36
She's plastered Iowa with billboards and parts of Des Moines with yard signs
Algernon Moncrieff
Oct 2019
#8
the way she said it, it was like she thought it was a magic spell or something.
mopinko
Oct 2019
#18