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usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social ·
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He changed from Republican to Democrat one day before being arrested but it now means dems pick up a seat in the WV state legislature

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He changed from Republican to Democrat one day before being arrested but it now means dems pick up a seat in the WV state legislature

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usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social ·
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https://bsky.app/profile/fawfulfan.bsky.social/post/3lfb7hsacrs22

Edit: also the direct link to the article https://www.rawstory.com/west-virginia/

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    Why like a picture of a post and not the article?

    And then you provide a link to the post, also instead of the article?

    Just…

    Why?

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
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      Story’s main headline doesn’t really capture the gist very well, and this post gave a much better summary

      I added the direct link of the story to the body

    • DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com
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      here you go: https://www.rawstory.com/west-virginia/

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    Here’s how that will play out:

    Democrats want to take the “moral high ground”, so they pass the torch to the republicans.

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      Nope, they are already talking about finding a dem to fill the seat

      https://xcancel.com/wvdemocrats/status/1877091928430219490

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        WV is Joe Manchin country so my hopes for an actual Dem of the people is very low.

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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      Mankind is barely able to look beyond the benefit of their direct offspring, much less future generations, and often, not even that far. It will always be a race to the bottom as long as being immoral yields immediate benefits at the cost of long-term good.

      There are moral, long-term thinking people, but these often lose battles to immoral short-term thinkers since they tend to not be willing to sacrifice “the moral high ground,” lest they become no better than their opponents.

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        • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
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          So… if I start a nuclear war… and wipe out the entire human race… I’m the most moral person because I’ve reduced the number of killers in the world to zero, forever?

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            I’m no ethicist, but I can’t argue with the logic.

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    Gonna own the libs by making sure it’s their party that is associated with my arrest…doh!

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    We often hear about Dems going Rep, but this is one of the very few times I hear about the reverse.

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    Man, Steven Seagal is really going through some stuff, isn’t he?

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      More than you may realize.

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    ‘They play stupid games, they are getting stupid awards … I have only begun … and won’t stop. I had a vision to destroy them from the angel of Moroni.’

    100% guarantee that he’s Mormon, and likely some version of a Mormon fundamentalist (…as if regular Mormonism wasn’t crazy enough). “Angel of Moroni” is a dead giveaway.

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      Angel of moronism for him if he actually did what the article states.

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    I didn’t see in the article if it said why he switched parties. Was it just because the other magats were being mean?

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      Might be so that the news reported him as a terrorist Democrat?

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    Lmao this is dope. Mormonism doing good for once.

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    Okay, this… is hilarious.

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