• ArchRecord@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    If you can’t see the difference between a centrist party and a far-right fascist one, then I hold no hope for your political literacy going forward.

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      I can see that Biden held twice children at the border at one time than Trump at his highest. I can see that weapons and money to Israel skyrocketed under Biden. I can see that Obama alone prosecuted more whistleblowers than the US had prosecuted in its entire history.

      If you only count it as fascism when it starts affecting white people half as much as it was affecting the rest of us then you can’t be surprised we consider you just as much of a fascist as them.

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        8 hours ago

        Both

        And yet one of them does significantly more to ruin the planet than the other.

        If you want the highest possible chance of changing the world for the better, you want a party in power that is the least bad of the options available to you. That doesn’t mean that party is good in itself, but it’s certainly the best chance you’ll get.

        If you want to save the climate, for instance, the party that’s open to developing more clean energy, even if they still support fossil fuels in some capacity, is better than the one actively dismantling climate regulations, halting clean energy development, and increasing our fossil fuel production to an even higher rate.

        Nobody likes this duopoly, but when you live under one, you have to pick the side that will do the least harm in order to implement your own goals to reduce harm further.

        This doesn’t mean the Democrats are inherently good, but they’re certainly going to give you a better shot at improving the world than the neo-Nazis will.

        let’s leave it there

        Sure, I’ve now got nothing left to say.

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        8 hours ago

        No because that is only a half truth. You are willfully ignorant of the other half of the equation. One side is measurably more damaging to the US and the world overall. You don’t get to “both sides” this.

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          4 hours ago

          Biden approved more and more fracking projects and oil exctraction hit record rates. Just because NBC kept saying everything was okay now doesn’t mean that it was, some of us were paying as much attention then as we did under Trump, unlike dems.