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[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You're hilarious. agamemnon, you are making the claim for which there is no evidence. You are the one saying that voting and particularly voting for genocidal war criminal administrators of empire somehow slows fascism down.

Obama shows us that is fundamentally not the case. Trump's entire operational and bureaucratic basis for deploying ICE into cities was created by Obama and Biden. Tom Homan, Trump's main deportation guy, was appointed by Obama and was Obama's main deportation guy. Trump is able to do what he's doing literally because we voted in Obama and Biden.

And after Trump showed us what he and his team would do in Term 1, we voted in Biden and what happened? The Supreme Court gave the president total immunity to anything while in office. Biden decided to do literally nothing to stop Trump coming back to power. He had the Epstein files. He had the same witnesses. He had the immunity. He did nothing. He did worse than nothing, he refused to give Harris the time she needed to run an actual campaign, deliberately driving a nail into the coffin of that absolute shitshow of a campaign. And Biden was a KNOWN fascist. From th Crime Bill to his full-throated support for Israel and their genocide of the Palestinians. He was a fascist, and he oversaw a genocide. It never slowed down.

You're relying on some counterfactual that if we hadn't have had that Biden term it would have been worse, or if we hadn't had those Obama terms, it would have been worse, but there's no way to validate those claims, and all th evidence is that they actively support the trajectory and they completely abandon any responsibility to slow it down or stop it.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Trump: did a bunch of terrible shit

Biden: did nothing

Trump: doing a bunch of terrible ahit

If you can't see how "doing nothing" is preferable to "doing a bunch of terrible shit" then we're at an impasse here.

I'd rather have a donkey trying to pull against me than an elephant. If you can't understand that, you're lost.

Stop viewing the world in imaginary binaries. You can do more than one thing.