108
submitted 5 months ago by fox@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net

Worse than Buchanan, worse than Jackson, worse than Nixon, worse than Reagan

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] yuli@hexbear.net 46 points 5 months ago

Disagree. Millions dead is nothing compared to attempting to destabilize the world's most powerful democracy. That could lead to untold global suffering. Millions would have died of covid even if he had responded well (and had not axed the pandemic response thing back in like 2018). Trump's response was bad, and he definitely had an impact, but not as much as you might think.

xi-plz

[-] BovineUniversity@hexbear.net 45 points 5 months ago

Trump's response was bad, and he definitely had an impact, but not as much as you might think.

Unironically true, millions of Americans would've died of covid under any realistic American president. There's literally no circumstance in which an American leader puts forward actually good covid policy, and in which the American people actually follow said policy.

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago

Yep! Between the AIDS epidemic and Covid, it's beyond question: the USA has zero capacity to respond to new plagues.

this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2024
108 points (100.0% liked)

the_dunk_tank

15830 readers
526 users here now

It's the dunk tank.

This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.

Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.

Rule 3: No sectarianism.

Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome

Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)

Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.

Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.

Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this. Posts that do not meet this requirement can be posted to !shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml

Rule 9: if you post ironic rage bait im going to make a personal visit to your house to make sure you never make this mistake again

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS