• hark@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    So he’s continuing trump’s border policy, he’s continuing and expanding upon trump’s trade war with china, and he’s a full supporter of israel just like trump. Why is he like this?

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      6 months ago

      Because we have been sold the Coke vs Pepsi narrative of politics our entire lives.

      We have a pro-corporate party and a rabidly pro-corporate party that is also anti-human.

      The choices are always “stay the same” or “make things worse”.

      That’s it.

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      6 months ago

      He’s not a loudmouth liar, but he’s pretty much in the same deep pockets as Trump. Changing our FPTP voting system is vital to getting rid of this two party system.

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      6 months ago

      Title 42 was monstrous. Forcibly separating parents from children, then deporting parents while detaining children in facilities where they were physically and sexually abused, had nations around the world calling for an end to our atrocities.

      That also came with the Executive Order that outright banned any immigration of Muslim or “suspected Muslim” people.

      It’s also awfully hypocritical of you to denounce support for Israel for committing genocide, while criticizing the withdrawal of support for China, who is also committing genocide.

      https://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/tibet/china-tibet-and-the-uyghurs

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      6 months ago

      Because he’s old. Any other country, he’d be a conservative, but the Overton window in the US is so fucked, we have to choose between a conservative and a fascist.

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        6 months ago

        I agree that he’s a conservative, but I don’t think it’s down to age. Bernie Sanders is one year older and is not like that.

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          6 months ago

          Bernie Sanders has always been ahead of the cultural curve. It’s the difference between “knowing” progress and “understanding” progress. Sanders understands what equality means. Biden just says things that are popular at the time. While Sanders was getting arrested for protesting for equal rights, Biden was attending the same types of parties as Trump.

          disclaimer: I AM NOT IMPLING THAT TRUMP AND BIDEN ARE THE SAME. Vote for Biden if for no other reason that we already know Trump would be far worse. Just saying that when you line up the three, it’s harder to spot the differences between Trump and Biden.