• dubs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    Different doesn’t mean Biden was good, just that he was so much better than the alternative.

    “so much better” is where we disagree. The dude was a monster.

    Did his administration blow up ships in international waters with no approval?

    Not that I know of. But he sure did that to innocent people on land.

    Deport citizens arrested by ICE to third-world countries with no trial and refuse to bring them back?

    Yes

    Dismantle USAID, killing multiple thousands of people?

    Nope, but he forced people back to dangerous offices, killing thousands. He backed a genocide, killing multiple thousands. Bombed the hell out of who-knows-how many people. I don’t really care what tool someone used to kill others, I care that they killed others.

    Remove protections from federal land and allow nature to be destroyed? Arrest citizens for using privacy features on their phones? Violate the first-amendment rights of national television broadcasters?

    Yes

    Let goons run around with full illegal access to every government database?

    Yes

    Deny healthcare to women based on their marital status?

    No, but he sat back and did nothing when that happened, and had the full power to help them.

    Beat and jail people protesting ICE raids?

    Yes

    Lie, cheat, scam, rape, steal, corrupt, and otherwise destroy anything they get their hands on?

    Yes

    I could go on, but it’s clear that you are ignoring my point: We were talking about “meaningfully different results”. Just because Biden didn’t do the exact same things as Trump doens’t mean that Biden gave us “meaningfully different results”.

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      I just don’t understand how you can be informed about politics and not understand the enormous gulf between the two primary options. Even for the examples I gave where you can say yes, technically the Biden admin did this too, the difference in scale is staggering.

      DOGE had complete unsupervised access to every government agency without proper security clearance or logging, for example. Trump was literally found in a court of law to have raped someone. Several people who had participated in an ICE protest but left before it became violent were sentenced to 30 to 70 years in prison.

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        I just don’t understand how you can be informed about politics and not understand the enormous gulf between the two primary options.

        Being informed about politics leads one to understand that there is no such gulf.

        Like, you literally thought that ICE appeared less than two years ago, that Biden didn’t take part in any invasions, that Biden didn’t openly abuse power to shield his family from the laws he himself pushed through decades ago, and so on.

        the difference in scale is staggering.

        It’s not. The difference is just decorum and lack thereof.

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          Like, you literally thought that ICE appeared less than two years ago, that Biden didn’t take part in any invasions, that Biden didn’t openly abuse power to shield his family from the laws he himself pushed through decades ago, and so on.

          Sorry, I’m not interested in conversing with someone who can’t read what I’ve already said.

          It’s not. The difference is just decorum and lack thereof.

          …or someone who doesn’t have any idea what’s happening outside.

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        5 hours ago

        And I don’t understand how you can see them do the above listed things, and claim that there is an “enormous gulf between the two primary options”. Yes, there are minor differences, but to say there is an “enormous gulf”, serously downplays how evil and monsterous Biden was.

        Liberals refusing to see how evil and monsterous their politicians are, is one of the reasons that other monsters like Trump keep getting elected.