This is not me saying at all that Trump is better than Biden; it's more of an equalization argument that I truthfully can't see a fiscal difference.

It's been well known by people like us that the two bourgeois parties are basically the same, but I never really understood how close they were until the last like, 6 months.

Maybe it's JUST Biden that's super similar. But regardless, I just don't see the difference. He spews nice words about trans rights, workers, all of these good things. But the exact same shit that happened under Trump basically happened under Biden. Funding for genocidal states, proxy war funding, funding police, loss of abortion federal protection, separation of kids and parents at the border, etc.

People keep saying Biden is marginally better, where?

I don't know. I can't bring myself to vote for any of these guys this time around.

  • Jennie@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    Racist geriatric maniac who bombs the middle east vs racist geriatric maniac who bombs the middle east. Neither is better or worse than the other at this point

    • SadArtemis🏳️‍⚧️@lemmygrad.ml
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      10 months ago

      At least one of the two sought to leave Syria (though they still also bombed it, because of course they did). Though when it comes to the MENA region I think I agree, both are as vile and deranged as it gets.

      • D61 [any]
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        10 months ago

        "Leaving" doesn't mean much when there are CIA backed militant groups, Special Forces, and private military contractors that can all do the same thing as the soldiers that were redeployed somewhere else.

        • SadArtemis🏳️‍⚧️@lemmygrad.ml
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          10 months ago

          On one hand; agreed. On the other- those US troops illegally stationed in Syria are there for multiple reasons, not all of which their "non-state actor" counterparts can fulfill- and one of those reasons, is to be a tripwire force, whose presence and any casualties can then be used as an excuse to manufacture consent for greater military escalations up to and including open war.

          Once the US troops are out, Syria can begin the (still difficult) process of weeding out the US proxies.

          • D61 [any]
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            10 months ago

            At the moment, there aren't enough reserve troops or political will to fully engage if the tripwire force was ... tripped?

            Best we can manage at the moment is just some long range missile strikes or small scale carpet bombing.

            But yeah, fair point. (Though I suppose you could replace the soldiers with NGO's doing "humanitarian aid" janet-wink and wait for them to start getting attacked as the same function)