• unmagical@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    So our choices are:

    • Man that wants to bomb Palestine into the ground, but has made marginal progress in helping secure more jobs domestically and has aided millions of people suffering from oppressive student loan dept
    • Man who has publicly stated he wants to be a dictator, who has previously attempted a self coup, who wants to jail his political enemies, and is threatening a bloodbath if he loses–oh and he also wants to bomb Palestine into the ground.
    • Man who is your conspiracy theorist uncle–who also wants to bomb Palestine into the ground.

    It’s really crazy that it’s anywhere near a toss up.

    Damn shame there isn’t a “don’t bomb Palestine into the ground candidate.”

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      No. It is still nowhere “near a toss up”.

      One candidate is a violent racist who openly talks about how foreigners aren’t humans, led a violent insurrection, and is campaigning on removing the basic human rights of half the country.

      The other candidate has some REAL blind spots when it comes to “crime” and a hard-on for Israel but is otherwise good.

      I could MAYBE understand a weird sense of ethics where “Well, women and LGBTQ folk deserve to suffer if we won’t protect Palestine” but it isn’t even like trump is going to protect Palestine either.

      So get out of here with that “both sides” nonsense.

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        They’re talking about the projected results, not their merits as candidates. Their whole point was that the main grievance against Biden also applies to all other candidates, yet only Biden is being dinged for it.

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        I didn’t read this as a “both sides” comment. It looks to me like the “toss up” is about who is likely to win the election, rather than who deserves this commenter’s vote. The reason it’s close to a toss up is because there are enough violent racists willing to vote for the violent racist.

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        I’m not sure what you’re upset about in my comment.

        All of the candidates have faults, but I do have a strong preference for one and one of them is an objectively better candidate on basically all issues (including the issue that all candidates share the wrong stance on).

        And it very much is a toss up. 2 candidates in particular are trading leading positions on different polls. There’s probably gonna be less than half of eligible voters actually voting. And when they do, one candidate will almost definitely win the popular vote. And when they do it will once again be up to our antiquated electoral system to determine which of the candidates actually gets the seat. It’s not 1932, Trump very well could win and that’s bad.

        If you think my critiques of Trump are the same as my recognition of success for Biden and that I’m somehow “both-sides-ing” I’m really not sure how to help you.

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      Biden shows no interest in personally bombing Gaza, unless it’s with failed food packages.

      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gaza-airdrop-aid-israel-hamas-war-mishap-kills-palestinians/

      Supporting Israel and supporting Israel’s attack on Gaza are two different things.

      Trump on the othe hand wants Gaza wiped out AND wants to bring Israeli policies to the US/Mexico border. Surely nothing could go wrong.

      https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-israel-gaza-finish-problem-rcna141905

      https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-mexico-military-cartels-war-on-drugs-1234705804/

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        Really? Bcz last I checked we gave Israel billions of dollars in military aid while they were indiscriminately bombing Gaza. He may not have pulled the trigger, but that doesn’t make him innocent either.

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      I think if there was an alternative candidate to Trump and Biden that wasn’t insane. It’s safe to say almost everybody would vote for them.

      Also crazy to think that, don’t support genocide isn’t the default stance of people right now. I feel like the last few years I’ve been taking crazy pills…

      Or alternatively, it’s all a simulation, and it’s just broken, and someone needs to hit reset on it, but they’re too lazy taking their lunch break to be bothered.