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Trump was already in office for 4 years though. It's not some big mystery how he would act as president. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. The nature of US fascism is not identical to every other country, but you're just ignoring history if you think it has never seriously opposed communism internally. Like, COINTELPRO for starters? Come on.
It just comes across to me like you're inventing this arbitrary goalpost for fascism, so that you can say the US isn't at it yet and then say vote for the other guy. With a helping of vague "I lived under anecdote" to go with it. Like what is with this language of calling people cosplayers? Where exactly do you think US citizens live, not in the US?
I'm genuinely confused as to what your politics are supposed to be.
Hah. I can tell.
My politics are real world politics. As in, from lived experience. So no, they don't line up with your cosplay categories. Because it's not a football match, or good guys vs bad guys. It's people's lives, where what you do has real consequences.
So while I'm way to the left of Biden, I am also not an idiot and precisely because I saw what 4 years of Trump did I am telling you that a second Trump term should be avoided by all means necessary. It's not even a lesser evil, Biden has done pretty alright, by most counts. But even if it was a lesser evil, Trump is a Netanyahu ally, a Putin ally, a fundamentally incompetent anarchocapitalist fascist, an overt racist, an authoritarian with plans to persecute his political opponents and... you know, an actual rapist. You'd think at least one of those would be disqualifying for anybody not pretending to a be a progressive.
And no, I didn't "live in anecdote" I live in a whole ass country that was a fascist dictatorship for decades. It's pretty statistically significant, that.
And some of us live in the US, which has the highest incarceration rate in the world, is built on genocide of the indigenous (still an ongoing problem), slavery (prison labor loophole still exists), and is currently funding and supporting a genocide against the Palestinian people. You can repeat the word cosplay as many times as you want, it doesn't suddenly make your world real and others not.
My point about you "living in anecdote" is you're playing the internet trope "I was X and I understand it better than you" card, and so far, as far as I can tell, you have yet to even name what this mystery country is, in spite of being directly asked by someone. Meanwhile, you're pushing garden variety "vote blue no matter who" talking points and showing repeated ignorance of what kind of person Biden is comparative to Trump and what the US is actually like.
You are not "way to the left of Biden" in actual substance. You are enabling of genocide by framing one of two runners of it as lesser evil. You call others cosplayers, but it's you who is treating the claiming of a political label purely as a badge you put on yourself rather than something that has to be backed up by, you know, actually aligning with it.
Yeah, the genocide came out alright 😊