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I hesitate to say that Biden is better than Trump at this point. (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Someone I follow(ed) on Mastodon was just trying to shame people who don't vote, because of the idea that "Trump is going to immediately round up all us trans people and throw us in camps if you don't vote Biden!!"

As far as I can tell, the claim seems entirely made up, and it feels almost malicious to be basing that entire decision around the idea that "Trump MIGHT come after ME hypothetically!!" rather than all of the people Biden has already thrown in camps and all of the people in Gaza that Biden has given his unconditional support to genociding

It feels downright selfish to still be pushing that "vote blue no matter who" bullshit for that reason, and they clearly haven't learned shit from 2016 and 2020

They're also still under the impression that people choose not to vote just so that they can "push the Democrats more progressive", when it's basically the opposite, people realize they can't push the Democrats left so they're choosing not to participate in the sham they call a "democracy", but I guess this is one of those people who can only see politics within the confines of the US electoral system

Edit: Not to mention all the other shit people have mentioned as having been actively worse under Biden, it makes it feels especially garbage and selfish that one is still pushing the idea of Biden being a human rights savior

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not true. Trump was President for 4 years, that didn't happen. It's histrionics.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Exactly, people still have this cartoonish idea of what a Trump presidency would be like as if we didn't have 4 years of seeing exactly what it would be like

People are like "but maybe he'll be worse this time!", and like that could be true, but that's an entirely different thing than making very specific assumptions about specific actions he's supposedly going to take based on no actual evidence, it's just fearmongering to try to coerce people into reelecting a president who has already been actively materially worse (it's as if everyone's forgotten how much trans rights in the US have already been backsliding under Biden's watch)