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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 8 months ago (1 children)

I would say its worse than a circus, because with the exception of the time a circus elephant ran through my back yard I can ignore a circus. In the US I cannot ignore an election, no matter how much I tried the news cycle is now built atleast partly around a "big election that will make or break everything" happening soon, either this year or next and if its next we have to start working on it now. It could be just my perseption, but it genuinly seems like the more obvious it is that things are breaking the move the election circus is pushed, as if we have not been playing that way for decades or more

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is an obnoxious spectacle to be sure, and I'm subjected to it living outside the US as well. I do imagine sucking up all the air in the room is an intentional feature. The more news coverage focuses on the election the less attention is given to everything else that's going on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh undoubtedly, not only does it take away attention from the bigger issues, but it gives the masses a way to channel their frustration through an acceptable (read will do nothing of note) path, and then they can move on with their day. It also gives them a convenent scape goat, the other half of the uniparty, to blame for everything wrong in the world, without focusing on any real systemic issues.