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This has always been liberals' foremost issue with Trump: that they find him embarrassing, not that he is tangibly worse than what they have to offer, or worse than all the other shitty presidents we've had before.
He sullies the meritocratic notion that those who went to good prep schools, Ivy Leagues, urban, must be astute and cultured.
Idk. I think a sadly high number of them would vote for him if he ran as a dem
What exactly is the difference between Trump and Biden? Everything they warned us would happen under Trump is happening under Biden right now. And if they haven't happened yet, he has 0 safeguards for the future democrats who would holder power, and in fact, he's been bolstering the potential powers of a future fascist leader. The party isn't even interested in performatively condemning police brutality towards peaceful protestors. How long before Biden orders the police to beat all the students on the grass so he can take a picture holding the constitution with the zionist counter protestors?
They are having brunch and dinners while the world suffers, while their own pathetic party suffers, partially because the Israel lobby is strong and you can't exactly criticize cops who are "defending" the schools from "antisemitism," but also partially because they're genuinely offended that anyone could have a problem with what Israel is doing. They don't give a about you living in a dictatorship. It's actually beneficial because they can have their conservative goons enforce their ideology with force while they get to sit back and pretend to be saddened.
in fact, he's been bolstering the potential powers of a future fascist leader
Libs: "We can't do [good thing] by presidential decree because that will empower Trump if he wins."
Also libs: "Yeah, crack down on those rowdy antisemitic students protesting against genocide!"
Biden is useful in establishing this as the status quo. Concentration camps on the border are just run of the mill, crackdowns on protestors is a-ok and genocide is just a thing you need to get as a treat.
I don’t doubt that Trump could do worse in a multitude of areas, but it wouldn’t be possible without the legitimacy that is given to positions like these by Biden or dems at large.
Guantanamo is still running. I remember when libs were up in arms about it during the Bush era, just like the kids in cages with Trump.
What exactly is the difference between Trump and Biden? Everything they warned us would happen under Trump is happening under Biden right now.
All of those things are happening to people they don't care about over things they don't care about. They are worried about those things happening to people they care about over things they care about.
Trump says the quiet things out loud and that's bad optics.
I remember when saying that centrism was "genociding half the group" was a joke/criticism, but somehow it got lathed and now every lib is just saying it unironically.
Look, if we don't let Biden firebomb Rafah, then trump might firebomb Rafah and we don't want that
And if we're very well-behaved, we might get lucky enough to hear Biden tell Netanyahu that he's very disappointed in him before sending him another couple billion in unconditional military aid!
Me, the president of the united states, while blocking the ICC from prosecuting netanyahu: "look, jack, you gotta cool it" 
He might firebomb rafah twice as hard
I don't know about this one chapos. I mean, can you imagine what it would be like to live under a dictatorship? They'd probably do crazy shit like ban bodily autonomy, ban protesting, make it illegal to criticize regimes that are in league with the dictator, ban mass communication platforms, crack down on immigration, allow friendly corporations to operate their own mafias they'd use to kill whistleblowers, and just generally crush poor and working people. I wouldn't want to live under a rule like that.
Don't forget passing the most draconian mass surveillance bill, turning every American business into an arm of the state, ever (even since the last one).
Maybe if you did some collective action between events instead of waiting two years for the polls to open and then complaining that FPTP is still giving you only two choices.
You mean like the student protests that are getting brutalized by police under Democrat mayors?
Edit: fucking hell that thread is horrible. Indistinguishable from 
Are you trying to suggest biden is some sort of super bean with power over the democratic party?? mr biden is a small b smol bean, he cant fight grassroots mayoral politics!!
How successful would a Trump "dictatorship" even be?Republican state legislatures have been successful in getting reactionary xenophobic laws passed with no counter from the Federal Government under Biden.
Democrat run states are neoliberal hellscapes, sure (California homelessness and all) but Republicans have been unsuccessful in getting anti-abortion or anti-LGBTQ laws passed there and that won't change under Trump.
Can they even describe what a Trump "dictatorship" would entail that is different from current repression? Roe V Wade is gone, COVID welfare is gone, tax cuts on the rich have not been reversed.
Can they even describe what a Trump "dictatorship" would entail that is different from current repression?
No they can't. At least not realistically, because they aren't materially grounded. Its total idealism. A dictatorship of vibes basically
But Trump might bypass Congress to send weapons to Israel; Trump might threaten multiple countries at once, bringing us closer to world war 3; Trump might allow bands of right wing agitators to assault kids on college campuses with impunity; Trump might alienate everyone who doesn’t want genocide by accusing them of being terrorists; etc.
Wait…
what no theory does to a mfer 
What are libs going to do if/when it doesn't result in a dictatorship and Trump goes away after 4 years?
Does the fact that they spent 8 years lying just get memory holed? Or does it have consequences?
Does the fact that they spent 8 years lying just get memory holed?
:yea:
This bad 
can fit so many fucking holes in it.
It won't matter because for libs the concept of living under a dictatorship is purely vibes based. Their definition involves no material consequences or realities just vibes
Brunch will be cancelled 
Then brunch will be back! 
(Memory hole every time)
We already had all this scaremongering about Trump the first time round, and it didn't happen. So yes, it's already been memory holed once, and is now equally believed again. The loop shall continue.
No consequences just a rightward shift. We are in the endgame of power getting consolidated while there's still a planet to extract resources from.
I just posted this Eli Valley cartoon:
on lemmy.world's political meme comm: https://lemmy.ml/post/15144141
I saw it in a post that CyborgMarx just made.
What do you think, will they like my cartoon as much as they liked the Squidward one?
I love this one. One of his best, imo. He Fuckin Gets It.
You want to have genocide And fascism? Because this is how you get genocide and fascism.
Oh, sorry, I didn't realise that this was one of those ethically sourced, fascism-free genocides.
lmao "The Dictatorship" honestly after 4 years of Dems pushing us minorities in front of the fascist bus, I'm more than willing to push the libs in front of this so-called "Federal Consulship" Trump is apparently gonna install
Turnabout is fair play after all
Just strategically, holding the libs in front of the bus too might be the only way to make them self-interested enough to actually try and do something about it too.
I voted Hillary in 2016. I'm glad I did or else she would have lost
Liberalism is a deeply unserious ideology
MFW before I see the comm
Bob Dole
Democrats work harder when republicans are in office why would i do that
But they would vote for the jim crow supporting apartheid lover joe. One would assume that would be a red line. But apparently they don't care.
Almost every top level comment is some variation of fuck no lol
deeply unserious people
If you don't live in a swing state, it is your duty to not cast a vote for either of them, vote for what you actually want
If you do live in a swing state, it is your duty to not cast a vote for either of them, vote for what you actually want.
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