EmpricornApr 9, 2025

Democrats are far from perfect, but last time they were in power they… invested in infrastructure, forgave student debt, helped Ukraine defend itself, and tried to give everyone healthcare.

Republicans have now crashed the (global) economy, increased disease spread, decimated public departments and services, fired thousands of critical workers and veterans, retaliated against people for their Free Speech, limited rights of women, immigrants, and LGBTQ+people, made us less safe against wildfires and contagions, started to gut Medicare, turned all our allies against us, raised prices on everything, engaged in corrupt theft of our tax dollars, and now want to deport legal Americans.

“BoTh SiDeS!”

Show thread🏴 hamid the villain [he/him] 🏴Apr 9, 2025
Downvotes are disabled on my instance; multiple people think you wrote something inane. I have no problem replying to you telling you that you live in a dictatorship of capital where both sides are the same but you are so propagandized and ignorant you can’t even see the truth right in front of your nose. One side enables the other, the US functions as a whole. The democracy there is kay fabe and predetermined. You don’t get a vote for the board members of Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Blackstone, Raytheon etc.
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It blows my mind that even now, there are people like you who claim they can’t tell the difference between Biden and Trump.
Apr 10, 2025 at 8:07amWeb
Show threadSomeone64Apr 10, 2025
It blows my mind that you interpreted what he said that way.
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I quote, absolutely directly:

both sides are the same

It’s a breathtakingly stupid take.

Show threadSomeone64Apr 10, 2025
I didn’t see Biden and Trump in that quote. Facts are that both sides are just doing what they can get away with according to the crowd they’re trying to appeal to. If left to their own devices, both sides will engage in heinous behavior. The only thing stopping the Democrats from doing more Republican things is in a way, their branding as “good guys”, whatever that may mean to Democrat sided citizens. The point is there is a lack of scrutiny on our end and the whole good vs evil black and white bullshit distracts us from the fact that the people in charge of the Democrats are just as capable of evil and are just two sides of the same coin taking different approaches. There was a time when the Republicans were the good guys and the Democrats were the evil ones and that can switch just as easily as it did before. The whole Red vs Blue shit is a distraction. He never said it’s okay to vote for Trump or okay not to vote against him and it’s extremely disingenuous for you to say that that’s his fucking take.
Show threadWoodScientistApr 10, 2025
I can tell the difference, in the same way I can tell the difference between a father that drunkenly beats his children and the wife that covers for and enables him.
Show threadBrainInABoxApr 10, 2025
You have to remember that, unlike you, some people consider the lives of foreigners to be worth as much as the lives of Americans