• houseofleft@slrpnk.net
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    2 days ago

    I’m 100% not equating Biden with Trump. I’m not trying to deny the comolete horror Trump is afflicting of US and non-US citizens right now.

    I’m just saying, he’s a symptom of a broken system. America will only come out of this situation if it recognises that it needs to make real and lasting change.

    The non voters might not help, but they’re at least acknowledging this reality. And putting them in the same camp as literal facists is not helping anyone.

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      1 day ago

      I agree at this point they need to storm the white house, jail everyone, burn down the white house and constitution and start over.

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      I’m not saying that you’re equating Biden with Trump. I listing off all the accomplishments of the Dems that you are bizarrely trying to call status quo and whatever gymnastics to cram it into “foundations of fascism” something system.

      And you are continuing to try to do this. The Dems were making “real” changes to improve society. But you’re still trying whatever this mental gymnastics is.

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        I think you might have misread my initial comment in that I didn’t say, and don’t agree with branding Biden as the “foundations of facism”.

        I’m not saying Biden, Obama, Bush etc are some kind of proto-facists like that implies. I said “the foundations that allowed America to become a new facist state”. I think unless you disagree with me calling Trump’s government facist, that the previous governments created an environment in which he could rise to power seems more or less a statement of fact.

        If you’re interested in understanding where I’m coming from (who knows, we’re on the internet after all!) I’d say I mostly agree with Naomi Klein’s take that global politics have become too subservient to mega-corportations and that that’s creating a decline in equality which is driving far right ideology worldwide.[0]

        I’m pretty far into stuff that I wasn’t initially trying to comment on though. My point is that the US political system is broken, and blaming people who are disenfranchised at that isn’t an effective strategy for changing things.

        [0] https://www.noisnotenough.org/

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          1 day ago

          There’s nothing to read or even misread because you are doing mental gymnastics. It’s nonsense.

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            1 day ago

            I mean you literally used quotation marks to write words I didn’t say, but fine. I assume from your comments that you’re progressive and anti-Trump, so keep on pushing for those values!