• gmtom@lemmy.world
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    So many people have this false belief that the Democrats are better than the Republicans

    They are. 1.6 million people had healthcare stripped from them by Trump.

    Several states now will arrest women for having a miscarriage because of Trumps corrupt supreme court and republican stage legislature.

    Inflation has increased massively forcing even more poor Americans into poverty.

    Thousands of Iraqis are dead because of Trumps war, and Lebanon is currently being invaded because of Trumps support for Netanyahu.

    And you will probably view this as a good thing, but plenty of Ukrainians are dead because of Trumps cutting military aid and trying to force Ukraine to make concession to Russia.

    Americans have had billions stolen from them by Trump giving tax breaks and charging them pointless tariffs.

    Trump also denied disaster aid to blue states after fires and floods, negatively effecting many Americans.

    And he has turned ICE into his private police force.

    To claim there is no difference just show you are willfully ignoring reality to hold an obviously flawed position. And quite frankly is insulting to the people the republicans have harmed. But again you don’t give a single shit about them, because they’re not real to you. They are just hypotheticals you use as pieces to push your own self serving moral superiority complex.

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      They are. 1.6 million people had healthcare stripped from them by Trump.

      Because the economy is dying and Obama setup a system with a switch that said “flip this to remove millions of people from healthcare”

      Several states now will arrest women for having a miscarriage because of Trumps corrupt supreme court and republican stage legislature.

      Because RBG refused to retire and because the Democrats literally gave up, refused to remove the filibuster, then demonstrated that they were capable and willing to remove the filibuster to raise the debt ceiling, but not to “save America”, clearly indicating that they could have stopped it but chose not to.

      Inflation has increased massively forcing even more poor Americans into poverty.

      Because the American economic empire is in free fall and has been for over a decade.

      Thousands of Iraqis are dead because of Trumps war, and Lebanon is currently being invaded because of Trumps support for Netanyahu.

      Bush 2 planned 7 wars after Afghanistan. Obama engaged 4 of them, one of them, Libya, was a total romp. Biden engaged 3 of them. Trump’s war is not Trump’s war. They are the wars of the US empire, which have been part of US policy for 99% of its existence. Democrats have committed genocide. Republicans have committed genocide. Democrats have advanced civil rights. Republicans have advanced civil rights.

      And you will probably view this as a good thing, but plenty of Ukrainians are dead because of Trumps cutting military aid and trying to force Ukraine to make concession to Russia.

      Trump was the first president to approve sending arms to Ukraine. Obama refused because he thought it would provoke Russia.

      Americans have had billions stolen from them by Trump giving tax breaks and charging them pointless tariffs.

      Corporate profits are always higher under Democrats.

      Trump also denied disaster aid to blue states after fires and floods, negatively effecting many Americans.

      Granted.

      And he has turned ICE into his private police force.

      Obama restructured ICE, CBP, and BORTAC allowing them to be deployed in US cities. Obama appointed Tom Homan. Obama and Homan deported 3m people. Trump has only managed to deport 1.5m so far. Oh, and Tom Homan was Trump’s deportation czar too. In both terms.

      They are just hypotheticals you use as pieces to push your own self serving moral superiority complex.

      So, let’s talk about this because I think I have a clearer picture of reality than you. I think Obama deporting 3m people is pretty bad. And I think that you pretending that the Democrats are better than Republicans on immigration is insulting to the 3m people Obama deported (5M if you count all the repatriations at the border). The Biden administration saw an uptick of the use of solitary confinement in border concentration camps. I think that’s pretty bad and I think you pretending that the Ds are better than the Rs is insulting to the people who were tortured. I think the people the Rs harm are hypothetical to you, because you don’t examine how the people that the Rs harm are the same people the Ds harm. It’s like that AOC meme where she only cries in front of concentration camps when Trump is in office. You ignore the harm the Ds do, even when its greater, because it serves your moral superiority complex. You want to believe that voting for Ds and helping them get elected is a good thing and is harm reduction. It would pain you to think that what you actually did helped the Ds create more harm in the world while maintaining their narrative of legitimacy and morality. It sucks to realize that as racist as Trump is, Bill and Hillary lived in the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion and had black house slaves and didn’t think they should do anything about prison slavery or about racialized mass incarceration. In fact, they were part of the triangulation that the Ds did to target black people in order to get more votes in swing states.

      I’m not trying to claim moral superiority here. I’m trying to demolish yours.