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9 months ago

i don’t know what trump would have done. neither do you. the guy’s a bit of a wild card. for example look at russia he’s totally down to just drop the ukraine war. meanwhile biden supports prolonging it however long is necessary

i’m not defending trump i’m just saying if i were a muslim and especially if i were a Palestinian i would never vote for biden. it’s unforgivable. i support the muslims in michigan. if the democrats want votes, they need to push policies that the people actually want

they can’t just expect people to keep voting for them because of the eternal right-wing boogeyman. because it’s getting so bad people are actually starting to wonder if maybe the far-right proto fascist is better and that’s a piss poor state of affairs for a democracy to be in

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9 months ago

i don’t know what trump would have done. neither do you. the guy’s a bit of a wild card. for example look at russia he’s totally down to just drop the ukraine war. meanwhile biden supports prolonging it however long is necessary

What are you talking about? Trump obviously wouldn’t support Ukraine. It’s really no secret that he’s in Russia’s pocket. His attitude towards Muslims also is something he’s very open about. Not to mention his love for strong-men wanna be dictators like Netanyahu is well known. To think that he would be better for Palestinians is ridiculous. So no, I’m absolutely certain that Trump would have handled this situation much worse and will handle it worse if he gets into office while it’s still raging.

they can’t just expect people to keep voting for them because of the eternal right-wing boogeyman. because it’s getting so bad people are actually starting to wonder if maybe the far-right proto fascist is better and that’s a piss poor state of affairs for a democracy to be in

Then these people are fucking stupid and don’t realise how much they have to loose living under fascism. Especially if their Muslims living in the US! The Israel Palestinian conflict is one thing, to loose democracy at home is something much worse.

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9 months ago

What are you talking about? Trump obviously wouldn’t support Ukraine

that’s what i’m saying. he would drop us’s support of the war, likely ending the war sooner. so he’s not necessarily a war monger. i don’t know for a fact he would support israel’s war in gaza. maybe he would, maybe he wouldn’t i don’t know.

to loose democracy at home is something much worse.

we have already lost democracy if we have no choice but to vote for someone. either way you don’t really have a choice. see what i mean? trump and biden are different pathways to the same end game. death of democracy

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9 months ago

that’s what i’m saying. he would drop us’s support of the war, likely ending the war sooner. so he’s not necessarily a war monger.

Well yes, in a conflict where he gets orders from Putin to not help, he of course doesn’t go to war. But his general attitude to war really isn’t a secret. That dude nearly started a war with Iran in his first term for example.

we have already lost democracy if we have no choice but to vote for someone. either way you don’t really have a choice. see what i mean? trump and biden are different pathways to the same end game. death of democracy

No! One candidate has already tried to overthrow an election he lost, the other didn’t and has been very outspoken for his support of democracy. If that’s really your take away from that then I really have no idea what you did in the last decade. You certainly didn’t payed attention to what’s going on.

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9 months ago

in a conflict where he gets orders from Putin to not help, he of course doesn’t go to war

it’s not because he gets orders from putin. it’s because he sees the writing on the wall that the war is over and he’s trying to get on the right side of history. the war will inevitably end with russia seizing territory. once that happens he can say “i told you so” and seem like he’s a peacemaker.

and he can say “why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars on ukraine when they are going to lose anyway?” or “why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars while americans are struggling to make ends meet”? or “why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars supporting a war that is actively raising inflation across the globe, hurting americans?”

he doesn’t actually give a shit one way or the other - trump has no ideals or principles. but he’s betting that the public opinion against the war will sour soon. and if you look at the polls, that’s what is happening. americans are slowly losing their appetite for the ukraine war (republicans at a faster rate, but we’re seeing democrats too get war fatigue)

his anti-war stance is one of political opportunism. other politicians would do the same if they weren’t beholden to lockheed martin and friends. trump doesn’t give a shit about anyone and is willing to throw anyone under the bus and that works to his advantage

That dude nearly started a war with Iran in his first term for example.

the assassination of Soleimani was honestly criminal and stupid and basically ruined any chances for rapprochement with Iran and to top it off Trump killed the Iran nuclear deal. so yeah, i understand and agree with you here

but compare and contrast that situation with what’s going on right now. we’re 100x closer to war with Iran than we were under Trump. we’ve intercepted hundreds of missiles and missiles from iranian backed regimes. americans have already died from these attacks. we had to send two aircraft carriers to the middle east - something we didn’t even do during the invasion of Iraq

No! One candidate has already tried to overthrow an election he lost, the other didn’t and has been very outspoken for his support of democracy. If that’s really your take away from that then I really have no idea what you did in the last decade. You certainly didn’t payed attention to what’s going on.

i’m not denying that he tried to overthrow the election.

but what is the difference to me if I can’t vote versus I can only vote for one guy? there’s no functional difference. either way, i have no voice. in that case, maybe it’s better it be trump because it’s more honest. we’re becoming an oligarchic dictatorship regardless of who we elect

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9 months ago

Not sure if you’re just so damn cynical or are knowingly are pushing Russian propaganda.

But damn dude, Trump and quite a few top Republicans is balls deep into Russia’s pockets. That’s the reason that they suddenly are actively taking Russia’s point of view. Something that 20 years ago never would have been possible.

And sorry, but if you think that the US becoming a full fledged theocratic oligarchic dictatorship than what it is right now then you really didn’t think through what that would mean to you and those you love. Their plans regarding abortion and pregnancy prevention alone should be more than enough to point you in the right direction.

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9 months ago

I’ll admit I am pretty cynical but I have arrived at my positions with reason and lots of reading and analysis. It’s not out of the blue and it’s not partisan. I don’t really care about neither Trump Biden or Russia. I was born in South America in the 90s and grew up in the US as an illegal immigrant and became legal under Trump (citizen now under Biden). I have a different experience of this country compared to you. I also have exposure to different language media that isn’t as heavily manipulated on certain topics and exposure to different geopolitical viewpoints.

I think that Putin is a naturally ally for Trump because they are similar strongman leaders. But I do not think that Trump and Co. are beholden to Russia like you claim. Remember that Trump was willing to send weapons to Ukraine that Obama was not - out of fears of potentially angering Russia.

It was Paul Manafort for example who was involved in Ukraine collecting and spending millions of dollars of taxpayer money in order to influence Ukrainian democracy away from Russia and towards the US. A Trump ally.

There’s a lot more to this discussion I can share with you if you’re curious.

As for your last part - I support abortion and think it’s absurd that we are going backwards in time and repealing something we figured out in 1974.

But tell me honestly man - do you believe if Biden were to be elected (which at this point is becoming increasingly unlikely if you are watching the polls) - do you think he will manage to bring abortion back?

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