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"I think what you're reacting to is that, at the moment, Biden is an unpopular president seeking a second term while Trump is a popular figure inside his party who is winning primary races. I wouldn't necessarily compare the two."

Credit to @JoshuaHolland

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[–] bumphot@lemy.lol 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hilary, just like Trump, is a rich person shill and would do anything to get corporations that are losing money from lockdown to get what they want. She is no better, she got Trump as a primary Republican candidate in her pied piper strategy just because she knew she would certainly lose if someone more reasonable would have been a Republican candidate.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hilary, just like Trump, is a rich person shill

Absolutely

and would do anything to get corporations that are losing money from lockdown to get what they want

Absolutely

She is no better

Hundreds of thousands of people who died of Covid, who wouldn't have if Trump hadn't fucked up the response, would disagree

Dozens of dead CIA agents, God knows how many dead Kurds, would disagree

The capitol policemen who got beat and maimed and disabled for doing their jobs would disagree

Little Honduran kids who got separated from their parents at the border, or their families who still haven't gotten them back and may never see them again, would disagree

There is a yawning chasm between saying that Hillary is pretty crappy as candidates go, especially if you want real change in the US, and saying she's no better than Trump.

[–] bumphot@lemy.lol 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

All of the things and much worse then that happens under both Democrats and Republicans and Hilary is no better. After all, if she knew Trump was that bad, why would she risk all of that and support him in her pied piper strategy if she actually cares about any of these people? The examples you listed are the smallest arguments you could make, since any of that is easily overshadowed by an actual genocide both sides fund. Since when should people have empathy towards CIA agents that coup governments, traffic drugs, kill people and destroy democracies for benefit of some oil companies. And since when should we have empathy for murder cops? And how would you be sure that less people would have died of Covid with Hilary, she has same interests as Trump did in that situation. And Democrats where happy with not letting separated kids be reunited, they just pretend like they always do.

And all of these are so small compared to most important issues like wealth inequilty, gencoide, housing crisis, etc. Where their rich people policies are almost identical. Don't be fooled by their propaganda.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] bumphot@lemy.lol 1 points 7 months ago

you are so cool