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Biden is a neo-liberal and a zionist. Biden is complicit in Israel's genocide.
He's following 70 years of US foreign policy to support Israel. The fact he hasn't abandoned Israel in response to Israel's genocide doesn't make him a fascist.
Biden doesn't want the eradication of the Palestinian people and is pushing for a ceasefire. Trump will give Israel free reign to completely eradicate the Palestinian people. What Trump wants to do is worse.
That's just theatre. Biden says he's pushing for a ceasefire, but his actions (like giving $17 billion to Israel) say otherwise.
And he's blaming Hamas for not accepting the ceasefire, even though reports in mainstream newspapers are reporting that the true obstacle is that Israel has no interest in it. It's as if Biden "proposed" this ceasefire to try to make Hamas look evil for "rejecting" it.
You can't judge politicians by what they say. Only by what they do. And what he's doing is funding Israel's slaughter of men women and children in Gaza, and vetoing any intervention by the United Nations.
Biden says nice things but does terrible things. It's the typical Democrat playbook.
I don't see how Trump could be any worse for the Gazans. Maybe he'll even be better. Maybe he'll be too cheap to give $17 billion to Israel, and tell them to fund it themselves. After all, Trump didn't start any new wars when he was in office (unlike every other recent president).
I don't know what Trump will do. But I know the genocide will continue under Biden, so yes, maybe I'm willing to see if it's better under the other guy. (I mean, I'm not voting for Trump. But I don't feel I need to vote for Biden either.)
Pushing for a ceasefire is one of the things Biden can do. The goal is to pressure Israel as much as Hamas, not just make Hamas look bad. Biden should push Israel harder, and stop sending offensive weapons to Israel, but he doesn't have direct control over Israel.
This is in contrast to Trump, who stated what he intends to do. Trump is a fascist and he is going to allow Israel's government to continue their genocide completely unobstructed. There is no reason to doubt that. Millions of dead Palestinians is worse for the Palestinians.
This describes the Republican Party.
He emboldened dictators around the world to start or advance their own wars.
The US first-past-the-post voting system is a zero-sum game and Republicans win with low voter turn out. Every vote Democrats don't get is a vote the Republicans do not need to get. US democracy is flawed in that it inherently favors minority rule and is inundated with corporate lobbyists. So, we need record voter turn out if we want to keep our democracy in 2024. edit: capitalization
Biden could stop this with a phone call.
The only way Netanyahu is able to do this is because he knows he has Biden's support. Netanyahu relies on Biden to veto any action by the United Nations.
All this stuff we hear in the media about how Biden is frustrated with Netanyahu is just theatre. Don't fall for it.
No, the Republican Party says terrible things and does terrible things. The Democrats say nice things and do terrible things.
Of course, in the end, there's no difference.
Well, if Joe Biden doesn't like that, then maybe he should stop killing brown children.
Biden has tremendous leverage to push Israel to a ceasefire that he is not using, but needs to use. That includes adopting a UN resolution that condemns Israel's actions. Netanyahu is a fascist who is desperate to prolong or expand the war to stay out of prison. Netanyahu and the other fascists in his war cabinet are not arguing in good faith or under Biden's direct control. The current government in Israel needs to collapse so a new coalition can take power and pull the IDF out of Gaza. The IDF leadership seems to be populated with ideologues and have no interested in eliminating any terrorist groups. The IDF and the current war cabinet want to punish Palestinians and have a bogyman. Netanyahu wants to prevent Palestinian statehood.
The Republicans consistently say they are the party of small government and freedoms and then consistently work tirelessly to take those freedoms away. Democrats push out incremental progress which is good, but too slow if we are going to advert a climate disaster or prevent a christo-fascist dictatorship with an oligarchy of billionaires.
Biden is not directly killing anyone, although Biden is complicit in the deaths of Palestinian children. The fascists will kill millions of people at home and around the world.
How?
How are the Republicans going to kill millions of people? What are you suggesting?
Trump regularly states what he's going to do. Trump has said he's going to be a dictator on day one. Trump has said he wants to round up immigrants and homeless people into camps. Trump's going to pull out of NATO and let Russia conquer Ukraine. Project 2025 is posted on a website.
Here is Trump saying he will be a dictator on day one:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hannity-dictator-authoritarian-presidential-election-f27e7e9d7c13fabbe3ae7dd7f1235c72
Here is Trump on immigrants:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/01/politics/trump-immigration-what-matters/index.html
Here is Trump on homeless people:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-homelessness-policy-tent-cities-b2322102.html
Here is Trump on NATO, this is a version from the way back machine without a subscription wall:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240607053700/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/01/trump-2024-reelection-pull-out-of-nato-membership/676120/
Here is project 2025:
https://www.project2025.org/
The fascists are in control of the Republican Party and these are things they want to do. If the MAGA movement succeed in their christo-fascist takeover millions of people are going to die as a result of these policies.
Good? NATO should have been dismantled when the Cold War ended.
Even Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron wanted Europe to have its own army separate from NATO.
If Russia wanted to conquer Ukraine, they would have done so already.
I know I'll be accused of being on Russia's side for saying that, but I'm not. I'm just looking at the evidence.
Russia has always described this conflict as a liberation of the Donbas. They took Donbas in just two weeks and since then have been mostly just maintaining their new borders.
The media want us to think that Russia wants to annex Ukraine and the only reason they haven't advanced is because the Ukraine army is so awesome. And yet this awesome Ukraine army hasn't managed to retake any territory in two years.
He wants to deport illegal immigrants, which is the same thing the Democrats want. Biden's rhetoric on immigration lately is just as hardline as Trump's.
Democrats chastised Trump for his "build a wall" chant, but the fact is that they supported building a wall until Trump did.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-were-for-a-wall-before-they-were-against-it/2019/01/10/9d114048-14f1-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html
And what are Democrats going to do for homeless people? Are the Democrats going to launch a mass housing iniative for them?
I don't like that Trump's brand is "being an asshole", and I don't like that 40% of Americans respond positively to that, but the fact is, the Democrats aren't much different in practice. They're just nicer about it.
I've said this before (over on Reddit), but I actually think Trump was fairly good on international matters (he's the only president in recent history who didn't start any new wars), even though he was terrible on domestic matters.
But even when it comes to domestic matters, he's not substantially different enough from the Democrats to make me want to support Joe Biden after what Biden has done.
Putin wants to conquer Europe. This is bad. The ideology is essentially a version of manifest destiny where Russia expands westward until it consumes all of Europe. Also, of course the members of NATO need to maintain their armies.
No, NATO countries have been supplying weapons to Ukraine.
Your argument should provide that evidence rather than pretending it exists. Russia's fascist authoritarian dictatorship has led to military incompetence.
Russia tried to take Kyiv and lost.
Here are some maps that show what has actually happened in the war:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60506682
Ukraine retook territory by November 2022 which is in the last two years.
Also, Ukraine only recently got the green light to strike into Russian territory. This is already having a huge impact on the war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8qVOdygE2g
Trump wants to round up 15 to 20 million people into camps and then deport them. The magnitude of this does not match what the Democrats want to do.
I followed the link you posted in your argument. This is what I found:
This is about a government shutdown. Other than the misleading title, the Democrats do not want to build Trump's border wall. Nor is this evidence that Democrats want to deport 15 to 20 million people.
Newsom wants to doing something similar to what Trump has proposed, there's a whole court case that has made it to the Supreme Court about breaking up homeless camps. The case started in Oregon, but has implications for California. But Newsom actually wants to provide housing and services to people. Newsom erroneously believes these need to be forced on people. When Trump talks about rounding homeless people up it's to put them in death camps.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/us/oregon-homelessness-case-supreme-court-california.html
While well intentioned by Democrats, it's going to backfire if Trump takes office. Under Trump, homeless people are going to end up in either prisons or death camps which will end up being the same thing.
Trump seems to love the death penalty. This reporting suggests Trump wants to use firing squads.
Neo-liberal Democrats wanting to maintain the status quo isn't the nice version of christo-fascist Republicans wanting to kill millions of people.
Trump emboldened Putin to continue his war. Trump emboldened Erdoğan to attack the Kurds. Trump emboldened the Taliban to retake Afghanistan. Trump not declaring war is not a measure of success. He destabilized the world the last time he was in office. Under another Trump term we are likely to see China invade Taiwan and North Korea invade South Korea.
Biden got an infrastructure deal done and has cancelled some student debt, among other things. This has a list Biden's foreign and domestic accomplishments:
https://www.upworthy.com/joe-biden-s-23-greatest-achievements-as-president-of-the-united-states-so-far
As opposed to Trump's crime spree:
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-donald-trumps-three-indictments-78-felony-charges-1816951
Reviewing the evidence shows a stark difference between Biden, a neo-liberal, and Trump, a fascist. The difference between another Biden term and another Trump term is that millions of lives can be saved under another Biden term. Where as Trump will usher in a christo-fascist dictatorship that will end our democracy and destabilize the world. These are vastly different outcomes. edit: typo
Russia says the attack on Kyiv was to destroy munition supplies and wasn't intended to be an occupation.
I can't know if that's true or not, but Russia hasn't tried any other attacks on Kyiv, so I'm tempted to believe it.
Wow. In just four years. How inspiring.
That's a lie.
Google it. The truth is knowable.
That's because Russia is losing the war.
Why would you want to believe the lies of a fascist dictatorship? Your argument boils down to mistaking Russia's defeats at the hands of Ukraine as a nonexistent strategy.
Biden has accomplished everything with a razor thin majority in Congress in the first two years and then a Republican controlled House in the second two years. It's impressive.
So they've been telling us for the past two years while the front line has barely moved.
It's not a matter of what I want to believe. (To paraphrase Ben Shapiro, facts don't care about my feelings.)
There are two competing narratives out there, and one fits the evidence I can see while the other is getting increasingly hard to believe.
I already debunked this false claim in my argument.
Facts can't care about anything. Being tempted implies you want the thing that is being offered. I want to know why you would want to be lied to, because it's a weird thing to want. Also, your argument provides no facts and misrepresents Russian defeats by Ukraine as strategy that Russia does not have.
There is the truth and Russian propaganda. Your argument has no evidence to support it.
Also, to bring this discussion back to the original topic at hand, Biden is a neo-liberal and Trump is a fascist. They are not the same. Thus it is reasonable that a group that is against Trump's fascist MAGA movement is anti-fascist.