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[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Is your impression that Biden and Trump were pretty much the same from the standpoint of the average wage worker? Because they were fucking night and day. Even on wages, not counting that a lot of those wage workers are at risk of getting ambushed by ICE and sent to some kind of horrifying Kafka prison. Along any axis you want to look at, there is a clear difference, I have no idea how you can try to claim there is not.

I don't actually think any of this is super relevant to the somewhat more urgent conversation "One side thinks it's okay to assassinate their domestic enemies, celebrated even, and the other does not," but even in the terms you chose to reframe it in, there is a clear difference.