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"This is a good time to remind ourselves of the two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers who were shot just a few months ago. And Trump didn't lower the flags for them or any school shooting."

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago

they're fascists with different messaging

Biden: Claims he's going to close Gitmo, releases 25 detainees leaving 15 in custody thus reneging on his promise

Trump: Expands Gitmo to 30,000 and makes dozens of little mini-Gitmo black sites all across the US, actively works to put people into them literally as fast as he can make his rapidly expanding machinery ramp up, soon to potentially include you or me, our US citizen passports may stop working, too.

FlashMobOfOne: Literally the same picture

I honestly can't think of a reason you would claim this other than to try to work to shove the edges of the Lemmy hivemind's Overton window. There are not going to be people who believe you on this, you're talking like we are not inside the US watching it all happen right now.