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Yes, you weirdo.
In what universe would Harris bomb Venezuela and kidnap Nicolás Maduro and his wife? Are you nuts?
At some point the people just doubling down on this train of thought just make me reassess how warped and delusional the argument was during the actual election. I guess when you have the luxury of a hypothetical you can just go forever. Trump will pass a law requiring him to rub his bare ass onto every single female politician and these guys will be going "do you really not think Harris would have her hairy asshole pushed onto people as well?"
We live in the dumbest dystopia.
Obama bombed multiple african country. Maybe Harris eould have not attacked Venezuela but she could bomb other countries
Also let see how many establishment dems will condemn the abduction
Ah, we've moved on to the "maybe they wouldn't have done this batshit crazy thing, but they would have done other things that are bad, so they're the same".
Except, obviously, a good way of telling that two things aren't the same is that they're different. Also, in cased you missed it, Trump bombed Nigeria on Christmas day. So this isn't an "or" thing, this is an "and" thing.
Only clones are exacly the same. It is a fact that the US is sn imperlist power who love to destabilize and destroy other countries supported by the two political cults you have
Yes, nobody denied that and defended it here
Who is "you"? I'm not American.
But there are differences between both US political parties, and given the choice, any non-American should absolutely be hoping the actively fascist party loses, obviously.
The notion that they're both equivalent is so farcical it didn't hold up to any scrutiny at the time when it mattered, and anybody that pushed that notion then is now partially responsible for this whole mess.
If you are not american that is even worse to defend one of the two cults.
Edit: Nobody said they are exatly the same. The democratic cult is better on domestic affairs but when it come to imperialism they are similar both was involved in bombing and destroying other countries
No, it's not, that's not how that works. If one side is ideologically unpalatable and the other side is a gaggle of crazy fascists it's perfectly valid to propose that one of the two sides is better than the other. Especially if you don't have as much of a vested interest in domestic reform.
That's an absurdly childish stance.
One side is better overall than the other but here we are talking about imperialism they are similar not 100% but they are similar.
You are childish with your bullshit of the lesser of two evil. The lesser of the two evil is still evil
Yes, the lesser of two evil is still evil. And that's the one you vote for, or want the locals to vote for, because we're not running on Hannah Barbera levels of cartoon logic.
I swear, burn down the Internet. It was all a mistake.
I did not vote for this idiot. I am not even American to vote. and I don't defend neither cults unlike you
There he is!
Unironically yes
The one where I wasn't born yesterday
I see, you don't understand the difference between domestic policy and foreign policy.
You... think the differentiating element there is domestic vs foreign policy? That's the objection you...
... you know what? I rest my case.
No, I think you've been duped by one faction of the capitalist class into thinking they represent your interests.
No faction in the US represents my interests, on account of my not being American.
But man, if I have to choose which faction is more likely to, say, roll up with tanks into Greenland, annex Canada or, and I can't repeat this enough, bomb Caracas and kidnap Nicolás Maduro and his goddamn wife, I am pretty sure there is a single correct answer.
Yeah, the correct answer is both of them, since both parties are subservient to the will of the capitalist class.
Man, save me from cosplayers playing at revolution online.
It's embarrassing, you know? Like watching your little child try to act like you and accidentally exposing all your garbage.
Dude, it really is embarrassing. If they're not foreign trolls, then so many people on this site have literally zero fucking idea how the US government works. They read the Communist Manifesto, and maybe some Lenin, and now they're talking like they're ready to lead a revolution in a 1910s agrarian society, and anyone even mildly critical is their enemy. Fucking useful idiots.
It's not yet a genocide in Venezuela, but the logic of "soul damage" absolutely applies.
You said it, not me.
Well if Omar El-Akkad is an embarrassing child that shits his pants then I guess I'm one of those things too
The argument from authority doesn't make the point more or less valid.
If anything, bringing the quote over out of context shows how chillingly unserious it is:
Well, where was the left? Where in the ballot was El-Akkad? Where were the righteousy outraged when something could have been done other than comfortable in their outrage and abdicating responsibility?
Being on the right side of the argument and having no power to enact the right decision is equivalent to not being right at all. And yes, once all other possibilities are boiled down to two, you have to pick one. If you do not, then you picked the one that won.
And that may not be the best way to do it, but until such time as Omar and you have successfully revolted and implemented a superior alternative, that's how it works. And work it did. So not Palestine is seriously considered as a potential location for a strip mall and Nicolás Maduro is presumably sitting on some CIA dark site somewhere because holy crap, dumbest dystopia.
Anyway, whatever. Not worth going back and forth on this. The blame adjudication is useless and, more to the point, entirely up to me. You can tell Omar I blame him, too, if he ever signs your moral justification pamphlet for fascism.
Nah I just think he says it way better than I can.