[-] lurklurk@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

If you're not a bad guy, you're just wrong. This is very basic game theory and not actually controversial in any way

[-] lurklurk@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Oh he did, people just don't pay attention

[-] lurklurk@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I don't think we'll agree on immigration. In my eyes the proven track reckord of Trump should be ebought to make it obvious, but you don't agree and I doubt I can say anything that would be more convincing than the pervious Trump administration

this is frankly a reductionist take. the situation today is not like the situation in the 1930s. if anything, Biden’s approach of milquetoast risk-aversion is probably closer to Chamberlain than a hypothetical Trump presidency would be

Have you looked into what Trump is proposing on Ukraine? He does keep it vague, perhaps to allow people to imagine freely like you do here, but he keeps talking about negotiating a peace, which in itself is a stark difference from say Biden who seems to think that such things are up to Ukraine, being a sovereign nation and all.

Here's a more concrete proposal on the Trump side: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-reviews-plan-halt-us-military-aid-ukraine-unless-it-negotiates-peace-with-2024-06-25/

Of course you can imagine any policy you want, as trump isn't being clear, but the fact that he refuses to be clear on this should be a signal in itself. Another signal should be that Nato leadership and Europe are making moves to insulate the support of Ukraine against a Trump win. A third signal should be how desperately Russia seems to want Trump to win.

consider why the US doesn’t allow Ukraine to use American weapons in Russia. consider why US aid is limited to just enough to keep Ukraine alive. consider why the US has been openly pumping untold millions into Ukraine under the guise of the National Endowment for Democracy since the early 90s (and almost certainly many millions covertly, too)

I don't understand your point here. Are you implying that Russia was justified in invading Ukraine because they were getting economic support from the US? Poland was too after the fall of the soviet union, so I guess they're next?

this is a proxy war for control of Ukraine. if you were to make an analogy to WW2 it would be more Spanish Civil War than the invasion of Poland

The war in Ukraine is not a civil war. It is a sovereign european nation being invaded by russia to expand their territory, much like poland during ww2.

[-] lurklurk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

To be fair I think there are scenarios where Harris is less likely to get into a war, a bit like Chamberlain was less likely than Churchill to get Britain into a war. Trump pretty much plans to roll over and give people like Putin whatever they want.

So you have a bit of a point there, but again in the worst way

How you end up on the candidates being equal on immigration is more mysterious to me. One of them is talking of mass deportation and there are still kids left over from the family separation camps

Thanks for explaining your reasoning, and lucky that the woman wasn't the fascist this time like in France or Italy

[-] lurklurk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

It just implies that looking at the candidates the biggest and most important difference you see is that one is a woman.

Like, it's great that you did vote for that woman as she also happens to be in favour of women having rights, lgbtq+ people having rights, doesn't want mass deportions, still wants there to be elections in the future and a painfully long list of stark differences like that. It's just impressive that none of that mattered to you, or that you are unaware of it

[-] lurklurk@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

The compromise is clearly to swap last names with each other

[-] lurklurk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Not doing it might

[-] lurklurk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

They're really not though. You literally have two options and one is so obviously worse

[-] lurklurk@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Amazing that you at least did the overwhelming obvious right thing even though your reasons are awful

[-] lurklurk@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Slow genocide is better though. We all get that right?

[-] lurklurk@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

vote blue to start turning the state into a swing state. Definitely don't vote green as they are on the record of trying to make trump win

[-] lurklurk@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I do think you have a point that encountering a lot of anti-male sentiment will alienate some men and drive them towards alt-right anti-female groups.

The same mechanism can probably explain why encountering a lot of anti-female sentiment will alienate some women and drive them towards anti-male groups

Both these things are understandable but bad. If you're actually in favour of equality, you should probably call out both these extremes. Don't excuse men OR women for having extreme and destructive views.

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