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[-] docAvid@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago

He is, and it's important to remember, but that's less harm than Trump would cause on the same issue, nevermind all the other issues.

[-] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Trump era had people being pulled off the streets into unmarked black vans, literally the bogeyman they used on name growing up about secret police. It wasn’t better, certainly. My concern, is that on one side they’re actively setting fires that can burn us all down, and on the other now, they’re letting those same fires burn, and it’s still burning people. We still have camps on the border. We still haven’t rolled back to Obama-era Cuba restrictions, we still haven’t seen any effort to lessen police funding and it’s oversized control of the budgets of nearly every city in the country. In fact, we’ve seen further money put into police to further militarize them. We haven’t seen Biden demonizing cop city protestors, but he hasn’t done shit in their favor either. We haven’t seen him putting money into food banks to help with record food insecurity. Nothings happening around housing, and most of us are spending over half our income on just rent.

Like, fuck man. Is the best choice really between active destruction and slow decimation?

this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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