Viking_Hippie @ Viking_Hippie @lemmy.world

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proposing to deport undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes

Forgetting to mention that the American Fascist Party considers BEING an undocumented immigrant a crime, meaning that it's a proposal to deport ALL undocumented immigrants, which would necessitate first rounding them up and putting them in concentration camps.

Ramasmarmy better read the "first they came for" poem..

the fervent belief that the framework upon which our Republic is built can withstand the test of time

Which it clearly can't. You don't need to be a genius to figure out that the founding fathers weren't the demigods they're usually portrayed as and thus weren't able to predict 21st century problems in the 1700s.

Especially since their mechanism for changing anything fundamental has been made impossible by polarization.

Like the whole "American Dream" and trickle down economics, you'd have to be asleep to still believe that it's working.

Psy ai ai!

There's also this dude

Still a more democratic system than the US one 🤷

Peppered with tons of bad medical advice.

Remember that both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan needed to be occupied and forced to undergo this cultural shift.

Apartheid South Africa didn't, though. They're a much more recent and also more similar regime, and what it took was a combination of being shunned by the international community and internal resistance.

Just because the West has a huge violence hammer (band name) doesn't mean that every rogue nation is a nail.

Adding an X does nothing to counteract my instinct to read it as "keep ass" every time 😄

To be fair, I'd say teaching you guys should be proof enough of her non-corpse status that she didn't have to tell you outright 🤷

Me and my partner: 👁️👁️

All these 'useless' things done by democrats are going to get demolished by Trump and then some more

I know. That's why I've been pointing out that the American Fascist Party is much worse than the Dems. Which you would have noticed if you'd have bothered to read what I wrote before going on your tribalist tirades.

Keep vilifying democrats

Again, deserved criticism for inadequacy ≠ vilification. I save that for Republicans.

they were the best chance your country had at improvement

Least bad, but yeah. They fucked that right up though, by running a 1992 campaign where they pretend that the left doesn't exist in the 21st century yet again.

Their awful strategy and arrogance cost them the election, not me.

Enjoy the MAGA hellhole that's about to fuck everything up.

Right back at you once again. The people you're defending caused that.

A simplified version of a pointed white hood loading is an inspired choice of picture to represent this article! 😘👌

Your criticism of democrats is either dumb or/and disingenuous.

Nope. It's accurate.

Straight up misinformation

Thanks for starting your paragraph with a section heading so I know what's coming.

fixing the economy

The stock market and other indicators that the rich is doing well, you mean. The vast majority of regular people are doing worse today than before covid and Trump's criminal mishandling of it demolished everything.

Biden administration forgave $175 billions in student loans

That's an inflated number. The loan forgiveness has been a drop in the bucket compared to the full scope of the problem, means tested to hell and back, and with reams of paperwork required to even be considered. That's not what the people wills.

lowered unemployment

According to cherrypicked numbers that only counts the newly unemployed and actively job-seeking.

The millions of people who have been unemployed for a long time and finally given up aren't represented in the statistics you and your favorite demagogues are so proud of.

passed PACT act

CONGRESS passed that. After dozens of veterans camped outside the capital for days in protest of their inaction.

CHIPS act

Giant giveaway to exploitative corporations

infrastructure bill

Same, but with bragging about minimal climate change mitigation improvements while downplaying 10 million acres of new federal fossil fuel land leases.

expanded healthcare

Another case of the people wanting a mile, needing half a mile to barely get by without being forced to choose between death or lifelong debt, and getting an inch.

appointed Lina Khan on FTC

Admittedly a great thing done as a concession to the much more progressive people who suggested her. Same with Lauren McFerran at the NLRB. Doesn't mean that Biden gets personal credit for their work.

There are multiple different reports about Biden administration's work, if you care to look.

I have been. Seemingly unlike you, though, my sources have not been limited to those that are effectively pro-DNC propaganda outlets.

Of course the administration had to navigate through the real world challenges and they couldn't manage to wave a wand and turn USA into utopia.

The eternal excuse of the incompetent and the corrupt. Nobody's demanding perfection. You're just far too easily impressed and/or blinded by tribalism.

But to ignore the work they've done

I'm not ignoring anything. Again, my standards are just higher than your abyssal ones.

You're as misinformed as Fox News viewer.

Hey, I found this picture of you!

And now we have example of Brandolini's law, "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."

Again with the projection. Your gish gallop is demagogue propaganda, not proof of anything.

Took you less than a minutes to be callously ignorant

Nah, I was just concise in my accurate description of affairs. Not my fault that your apologia is as verbose as it's misleading.

took me 15 minutes to refute it

You refuted nothing. Only thing you were right about was Lina Khan, and that was one decision on the advice of better people in a 4 year period of D to C- governing.

Get informed or get fucked.

Right back at you, buddy.

YOU get the fuck out of here with your "criticizing one side while making clear that the other is much worse is the same thing as saying that both sides are the same" bullshit.

Just because Republicans are much worse doesn't mean that Democrats are exempt from criticism when they're not doing their job of faithfully representing the interests of the people. ESPECIALLY when it leads to Republicans winning elections.

Amazing how capitalists always manage to take the wrong lessons from cyberpunk and other dystopia 😮‍💨

Motherfuckers act like they forgot about Dre

I know what you're saying, and on the surface you're right.

The problem is that, past that surface level justice, a shitload of people who have NOT agreed with or even consented to their nonsense would suffer from it just as much.

Which is why insisting on negotiating with them is a bad idea.