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While rebutting another post here on Lemmy, I ran into this. This says exactly what I want to say.

I am not a friend of Biden's Administration. I think they drug their feet over a variety of things ranging from holding Trump and his goons accountable for January 6th through rulemaking on issues like OTC Birth Control and abortion rights, and yes, I think he's too quick to please big business. But then I remember what the alternative is, and ... well, disappointed in Biden or not, I'm voting for him. Because my wife is a Black bisexual goth woman, four strikes under Team Pepe's tent. And I have my own strikes for marrying her as a White dude, and respecting her right to not have kids since she doesn't want them is another strike against me. And I care about my Non-Christian, Gay, Transgender, and Minority friends, and will never willingly subject them to Team Pepe.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Someone who has helped commit genocide vs someone who hasn’t yet. Sure.

"Trump, whose administration was staunchly pro-Israel, affirmed that he was “firmly in Israel’s camp,” as host Brian Kilmeade put it, and said he supports Israel’s ongoing offensive on Gaza, which has killed more than 30,000 Palestinians. “You have to finish the problem,” the former president said."

"Turning to domestic policy, Trump rehashed many of his long-standing claims on immigration, including that migrants are “poisoning” America. “People are coming from jails and prisons, and mental institutions and insane asylums, and there are terrorists,” he said of undocumented migrants crossing the southern border into the United States. “What they are doing to our country is incredible; they are poisoning our country. And we’re going to close the border and deport the people; we’re going to get them out.”"

"As previously reported by Rolling Stone, Trump has basked in criticism of his rhetoric on immigration and privately vowed to take things even further. “The [former] president said he’s going to keep doing it, he’s going to keep saying they’re poisoning the blood of the nation and destroying and killing the country … He says it’s a ‘great line,’” one source said in December."

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-israel-finish-problem-gaza-1234981038/

"At a recent rally, former President Donald Trump used language in a speech that echoed Adolf Hitler, comparing his political opponents to "vermin."

"We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country," he told a New Hampshire crowd.

There were other nods to authoritarianism in the speech. Trump praised Hungary's strongman leader: "The head of Hungary – very tough, strong guy – Viktor Orban," Trump told the audience, adding approvingly, "He didn't allow millions of people to invade his country.""

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213746885/trump-vermin-hitler-immigration-authoritarian-republican-primary

"All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning," Hitler wrote.

"He poisons the blood of others but preserves his own blood unadulterated," Hitler wrote of Jewish males allowing Jewish females to marry white Christians.

"Whenever Aryans have mingled their blood with that of an inferior race, the result has been the downfall of the people who were the standard-bearers of a higher culture," he wrote in another passage.

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/30/trump-poisoning-the-blood-racism


When Biden starts getting his speeches from Mein Kampf, then and only then will you have a point.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I love how people don't quote what trump fully said about the israel issue and just the "finish it up" why don't you also quote the part where he said you have to get peace? Why don't you also quote that it was a departure and that he didn't condition it on the release of hostages? (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/us/politics/trump-israel-conservative.html)

This attempt to show biden as better is pathetic when biden has not been kind to any immigrants and he has slaughtered many in the mid east. Im sorry to break it to you but neither are your friends and this game of "better of the two evils" doesn't work when you have someone committing genocide.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I love how people don’t quote what trump fully said about the israel issue and just the “finish it up”

Normally I'd give the benefit of the doubt on this, but with the context of the other statements on "blood poisoning" so closely matching Hitler's, I'm calling bullshit.

why don’t you also quote the part where he said you have to get peace?

Yeah, the Nazis wanted "peace" as well, in the form of the Aryan race being the only on the planet.

This attempt to show biden as better

That implies I'm trying to show Biden is good. I'm not. Biden is terrible.

But I'd rather have terrible than terrible and dead.