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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“Joe, the car thief, is better than Mike, the serial mass murderer”

Except not at all.

One was a successful prosecutor that brought justice to a lot of shitty people/organizations and was a candidate for a political party that creates/supports social programs.

The other was a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and probable pedophile that instigated a violent insurrection to overthrow our government, spends every day of his life attempting to weaken our nation by sowing hatred between its citizens, and works for a political party that destroys social programs and sends masked agents into American's neighorhoods to shoot them in the fucking face.

You need to work on your comparisons.

[–] Terrorphin@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cool story.

Your comparison is still shit because both candidates and both parties are nowhere near the same. Your simple mind is trying to simplify something that isn't that simple. Both candidates didn't even have the same stance on the genocide. One was/is much, much more approving of it.

[–] Terrorphin@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago

One of them started it - do you remember that? If anything Bidden / Harris would have been more committed to it - it was ideological for them - Trump just doesn't care - he's as likely to get annoyed with Bibi and change sides because he gets distracted.