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You will choose between two senile candidates. One a psychopath wannabe dictator, the other one a genocide enabler. I am not jealous.
Sorry to challenge your worldview, but they are both genocide enablers. Arguably one of them already directly committed one by not taking the pandemic seriously. Not all 1 mil+ covid deaths are on his hands but many, many of them are.
I agree with you that they are both genocide enablers but calling the pandemic a genocide doesn't quite work. It didn't wipe an entire group of people off of the planet or out of an area. But yes, anyone who supports Israel right now is a genocide enabler, literally, and unfortunately both qualify, and so does almost all of congress.
If the system only gives you genocide enablers as an option it's time to stop believing in that system.
Thank you for saying this. Yes. It was a mass casualty event perpetrated by willful incompetence of the highest degree, but it was an indiscriminate killer, not a targeted attack on a certain subset of human beings.
I notice people, especially fellow left-leaners, throwing the term "genocide" around like it just means "kills a bunch of people in some country or something." It's a strongly-worded appeal to emotion, and the heinousness of such a crime loses its meaning when it isn't specific.
By all means lets accuse these politicians of the crimes they commit, but we lose credibility when we ignore literacy in exchange for drumming up fervor.
If the system only gives you genocide enablers as an option it’s time to stop believing in that system.
Why should this challenge my worldview? I literally called him a psychopath. I just despice both of them.
"One of them is a genocide enabler". The wording of A is this, B is that, asserts contrast and not a shared characteristic. Just a friendly reminder that both of them are genocide enablers.
Trump didn't have the chance yet. But yes, I agree that he is an aspiring genocide enabler. Doesn't change my views about Biden, though.
Sorry, you didn't shatter any worldviews today, but we had a nice chatter about semantics.
Israel has been plotting genocide for quite a while and anyone who has kept a bead on Israel knows that. If you supported them even before the immediately recent actions you are still a genocide enabler. So it's still both.
I too, prefer my politicians bland.
Ok, maybe a little paprika.
Trump does look like a well spiced bird that's been under a heat lamp for about 40 years.
Biden looks like a bland bird that's been left to boil in a pot for 10.
Trump will also enable the genocide and remove all aid to Ukraine to give to Israel too.
As long as it all cycles back to the defense contractors the real people in power in washington would let him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD6kvDHbIYY
Quite possible.
He's already said as much. So I'd imagine it's more incipient than possible