Comment on Biden discussing the border during the SOTU
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 year agoSo let me get this straight... Biden is slowly moving away from his sponsoring of genocide, which you have acknowledged he is doing, in a moment of unprecedented public pressure against said genocide, and your only real defense of him is that he is marginally, strategically better than the other guy?
Did you read someone else's comment and mistakenly think it was mine? No. Biden is orders of magnitude better than Trump. If I didn't make that clear enough in what I said, then a quick recap:
- Biden: Student loan forgiveness, way-too-slow revision of our longstanding Israel policy, aid for Ukraine, climate bill, investment in infrastructure / working class, marijuana pardons
- Trump: Put political opponents in prison, "finish the problem" in Gaza, friends with dictators, murder of American CIA assets, project 2025, rapist, murdering Washington Post journalists is ok, 91 felonies, military seize the voting machines, IDK etc etc I can go on
No, he's not marginally better. I actually am irritated that the magnitude of absolutely bonkers attacks on Biden is making me come to his defense, because I don't really like the establishment Democrats all that much, but in case it wasn't clear, no the difference is fucking anything but marginal.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
If you don’t like defending them, then fucking don’t. It doesn’t take much to admit that you should probably vote for them, and that’s all you really need to do with them. They’re not your friends, stop acting like anything they do is good. He is literally boasting about his tough border policy, which by the way has some absolutely horrific ongoing consequences to this day at the border. The gross mistreatment of legal asylum seekers goes on to this day, you just don’t hear about it because the republicans don’t give a shit and the dems know it would look bad to yell about it when it’s their guy in office.
Everything you named has a nice-sounding marketable title, but on closer inspection to just about anything they do I’ve found it’s always bare-minimum perfomative change at the absolute best. It is pure spin.
I do not understand why you would agree that they suck but not want anybody to criticise them. Biden could end military support for Israel tomorrow and basically cinch the election. He won’t do it, and maybe that means Trump will win. I don’t know why you wouldn’t want people to talk about that.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 year ago
Quick question: What's eighteen plus thirty-six? How many letter "i"s were there in my previous sentence? Please, I am doing my homework, and I thought maybe you could help me with it a little.
I am eager to talk more about how much I agree that "they" suck but I just need to know that first.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Holy shit, you think I’m a bot because obviously this must be russian disinfo right? 54, and 5. Fuck you and your bullshit bubble. Goddamnit you have fucking brainworms.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 1 year ago
Just curious, that's all. I do something like that whenever I notice that the answers I'm getting have a notable disconnect as compared with the things they're answering.
In multiple messages now you've told me that I "agree that they suck" when I keep telling you, no, they don't (at least the Biden administration doesn't), and listing extensive reasons why. That to me is sort of bot like behavior, and I was curious. Sorry if I gave offense with it, but out of four times I've asked that sort of thing, you are literally the first one who answered the question; some continued talking to me without responding to the fact that I was asking math questions.
Anyway. Picking out one example of the ones I gave: Can you share with me what your estimate is of the total reduction in emissions as a result of the climate bill? Or some estimate of what its ultimate results will be? I've looked into it a little bit, but I'm interested to know what you've found out on closer inspection.