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  • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    10 months ago

    If you think that trump is capable of that then you admit the American system is so flawed that a diaper wearing dementia ridden criminal is all it will take to bring it down. That Pax Americana is on the death bed and electing Biden is just kicking the can down the road.

    Without the looming existential threat of the climate apocalypse and the inevitability of children born today fighting in the water wars, Biden might be fine, but we need action now and anything else isn’t just lesser of two evils, it’s complete failure in our lifetimes…


  • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    10 months ago

    ”Both options are cliffs!”

    But they are though.

    The cliff drivers aren’t getting off the bus, even if we vote them down this time, if we don’t change the system that allows them equal opportunity to drive us off a cliff they will eventually force it off the cliff.

    Biden has long supported the system that allows it, prides himself on being able to find a middle ground with them, and though he talks about not going over the cliff has no long term plan for dealing with those that do, because again he believes in the system that allows them to want to drive off the cliff.

    I believe I’ve stretched this metaphor about as far as it will go, but I’m going to try stretching it further.

    There are actually two cliffs, fascism and climate change, even if we pull the bus away from one cliff we’ve still got the other in front of us and basically no one is even pretending to deal with that.

    And to leave the broken bus scenario, I’m just going to say if you believe that a trump win will destroy American democracy, that we can’t defeat his corrupt, senile version of fascism then the next republican demagogue will have no problems.















  • And that’s why I specifically highlighted the potential for an American coup which he and the democrats have fundamentally not addressed, It wouldn’t matter if he was the most perfect president ever, without addressing fundamental procedural flaws in how our democracy works there is no point to any of it.

    They’ve let this be memory holed, it was just a bunch of individual idiots and the FBI is catching them, nothing else to see, when there are literal traitors in congress and flaws to exploit.

    We are a knifes edge from fascism (if pence had gotten into the car or chosen loyalty to trump we would have fallen already) and the administration has failed to center the fundamental fixes it would take to prevent it from happening again.