| > both-sidesing is indistinguishable from sweeping for the bad one. That implies there is a good one. The lesser of two evils is still evil, and even how to measure lesser is extremely subjective. > Show me the last time Kamala Harris engaged in guillotine rhetoric Harris campaigned on saying as little as possible. Several Democrats have called for Trump's assassination. Some (like Stacey Plaskett) quite directly, others (including Harris) have implied or joked about it. Someone worked the nutters into a sufficient frenzy to attempt it with Trump and to murder Charlie Kirk. > Point me to what you think the Democratic equivalent of the ICE killings are. Around 3 million people die in the US per year, on the order of 6000 of those are in prisons, ICE was on the order of 30. The media focuses on that because Trump campaigns on immigration, not because it's a significant proportion of the people the government kills. Significantly more people die when Democrats get paid off by the AMA to limit the number of medical residency slots, or impede housing construction even in states their party fully controls resulting in homelessness and poverty-inducing high rents. > Show me dead protestors Are you referring to the unarmed woman killed by the capitol police in 2021? > stifling of legal proceedings to hold them accountable Biden pardoned a lot of people in his own party. The government failing to hold itself accountable is the default. Most of the time they don't even initiate proceedings against themselves when they're committing a crime, and hide behind qualified immunity etc. if someone wants to sue them. > Show me Democratic fraud on the scale of the $40B swap line to Argentina, pumping and dumping the American economy by announcing on-again-off-again war, creating a board of peace / putting yourself in charge / giving it $10B, and shitcoin rugpulls. The Inflation Reduction Act was a trillion dollars. The federal budget is multiple trillions every year and a double digit percentage of it is corruption every year, regardless of which party is in office. In general it seems like you want to point to specific things that represent a fractional percentage of the overall problem and ignore the systemic bipartisan corruption and government unaccountability that has been the status quo for generations. |
> residency slots, NIMBY
Who put forward the last bill addressing the residency slot issue? Which party has the bigger YIMBY faction?
> Ashli Babbitt
She was storming the capitol! The officer who shot her was investigated and cleared because the courts agree: cops are allowed to shoot if you are trying to breach the inner defensive perimeter of the US capitol. Where are the investigations for Rene Good and Alex Pretti?
> state investigators were denied access to the shooting scene by the federal government
Oh. This isn't even "we've investigated ourselves," it's just "we kill you, you die." That's new in US politics.
> IRA was a trillion dollars
Spending that you do not like is not fraud. That's not what the word means. I'd love to call the trillions spent on Iraq and Afghanistan and (soon) Iran fraud, but I can't, because that's not what the word means.
> you want to point to specific things that represent a fractional percentage
The reason why you can't come up with equivalents for the Trump fraud is because they don't exist, so you have to pretend that congressional appropriations that you don't like are somehow equivalent. But they aren't. They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm, but Trump can just pocket billions and Republicans say "both sides." No, it's not both sides, it's not normal outside of shithole countries, and despite Trump's best efforts to turn the US into a shithole country we can still decide to enforce our laws and turn back the clock on that.