• Water Bowl Slime@lemmygrad.ml
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      3 months ago

      People who support capitalism are liberals. Republicans and Democrats are both libs and it says a lot about American politics that people consider them different at all.

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        The future Turnip would bring about is nothing like the future self-proclaimed liberals want.

            • sold presidential pardons at $2m apiece, ordered the theft of medical supplies from hospitals during a pandemic

              I don’t see how this is conservative>

              On the other hand.

              Biden border policy more stricter than Trump, according to Cato

              During the Trump administration, DHS made 1.4 million arrests—what it calls “encounters”—in fiscal years 2019 and 2020 (24 months). Of those people arrested, only 47 percent were removed as of December 31, 2021, which includes people arrested by Trump and removed by Biden, and 52 percent were released into the United States.

              Under Biden, DHS made over 5 million arrests in its first 26.3 months, and it removed nearly 2.6 million—51 percent—while releasing only 49 percent. In other words, the Trump DHS removed a minority of those arrested while the Biden DHS removed a majority. Biden managed to increase the removal share while also increasing the total removals by a factor of 3.5.

              And when it comes to natural gas policy,

              The United States is set to produce a global record of 13.3 million barrels per day of crude and condensate during the fourth quarter of this year, according to a report published Tuesday by S&P Global Commodity Insights.

              Last month, weekly US oil production hit 13.2 million barrels per day, according to the US Energy Information Administration. That’s just above the Donald Trump-era record of 13.1 million set in early 2020 just before the Covid-19 crisis sent output and prices crashing.

        • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          Not all liberals are the same, man

          Some support the monarchy (eg. UK), some had them beheaded (eg. France)

          In this case, Trump represents the “small” business, or petit bourgeois folks, but more importantly, the more ‘dirty’-large capitalists like the oil-funded Koch brothers, who are more clearly connected to capitalist exploitation, both in the Global North and South

          In a sense, they are propretarians and thus more closer to the dream/nightmare of classical liberalism come true

          On the other, Biden/Kamala Harris represents labor aristocrats and professional manager classes (specialized stewards of capital), but more importantly, the more formal and neat looking large capitalists like Bill Gates or Mark Cuban, who finance and lend money behind closed doors capitalist exploitation, both in the Global North and South

          In a sense, they are neoliberals with a barely-veiled socdem face