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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    701·
    3 days ago

    Only silver lining right now is these idiots might just be too stupid to pull off creating their evil empire.

    • PTSDwarrior@lemmy.mlEnglish
      291·
      3 days ago

      This reminds me of an interview with a Ukrainian soldier, who said of the Russians “we are lucky they are so fucking stupid”. If only that translated into less air superiority by Russia, because that’s where Ukraine struggles.

    • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1153·
      3 days ago

      That’s actually why I’d say the GOP is the “lesser evil” compared to Dems, because they ultimately want the same thing but the Dems are competent enough to pull it off without people noticing.

      For example, everyone’s rightly going after Trump’s deportation schemes, but very few of them realize Trump is still isn’t keeping up with Biden’s deportation numbers. So the Dems end up being better fascists by doing it quietly.

      • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        22 hours ago

        Democrats aren’t without blame but the idea that republicans are a better option is an insane take. That you think we’d be worse off now had we had a Democratic president and congress is absolutely insane.

        • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          21 hours ago

          And that’s an accidental admission that you didn’t notice when the Dems were doing this stuff. Exactly my point.

          • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            16 hours ago

            So when did the democrats send out ICE and DHS en masse country wide? Or how about when they deployed the Marines against peaceful protestors? Did the democrats do those things without my notice? I’ll be shocked.

            Edit: Ooo let’s throw in a bonus of illegal cuts to NIH, purging of the vaccine panel, and gutting of multiple federal agencies and workers. I’m sure that all the people caught in those broad pointless layoffs sure are glad the fucking democrats weren’t in, they might have still had jobs!

              • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                10 hours ago

                Because what you provide aren’t equivalent events at all. Looking at two of your three recent examples (I’m not going to tackle every single link you’ve put throughout this thread.) (And ignoring that the 3 things you provided here are not even related to the things I said)

                In the case of children being left without representation, it happened, it’s heinous it was also infrequent enough to be a big deal as I do recall that issue. Now it’s happening frequently.

                In the case of the national guard, that was ordered at a state level for riots , not by an overreavhing president for a peaceful protest, and never involved deploying marines in conjunction. On top of that his deployment of them was not immediate, though the gop pushed for them to be more immediate. There are legitimate times for calling in military support, such as when riots overwhelm local law resources.

                You are putting up these sources as if they are equivalent and irrefutable proof of dems being worse. I am not saying bad things didn’t happen under them. I said from the start that they have their own share of fuckups. But I am saying that the total, frequency, and severity are incredibly less as well as the general responses to these failures being better overall. It’s such a stark difference, as to make your opinion that the GOP being a lesser evil insane.

                If you spent some time critiquing the events you link in relation to current events you would see how flat it falls as a comparison. Yes, shit happens under every single government and candidate and party. But to sit here and pretend that the gop are the “lesser evil” is blind at beast and willful ignorance or a propaganda narrative at worst.

      • webadict@lemmy.worldEnglish
        374·
        3 days ago

        I don’t remember when the Democrats deported my neighbor or when they called self-proclaimed Nazis good guys or when they wanted to take away food stamps from single mothers or when they wanted to make voting harder or when they didn’t want to ban child marriage or when they wanted to take away the only source of food and housing for children, people with disabilities, and the elderly or when they wanted to ban vaccines or when they wanted to ban abortion or when they wanted to make being queer a child sex crime or when they ignored all of science, but I guess they were just too smart to do any of that.

        • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
          633·
          3 days ago

          Compared to Dems doing the same thing covertly. As I explained in the comment you’re replying to.

          • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
            101·
            3 days ago

            “explained” seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting.

            You papered something, but I didn’t see an explanation per se.

            Try again? Start by pointing to where the Dems started their insurrection, so I can compare.

      • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        …are they? They’re just incompetent in different ways. Not sure competent is how I’d describe them, they are a mess: The last election is proof of that.

        • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          2 days ago

          Yeah, you’re not wrong. Really it’s that the Dems have better control of and coordination with the media outlets.

          Which is also why the Dems are super big on social media censorship. They feel it’s a threat to their media control.

          • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I disagree with you there, GOP has just as much control over media outlets, but the extent of control differs depending on which outlets you’re talking about.

            • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              2 days ago

              Ehh. There’s certainly some outlets that coordinate with the GOP on talking points, but it’s not direct control and coordination like the Dems practice with media outlets.

              It’s more like the GOP and conservative outlets are receiving marching orders from the same oligarchs. The Dems are overtly directing their media partners.

              None of this is speculation. We’ve seen the email leaks on both sides to prove it.