So, you really have nothing to retort…

Tell me: Is it better or worse, that the US is not longer doing imperialism as hard in their homes?

Who is absolving Trump of anything?

Fixed that for you.

Did you, though, or just try to lie?

I mean, were Palestinians being genocided in Israel for… most of Biden’s presidency? And didn’t Harris say she fully supported Biden’s policies?

Indigenous people? They are laughing at us right now, because us white people are freaking out about stuff that’s been happening to them since white people showed up here.

Union workers? Come on, it’s not illegal for rail workers to strike in the US, thanks to Biden, who Harris, once again, said, she fully supported his policies.

Good for homeless people, as in creating more homeless people every year? Houselessness was spiking under Biden, and still is…

If Kamala Harris had won, literally all the groups you just mentioned would be far better off than under a literal fascist dictatorship which Trump’s lackeys want to establish.

How so, specifically?

Honestly? I’m starting to believe lemmy is, like reddit, filled with a bunch of clueless college kids who haven’t set foot in other parts of the world and have no idea what it’s like to live under a dictatorship, and thus take the rights and freedoms they have completely for granted.

I’m starting to think you believe the rest of the world is ok with how we treat our citizens, and do the same…

Worse for non cis people

How so, specifically, that wasn’t happening prior?

worse for women

Same. How so, specifically?

worse for education

Public education, to put in the words of Lupe Fiasco:

“Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts If you think that hurts, then wait, here comes the uppercut The school was garbage in the first place, that’s on the up and up”

Brown people in the US have always gotten the shit end of the stick, with public education.

worse for immigrants

What if I told you that Biden was deporting people at a faster rate than Trump is?

worse for people in countries being directly and indirectly threatened by your fascist president

Like, which countries? Palestine was being genocided before Trump was elected. And we’ve been raping under developed nations for a long time. Frankly, a lot of those nations are getting a break now, with Trump’s focus on turning the imperialism inwards.

It seems like it’s mostly getting worse for white, cishet people. Queer people were already under attack, and being lynched. We’ve been hammering on immigrants for like… 30 or so years now. etc etc.

My what? Are you a child?

Your beloved liberal republic here, the one that loves to genocide people, loves to be racist, loves to put dollars over humans, and loves to start wars to topple democratic societies abroad.

The reason it’s not worse for my neighbors, is because they were already under attack by your beloved liberal republic, and have been for centuries.

If you don’t get published, you don’t get cited. If you don’t get cited, it appears your work isn’t important.

That said, every researcher I’ve emailed requesting a copy of a paper gladly supplied it, and many put them up on their uni sites.

Worse for whom?

Things haven’t changed a bit for my indigenous neighbors. They are being fucked over just as hard now, as before…

My black neighbors have noticed just as much now as before, cops still abusing their community and their still being ignored economically.

So, worse for white people? Sure.

Every single one of those elections, the Dems chanting “us or fascism!!”

It’s kinda like the gun safety debate: we can not discuss it within 72 hrs of a mass shooting.

After 72 hrs, nobody wants to talk about it, or we have another one.

When will the Dems actually oppose fascism, instead of saying they want to?

Additionally, who is that “boring liberal republic” better for? Certainly not Palestinians. Certainly not for union workers on our rail lines. Not for people becoming houseless. Not for queer people. Not for indigenous peeps, either…

So, just for white, straight people, so we need to keep supporting it?

I was l33t, and signed up with Prodigy!

I mean, he’s having an easier time getting laid than most of the people criticizing him on these forums so…

That’s a bit of projection. Especially when a lot of people shit talking him on these forums are very likely in polycules…

It did not, and it had the nickname AOLosers for people using the service.

Or he’s your friend’s weird, 28 year old brother, whose room is only lit with black lights, and UV reactive posters, has no job, smokes weed all day, and trips all the time, who tells you Mayans invented cell phones.

I said they were deemed unfit. Like women and children, the elderly, etc. Of course, some women were kept for sex slaves, too. Others were kept for medical experimentation, etc etc.

Yes, those 1.47 million were those deemed unfit for labor.

Nothing you said disagrees with what I said.

Dying wasn’t the goal, for the concentration camps, either, generally. It was creation of a slave labor race. Generally, the ones who were exterminated right out where the ones incapable of work (In the German’s eyes).

Kinda the same with slavery. Incapable of hard labor Black people were just put down.

And is murdering them via forced labor different if it only happens in select camps, versus in the cotton fields? Is time frame a difference, really? 6 years to die vs 20 years to die… Honestly, the former is likely more “humane”…

Well, because it would lead them to believe gang members are also being killed.

Nobody ever leaves CECOT alive so what are these gangs supposedly gaining by agreeing to this?

Loyalty from the gang members still inside.

Amazingly, gang leaders are very often able to operate even while in prison. And of course, there’s possible hits inside of the prison system that need to be “taken care of” by members inside.

Prisons are just an extension, basically, for gang life.

I take one issue who you’re replying to: Violent crime will go up, but first, there will be massive dollars on Bukake’s head.

Except, to buy it out, he has to first pay the creditors for the value, because he used that as collateral to buy Twitter.

They never do.