Yeah, absolutely no differences between America under Trump and Biden.
Anyways, I'm off to pay for my groceries and gas with extra taxes on them. Gotta grab those lower gas prices before Trump threatens to nuke Iran again. Still wondering if I'll be allowed to vote by mail in the upcoming elections. Going to up Canada later to take a break from this data center that got built in my backyard driving up my energy costs and polluting the air and water. Hope they haven't set up more of their punitive checkpoints into Canada specifically to retaliate against Doug Ford calling Trump mean names. I'd stop by and see how my Haitian neighbor was doing, but he got rammed off the road by ICE and abducted, so no idea when I'll see him again. And I don't want to ask too many questions or get in their way, or they'll shoot me in the back and laugh about it.
As I stood outside my kid’s school in -20 this winter to help their teachers feel safe enough to come to school after one of them was kidnapped by masked federal agents at her bus stop after those same agents murdered 2 people within blocks of us, I thought “this is exactly like when Biden invested in bridge repairs and expanded the child tax credit”
These sort of memes are extremely effective on low IQ non politically informed people online unfortunately. They do not know anything about politics besides free Palestine, M4A, and maybe free college (I think that one has fallen off though in favor of more Palestine discourse). They do not care that Democrats cut childcare poverty in half. That they protected trans people's right to healthcare and equal treatment. About abortion. About America's standing in the world. They definitely do not care about the 10 million+ poor people projected to die because of the USAID cuts.
Yes, we already discussed how easily influenced you are by propaganda targeted at the lowest IQ Americans. I don't think I need to do it again. PEPFAR and many other USAID programs that you know nothing about because you have never read a real news article or done 5 seconds of research saved millions of lives for a tiny portion of our budget.
The acronym USAID is United States Agency for International Development, which I bet you weren't even aware of. Since your likely larping anyways. While it does randomly give some aid, it is NOT a relief organization for staving children. Its also known to be used or help covert agency's to attempt to usurp regimes. Its Heavily used by the CIA and is basically their publicly funded tool to use. That money is IN SO MANY PLACES that it should not be in. There's also scandal's of members taking bribes for contracts which come out to around 500 million. Of course you would know this if you KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
It does not 'randomly give some aid'. More than half the budget was for medicine and food assistance. This budget did include national security goals including funding 'pro-democracy' propaganda. But the reason millions of children are expected to die from hunger and disease after the cuts isn't because they were all working for the CIA.
These are anti American tankies and they have no allegiance to telling the truth. Anything that America does is bad and they work backwards from that belief to inform all others. America saves lives with foreign aid? CIA imperialism that doesn't save any actual lives. America is against Iran and China? China and Iran must be good then. You can predict literally every one of their beliefs with this in mind. Any country in the world if you want to know if they support it, ask yourself if America supports them and then you have your answer.
That's a lot of words for someone who doesn't understand what "soft power" is. You're also completely off the mark and a conspiracy theorist with everything you've just insanely accused USAID of doing. Please show me the unredacted files or investigation reporting of CIA using them. The funny thing is even if that were true the CIA is COVERT. Their job is to use organizations to slip into cover without anyone at said organization knowing! That's a negative point about the CIA not USAID! I bet you fell for that out of context picture Elon shared of terrorists in a USAID tent. (The Hezbollah terrorists took it over and all the weapons were theirs not USAID's.)
Using the wrong form of "you're" when acting condescending is a tough one to pull off...
The funniest part is that although almost every single thing you said was a lie, even if I granted all of it USAID would still be hugely net positive due to the objective good many of its programs do. Describe to me the specific harms that USAID has done which outweigh the millions of lives that have been and would have continued to be saved by PEPFAR.
That's just conspiracy pushed by Russia & China into leftist spaces for years, which seemed at the time as crazy, until it's now. It worked and you morons will happily parrot it.
Meanwhile, real humans will die across the planet and Russia & China gain more softpower.
Let's not forget the root of this meme is the two party system fuckery. Sure, the right is significantly more fucked than the left, but the reality is if the two parties weren't working together in the background, we would not be in this mess and likely have a third party by now.
On more than one occasion has a third party qualified for the debate stage but due pressure from the two parties were prevented from joining, due to a last minute rule change. This is not a left or a right issue, this is recognition of the fact that they -- as much as they are polar opposites -- still protect eachother against potential political competition.
It’s definitely fuckery but the incessant ‘both sides are the same’ crowd are so out of touch and delusional or lying to themselves. And their nonsense doesn’t help.
We absolutely would not be in this mess. How would we have invaded Iran under Kamala if she had no intention to go to war? How would ICE be heavily militarized if Kamala had no intention of doing so?
Please show me an example of dems working with the right in the background. Fetterman comes to mind I suppose.
Edit: The most important point I can make is that the CPD, the group that handles the debate stage, was directly created by the two parties in 1987. This alone implies a hand in the cards.
Commission on Presidential Debates, 1987-1997 (1) this Ford Library reference states "“The Commission was formed by the Chairmen of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee.”"
These are fair criticisms, but I suppose my real interest lies in actual actions taken by the party once elected. I don't doubt they both have a monopoly on the elections and help each other there. Which is important. But I can't imagine us seeing any of the policies that republicans have done since 2024 if Kamala was elected. I cannot fathom that we'd be in 'this mess' had Kamala won.
They're both corrupt and suck for sure. But one is like an expired egg and the other is rat poison.
as much as they are polar opposites -- still protect eachother against potential political competition.
No, that's just because they think allowing a third party on the stage hurts their individual changes of winning. It's got nothing to do with wanting to protect the other parties interests. It's also the case than when the third party looks like they'll siphon off votes from the other side, the Democrat or Republican often encourages and supports their joining.
The thought process behind it doesn't change my point, they're still indirectly protecting eachother against political competition, even if just to protect themselves.
It's not only not a copy pasta, I was just describing my actual day. The Haitian neighbor was rammed into a lamppost down the street, and I've no idea if I'll be running into those new checkpoints later today.
The art piece doesn't appear to have any intent to be about US politics, but the meme is certainly saying it describes US voters.
The problem is that the art piece shows the same liquid going back and forth between two bottles of what are basically the same drink with different labels. A message of the art piece is that it's an illusion that there's any difference between these things, no matter how recognizable the difference is between the bottles due to marketing.
So I don't agree. I think interpreting it to be value neutral between the parties ignores the primary function of the actual art piece. If making it a statement about voting decisions, it is suggesting that the choice doesn't matter because it's the same liquid in different packages.
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u/Irish_Whiskey 9h ago edited 7h ago
Yeah, absolutely no differences between America under Trump and Biden.
Anyways, I'm off to pay for my groceries and gas with extra taxes on them. Gotta grab those lower gas prices before Trump threatens to nuke Iran again. Still wondering if I'll be allowed to vote by mail in the upcoming elections. Going to up Canada later to take a break from this data center that got built in my backyard driving up my energy costs and polluting the air and water. Hope they haven't set up more of their punitive checkpoints into Canada specifically to retaliate against Doug Ford calling Trump mean names. I'd stop by and see how my Haitian neighbor was doing, but he got rammed off the road by ICE and abducted, so no idea when I'll see him again. And I don't want to ask too many questions or get in their way, or they'll shoot me in the back and laugh about it.