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"You dont Understand, you have to support the lesser evil" (hexbear.net)
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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/9388376

Tweto by https://x.com/gaijingirl2026/status/2092235861265924137

Dem president "I will operate the foreign child crusher while being formal and respectful" libs: "Thank god we voted for you!" Republican President: "I will also operate the foreign child crusher while being rude and racist" libs: "Wtf? You are evil"
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[+] -11 points 2 months ago (78 children)

I see we're back to the same posts that came up in the 2024 election. Tying to get people to not bother voting.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago* (59 children)

    Can you point out where the comic suggests that you shouldn't bother voting? Because I must have missed that part.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (56 children)

    Is there more than two parties in the US?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (43 children)

    Alright, so you can vote for someone other than the orphan crushers. Weird how you pretended like that wasn't a possibility.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (13 children)

    Doing something that hasnt been done has not been proven to do anything because it hasnt been done. Voting democrat has only accelerated the orphan-killer, so I struggle to see how legitimising the people who want to kill orphans could in any way be a more effective way to stop them than doing the bare minimum of not legitimising them.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Okay? In that case I declare I dont really believe it matters whether you vote for a democrat or a republican since they're the same. There we go, I win, thats that discussion.

    I dont really care what you believe, especially when the observable reality is one that differs from what you'd like it to be. It matters to politicians whether or not people vote for them and they use it to determine how much appeasement to capital they can get away with. Politicians do not walk around and ask voters whether they got the vote in spite of a policy or not. They win and, correctly, assume that the course they've kept is one they can continue on.

    On top of that they use the amount of votes they receive as legitimising their rule. They quote it in speeches, they use it in their retrospectives, it is the foundation on which they rest their claim of experience when they train new generations and when they try to push legislation through. Voting for a politician signals you support them and their policy, thats what a vote is.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    If you actually believe democrats and republicans are the same then yes, you “win”.

    Why do you types insist on pretending that you're more obtuse than a caveman? Do you pretend not to understand arguments because you know you cannot make it in a straightforward discussion ?

    Voting third party would be the correct choice.

    If you put faith in the electoral system, yes. Glas we agree.

    The existence of the phrase “strategic voting” proves a vote is not a blind show of support.

    As did your statement that voted despite certain policies. As I've detailed, that doesn't matter. The existence of the catholic church isnt proof of god.

    Adhering to the politicians’ lie that a vote means full support isn’t logically consistent with how people make choices in the voting booth.

    So you admit politicians claim legitimacy from votes. Neat. What isn't logical is then continuing to support them, when that is what they do.
    Again, the rest of your spiel is pointless. What matters is the practical reality of what a vote is and does, which you've admitted yourself is a sign that you support that politician. You can say whatever you want to make yourself feel good about voting for genociding police-state fascists, the police state fascists only care that you vote for them, not why.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Neat! Or whatever, I couldnt really give a fuck what you believe or your reaction is or whatever. I dont live in the fantasy-land you construct in order to avoid engaging with basic concepts, I live in the world where you dont vote "for or against policies" you vote for a party or a politician and that group or person uses the vote as a point of support for their policies. I think im going to end my interaction with this discussion here, because there's nothing to gain from it at this point, its pretty clear you just want to play make-pretend.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    People vote democrat because they think it’s the most effective way to minimise harm,

    if you want to minimize harm, then having an incompetent leader like Trump steer the imperial ship and sinking it. Rather than a competent one. As the imperial ship harms way, way more people than every person living in Amerika.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Oh so you're a Political Compass user too huh... that explains things.

    To try and help someone like you understand; Amerika, the country you live in, has and is still involved in mass slaughter, genocide, collective punishment, destruction of societies and displacement of millions of people. Your country has killed MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of people through various ways in the past 100 years.

    Your country is built on the backs of slaves and supported by pillars of bones of those that lived there long before white men touched the shore.

    The world is bigger than Amerika, it should be gone so that the indigenous people can get their land back and ending world suffering for once.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (27 children)

    It has proven to be less effective at stopping the orphan crushing machine than voting for democrats.

    Has it? Did the orphan crushing machine even slow down a little bit when democrats were in power? Because I'm pretty sure that it didn't.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (26 children)

    Democrats tend to produce meaningfully different results within the US. I would say this is true even outside of it. At least they weren't blowing up random ships outside Argentina and were able to make and keep deals and treaties with other countries.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (25 children)

    What meaningfully different results? Biden fast tracked money for the border wall. Stole from the working class to give handouts to his rich friends. Increased ICE, Police, Pentagon, and war funding. Deported immigrants, and sent them to torture prisons.

    The Democrats were blowing up kids in syria. They were supporting genocide. They did more deportations than Trump's first term. Lets look at the treaties and deals that they made: Dictators, Slave-Owners, Racists, Genocidists.

    Wow, what "meaningfully different results".

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (23 children)

    Different doesn’t mean Biden was good, just that he was so much better than the alternative.

    "so much better" is where we disagree. The dude was a monster.

    Did his administration blow up ships in international waters with no approval?

    Not that I know of. But he sure did that to innocent people on land.

    Deport citizens arrested by ICE to third-world countries with no trial and refuse to bring them back?

    Yes

    Dismantle USAID, killing multiple thousands of people?

    Nope, but he forced people back to dangerous offices, killing thousands. He backed a genocide, killing multiple thousands. Bombed the hell out of who-knows-how many people. I don't really care what tool someone used to kill others, I care that they killed others.

    Remove protections from federal land and allow nature to be destroyed? Arrest citizens for using privacy features on their phones? Violate the first-amendment rights of national television broadcasters?

    Yes

    Let goons run around with full illegal access to every government database?

    Yes

    Deny healthcare to women based on their marital status?

    No, but he sat back and did nothing when that happened, and had the full power to help them.

    Beat and jail people protesting ICE raids?

    Yes

    Lie, cheat, scam, rape, steal, corrupt, and otherwise destroy anything they get their hands on?

    Yes

    I could go on, but it's clear that you are ignoring my point: We were talking about "meaningfully different results". Just because Biden didn't do the exact same things as Trump doens't mean that Biden gave us "meaningfully different results".

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (7 children)

    I just don’t understand how you can be informed about politics and not understand the enormous gulf between the two primary options.

    Being informed about politics leads one to understand that there is no such gulf.

    Like, you literally thought that ICE appeared less than two years ago, that Biden didn't take part in any invasions, that Biden didn't openly abuse power to shield his family from the laws he himself pushed through decades ago, and so on.

    the difference in scale is staggering.

    It's not. The difference is just decorum and lack thereof.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (6 children)

    Like, you literally thought that ICE appeared less than two years ago, that Biden didn’t take part in any invasions, that Biden didn’t openly abuse power to shield his family from the laws he himself pushed through decades ago, and so on.

    Sorry, I'm not interested in conversing with someone who can't read what I've already said.

    It’s not. The difference is just decorum and lack thereof.

    ...or someone who doesn't have any idea what's happening outside.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    So, you weren't the one who said this?

    Different doesn’t mean Biden was good, just that he was so much better than the alternative. ... Deport citizens arrested by ICE to third-world countries with no trial and refuse to bring them back?

    Even for the examples I gave where you can say yes, technically the Biden admin did this too

    Again, if your prior list, where you say that Buden (and Obama) didn't use ICE and didn't bomb other countries (technically, you were only concerned with ships for some reason) and the like, was not what you meant, you are free to actually mention things that you think are substantial differences between Trump and the preceding genocidaires in chief.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    I don't think deporting citizens like that is one of the things you can truthfully say the Biden admin did. I mean, the poster said Biden did it too, but they provided no proof and neither did you. Meanwhile the Trump admin was ordered multiple times to prevent the deportation of citizens earlier this year. That's why I included it in my list; it's an example of a specific thing that the Trump admin has done worse.

    (Proof of the Trump admin doing this: The deportation of Rasha Alawieh, despite a valid visa and court orders denying the legality of the deportation. If the Biden admin did anything similar to this this, feel free to mention an example.)

    My note about things the Biden admin did too was to cover list items like "corruption" where there is a difference in scale but not in whether it happened at all. For the record, I don't think any of the concrete policy things in my list that the poster said Biden did are actually true, I just didn't feel like arguing against someone delusional. Feel free to provide proof if that's not accurate.

    Again, if your prior list, where you say that Buden (and Obama) didn’t use ICE and didn’t bomb other countries (technically, you were only concerned with ships for some reason) and the like, was not what you meant, you are free to actually mention things that you think are substantial differences between Trump and the preceding genocidaires in chief.

    It is what I meant, it is a list of concrete differences between the Trump and Biden admins (ask me for a source on any one of those items, I have them!), and me refusing to respond to some dumbass going "nuh uh!!" doesn't mean I suddenly don't believe the things I said and 100% agree with said dumbass.

    Also, specifically:

    you say that Buden (and Obama) didn’t use ICE and didn’t bomb other countries (technically, you were only concerned with ships for some reason)

    In the list I wrote which you LITERALLY WERE QUOTING AND COULD SEE SAID QUOTE FROM WHILE WRITING THIS INCORRECT STATEMENT, I specifically didn't mention things like "used ICE" or "arrested people protesting ice" because both admins did it. I mentioned specifically the things which the Trump admin has done above and beyond the horrible things both parties usually do. Same goes for the ships, the US is always bombing other countries, we aren't usually blowing up random ships and threatening to take over Greenland.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Currently don't have time to address the entire reply (will do that later), but I do want to address one claim that you made:

    I don’t think deporting citizens like that is one of the things you can truthfully say the Biden admin did.

    Biden's term, and each of Obama's terms saw greater numbers of deportations that Trump's first term.

    At the very least, articles like these that provide such statistics are easily searchable:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/trump-biden-immigrants-deportations.html

    So, it is rather silly that you keep insisting that Trump is somehow different/worse in this regard.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Firstly, those deportation statistics are pretty misleading, since they treat preventing border crossings the same as dragging somebody out of their home or office and deporting them. Same issue with return orders vs expulsions vs formal proceedings. This site has a very in-depth direct comparison between the Trump and Biden admin approaches to deportation.

    This distinction makes it actually kind of difficult to compare the approaches morally, since I would weight those situations very differently. This isn't to say that a comparison isn't possible, but that a "this number is bigger under Biden's term than Trump's" doesn't really give an accurate view of the situation.

    Secondly, my point was about deporting citizens, or if you'll allow me to extend that, really anyone who is here with the full approval of our legal system. Biden's deportation policy may or may not be more moral than Trump's, given the above details, but it is without doubt at least more legally supported. Once you set the precedent that you can remove someone who has done nothing wrong even by legal standards, like Trump has, the concepts of fairness and justice are beyond repair, and you have reached tyranny.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (13 children)

    And I don't understand how you can see them do the above listed things, and claim that there is an "enormous gulf between the two primary options". Yes, there are minor differences, but to say there is an "enormous gulf", serously downplays how evil and monsterous Biden was.

    Liberals refusing to see how evil and monsterous their politicians are, is one of the reasons that other monsters like Trump keep getting elected.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    Not really, no. Like I said, they were very similar.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Well, if you ignore the bad things that someone does, then I can see how this can be confusing. I participate in US news discussions all the time, that's how I know that Biden is a terrible person, who did terrible things.

    If you want to be less confused, I'd recommend that you do the same.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (6 children)

    Would you like to provide any examples of Biden doing the things I mentioned?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (5 children)

    Sure, heres a few of them. For future reference, there are these things called "Search engines" that let you find stuff that you don't know about. You should try them out. But something tells me that you won't do any research, and you likely won't even look into these.

    https://law.ucla.edu/news/no-fair-day-damning-new-report-reveals-biden-administrations-unlawful-treatment-children-immigration-courts

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/internal-documents-show-how-little-fbi-did-correct-misuse-section-702-databases

    https://news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/despite-biden-climate-promises-oil-production-on-federal-lands-is-rising

    https://www.winknews.com/news/lee/suspected-rapist-uber-driver-refuses-to-give-up-phone-password/article_9426cba4-e60c-5ce2-b516-7d39b06c99f3.html

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/01/steven-donziger-lawyer-sentenced-contempt-chevron

    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/20/biden-gaza-not-genocide-israel-00159020

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_baby_beheading_hoax

    https://internationalpolicy.org/publications/the-biden-administrations-false-history-of-ceasefire-negotiations/

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    https://law.ucla.edu/news/no-fair-day-damning-new-report-reveals-biden-administrations-unlawful-treatment-children-immigration-courts

    This is horrible. You could rightfully argue this does not properly count as court. Although this doesn't disprove any individual claim I made; the article mentions nothing about citizens being treated in this way, for example. Still wrong to do it of course.

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/internal-documents-show-how-little-fbi-did-correct-misuse-section-702-databases

    This was a measure taken to increase oversight into database access, not reduce it. Agents have more access than they should, but this is a far cry from unsupervised write access to multiple agency's databases by people with no security clearance or oversight. If the point being made is about surveillance rather than unsupervised DB access: Yeah, I know the Biden admin did it too, that's why I didn't pretend it was something unique to the Trump admin.

    https://news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/despite-biden-climate-promises-oil-production-on-federal-lands-is-rising

    Looks like regulations on federal land were proposed to increase, not be removed. Continuing to lease land could plausibly count as allowing nature to be destroyed though.

    https://www.winknews.com/news/lee/suspected-rapist-uber-driver-refuses-to-give-up-phone-password/article_9426cba4-e60c-5ce2-b516-7d39b06c99f3.html

    This was not Biden? It was a state level trial. But yes, keeping him in jail for that long is highly suspect, even if he did waive his right to a speedy trial.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/01/steven-donziger-lawyer-sentenced-contempt-chevron

    Not sure which point this is supposed to disprove.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/20/biden-gaza-not-genocide-israel-00159020

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_baby_beheading_hoax

    https://internationalpolicy.org/publications/the-biden-administrations-false-history-of-ceasefire-negotiations/

    Same with these three. I don't think I made any claims about Israel or Gaza at all? Correct me if I'm wrong, it's been several days.

    Overall: You did provide several articles that, while not technically disproving any individual claim I made, make good points that the Biden admin is not entirely innocent on some of the topics related to the points I mentioned. Still, as I've probably said before, the difference in scale is important.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    ...while not technically disproving any individual claim I made...

    I love how libs constantly move the goalposts when presented with data.

    You did provide several articles that, while not technically disproving any individual claim I made, make good points that the Biden admin is not entirely innocent on some of the topics related to the points I mentioned. Still, as I’ve probably said before, the difference in scale is important.

    Yeah, it is important. While Trump is a 9/10 monster, Biden is only an 8/10 monster, who supports Trump, and helps him out with his projects.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    I literally posted articles explaining how he did the things you listed. I'm not sure how to make that any more clear.

    (Also, I’m not a liberal.)

    Then why are you supporting them, and fighting against people who are accurately pointing out that they are monsters?

    You are free to view it that way, but it would be unreasonable to claim that is the only way to view it in light of the many differences I pointed out.

    Yes, I am able to view it correctly. But it is not unreasonable, considering that you didn't really highlight differences. You highlighted things that Biden also very much did, as evidenced above. From what I can see, the "many differences" means "he killed, tortured, raped, stole and genocided slightly less than Trump".

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (9 children)

    Wow! Its almost like the argument that voting for democrats results in anything meaningfully different from voting for republicans rests on a faulty premise! And its almost as if the logic underlying the argument that a vote for democrats is in any way meaningful demands the conclusion that a vote for a third party would then be more meaningful, but the whole argument itself rests on the faulty assumption that the USA is a democracy, when it actually is a capitalist oligarchy, wherein the two prominent political parties do the same horrible shit! And they maintain a grasp on power and a propensity for doing horrible shit no matter how you vote! Wow! Wish someone would have said that! Wow!

    Anyway tell me you have a toddlers grasp on politics and the memory of a goldfish without telling me: [write whatever you wrote and then whatever your response to this will be]

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (7 children)

    Classic, act like a dickhead, get treated in kind and then retreat to cry about civility. You're like an ill-behaved child.

    You definitely have poor understanding of how to get others to follow your opinions, I mean your username please!

    Lmao. Sad that you approach every interaction with the mindset of convincing the other. Even sadder that you suck so much at it you dont understand how convincing others function in a public forum.

    Pol is about getting others to follow you if you can’t even fathom that you might as well be an angry vegan with no friends.

    Weird non-sequitor. Incidentally I've met way less insufferable vegans than I've met insufferable people who complain about vegans.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (5 children)

    Yeah, its almost like Im aware of that and thus behave differently? Wow! What a concept! Behaving differently depending on the social context in which one finds themselves! Wow!

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Voting, at least at a national level, doesn't change anything, because we are not ruled by politicians but by corporations who own those politicians. At a communal level it's different, but that's not the topic here. What it does though, is giving legitimacy to an illegitimate system. If 80% of people would not vote, the system would quicky start to have a legitimacy crisis.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    It doesn't need my sense of legitimacy but if 80% of people say no it will have a problem justifying itself.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Is this some kind of ploy to try and find some "Voting is always good" counter point, that voting in and of itself is democracy and having that is better then nothing? Which is why you seem to be implying that the system doesn't need to justify itself, that if the system didn't do that it would still function and people would still participate, because it is, after all, "Democracy"?

    Quit beating around the bush and just say what you mean instead of being a coy annoyance.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    I don't mean anything yet. I'm trying to find out what the system being "justified" functionally does, from your perspective. From my perspective you're being vague, I'm trying to find my way through the bush here, not beat around it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    That would require a campaign that effectively is more effective than the social media/news network/advertising apparatus of capitalists, while somehow not losing enough support to NationalSocialists and their scapegoats.

    Do you have any pointers to start getting people more involved in Marx than in Adam Smith? Arguing on this obscure platform on how a usa socialist revolution should take place seems a bit premature without enough followers.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Which child crushing policitian will you vote for?

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    The one who supports trans rights :3

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    Are you talking about the one who said that trans people should "follow the law" when asked about their persecution? The one from the party that concluded it had to be less woke to win elections, after eating shit again? The one who has a long track record of doing nothing, at best, for trans people? The one who did nothing to defend roe v. Wade? That one? Yeah, what a great idea, surely signalling that you are completely fine with being thrown under the bus and persecuted (as long as there's a guy with a combover opposing them) will not at all come back to bite you in the ass. How's the poem go?

    First they put children in tiny cages, but I didnt care because it was Obama who did it and besides I'm still sitting nifty, so who gives a shit.
    Then they bombed trans people, but they were brown, so I'm still sitting pretty.
    And thats it, im hunky dory.

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