You have the option of shutting up. Instead, you choose to discourage others from effectively opposing Trump. That makes you an activist for Trump. Your excuses don’t matter. What matters is whether you’re helping get Trump elected, which you are.
It’s not that they are identical, it’s that delineating between the Hitlerites and the Strasserites just isn’t very meaningful compared to the understanding that they are wings of the same monstrous entity that needs to be destroyed. You don’t even need to Obamas embracing Bush and saying “same values” to see that, but seeing that makes denial inexcusable.
You have the option of shutting up. Instead, you choose to discourage others from effectively opposing Trump. That makes you an activist for Trump. Your excuses don’t matter. What matters is whether you’re helping get Trump elected, which you are.
I am taking the moral route and telling you to abandon the genocidal empire, both parties are monstrous and we either need to vote them out or revolt.
Yet Obama did nothing to hold Bush Jr and his administration accountable for their crimes
“we tortured some folks” what? That doesn’t qualify as holding accountable? /s because it’s sadly needed.
It’s not that they are identical, it’s that delineating between the Hitlerites and the Strasserites just isn’t very meaningful compared to the understanding that they are wings of the same monstrous entity that needs to be destroyed. You don’t even need to Obamas embracing Bush and saying “same values” to see that, but seeing that makes denial inexcusable.
Lemmy.ml mods go through arguments removing the ones that are too critical of leftwing voter suppression.