it is absolutely wild to see people on this website repeatedly insist that joe biden is personally responsible for local administrative and law enforcement behavior on college campuses while donald trump is specifically promising to deport them for protesting.
Biden's not personally responsible, but he's cheerleading for crackdowns with his characterization of pro-Palestinian protests as antisemitic and his very limited public pushback to Israel's actions. His words and actions are far from neutral on this topic.
i mean, i get it, i don't want to argue about how "just saying biden would be better isn't an argument", but like, look, trump is telling you, in black and white, what he thinks about everything and everyone and what he would do about it if he got the WH back, and we would be wise to believe him
If self-reclaimed leftists are posting whataboutisms when Trump states plainly terrible and fascistic policies much worse and on a greater scale than any recent administration has done, it is effectively supporting Trump. It’s identical to what my racist, right wing uncle is posting on Facebook.
I really do believe many (NOT ALL) want to see him hurt people they don’t like, just like his voters. Some because they are hurting themselves and don’t know what to do but lash out, others because they’re just plain monsters at heart no matter the team jersey they wear
I get it. But it's about pushing the bar of imagined possibility. If you don't say it out loud - "hey, condemn a genocide, stop arming it" - that matters. It's a surrender. Impossible to just accept that the one party that's the only real choice is doing this.