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Democrats are Nazis, too. They’re arming literal Nazi military forces, and just armed a genocide for over a year.
It is as communists theorists always predicted would happen. As capitalism falls, the capitalists embrace fascism.
You're the kind of person that would watch a Republican eat the still-beating heart out of the chest of a child and ask why the Democrats are letting this happen, aren't you?
Totally. Because as much as the Democrats would pretend to oppose it, they also would vote to fund it.
The “Resistance” Dems funded every one of Trump’s worst policies last time. You think they won’t do it again?
I’m just punching right. Blame the Democrats for standing there.
Might help to focus on the people actually causing the problems. Like the Republicans that currently have a trifecta.
Democrats are also causing the problems. That’s why I attack both Dems and Republicans.
If you look at the congressional vote to lift the ban on arming Nazis, you’ll see it had broad bipartisan support. Both parties are paving the way for fascism. Fight them both.
You're defending the Republicans. You're arguing that they aren't responsible for the shit they're currently doing because there are no adults in the room to stop them.
The Republicans are adults. They know what they're doing. Blame them for their choices and their actions.
I never let Republicans off the hook. But attacking Democrats for their part is not defending Republicans.
Stop treating it like team sports.
It's not a sport, but there's definitely sides. Your only comments here have been hand waving Republican responsibility away. Maybe you should stop treating this like a game.
I mean you're going to have to remind me when Democrats stripped any rights away. Or catered to racists to get votes. Or demonized immigrants. Or PERFORMED NAZI SALUTES WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL SEAL IN FRONT OF THEM AT PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna167638
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ELECTION/MIGRATION-DEPORTATIONS/akpeoeoerpr/
https://theintercept.com/2022/02/18/ukraine-weapons-neo-nazis-bob-menendez/
https://theintercept.com/2024/05/10/biden-attorneys-legal-weapons-israel/
Read your sources so I don't have to do it for you.
Source 1: "We can live up to the promise of America. We can strengthen legal pathways to immigration, we can secure our borders and we can treat with dignity those who seek a better future."
Source 2: "Even with the tougher border policy, Biden has continued to work to protect longer-term immigrants in the U.S. illegally, including through a new effort also announced in June that would ease the path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of people married to U.S. citizens. He has shifted enforcement priorities inside the country to focus on removing migrants who the U.S.has deemed as public safety threats."
Source 3 and 4: Paywalled. I don't have time for that shit. Use better sources.
So your sources that actually work essentially say Democrats are trying to strengthen the border but are doing so in a safer and more ethical manner, while actually attempting to make the process of citizenship more efficient. That, in no way, is similar to Republican rhetoric, and is in no way Nazi-like.
Your efforts are lazy.
How fast you went from defending immigrants, to defending anti-immigrant policies when it’s a Democrat deporting them in record breaking numbers. LoL.
When, exactly, did I defend immigrants? To be clear, I believe immigrants should be treated with respect and provided a process as efficient as is reasonable to citizenship. I'm asking you because at no point did I actually defend immigrants, you're just making that up, because, as I pointed out, your efforts are lazy. So now you're just making up shit I didn't actually say. I pointed out that a primary tool in the Republican tool box is the demonization of immigrants. That isn't defending immigrants. That's criticizing Republicans.
You are making shit up. Probably for the same reason you didn't actually read your sources. You're lazy.
And no, agreeing with YOUR SOURCES that the border should be strengthened, while still being respectful to immigrants and providing them an efficient path to citizenship is absolutely in no way anti-immigrant.
You're lazy and pathetic, bud. That's why you're being downvoted into oblivion.
LoL. Ok. Guess you’re not defending immigrants. Which makes my point stronger.
Nothing you say or do makes you stronger. You're weak. Your arguments are weak. You post sources that assist the person you're debating against because you don't read your sources. You make random shit up and pretend they said it. You have to actually type that your point is stronger, when anyone with a strong point doesn't actually have to type that.
I'd tell you to stop while you're ahead, but you're not ahead and you never were.
You should look up what an English word means before you build an argument on it. Writing a long-winded comment about a word you’ve clearly misinterpreted, especially a basic one like “defend,” gives away that you’re a foreign influence account. And comments like your last one here give away that it’s hasbara, because only Israelis are so comfortably cruel.
Nazism is an ideology, not a synonym for being complicit in a genocide.
Yes, Naziism is an ideology… that promotes the ideals of ethnic superiority and killing those deemed less than… such as with a genocide.
Bruh you're in a taco is a sandwich territory. Good luck with that hill.
You’re in ‘defending Nazis’ territory. Go fuck yourself.
You've been shifting blame away from Republicans all over this post. If anyone's defending fascists it's you.
I’m just punching right. Blame the Dems for standing there.
Sounds like you're doing the Republicans work for them, but it sounds like you're cool with that.
You’re projecting. You just assume any attempt to hold Democrats accountable is an attempt to help Republicans.
Grow up, and stop treating politics like team sports.
I'm only pointing out fccts: All your words here have been bashing democrats for thing Republicans are doing right now.
I’m bashing Democrats for pretending to oppose what the Republicans are doing, while they actually help them do it.
They’re intentionally occupying the space of an opposition party to prevent us from having a real one.
No you're not, you're spreading useless FUD and trying to spin some weird alternate reality where the dems are in control of everything when they literally control nothing right now.
Feel free to back the candidate from the largest organized party that most closely aligns with your beliefs. Feel free to make that party. Unless that party is larger than the Dems, you're plan is fucked.
All the bad shit happening right now could have been prevented if people like you had pulled your head out of your ass long enough to listen to the rest of us saying the current reality is exactly what you're going to get unless you compromise. But compromise was beneath all the so called leftists in here, and so you get none of what you want instead of some.
And I'm being generous enough to assume you genuinely believe what your posting instead of trolling
You'd think a bunch of people who want to see all the leftward progress would be happy with some leftward progress but much like the idiot rank and file on the right, you're too self absorbed to understand how anything actually works.
So just Dem astroturfing and genocide denial. Classic.
See, more dem bashing, more republican defense.
Oh yeah yeah, that's how that works. Anything I don't like is a Nazi, eh?
You are literally defending Democrats for allying with Nazis and committing genocide. This isn’t some wildly unrelated topic with a random Nazi accusation thrown in. You came into this defending Naziism.
Fuck off, fascist.
Yep I did all that. Mmm-hmm. Lmao
Get a life, dim bulb.