• CommunistBear [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    liberals can’t blindly support Trump’s policies like they do with Biden

    This as a hugely undersold aspect. If 2020 wasn’t under Trump but instead Hilary, there isn’t a chance in hell default libs would have been anywhere near as pro-BLM (despite how performative it all was). Libs are reactionary and reacting against cheeto-man is all we can expect from them, but at least it pushes them in the right direction

    the Palestinian resistance is more likely to win with Trump’s unpopular and incompetent ass at the wheel

    I think there is a lot of truth to that. Instead of Biden giving plausible deniability to countries of the world, they’ll be forced to reckon with Trump just saying the quiet part out loud. Both of them want the genocide to keep going but Biden is smart enough to not actually say it and hem and haw about civility. When the public face of empire is so abhorrent there is likely going to be real pushback

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      If 2020 wasn’t under Trump but instead Hilary, there isn’t a chance in hell default libs would have been anywhere near as pro-BLM.

      I also genuinely think covid protections would’ve been even worse if Hillary had been in office. Instead of Trump giving us tepid protections with the grumbling support of both the democrats and republicans, Hillary would’ve tried to give us the exact same tepid protections but with the republicans screaming it’s communism and the rotating villains of the democrats joining them to make sure literally no protections passed.

      Fuck, on a basic level, Trump gave us COVID protections, Biden removed them. Would Trump have removed them on the same timeframe? Maybe, but he also would’ve had the Dems actually opposing him, whereas Biden had full support for taking those away.