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I think people have a hard time encountering criticism of Biden without reading into it some sort of comparative statement that is not usually intended. I have personally encountered this many times. I can even go out of my way to say things like "of course Trump is much worse" in various levels of detail and yet, without fail, someone will come along and say that by not offering unquestioning support to Biden I'm a secret Trump supporter trying to undermine Biden or some other wild accusation. I believe this type of interaction is most responsible for perpetuating the idea that people believe the two men are similar. By contrast I rarely see that opinion offered directly.
Not so much as a secret Trump supporter as helping to muddy the waters. There are many, many valid criticisms to make of Biden (and even more things to validly praise, oddly enough never covered in the press....)
I think the problem people have with criticism, valid or otherwise, is that this is no time to raise any doubt whatsoever about who should be president next. Yes, that's a propagandist's position. It's also the only morally and practically correct one given the existential challenge we face.
No dissent during an election cycle, got it.
2016 was not long ago. "Valid dissent" is what successfully disenfranchised enough voters to give us Trump, which we will spend a lifetime recovering from.
You people have a very short memory.
Like I said: No dissent in an election cycle.
And the neat part is that election cycles don't ever stop.
So we have zero dissent.
Yay democracy.
Also: What you mean "you people?" That sounds like you're being needlessly divisive, trying to paint progressives as disloyal.
I bet you're one of those IRA agents infiltrating message boards.
And you sound like someone who would be complicit with electing Hitler pre-WW2 because his political rivals weren't perfect matches to your ideals.
Wake the fuck up. You get "divisive" replies from people like me because we're tired of your intellectually dishonest "what, I can't voice dissent?" when democracy is actually in major jeopardy this very moment. This isn't some hypothetical.
You whine about people shutting down your bullshit because we're fed up with it. But the other side is literally facism that would likely evolve into actual imprisonment for "voicing dissent".
And that's not hyperbole. Dictatorships around the world currently do that. Trumps own lawyers argued that the sitting president cannot be guilty of any crimes, that they can literally assassinate rivals.
Again, that is not hyperbole. That is fact.
Holy cow, y'all are more deranged than I thought