Political Memes

Good? NATO should have been dismantled when the Cold War ended.

Putin wants to conquer Europe. This is bad. The ideology is essentially a version of manifest destiny where Russia expands westward until it consumes all of Europe. Also, of course the members of NATO need to maintain their armies.

If Russia wanted to conquer Ukraine, they would have done so already.

No, NATO countries have been supplying weapons to Ukraine.

I know I’ll be accused of being on Russia’s side for saying that, but I’m not. I’m just looking at the evidence.

Your argument should provide that evidence rather than pretending it exists. Russia's fascist authoritarian dictatorship has led to military incompetence.

Russia has always described this conflict as a liberation of the Donbas. They took Donbas in just two weeks and since then have been mostly just maintaining their new borders.

Russia tried to take Kyiv and lost.

The media want us to think that Russia wants to annex Ukraine and the only reason they haven’t advanced is because the Ukraine army is so awesome. And yet this awesome Ukraine army hasn’t managed to retake any territory in two years.

Here are some maps that show what has actually happened in the war:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60506682

Ukraine retook territory by November 2022 which is in the last two years.

Also, Ukraine only recently got the green light to strike into Russian territory. This is already having a huge impact on the war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8qVOdygE2g

He wants to deport illegal immigrants, which is the same thing the Democrats want. Biden’s rhetoric on immigration lately is just as hardline as Trump’s.

Trump wants to round up 15 to 20 million people into camps and then deport them. The magnitude of this does not match what the Democrats want to do.

I followed the link you posted in your argument. This is what I found:

Barring some miraculous breakthrough, on Saturday the current government shutdown will become the longest in American history. But it has already hit another historic milestone: It is, by far and away, the stupidest government shutdown in American history. Sign up for a weekly roundup of thought-provoking ideas and debates

In 2019, the federal government will spend a whopping $4.407 trillion. Yet Congress and the president are shutting down the government in a dispute between the $1.3 billion the Democrats have approved for border security and the $5.7 billion the president is demanding — the difference being precisely 0.0998 percent of the total federal budget. In Washington, that is considered a rounding error.

This is about a government shutdown. Other than the misleading title, the Democrats do not want to build Trump's border wall. Nor is this evidence that Democrats want to deport 15 to 20 million people.

And what are Democrats going to do for homeless people? Are the Democrats going to launch a mass housing iniative for them?

Newsom wants to doing something similar to what Trump has proposed, there's a whole court case that has made it to the Supreme Court about breaking up homeless camps. The case started in Oregon, but has implications for California. But Newsom actually wants to provide housing and services to people. Newsom erroneously believes these need to be forced on people. When Trump talks about rounding homeless people up it's to put them in death camps.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/us/oregon-homelessness-case-supreme-court-california.html

While well intentioned by Democrats, it's going to backfire if Trump takes office. Under Trump, homeless people are going to end up in either prisons or death camps which will end up being the same thing.

Trump seems to love the death penalty. This reporting suggests Trump wants to use firing squads.

Democrats aren’t much different in practice. They’re just nicer about it.

Neo-liberal Democrats wanting to maintain the status quo isn't the nice version of christo-fascist Republicans wanting to kill millions of people.

(he’s the only president in recent history who didn’t start any new wars)

Trump emboldened Putin to continue his war. Trump emboldened Erdoğan to attack the Kurds. Trump emboldened the Taliban to retake Afghanistan. Trump not declaring war is not a measure of success. He destabilized the world the last time he was in office. Under another Trump term we are likely to see China invade Taiwan and North Korea invade South Korea.

But even when it comes to domestic matters, he’s not substantially different enough from the Democrats to make me want to support Joe Biden after what Biden has done.

Biden got an infrastructure deal done and has cancelled some student debt, among other things. This has a list Biden's foreign and domestic accomplishments:

https://www.upworthy.com/joe-biden-s-23-greatest-achievements-as-president-of-the-united-states-so-far

As opposed to Trump's crime spree:

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-donald-trumps-three-indictments-78-felony-charges-1816951

Reviewing the evidence shows a stark difference between Biden, a neo-liberal, and Trump, a fascist. The difference between another Biden term and another Trump term is that millions of lives can be saved under another Biden term. Where as Trump will usher in a christo-fascist dictatorship that will end our democracy and destabilize the world. These are vastly different outcomes. edit: typo