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this post was submitted on 23 May 2026
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Yes, because Obama and Biden famously:
I mean, I could go on. They are not fucking the same.
What in the actual fuck do you think the Great Recession bailouts were?
Ah yes the deporter in chief did none of that.
Yeah Obama started a war with Yemen because Saudi Arabia told him to instead.
No he just blew up Libyan everything so... I'll let you make a guess.
Stop coping.
This simple minded, reactionary mentality is why we are in this mess.
This isn't talking about individuals, peanut. This is talking about the parties themselves, as a whole, with a critical analysis of the politics they each represent and uphold.
You're so blinded by surface-level bullshit you ignore how they pick your damn pocket. You're missing the forest for the trees.
Yes, because having our president and the party behind them murder, torture, rape, steal and blackmail people is surface level. The republican party is behind him and won't do anything about it.
They are not fucking the same.
Democrats haven't done anything meaningful to stop him.
Edit: Instead of just downvoting, how about you prove me wrong. Go ahead. I am genuinely interested to know.
Oh, what have the republicans done? They have a lot of power to do whatever they want. They could even reign him in a little, but no. Last comment.
no one is defending Republicans here
They kind of are, by painting them as the exact same and not noticing the very real differences between them you are in a sense defending the Republican party.
Especially in the context of this conversation.
That's not to say that the political system doesn't deserve a level of scrutiny, it most definitely does but the hard reality is that there's no reform that doesn't come with participating in it and on some level.
I think what weakens the case is that we've had a lot of progressive Democrats that have demonstrated real change and to ignore that is not just defending the Republican party but deminishing the very real work by people who want that change.
Democrats aren't the white knights. They haven't swept in to fix things. Whenever they're in power they refuse to move the needle far enough to fix the damage done by Republicans. Look at Obama and Biden; they continued most of the same horrible practices as the Republicans have done.
Republicans are evil and monstrous. Democrats are okay and lack the spine to actually make the change the people want. They're not the same, but neither is really reflective of the will of the people because the only people they (political parties) listen to are people with money.
Well said, Doc. Get ready to be slammed as a pedophile sympathetic and other things that are common here on Lenny