Half measures add up if you keep doing them. If you go half way 3 times you are 87.5% of the way there. You know what I mean?

I don’t think we should refuse to help people unless we fix the underlying problem. It’s not like we should have waited to end slavery until we eliminated racism, right? Expanding healthcare to another 50-60 million makes a hell of a lot of difference to those people. I would say that is better “in a way that matters”.

You’re acting like Obama didn’t endorse more drone strikes than any president in history.

That we know of. Trump stopped reporting the numbers, so I wouldn’t bet on that record holding.

Trump promises to immediately add $1.7 trillion to national debt immediately upon being elected.

Many argued it was immoral for black people and white people to drink from the same fountains too. That’s the problem with using morals as a standard.

It’s simply choosing the least objectionable of the two options.

Of the states that have adopted election reform, nearly all are Democratic run (Alaska being an exception but they are weird). Meanwhile Republicans have actively passed laws to disenfranchise as many people as possible.

Between the ACA, Medicare expansions, pre-existing condition coverage requirements, VA funding, and medication price reduction, Democrats have ensured that tens of millions of Americans have healthcare. Republicans have done their best to strip this away.

Democrat states usually do not have “right to work” laws that weaken union membership.

Democrats heavily pushed for a move away from fossil fuels, subsidized the expansion of electric car use, increased protected lands, and strengthened environmental laws. Republicans have undone most of this.

Democratic support of Israel is rapidly waning under public pressure. Republicans have not weakened their stance an inch.

Democrats funded and supported international aid across the world to generate soft power. Republicans have pulled this back and replaced it with threats and military force.

Dems are not perfect, but they are closer to your ideal by an immense amount.

Only in the most broad sense, i.e. control of the government. What they want to do with that power is very very different (especially if you are nonwhite, LGBT, or a woman).

With the KPD effectively banned and the SPD violently suppressed, 1933 was in no way a fair election. I can’t say that it represents anything about how those parties related to one another. There had been no clear parliamentary majority for the past 3 years, so it was clear to everyone that a coalition was needed.

The Christian Center Party as a potential ally was certainly hampered by the Nazi rhetoric of LGBT people as “degenerate” and a threat to the birthrate.

Morals are relative. The law is not (at least ideally).

Propaganda can have multiple purposes. It also drove a wedge between the far left and the center left. The same goes for the Nazis attacking LGBT people (sound familiar)?

We should absolutely push the Democrats to do better and support DSA and other farther left candidates. Short term though, they are the best chance to wrest control of the government back from the MAGA fascists.

There is a reason however that in such cases the law differentiates between murder and accessory to murder. The latter carries less severe penalties. They are simply not the same thing and one is objectively worse than the other.

Yeah, fascists never use propaganda to twist the public’s beliefs to their benefit. /S

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Even in this example, there is one side that is obviously far far worse than the other.

It is the job of fascists to make sure any groups who might oppose them are too busy fighting each other to stop them.

Lots of us, maybe even most, are under surveillance every minute we are at our job. A politician’s job is 24/7 while they are in office. It wouldn’t be necessary if politicians never lied or took bribes, but we live in reality.

Most importantly, 24/7 surveillance. No secrets. No back room deals.

Holy Shit! I have been saying he was going to rename New Mexico as New America as a joke! I can’t believe he actually IS that insane.

That’s why Vietnamese is my favorite food on earth. French cooking techniques with southeast asian ingredients.