• Krono@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    If “full dictator” is defined as ignoring established law to enact their agenda, then Biden did go full dictator multiple times. Most notable is how he circumvented established law in order to continue sending lethal aid to genocidal Israel.

    And you’re right, Biden going “full dictator” does have negative repercussions. Trumps’s illegal actions are somewhat normalized by the illegal actions of his predecessors.

    I just wish for once a president would go “full dictator” for the working class and not for the billionaires and genocidal regimes.

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        2 hours ago

        I understand that questioning your liberal worldview can be painful, but thought-terminating clichés like “whataboutism” do a disservice to rational discussion.

        It is not whataboutism to discuss how Trump’s illegal actions are enabled by his predecessors’ illegal actions.

        It is not whataboutism to point out the Biden administration routinely circumvented the Leahy Law in order to continue the genocide in Palestine.