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Trump is literally a fascist dictator lmao. You're fighting the wrong fight.
No he literally is not. If you're going to throw the word literally around you should probably mean it because it makes you look silly if you don't. Trump is not a dictator. I receive fascist. I understand those are two words that Many on the left like to use because they sound really bad but it's not accurate.
You can say he's extremely authoritarian and he has tried to vest more of the power of the government into the office of the president. However you could say pretty much the same thing about Biden and definitely about obama and you can keep going from there. Presidents have been adding more power to the office for quite some time. And many have been extremely dictatorial.
But he's not a dictator and he's not a fascist. He ran on what he is doing and was elected based on that. If you want to blame someone for that blame come all harris we're running a campaign which was basically half giggling and half calling everyone that disagreed with her Nazi. So in fairness she was given like 5 minutes to prepare her campaign.
There is enough wrong with trump that you don't need to go over the top like that. Doing that is what turns people off and it's why the democrats absolutely lost the election, or at least a major part of that
No, no, you misunderstand. There are systems in place (that are being severely tested) that prevent him from being the absolute dictator that he tries to be. Perhaps "he's a wannabe dictator" might be more accurate. It's not over the top and I don't really care if you disagree.
Regarding Obama and Biden, yes, the US has a serious issue where recent presidents are ruling via executive order, this is not exclusive to Trump. This is also whataboutism and distracts from the point.
If someone is so blind that they can't see reality for what it is, they're already lost. Peace.
I don't misunderstand anything. I can see clearly that you're trying to change the goal posts because you realize what you said was inaccurate. You claimed he was a dictator. I pointed out that he's not. I agree that the system in place is what prevents that. But that's not something we've discussed. Now you claim that I misunderstand this which is absolutely childish, I understand just fine.
I know it's got nothing to do with what about isn't. What about isn't is where you trying to excuse bad behavior because somebody else did something different somewhere else that is also bad. What I'm talking about is this is the latest step in a long line of the same behavior. And if you didn't speak up against it at the time you really can't say anything now. If all trump is doing is what the president's before him did and I'm not just saying democrats by the way then you can't at this point argue that it's some deep moral problem when you didn't pipe up when other people were doing it
That's not what about it, that's precedent. You've allowed the president to be set and now you have to accept that. You can't just complain when somebody who you don't like does something you have to be consistent about complaining the whole way through and you weren't and the democrats weren't either. So here we are
When people from both sides stand up and complain about it regardless of losing power maybe something can change, but either way you can't claim it's a moral issue
tldr
Ation what? That was like four short paragraphs how is that too long...... ohhhhh I forgot. You're a left winger😏😏
I'll keep it simple. If you do something that you don't get to complain when somebody else does. Other than that the conversation gets way over your head it's hard for me to translate Down to your level so we'll have to leave it there
Is that okay? Some of those words were pretty big, let me know if you need me to explain them
No, I'm going to be nice here and not insult you like you did me, but I don't think you aren't worth arguing with and I'm not going to continue talking to you. Have a nice day :)
So it was still too long huh? Well you have a good day too
Whataboutbiden
Whataboutobama
Whataboutharris
What about them?
It would appear that you're trying to suggest that talking about president is the same as whataboutism. It is not. It's important to learn what words mean before using
He probably shouldn't use words if you don't know what they mean. What about is him refers to excusing bad behavior because somebody else did some other Behavior which is perceived as bad.
When you're talking about the same behavior what you're talking about is precedent. And that is an entirely valid thing to talk about. President A did this, President B did this; now that President C is doing it, you really can't complain unless you also had a problem with President A and B doing it.
Whataboutism is something entirely different. Being wrong three times repetitively doesn't make it any better. Go back and try again