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[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Not defending Biden, but seriously if you were a Muslim voter would you rather vote for Trump then? I can only assume he isn't very popular with those voters either, so they are left with very little choice and not voting for Biden is more or less the same as voting for Trump.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Maybe

Imran Khan was "coincidentally" able to gain a majority in Pakistan after 20 years trying with his party. He wasn't perfect, but he targeted a lot of corruption and revamped the economy by convincing big companies to enter and expand business there, especially in the tech sector.

He had decent relations with the USA because Imran Khan met Trump several times long before he became president, probably due to his status as a cricket captain.

Then Trump got replaced for handling covid like a [insert favorite insult], and magically Imran Khan and the USA became cold again just like Obama. Biden outright refused to talk to IK and kept sending his defence secretary to demand US bases in Pakistan while leaving Afghanistan.

Then the moment IK showed a hint of resistance, they told the army to get rid of him or face consequences. Now he's sitting in jail, banned from being shown or mentioned on TV, banned from direct internet access, and banned from having his party run in elections. Oh and several of his party members are dead, hundreds if not thousands tortured, and internet cuts with police deployments whenever his supporters try to rally together.

Naturally the economy self destructed, every corrupt politician came back since they're in bed with the army, and elections were unconstitutionallly delayed for an entire year (and just happened 2 weeks ago).

So a Muslim nation of 231 million suffered because the USA loves "spreading democracy" by approving coups and getting people killed all because they dared to have sovereignty.

Except magically it only happened under Biden and not Trump.

So yes. There is a pretty good chance Muslims will vote for Trump.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Y'all are... tiring... I'm just gonna copypaste my answer to an other comment of the same thread:

Y’all keep saying that but I have yet to see any of you point any actual material difference between Trump’s presidency vs during Biden’s presidency.

What changed after the transition from Trump to Biden except rhetoric? As far as I know, oppressed minorities kept having their rights taken away 1 by 1 the same as before, police kept being over funded the same as before, migrants from the southern border kept being detained in literal concentration camps at the border the same as before, things kept getting more financially difficult for the average American every day the same as before, big polluter corporations kept polluting without consequences the same as before, the military budget kept getting ramped up every year the same as before, what is different in the real world outside the clown-show that is your political system? Where the fuck does that “not good but definitely better” goes when you stop going by the words of these known serial liars for to seconds and take a peak at what as changed in the actual lives of the American people?

The only difference I see is that the Republicans is taking an active approach and pass laws directly whereas the Democrats is more passive and like to let the Republicans and other far right parties pass laws while standing there awkwardly and pretending they can do nothing about it.