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Fixed that for you.
Wrong answer. That made sense under Clinton vs Bush or Obama vs Romney, not nowadays. We can "consider" your proposal when there's not a damn fascist dictator threatening to send US citizens to an El Salvadorian gulag for disagreeing with the President.
Then again, commies tend to love gulag'ing people who disagree with them, just ask Stalin... So maybe commie guy sees the gulags as a good thing?
Yeah if you think Bush was an acceptable choice and not a fascist then you don't really have a leg to stand on with this "commies love gulags" nonsense. You think this El Salvador shit is new? Those of us who were paying attention know that Bush did the same shit, while they did their fair share of torturing alleged "terrorists" with no due process in our own black sites, the worst abuses were conducted in foreign countries like Egypt, when we sent prisoners there knowing full well how they'd be treated. Some of us have been fighting this battle for over 20 years, nice of you to finally wake up and notice now that someone you hate is doing it, but it would be nice if you'd notice when the people you like are doing it too.
It's so stupid when liberals, defending a system with the largest prison population per capita in the world, with indefinite detention without trial, mass surveillance, etc, still try to take the moral high ground on that issue just because the word "gulag" sounds scary and foreign.
Compared to Trump? Absofuckinglutely. Bush had no desire to be a dictator. Trump absolutely has ambition to be a dictator, and if you can't figure out how one of those is worse than the other then you're too clueless to participate in an adult conversation regarding this topic.
Just a non-dictatator doing very non-dictatator things like stealing the election, operating secret extrajudicial torture dungeons where people are detained indefinitely without trial, illegally spying on innocent people en masse, and starting multiple wars of aggression.
I wonder how long it will take y'all to start rehabilitating Trump once he's no longer the current thing.
Y'know, maybe if you all didn't spend so many years calling Bush and conservatives all Nazis during that era, maybe people wouldn't roll their eyes the moment you call out actual Nazis nowadays.
It's like you people never heard the story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf or something.