Keith Sanborn on Sat, 10 Oct 2020 19:26:09 +0200 (CEST)


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I’m sure your workers’ paradise will make you happy. At least in your mind. That’s the only place it will ever exist, since you are doing anything about the corrupt regime in which you live.

On Oct 10, 2020, at 5:08 AM, Zak McGregor <zak.mcgregor@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 05:00:45 -0400
Keith Sanborn <mrzero@panix.com> wrote:

It’s true. The US Presidents have made violence their major export. And Biden was a witness to Obama’s drone strike kill lists. But this does not make Biden worse than Trump. Trump has amplified violence and directed it towards an internal target. As Stalin used to call it, the enemy within. Here he uses both state forces and paramilitaries like any 3rd World dictator. He has also maintained levels of external violence, for example by strengthening military and diplomatic support for Israeli genocide—besides encouraging slow violence, supporting Palestinian  starvation through sub-humanitarian minimums—economic sanctions against Iran and the list goes on. He has refused to pay the WHO He has taken the us out of the Paris climate agreement— What greater violence to the entire world cd there be? He promotes fossil fuels, actively lowers regulations and enforcement critical to environmental survival. He allowed covid to kill over 200,000 people in the us alone, promotes fake
 medical advice by which he financially profits.  He refuses to support international efforts against covid. Trump is already worse both externally and internally than Biden cd possibly be. And Trump listens to no one except maybe Putin. Biden wd be forced into more public accountability. With Trump there is not even the pretense. He is undoubtedly the worst, most destructive President in the history of the us. But, by all means, hold onto those leninist fantasies that strengthening the worst aspects of capitalism will lead inevitably to its salutary self-destruction, which, btw will be the self-immolation of the planet. 

By all means, go and vote for Real Change™ in November, and be shook
when nothing changes. That is the real fantasy here.


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Zak McGregor <zak.mcgregor@gmail.com>

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