How the Biden administration helped avoid a coup in Guatemala - eviltoast
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    10 months ago

    The kind of change I’d like to see requires acts of Congress, and Biden can’t do that when Republicans are in the majority in the House of Representatives.

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      But surely he’s trying. Can you give an example of him trying and Republicans blocking him? Something that’s literally beyond his authority (not something that he could do with executive order, such as forgiving student loan debt).

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        A really easy example is passing a budget. They’ve been stuck on doing that since the new Congress was elected in 2022.

        I’ll also note that his first attempt at student loan debt cancellation got shot down by Republicans in the courts, so he’s been doing smaller piecemeal versions.

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          But at least he’s stopped funding ICE and the border camps, stopped building Trump’s wall, and closed Guantanamo, right?

          I’d hate to think he’d be willing to be complicit in fascism and morally turpitudinous law, at any costs. Surely if someone had somehow seized power from Hitler, we wouldn’t defend and support them if they continued to fund the death camps, right? How could we?

          I myself have broken the law multiple times by helping people evade deportation under the law. Surely our president isn’t more spineless and powerless than some loser like me, right?

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            Congress banned the president from moving prisoners at Guantanamo to the US, which substantially limited the ability of the President to fully close it, since for several, no other country has been willing to accept them.

            Defunding ICE requires an act of Congress, and doesn’t have full support of even all Democrats.

            Stopping the wall building did happen.

            The President is there to faithfully execute the laws; unless you want a dictator, he doesn’t get to run around breaking them.

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              So if I looked into this, I wouldn’t find that he signed off on any of this, right? His signature of approval isn’t on anything involving ICE, the concentration camps, the wall, or Guantanamo. Is that what you’re saying?

              unless you want a dictator,

              I don’t buy this. See my Hitler/death camp analogy. It doesn’t take a dictator to refuse to proceed with blatantly fascist, racist, and genocidal policy.

              In fact, he’s behaving more like a dictator by continuing to support these things. He’s actively oppressing marginalized groups – that’s like a dictator’s favorite thing to do.

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              Like every nation, the United States has a right and a duty to secure its borders and protect its people against threats

              Bullshit. Doesn’t sound very penitant to me.

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                Stuff like budgets are big compromise bills with lots of parts. You’re going to find his signature on them because he couldn’t get anything if he rejected.

                Democratic government is messy and full of compromises like this. You can’t ever satisfy everybody.

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                  So we live in a system that bolsters genocide, and our only choice is the fascist with less fascism than the fascist fascist?

                  Literally no better choice? Genocidal policy is just baked in? Wow. What an absolute dogshit system. Sounds like election isn’t going to fix this, huh?

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                    Dude, please stop passive aggressively posing these disingenuous questions and just state your criticisms and points plainly. You look like you’re here for (trolly) performance art, not discussion.

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                    Unless I run for office, I’ll never see a politician who agrees with me 100% of the time.

                    This isn’t something you can fix with a different system.