Re: <nettime> your response

[Keith Sanborn <mrzero@panix.com>]

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. 

> On Oct 10, 2020, at 4:13 AM, Zak McGregor <zak.mcgregor@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 12:30:03 -0400
> Keith Sanborn <mrzero@panix.com> wrote:
> 
>> I wd like to know why you think Biden is worse. A Biden regime wd at least repress the growing fascist militias here. Perhaps news didn’t reach you about the plot to kidnap and try (implicitly then execute for treason) the female Democratic  governor of Michigan foiled by the FBI. Her crime was making people wear face masks by executive order The Supreme Court of that Republican-dominated state struck down that lapse into sanity. Trump has encouraged these groups.
> 
> This is nothing compared to what violence is meted out by the US, directly or indirectly - against people around the world. Both Republican and Democrat parties traditionally support these acts. Obama, for instance, destroyed Libya and attempted to destroy Syria. He only half succeeded. From outside the USA, there is zero difference between any of the 44 presidents (you call Trump 45, but he's only the 44th different person to hold that office, I think).
> 
>> I don’t want to live with the daily levels of violence reported in the media and by friends in South Africa. Your situation is a bit different I think. But, perhaps those levels of violence are exaggerated. In that situation I might think differently. 
> 
> Yours is a violent system. It's always been so, and you always vote to continue that.
> 
> Ciao
> 
> Zak
> 
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> Zak McGregor <zak@mighty.co.za>
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