Yes they were, but it wasn’t as bad

Self-parody achieved

You’re being chauvinist. You may not want to admit it, but it’s the only way this position makes sense.

Your “lesser evil” logic only works if you implicitly treat people in the imperial periphery as expendable, as if our suffering matters less than your domestic anxieties. Your entire framework centers US comfort while mass death abroad becomes background noise.

Who backed the genocide in Gaza? Who destroyed Libya and turned it into a failed state with open slave markets? Who armed proxies that helped give rise to ISIS in Syria? Who backed decades of rape and mass killing in Afghanistan?

It was bipartisan. Every time. Enthusiastically bipartisan.

Permanent war, sanctions, coups, and the immiseration of the Global South are the foundation of the system. Democrats and Republicans agree on this completely.

So when you say “one leads to fascism and the other leads back to the status quo,” you leave out the key point: the status quo already depends on mass death elsewhere. Your stability is subsidized by bombs, blockades, and starvation.

Yes, Republicans are more "meaner" at home. Democrats use nicer language. That’s PR. Democrats provide legitimacy for the same imperial machine while managing the decline more "politely".

From Palestine to Haiti, there is no meaningful lesser evil just continuous catastrophe.

Your argument boils down to: as long as things don’t get too bad too fast here, everything else is negotiable.

That’s peak chauvinism.

One leads to a new holocaust in the US

From outside your shithole, that sounds perfect.
Your 'other side' is OK with holocausts too, as long as they're somewhere else.
Suffer and eat shit, you all deserve it.
Zero sympathy for you sanctimonious scum

Yes they were

Oh, ok. So when you said they weren't, you were lying?

Would you rather have hand-wringing neoliberals with some accountability, or hardcore right wing authoritarian nazi republicans with no accountability?

Given that, unlike most liberals, I consider foreigners to be human, both of them are genocidal fascists.

One leads to a new holocaust in the US, the other leads back to the status quo.

As ever, shitlibs only care about human life within the US border. And the status quo was both monstrous and what lead directly to the current situation, so wanting to Retvrn to it is some reactionary shit