Because I'm still seeing "Both parties are the same!" trolls in the comments

I have been told multiple times on Lemmy, including this morning, that Harris and Trump would be exactly the same when it came to queer rights and women's rights but at least Republicans are honest about it.

It's mind-boggling.

No thanks on this car brain garbage. Their "infrastructure plan" is terrible. Nobody is supporting reasonable, sustainable infrastructure. Ban cars.

Politicians really need to start being held accountable for blatant lies... they don't even try anymore, which means it will only get worse. Lying like this should be punishable.

I see this in a lot in my red town. There are a lot of infrastructure projects and they all say "project x funded by the republicans for <town> initiative or whatever" and then you go to the website and in the fine print it says that initiative was itself funded with IRA money.

I really wasn't sure about the IRA at the time; I had big sticker shock at $5 trillion dollars. But seeing my middle-of-nowhere-in-particular town get big big projects funded with it has convinced me that this is landmark legislation that history will recognize as significant.

Now extend the northeast corridor to the rest of the country please! I want more passenger rail! I demand better train service!

My take is, both parties bad, one far worse.

OP: posts example of Republicans taking credit for things they opposed

ITT: "Roads are bad!"

Kinda missing the point, here.

Nothing helps traffic like more roads. It's not like mass transit could fix it.

Those nationwide infrastructure bills should distribute funds to the districts and states according to who voted for or against the bill. The bill passed, but you voted against it? Nothing for your district that you would have received even if it's in the bill.

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Oh joy, more money for roads. More state funds for drivers. The war on cars continues unabated.

Who in the hell is saying they are the same?

That’s great, sweetie. Now get your bib on and in just a short while, the leftists will be proven correct again.

That tends to happen a lot when facts, truth, and ethics are on your side. I know liberals struggle with those concepts due to being completely lost in hyperreality so just hang tight!

Of course they're not the same!

The Republicans now support Fascism at home, whilst the Democrats so far only support Fascism abroad.

Who is saying both parties are the same? All I see are people misconstruing criticism of the Democratic party as meaning both are the same. Both parties have a lot of similarities, both are right wing, both support Palestinian genocide, but no one I've seen is suggesting they are the exact same unless you grossly misinterpret them.

As he campaigned for president in 2020, Joe Biden made a bold promise at a New Hampshire town hall, adding repetition for emphasis: “No more drilling on federal lands. Period. Period. Period. Period.” […] The Biden administration has now outpaced the Trump administration in approving permits for drilling on public lands, and the United States is producing more oil than any country ever has. […] The reality is the United States is already dominant. The country is expected to produce 13.2 million barrels of oil per day on average this year — millions of barrels more than Saudi Arabia or Russia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/08/16/biden-oil-drilling-production/

They're not the same, but if you look at the big picture, like a livable vs an unlivable biosphere, then the slightly-lesser evil is still omnicidally evil (and helping with a genocide).