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@pthenq1 @biomedmax > Trump provided a 1st check of $600

Incorrect, trump's first check that was passed by senate and actually paid out was 1,400$ same as bidens, second check Trump insisted on 2K but Trump, as with everything, was just trashed talked and no one listened to him so a 600$ check was pushed against his wishes.

Biden never ones asked for or pushed for a 2K check or any higher amount.

We are talking about what each president pushed for, not what the senate did **despite** the presidents stance, that isnt on the president.

So by that logic Trump supported, in total, 3,400$ but only managed to actually get passed 2,600$ in total.

Biden at no point pushed for a higher amount, he requested only 1,400$ in total, and got what he requested..

Therefore Trump pushed for and passed significantly higher stimulus than Biden no matter how you dice it.

> Trump was evil. No because I say so. Or democrats say so. Because he is. All the planet say so.

The whole planet also dealt in slavery for most of our existence and thought it was perfectly ok too. Sorry but what the whole planet things in terms of ethics and morals means jack shit to me considering the planets horrific reputation when it comes to morality.

That said I wouldnt disagree per se that Trump is evil.. just marginally less so than Biden.

> Evil. Because they twisted the true.

Yes that is why I would say they are both evil, both have a reputation of horrific lies and ethics.

> And Trump and his followers were ready (and they still are) to discard votes just because they do not like them.

No that isnt why, they whole heartidly beleive that the votes were rigged, none of them want to throw out votes because "they do not like them" and it is a fiction to attach that motive to it. They legitimately beleive votes were not counted and want those votes counted. Remember, their demands were a recount, **not** to have Biden blocked, or Trump installed, a recount.

That said, they are idiots for thinking the votes were rigged and they were wrong. But that makes them stupid conspiracy theorists.

> So yeah. Trump check was bigger. This 2nd stimulus focus more on people. And Trump is evil.

Trump literally pushed for 30% more money for the people, but somehow Biden's check is more for the people... umm.. ok

As for the health part, Trumps stimulus also included a ton of free money invested in creating the vaccines, which we are now administering in record numbers.. a huge portion of his check was focused on health, so yet another fiction in the narrative you seem to be selling.

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> Well. Biden started with $2000 and then he went down to $1400. Still, Trump gave more money indeed. It is what I said.

Incorrect, he pushed for 1400 from the start. News agencies reported this (incorrectly) as 2000$ in some cases by adding it to the existing 600$ stimulus that is already in the process of being distributed. At no point did biden propose 2K

See the following for an example of this where they refer to it as 2K but actually are honest enough to point out int he article they are just adding Bidens 1.4K to the already in play 0.6K:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/politics/stimulus-payments-2000-dollars-biden/index.html

> No. The whole planet did not deal with slavery. Let's not twist reality to justify Trump.
>
> To name just a few: The Spanish Empire abolished slavery in 1542. Just to name one of the actors...
>
> In the civilized north, the Afro-Americans were free in 1833 and even before.

You literally just contradicted yourself and proved me right "no the whole world wasnt involved in slavery, here are two countries to prove that, both of which were involved in slavery, proving they werent involved in slavery"...

> In the past, slavery was not even comparable with Confederation Slavery. Roman slaves could buy their freedom for example. In other cultures, citizens became slaves to pay debts. After the debt was paid off they were free.

sorry you dont get to use the whole "american slavery is the only slavery that counts as 'real' slavery... dude the mental gymnastics is overwhelming your doing right now.

For starters, no roman slaves could not simply buy their freedom, not exactly. They could if and **only if** the master gave them the option. By law anything a slave owned their master owned, and if a slave was allowed to keep money at all it was at the discretion of their master and it took the form of "tips" more than a pay.

All of this is explained clearly on wikipedia or any other source, for example some quotes from wikipedia on the roman practice:

"Manumission, or enfranchisement, is the act of freeing slaves **by their owner**."

"The motivations for manumission were complex and varied. Firstly, it may present itself as a sentimental and benevolent gesture. One typical scenario was the freeing in the master's will of a devoted servant after long years of service. A trusted bailiff might be manumitted as a gesture of gratitude. For those working as agricultural laborers or in workshops, there was little likelihood of being so noticed."

"Under Roman law, a slave had no personhood and was protected under law mainly as his or her master's property."

As wikipedia goes on to point out this is in fact no different than american slaves whereby an american slave owner had the option of freeing their own slaves if they wished. A quote from wikipedia on the same topic/page regarding american slaves:

"Slaves could sometimes arrange manumission by agreeing to "purchase themselves" by paying the master an agreed amount. Some masters demanded market rates; others set a lower amount in consideration of service."

> If we go too far in the past we face technological issues. Manpower was required because of no engines.

Ahh the good old excuse slavery was ok because we needed slaves to work the fields. Sorry that doesn't cut it, slavery int he USA was before even electricity was common place or gas powered vehicles. Technology was not particularly advanced at the time slavery was in use in the USA anymore than the previous few hundred years, and its a poor excuse either way.

> For example. Mississippi ended slavery in 2013. What about that?

Effectively a lie. in 1863 slavery was made illegal in **all** states without a single exception as a matter of law. Even if a state wanted to make slavery legal and passed a law to make it legal the law itself would not actually be a law as it would automatically be unenforcable as higher law existed that overrode it.

Moreover the last time any human being was treated as a slave in the USA, regardless of law was on December 18, 1865, after that date there wasnt a single slave every again anywhere in the USA.

Please stop pulling dates out of your ass, it completely discredits any argument you wish to make.

What you are referring to is something entierly different, in 1995 Mississippi official decided to include themselves in the states that *ratified** the 13th amendment, which was already active in mississippi for over 100 years at that point and there was never any need or pressure for them to ratify it and in no way effected any actual laws. It was a purely symbolic gesture and nothing else, and highly unusual, as there is no need for all states to ratify amendments for them to go into force. Not ratifying an amendment is not an indication that the state refuses to recognize the law either, thats not how it works.

The date 2013 comes from the fact that the U.S.Archivist was unaware of and not notified of the symbolic ratification that took place in 1995 until 2013 at which point it was added to official record.

Again please stop making stuff up for dramatic effect or to win an argument, it just discredits your whole argument.

> It is pretty much whataboutism to declare all the evilness of the world the same. It was not. It is impossible since the world is a big place.

Never once claimed all the evilness of the world was the same. I pointed out that slavery was a problem in virtually every part of the world, and it was, denying that is disrespectful and a disgrace to the histories of marginalized people who were the victims of that slave trade.

> I mean... Trump harangued his followers to attack the Capitol. I am sure no president did something like that before...

He didnt, another fantasy.. what he did was beleive in a rediculous conspiracy theory where he thought the vote wasnt counted fairly, and so did his followers.. what he did was, just like Kamala has done, just like Biden has done and just like countless other politicians have done, was to say things like "we need to fight for justice" ... or to encourage a march on the capital (something that is so common it is almost a tradition when it comes to political causes)... so yes, his actions were no different than countless politicians before him.

Where things got different is that his followers were pulled fromt he crowd by police, and beaten (caught on camera) while his followers were still contained behind barricades.. you can hear the crowd screaming in anger on the videos of the event as the cop beats a trump supporter who is already subdued and on the ground, even calling over another police officers to join in on the beating. The crowd screams back "we should beat you!" and other things as they become enraged. All this was just a few minutes before the crowd finally became riotous and broke through the barricades and actually began their riot on the capitol... but of course all the democrats love to leave that little detail out even though it has been showed on video and is quite clear... why? Because its exactly the shit that caused their own people to riot for 4 years straight, if they pointed that out it would look too damn hypocritical and destroy their whole narrative.

But hey, lets just keep making up whatever fake reality we want, im sure thats a way better way not to "divide" the nation... Right now we could all be rallying together against police brutality, which is really what happened that day on capitol hill, and something the democrats pretended to care about.. but no, they would rather divide than unite against evil... and you call the trumpeters the ones doing the dividing... yea ok...

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