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The leaders of progressive groups focused on mobilizing young voters are warning President Joe Biden that his handling of the war in Gaza could depress turnout in a demographic that’s already notoriously difficult to energize on Election Day.

"We write to you to issue a very stark and unmistakable warning: you and your Administration’s stance on Gaza risks millions of young voters staying home or voting third party next year.

“We mobilized the record youth turnout in 2020 that pushed your ticket over the finish line... Many of us worked to provide the critical source of support for Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections that prevented the Red Wave.

"Young people are a cornerstone of a winning Democratic coalition, and the vast majority of young people in this country are rightfully horrified by the atrocities committed with our tax dollars, with your support, and our nation’s military backing.

“We did not spend hours upon hours knocking doors and making calls to turn out the vote so that you could support indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and violations of international law. Your legacy hangs in the balance.”

Signers include the heads of groups like March for Our Lives, United We Dream, Gen Z for Change, and the Sunrise Movement.

A New York Times-Siena College poll of five swing states found that among voters under 30, who lean heavily Democratic, just 5% “strongly approve” of how Biden is doing his job and 25% “somewhat approve.”

Literally has a lower approval rating with the most Democratic generation than the most Republican generation. Zero chance his ass is getting reelected

  • Kaplya
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    1 year ago

    Democrats would rather lose the election and keep the donors, than to win the election but lose the donors.

    It appears that the bourgeoisie is 100% behind Israel. I have not heard of a single corporation that even bothers to both sides like they did with BLM.

    • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      That's because black people are consumers and thus people but Palestinians don't buy McDonald's so they can't (by the amerikkkan definition) be people

      It's the "colorblind" (but not really) capitalist version of us-foreign-policy

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      It’s not illegal to BDS businesses that don’t stand with BLM (even if The support is pointless and performative). It’s illegal to BDS pro-Israel companies because their support directly upholds the occupation. Liberals only want you to vooote with your wallet when it doesn’t do anything. So basically they have nothing to worry about.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Democrats are 100% happier to lose than actually fight for the working class, as long as they can blame voters for not liking them enough.

  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    We did not spend hours upon hours knocking doors and making calls to turn out the vote so that you could support indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and violations of international law.

    Lmao

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    “We did not spend hours upon hours knocking doors and making calls to turn out the vote so that you could support indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and violations of international law. Your legacy hangs in the balance.”

    Yeah no fuck off, the slaughter has already taken place, his "legacy" isn't hanging in the balance, it's already dripping with blood, he's not going to become a genocider, he already IS fuck this temporally nonsensical hedging bullshit

    • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, there is literally nothing he could do to redeem himself

      He do a complete 180 on policy, apologize to the world on live television then call in a drone strike on himself and his whole family killing them all and that still wouldn't bring back any of the kids he murdered

      • Trustmeitsnotabailou [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Your don't under stand! His the best president ever. Doing a bang up job.

        Please no followup questions in what he has actually done

    • mar_k [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah lol libs grasping at straws. Enough of us are not going to vote for him and he will lose. There is nothing he can do to save face. Reminds me of this absolute redditor take I saw on his radically dropping approval rating among dems:

      Show

      If genocide Joe somehow wins 2024 I will eat crow

  • OgdenTO [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Sir your actions are leading directly to the deaths of thousands of children.

    So? dem

    Sir your actions are going to lead to a drop in votes next year.

    What?! ! biden-harbinger

    • Egon
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      3 months ago

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      • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Bernie is the establishment's god damned gimp and they're still terrified of him even as he obediently accepts being walked around on their short leash

  • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    i mean, id like to think the damn zoomers are free-palestine if the dingdongs on reddit are any judge of shit, but reddit brain isnt IRL yet so what do the Sunrise Movement, Gen Z For Change, United We Dream and March For Our Lives have to say?

    also, vote

    • mar_k [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Zoomers are mostly very pro-Palestine yeah. I'm a college student so I definitely notice it

      Check out this thread: https://hexbear.net/post/989744

      • GaveUp [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Fucking damn it I hate my crowd

        All my zoomer friends and acquaintances in tech is either completely ambivalent to the situation or pro-Palestine but very anti-Hamas and anti resistance for self liberation

        • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          the time to hedge your support of hamas was like 30 years ago before israel murdered all the more moderate palestinian leaders and left them as the only option

          like, it's real easy to say I wouldn't support them from my throne in the imperial core, where I haven't been getting carpet bombed every other month my entire life