• Nakoichi [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      And continuing Trump's immigration policy, crushing unions, building the border wall, etc.

      Remember folks this is what he promised us. Nothing has fundamentally changed.

        • Nakoichi [he/him]
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          6 months ago

          See this is the problem with liberals. They care more about symbolic support and ignore actual material reality.

          https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-signs-bill-block-us-railroad-strike-2022-12-02/

            • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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              6 months ago

              first class segregation politics behavior you're showing there.

              jesse-wtf

              who the fuck even says this? touch-grass

              • Nakoichi [he/him]
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                who the fuck even says this?

                fedposting

                Also funny they said "first class" when they clearly have zero class analysis.

                • Nakoichi [he/him]
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                  you fuckin called me a segregationist for showing you a link from Biden literally shutting down a strike. Please fuck all the way off.

                  Biden was literally pro segregation.

                  Also the link that you "appreciate" contradicts everything you said.

                  Again and I will continue to repeat this: Go. Fuck. Yourself.

                  Edit: sorry mods, I can't be civil with someone trying to gaslight me.

            • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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              What the fuck are you talking about? You claimed the photo op he did was better than actual support, you were shown how it absolutely wasn't, and now you're calling someone a segregationist for...not wanting to vote for a segregationist? Absolute bird brain. No, actually my beautiful bird is much smarter than that.

            • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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              6 months ago

              You're supporting an actual segregationist who broke a huge strike and calling people who don't think he's pro union "segregationists?"

              Do you realize how absurd you sound?

            • Nakoichi [he/him]
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              6 months ago

              This is some first class fed posting. Kindly go fuck yourself.

    • @stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      You put down half a thought. So what are you going to do, vote for an actual fascist or not vote so that an actual fascist wins?

      • TC_209 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        6 months ago

        I was going to vote for Biden but now I won't because you acted with such brutal incivility. This is the most important election of our lives; democracy itself is on the ballot and you are turning people away from the polls before they've even opened. You are handing Trump the keys to the White House; you are ushering in the dark tide of fascism. Enjoy the next election, you have made it our last.

          • SUPAVILLAIN@lemmygrad.ml
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            What's the matter, peckerwood; don't like you guys's favorite thought-terminators getting flippantly flung back in your face? Gee, who'd have fucking thought?

            Understand, if the choice is between genocidal crypto-fascism and genocidal fascism-obvious, I have no issue with watching your country die instead. Better we go out than the whole rest of the world under our boot. I would rather die, and I would rather we as a collective fell, than ever support another fascist for any fucking reason.

            • @stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
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              I don’t tend to let people insult me then attempt to influence me. Learn a little about the art of persuasion and try again. Also, get a grip. This isn’t Facebook or Reddit. Try not to act like those people.

              • Maaj [he/him]
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                6 months ago

                Was it the term "peckerwood" that you found insulting? Would being referred to as "crackkker" hurt your feewings as much?

                • TC_209 [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  24
                  6 months ago

                  As a proud Biden supporter, I know two things: 1. 2024 is the most important election of our lives and we must do anything and everything to maximize the voter turnout for Biden, even If it means reaching out to our political enemies and making unsavory compromises; and 2. If you don't immediately agree to vote for Biden then you're just a fucking [slur, slur, slur] and I'm going to go out of my way to antagonize and alienate you and anyone else who may be reading these threads -- that's called the art of persuasion!

              • SUPAVILLAIN@lemmygrad.ml
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                Like narc-jacketing isn't a tried and true tactic of redditors. Like this "vote blue no matter who" horseshit you peddle wasn't hand-crafted by OccupyDemocrats eight years ago. If you don't sit your hypocritical ass down and get out of my inbox with your settler peckerwoodery... See, you liberal invertebrates miss this little point every single fucking time. You come to people who have NO INTEREST in backing your genocidal-assed party, or even your genocidal-assed nation, really; and then Demand our support. It's you who owes the 'persuasion' in the first place.

                And you are failing. Fascism comes to y'alls cute little gated neighborhoods because of you and Everyone who acts like you. I hope I live long enough to watch the settler house of cards collapse on itself. I wonder if you're even aware enough to realize how hard of a non-starter supporting your party became with the GENOCIDE that Joe decided to full-throatedly back. Like... Do you realize what I see supporting your party as equivalent to anymore with that? Do you even want to know?

              • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                6 months ago

                This isn’t Facebook or Reddit

                Your instance is full of ledditors, where do you get off saying this?

              • TC_209 [he/him, comrade/them]
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                6 months ago

                I was going to vote for Biden but now I won't because you acted with such brutal incivility. This is the most important election of our lives; democracy itself is on the ballot and you are turning people away from the polls before they've even opened. You are handing Trump the keys to the White House; you are ushering in the dark tide of fascism. Enjoy the next election, you have made it our last.

          • Kuori [she/her]
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            6 months ago

            they're making fun of civility libs who pulled that shit on leftists.

      • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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        6 months ago

        Keep "Voting Blue No Matter Who" and watch as every promise they ran on vanish without a fight because YOU have taken away any incentive to.

        • @stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
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          6 months ago

          Here's the thing. There's a big brigade thing going on right now where I'm apparently the worst human who's ever lived for asking a question. But, one thing that nobody seems to be able to do is tell me what the alternative is to voting Biden. Nobody can answer that question--it's just "you're stupid because Biden" and that's the end of it. So, I'm really asking--what is the proposed alternative action?

          • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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            If you want an actual answer, the most peaceful possible solution at this juncture is communist revolution.

            • @stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
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              6 months ago

              Sadly, the moment people try, it’s no longer communism. The entire populace would need to see the world differently than they do now.

                • @stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
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                  I'll rephrase: each time it has been attempted it wasn't really a communist revolution, but rather a group responsible for regime change using the term as they appoint a new elite.

          • voight [he/him, any]
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            6 months ago

            You're not being brigaded, I literally browse All Comments & All Posts (I have blocked a lot of communities). I don't have any games on my phone I like to post in random comments sections/replies all over the internet and read a lot.

            Choosing to vote for, campaign for, run candidates within, or form a political coalition with a party, those are all things you have to weigh differently. Walking away from a party is a valid move. Half of the country doesn't vote for either candidate. Why try to work with people who oppose your political goals on every level and will never give you access to the donor warchest even if you win a primary?

            Why vote for someone who paints a target on minorities and anyone to the left of Adolf Hitler? This is my hottest take.

            Some people argue you should vote for Trump because he's an isolationist or something, but that's complete nonsense, he's the one who murdered Gen Soleimani

            • @stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
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              I still don't get what you really want to argue for, though. Is it just to not participate until better candidates come around?

              And, having in excess of 15 comments insulting my person in one thread is being brigaded.

              • voight [he/him, any]
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                6 months ago

                I'm gonna be honest, I don't think the race for president is an important place to invest political energy, of which I have a finite amount. Local agitation & elections are more flexible honestly. Stop a city council from destroying some ecosystem further. Elect a lady who hates Jeff Bezos (idk if this made any difference but it took little energy to do my part).

                I don't think I actually care who wins ❓ they subsequently either ride the wave of shit, or they wipe out. Regardless of what people think the kinder Zionist Sen. Sanders would have accomplished in the general election (when the dems would have assuredly pulled funding), being in the Oval Office itself would be a completely different story. Nixon wasn't enough of a ghoul for Washington half of the time, mein gott.

          • voight [he/him, any]
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            To expand on my seething hot take here the use of LGBTQ+ people & symbols as imperialist mascots by the United States, Europeans, and Israel is an international disaster. Similar to the way Zionists abuse conscientious Jews with their rhetoric

  • @stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    I'm now convinced that a lot of this is trolling. People who say "Well I'm Muslim and it bothers me that Biden supports Israel so I won't vote for him" have to be completely out of touch with reality or are completely fake. Same thing here--not voting for Biden ensures that Trump wins, and your theoretical third-party person has no chance of doing anything except dilute the vote.

    So? I'm really not buying this narrative or these polls anymore. The respondents are either morons or plants.

    • @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Healthy democracy you've got here, where people who have real complaints about the parties of capital and genocide are dismissed as "trolls."

      How about "fuck you," supporting israel in any manner should should be automatic disqualification from any possible democratic process. If you don't accept that you don't deserve any of the rights described in the bill of rights.

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      Yeah, the people who don't want to vote for the fascist sending bombs to an ethnostate to kill their friends and families? They're the out of touch morons.

      • @WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        One is a neoliberal that embraces a political philosophy where you turn a blind eye to suffering abroad for stability and prosperity at home.

        The other is a wannabe dictator that repeatedly echos hitler and will lead to civil war where your neighbors, family, and yourself are put at risk of death and the destruction of your livelyhood.

        One of them is more imminently dangerous to the voters who are tasked with casting votes.

        • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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          6 months ago

          He's not turning a blind eye, he's actively facilitating a genocide.

          Many people are more moral than you and refuse to support anyone supporting a genocide.

          • Adkml [he/him]
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            6 months ago

            "Turning a blind eye" - that guy

            "There will absolutely not be any conditions on our aid to Isreal, the only condition is defending isreal" - Biden

            Sounds like he's got his eye pretty squarely on the prize to me

          • @WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml
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            6 months ago

            If there were a viable third option I would vote for them. Being moral in this situation means Trump would get elected and my family would be victims of political violence while that same apathetic blind eye turns away from us. It's a personal threat to my physical safety if Trump is elected.

            • Kuori [she/her]
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              6 months ago

              right, so you care more about you and yours than millions of people in palestine. sounds about white

              • @WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml
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                6 months ago

                Yes. It's not my job to stop all the wars in the world. I'm not going to sacrifice myself for that because it wouldn't make a difference.

                • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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                  6 months ago

                  I'm not asking you to be a superhero who ends all war, I'm telling you that when you support Joe Biden you're actively supporting a current ongoing genocide that he's facilitating. It's not that I'm criticizing you for not doing enough for others, I'm criticizing you for actively aiding a genocide. All you have to do is stop doing that.

                  People who decline to aid and abet a genocide are a better people than people who agree to help aid and abet that genocide.

            • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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              6 months ago

              Oh well shit, better kill millions of others to slightly delay it then. Carry on, my good liberal.

            • voight [he/him, any]
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              6 months ago

              Do you think Biden doing the same shit as Trump but under the banner of civil rights and progressivism could be deletrious to the goals of those movements here?

              Admittedly he did throw $4B at green hydrogen as we fall behind Namibia and Mongolia in green energy production. 😒

              • @WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml
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                If there were a viable third option I would vote for them. Being moral in this situation means Trump would get elected and my family would be victims of political violence while that same apathetic blind eye turns away from us. It’s a personal threat to my physical safety if Trump is elected.

                I politically align with Repugnicans by about 2%, Democrats by about 10%. I don't want either. But I only have 1/300,000,000 shares of power in America to enact my will and it is "i don't want to be dragged from my home and shot". And yes, that does mean I am voting in the interest of myself not being dragged from my home and shot while the president actively throws bombs on a warzone where that happens to other people on the other side of the planet. It fucking sucks. But being moral here will result in my fucking death.

                • voight [he/him, any]
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                  6 months ago

                  Biden isn't saving anyone. Reactionaries think neoliberal policies being implemented by Biden are communism, they think Lula is communist.

                  The democratic party is a shambling pile of donors that's why they need Hillary. They feed off of us.

                  Biden is worse than Trump, and Trump 2 will ge worse than Biden. Every president is exponentially worse than the last.

                  Show

    • Doubledee [comrade/them]
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      6 months ago

      "I cannot conceive of the idea that people can dislike my preferred political choice for any valid reason. Not picking my preferred choice would mean a thing I don't prefer would happen. Nobody could possibly want that."

      I love that this is how libs are going to deal with their deeply unpopular genocidaire, just pretend he's actually popular and fine. Real winning strategy there, I hope democracy isn't on the line.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      People who say "Well I'm Muslim and it bothers me that Biden supports Israel so I won't vote for him" have to be completely out of touch with reality or are completely fake

      "If you aren't voting for me, you're not Muslim, Jack"

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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      20
      6 months ago

      here--not voting for Biden ensures that Trump wins

      Too late -- I didn't vote for Trump so Biden wins

      • Adkml [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        I'm not voting for either which means I'm actually voting for both of them which means I'm legally voting twice.

        Why do libs insist on only voting once when they could vote for neither and vote twice. Why are they neglecting their right to vote by only voting half as much as if they didn't vote for anybody.

        Also this argument makes lots of sense.

  • Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone
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    6 months ago

    Ultimately this won't change unless young Democrats actually take over the party and shift the overton window back to the left.

    This generally, and specifically electoral reform is the only way to get the USA out of its two-party hellhole.

    • SUPAVILLAIN@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      That was tried in 2016. The DNC's got too much of a stranglehold-- they'll just keep putting up malfeasant, genocidal capitalists. There is no alliance in the Democrat party, young or no. Just like the cops, I believe the Democrats are only good for abolition-- not reform.

    • kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Honestly, a genocide at home may make people feel a bit empathetic for what happens abroad. But that's not an optimal outcome for anyone.

  • @spaphy@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    I feel as though clearing debt for the select few without actually solving the problem is a weak bid anyways. IMO that's buying votes.

    But Bidens been what he needed to be: neutral and boring, with some attempts to break monopolies on the sidelines.

    Trump is insane. The mans selling crypto Pokemon cards of himself in jail. The two braincell populace will have him voted in.

    • SUPAVILLAIN@lemmygrad.ml
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      But Bidens been what he needed to be: neutral and boring,

      So we're just ignoring his genocidal tendencies? Yeah, y'all ignoring his genocidal tendencies. Can't wait til that shit comes home to roost for y'all. May the blood you wash your hands in drown you.