https://twitter.com/andrewperezdc/status/1509526743735963656

  • Tervell [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    so when the president of the world's most powerful and wealthy country does absolutely fuck-all he's "doing the best he can", but when socialists in a country that has been victim to colonialist exploitation for centuries don't immediately fix poverty it's a failure of the entire ideology, hmm

    • Gonzalo [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Imperial core “marxists”, who don’t support AES are national chauvinists at best and/or outright racists at worst. I’ll even even give partial credit and a passing grade for “critical support”.

      Anyone unironically calling Xi an “opportunist” has a single syllable word they want to use instead. That word starts with “C”, and it isn’t China.

      :anglo-burn:

      Don’t even get me started on the fake “post-left” liberalism that has largely (at least online) stolen the term from an actual Anarchist discipline.

      Not doing anything and being a complete nihilistic defeatist doesn’t make you a leftist, it makes you a privileged fucking liberal who is good at memorizing big words to feel less small.

      People who do that know enough that they should be taken aside in real life and cyber bullied mercilessly online.

      • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Not doing anything and being a complete nihilistic defeatist doesn’t make you a leftist, it makes you a privileged fucking liberal who is good at memorizing big words to feel less small

        Posting this on my fridge rn

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        2 years ago

        Anyone unironically calling Xi an “opportunist” has a single syllable word they want to use instead. That word starts with “C”, and it isn’t China.

        cat

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    raising military spending by iirc 11% and raising ICE by 13% is the "best he can"

  • bort_simp_son [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    DNC: "uwu we're just so bad at this uwu"

    Libs: "this makes me love you even more."

  • Civility [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    YOU ARE FILTH :biden:

    :whywhywhywhywhy: YOU ARE GARBAGE

    :biden-harbinger: I AM THE MAN TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH THAT IS AMERICA

    I guess Biden can win after all.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I'm convinced these people are too far removed from reality and are so stuck in the 80s that they don't realise that the middle class isn't big enough to win you an election.

    • dapranker [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Thats why the game is always to expand what counts as "middle class" so people can pretend to be above others, but we're getting to the point where middle class means "not homeless" and theoretically you're up against a wall there

    • Owl [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Eh, I dunno about that. The middle class is everyone wealthy enough to live in a place without roaches and poor enough to need to work. It's an absurdly broad category.

      But if you want to run on "I did something for your material benefit" you have to actually do something for peoples' material benefit.

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    got handed a bag of garbage

    I'll take this statement at face value. He was handed a bag of garbage. But what is he actually doing about the bag of garbage?! Afaik he's done fuck all with EOs that could make a difference. He could have leveraged the ongoing public health crisis to muster support for a public option (which is obviously not good but I have to imagine anything that gets people better healthcare than what we have now would at least be popular). Trump's tax cuts were net unpopular with Republican voters and there hasn't been so much of a whisper about undoing some of that. Biden's whining about being handed a bad situation but is doing fuck all about it anyway.

  • AverageUlyanovFan [any]
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    2 years ago

    Expectation: historic middle-class tax cut

    Reality: historic middle-class cut

  • ZZ_SloppyTop [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Always a good political pitch when you just throw your hands up in the air and go “what are ya gonna do this whole thing is a bag of garbage”

    • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      Biden's usual way of dealing with this is probably the best that the Dems have. The problem is that this works best with the Dem primary voters, not so good with the general electorate.

      "Listen, Jack. I did great. Its the fault of [obvious lie]. And black people better vote for me or they are white Russians... Excuse me, I shouldn't have said this. Just turn on the record player, man. And I've confronted Maduro. He is scared."

    • sempersigh [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      He could do a twitch stream attempting to play Elden Ring while rambling about nonsense and it would be a better strategy than this. (At least it would be funny and he could get some zoomer freaks to vote in the midterms "for the memes")

  • adultswim_antifa [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Honestly it's amazing how dysfunctional the democratic party is. I am sure the individuals would like to keep their seats but the party clearly wants to lose and be irrelevant.