• daisy
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    1 year ago

    Sounds like the Democrats should to do something substantive to win over voters who are on the fence.

    Of course they won't. But they should.

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      1 year ago

      Oh they will. They'll do what they always do; assume the left vote is a lock in and cater to the right to try to poach voters

    • huf [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      they are doing that. this is them doing that. they're screeching about trump. that's it. that's all you get.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I think they might be talking about Trump long after Trump dies (which how long has he got he isn't a young man and he seems pretty unhealthy)

        • huf [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          i mean... he's gonna outlive kissinger, you know that, right? :D

        • Retrosound [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          My grandfather used to rage about FDR. This was in the 80s.

          Liberals will still be raging about Trump until 2100. And even then, he'll be burned into history like Aaron Burr.

    • UlyssesT
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      16 days ago

      deleted by creator

    • flan [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      You havent seen the bullet points? Once you do itll convince you to vote

  • footfaults [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    God that one comment that is just the "Biden has done all these things" copypasta always gets me

    matt-jokerfied shut the fuck up no one cares matt-jokerfied

        • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          The direct payments don't come close to outweighing the harm Trump did -- look at the Supreme Court.

          The leftist take on Trump should be that he was awful, with no qualifiers. You do not have to hand it to him. Plenty of room to shit on Biden on his own merits.

          • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Biden was also awful and bad. I didn't get a check from him. Trump is objectively to the left of biden.

            • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Try that out on someone who needs an abortion, or who's trans, etc. Ask Iran, where Trump went from actual diplomatic engagement to committing an act of war.

              This is the problem with reducing both presidents to a $2K check: it ignores all the incredibly harmful stuff Trump did. To people who remember that stuff or who are still affected by it, "but I got a check" sounds like you don't give a damn about their problem because a fascist covered your rent for a few months three years ago.

              • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                We lost abortion while biden was president. If trump had been president the libs would have been angry enough to fight it and we might still have it. Failing that biden could have done anything about these problems. By not doing anything to prevent it the DNC is just as guilty for it as thr GOP

                • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  angry enough to fight it and we might still have it.

                  How? I just don't see that happening

                  Maybe people would be angrier but I don't see the way the Court decision playing out differently

                  • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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                    1 year ago

                    Have you already forgotten how much trump madness effected the liberals? They would have talked about packing the court and the SC would have limited their decision

                      • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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                        1 year ago

                        Realistically biden has dementia so it is unclear just what he is saying separate from being an organ of thr DNC. But if eh had full autonomy he would never try to do anything good. He was a pro segregation senator from Delaware.

                        • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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                          1 year ago

                          What I mean is the Court night notice is the President is suggesting something, not just people in general talking the court. At least that's what I think. I'm not saying Biden, or any potential Democratic president would do that

            • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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              1 year ago

              At least in a blue state there is big difference when a Democrat is in office of not. When they are we get federal funding for projects the state wants. And the federal govt isn't suing the state to block whatever it is doing

            • spectre [he/him]
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              edit-2
              1 year ago

              Contrarian-brain rounds runs deep in our veins. Fight the addiction, comrades!

            • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Democrats could have installed a smoke alarm but didn't; Republicans burnt the house down. These are both bad but one is clearly worse.

                • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  I'm talking about abortion, you're talking about climate change. On abortion, there's no question that Democrats are far better than Republicans even though Democrats themselves could do a lot more.

                    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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                      1 year ago

                      As I said: on abortion, Democrats failed to buy a smoke detector and that's what allowed Republicans to burn the house down.

                      We agree these are both bad things and both parties are at fault. I'm saying the one that actively goes and does bad things is worse, and I really don't understand how there's an argument on that point. It's just contrarianism. Libs say "hey at least we aren't Republicans," so leftists get tempted to reply "you know what, actually you're worse."

                        • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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                          1 year ago

                          That doesn't make sense either, though. Someone who goes out and burns a building down is a lot worse than someone who was too complacent to install a smoke detector. Doing bad things is worse than being too lazy/cheap/disinterested to do good things.

                            • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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                              1 year ago

                              It's just not. There's a real difference between people who go out of their way to harm others and some feckless lib who's bought into the idea that they can't really do anything absent a supermajority.

                              Flattening 95% of politically active people in the country to "eh basically the same" is counterproductive in the extreme.

                                • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
                                  ·
                                  1 year ago

                                  Flattening 95% of politically active people in the country to "eh basically the same" is counterproductive in the extreme.

                                  How do you expect to build a mass leftist movement if you write off basically everyone who's politically active right from the jump?

                                    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
                                      ·
                                      1 year ago

                                      Where do politicians come from, though? Many start off as local activists. Tons of state and local politicians aren't even full-time politicians.

                                      And relentlessly attacking the party inevitably bleeds over into attacking the voters. The left certainly doesn't make this distinction clear, with some openly arguing there's no distinction to begin with. It's just misguided right from the jump and only gets worse from there.

                                        • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
                                          ·
                                          1 year ago

                                          Making that institution the focus of your activism is a misunderstanding.

                                          That's not what I'm suggesting.

                                          You are not going to get me to defend Joe Biden

                                          Also not what I'm suggesting.

                                          All I'm saying is we should recognize the reality that while both parties are bad, Republicans are obviously worse. We're not getting anywhere unless we turn a bunch of libs into leftists, and libs will correctly brush us off if we keep at ridiculous ideas like "Democrats are just as bad as Republicans (and maybe worse!)."

                                            • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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                                              1 year ago

                                              Something that worked for you won't necessarily work for everyone. Yeah, you have to challenge people's ideology, but you you also have to maintain credibility with them. If someone challenges your ideology but lacks credibility you write them off as a crank.

                                              We're talking to people who are skeptical to oppositional. With those people, you can't give them an inch to argue or they'll pounce on it so they can avoid the harder issues you present to them. You want to talk about things where there is as little room for debate as possible, even among libs.

  • SaniFlush [any, any]
    ·
    1 year ago

    There is no correct person to vote for because you blazer-wearing skeletons won’t let any of the correct ones in.

  • Grownbravy [they/them]
    ·
    1 year ago

    Jesus fucking christ, these dipshits wont develop and host their own lemmy instances to be libs in, of course they treat the below minimum they’re capable of as their duty.

    vote is all they say

  • RedundantClam [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    here-it-comes Bracing for the deluge of campaign finance emails and texts desperately pleading for just one donation bro, Trump is done bro, just 20 dollars and we can win.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Democrats warn party

    wait, so they're warning themselves? if you're a democrat you are putatively a member of the party, but here "Democrat" means "consumer on the blue team" and "party" means "anyone with any actual power"

  • TheWorldSpins [any, undecided]
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    1 year ago

    This one might be the most insufferable vote-shaming we've seen. "We have to vote for Biden to save Ukraine" will be the most annoying shit.

    • DBVegas [any, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      "Voting for Biden is going to be epic, I'm personally responsible for saving the brave yet helpless people of Ukraine, Dark Brandon is going to ghetto gag Putin himself!"

  • iridaniotter [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Urging everyone here to vote We can keep him out off office as long as we vote for the other guy cpusa

    • Retrosound [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Many. "Keep Biden stowed away out of sight" worked really well in 2020. No reason to think they won't do it again.

      Biden is a walking gaffe machine who makes Gerald Ford look presidential.

      • Trustmeitsnotabailou [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        He barely could walk this week after returing from an unannounced extended camp David stay

        I think his probably going to die before the election

        • Retrosound [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          Nah no way that will happen. That would not be the worst outcome.

          On the other hand, imagine Kamala as a lame duck president.