https://old.reddit.com/r/FriendsofthePod/comments/1ebijan/bidens_speech_made_me_cry
Liberals are not materialists. They're not even idealists in the sense of eternal, unchanging principles. They're narrativists. Everything must tell a story, everything must fit a narrative. And not a good, nuanced narrative, or even a meaningful fairy tale. A simple good vs bad justification for the status quo.
Reality is contingent on everything being an easy to follow TV show where you can go get snacks and come back, easily following the plot as long as you remember who the bad guys are.
You know, I think the most sad thing to me is watching all of these libs who were rightfully dragging Biden over things like immigration or Gaza just got right back in lockstep now that they're just going to run Harris instead. Barely any questioning of her views; they're just so overjoyed they can throw everything away and run back to the democratic party without having to do any more critical analysis, with no further evaluation of the party that was perfectly happy to run Genocide Joe (and only yanked him because it was apparent to everyone with a frontal lobe that he was going to lose).
People that are actually questioning this, even people who explicitly state they will vote blue and they think everyone else should as well, are getting buried. Liberals are going even further off the deep end.
For a group of self righteous and self appointed 'intellectuals', they sure do enjoy not thinking.
You're absolutely right. Liberals only start to join us out of despair, and they are self deluding enough that by that point it is usually too late. I'd say a repeated sequence of moderate failures would work, but they don't have long term memory. This is obviously the standard critique of Popular Front politics, but a Popular Front is currently the farthest left of the compass of US political thought.
The essential issue for the US revolutionary left is that they'll never be a majority, yet capitulation gains them nothing. Thus, their goal should be how to force the hand of fate and establish a dictatorship of the revolutionary proletariat, not the whole working classes. I know this might seem like rampant Blanquism, but it's not too far off from Lenin's issue, except instead of "What if most of the working classes are despondent peasants?" it's "What if most of the workers are complacent labour aristocracy?"
Reading that thread for 40 seconds has finally turned me into a Maoist third worldist.
That part got me crying. I’ve got ADHD and can sometimes have a stutter because my mouth can move faster than my brain and it takes a half second to catch up. Joe Biden really made it feel like a normal person could make it in this country.
💀💀 nah fuck these losers. I have ADHD and the last person I can relate to is a career politician who hates everyone
It gets worse:
him trying to cancel student loans was the first time a politician has tried to do something for someone like me in a long time. I’ll always be grateful for how he at least tried to help those with student loans
Well at least he tried… ¯_(ツ)_/¯
It's the settler colonial genocide support I actually found most relatable; it spoke to my American roots
Biden can’t focus on whether to arm fascists in Ukraine or fascists in Israel. He’s neurodiverse just like me fr
Old man Biden really showed us the meaning of the words sacrifice and bravery when he yelled "Grenade!" and saved many of us in the platoon when and he jumped on top of the weapon with his body to shield us from the—
Hold on. I'm being told in my earpiece that there was...
- No sacrifice
- No bravery
- No grenade
- No platoon
- No jumping on top of the non-existent weapon by Biden
- No "shielding" from the non-existent weapon
The reality - I'm being told - is that his team didn't poll in the swing states for two whole months as they waited for fantastical events to get Biden's poor polling numbers up. Perhaps they were waiting for LOTR-like wizard to appear to perform actual magic? In this context it's likely that the main reason Biden dropped out was because it was clear he was going to get smoked in the swing states and lose big time.
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Why Biden finally dropped out - POLITICO
When the campaign commissioned new battleground polling over the last week, it was the first time they had done surveys in some key states in more than two months, according to two people familiar with the surveys.
I posted that in the pod thread. I wonder how long it will be until they delete it and ban me. My hunch is about an hour. It's pre-sunrise is some of the US right now.
That speech encapsulates what people loved about Joe and also why it was past time to move on. Tough to watch, but I also found him inspiring.
love him?
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I thought the most interesting part of the speech were the several moments where he struggled to read the teleprompter. And the times I got the feeling from his cadence and tone that he wasn’t comprehending what he was saying.
And that's why... [unintelligible]... anyway
Hey, why does it say... ididn'tquitmydad... anyway... listen... I didn't say... my dad, he always told me. Joey! I didn't drop out of the black race! Ok? He told me that. No, no, I'm not kidding. He said dron't dop... anyway...
It made me cry too. It reminded me how I was disrespectful to my grandma with dementia because no one explained to me her condition and I assumed she was just being clingy and talkative for no reason. But weirdly enough, she told my mom that I was the nicest out of my cousins. Anyway, the point is that the lord should’ve taken Biden
I don't believe the lord will be taking him
Although to be fair you didn't specify which lord... the lord of the underworld, hell, the eternal fires of damnation is surely eagerly awaiting him
Unfortunately I'm an atheist, or even if I do sometimes feel a bit generically spiritual, I don't necessarily believe in hell and punishment for sins in an afterlife. Which leads me to fully advocate for punishments right now, in this life. Anyway, I shouldn't say that... listen, Fat
Worst part is we'll have to hear all this eulogy again when he drops dead in a couple months
My fellow 'mericans, I'm speeging-to'o-tonight from behind the resolute desk in the oval office.
Off to a great start there
Seriously I can't listen to this. This entire presidency and the campaign which led to it have been an exercise in not-even-sufficiently-funny elder abuse.
Every time I see liberal posts in the wild, I swear they somehow live in Aaron Sorkin's version of 2016.
Why are they acting like Biden sacrificed himself to save the world?
Yeah, he's no Hillary
it's not like anyone who does stuff like that actually stays gone, anyway.
spoiler
IN THE NEXT EPISODE OF DRAGON BIDEN Z
Off topic, but they really got Joe looking like Maz Kanata
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