If you're sad about it beyond just a "reminder of how bad things are," then that means one or both of two things.

  1. You must have harbored some kind of small belief that US electoralism could facilitate anyone other than a ghoul at the level of the presidency. Even if you think electoralism is good and cool, this isn't even electoralism. This is a VP pick. No mass movement is going to decide that. Biden (or more accurately whatever ghouls around him) decide that. This brings us to 2.

  2. You must have harbored some notion that Biden could be swayed into adopting your positions. This one is vastly more stupid that #1. Stop believing in these people or that pressure works on them. Biden is bad, he will always be bad.

Keep your eyes on the fucking prize. Both the doomer shit and the weird "this is reminding me how bad things are..." shit aren't helpful. We knew this was happening. Did we all just forget Biden is bad? Like come the fuck on.

Yeah, Biden's a capitalist ghoul who benefits capitalists and was selected by capitalists. He's not for you. Whoever he picks would never be for you. Don't delude yourself. The fight is as much with him as it is with all the other capitalist ghouls.

Tl;dr: stop trying to pressure these people to be what you want them to be and actively fight them.

  • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    It’s ok to feel sad or angry because it still has a material effect on our lives, regardless of whether you are attached to the system or not, regardless of whether you’re fighting or not.

    • Bob [he/him,he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Right but the point is that this material effect was always going to be bad. If you were feeling like it was maybe going to be good and then he picked his VP and now you're angry then you had to have fostered some kind of hope that he could possibly have picked anyone else.

      Biden is shit and anyone he picks would necessarily be bad. It's not unexpected, basically.

      • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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        4 years ago

        It's not unexpected, but that doesn't mean that it actually happening is no different from anticipating it.

        Like, I probably do have a bit of inner lib to combat here. But still, I don't think this impulse is entirely based on that. Psychologically, there is a real difference between knowing all the possible options are bad and having them actually pick a bad option.

        • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]
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          4 years ago

          They picked the worst possible option that was still viable. Klobuchar or Rice (or any of the other Centrist Voltron candidates) would have been bad, sure, but picking Harris amidst nationwide BLM protests is just rubbing salt in the wound at this point. We're being gaslit.