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    First things first.

    Criticizing Biden is fine, and everyone should, for the first three years and six months.

    Also, if it wasn’t clear, Biden is super pissed off at Bibi for all his shit. But once trump is defeated we’ll all dogpile on. (Agree dissing ICC is vr bad as well fwiw)

    Until then, there is not much difference between “not voting bc genoside” / “grr biden genocide democrats” and https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election/

    I can only think people either are very aware of it (because it’s exactly right) or not aware of it at all, possibly their first time eligible to vote.

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      Bibi may lose this election for Biden, and spiral the world downward. This will only strengthen the ties the US has with Israel, however. Trump would absolutely throw a ton of weight behind them, and perhaps even involve the US directly in the genocide.

      Bibi doesn’t give a shit about Biden, and Biden is showing an astonishing amount of weakness by not standing up to him. I’m fucking embarrassed for him, and the entire democratic party.

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        If the only possible outcome is a strengthening of relations with a genocidal colonial project then the American democratic experiment has been dead for a long time

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        Agreed. If the Bushes hadn’t fucked us up so much in the middle east already we’d have maybe at least one or two more options, but right-wing assholes like GDubz and Bibi ruin everything.

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      But once trump is defeated we’ll all dogpile on.

      So one of the other things that is very frustrating is always being told that we just need to wait until after the next election to criticize anything. Our election cycles never seem to end.

      • @eltrain123
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        You absolutely should not be waiting until the next election cycle. You should be voicing your opinion, voting in off-cycle and local elections, and voting for the least harmful option in every election, including the presidential election. It’s a huge machine and voting once every 4 years for the pre-packaged candidate isn’t an effective strategy if you actually want things to change.

        Vote for people that make things better in your community, city, county, state, and then think about federal elections. Displacing the trove of do-nothings or detrimental actors in the smaller elections will change sentiment in the parties and will change the candidates they put through in the primaries… but it will take years for that to happen.

        Either that or revolution… but that’s going to be a whole lot worse for everyone for a few decades, best case scenario.

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          That’s the problem. Most of the far left idealists don’t give a shit between elections. This happens every cycle. And every cycle they never learn.

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            Citation please. The most politically active people I know are well to the left of me. The handful of tankies I know in real life are the most active.

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              Who’s their candidate? For anything?

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                  Wow. President.

                  You know, of course, there’s no chance at all, right? Like, maybe start for 2028? That’s at least time to ramp up?

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                    If they live in a solid blue or red state then there’s no harm in voting for whoever they want.

                    If you live in PA, MI, WI, MN, AZ, GA etc then you should vote for Biden

                    If you live in Oklahoma or California then it doesn’t really matter which presidential candidate you vote for.

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              Citation? Really? Most of social media is backed up. Go ahead and see how much the SJW’s were caring about Palestine in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2023.

              You do know they have been in conflict since 1948, right? You all act like this shit is new. And it shows in the fact that NONE of you gave a shit about it until now.

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                  Keep telling yourself that. Most people claiming to be “leftwing” aren’t leftwing anyway.

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                    There is nothing left about 2014 tumblr and its consequences. That was not a socialist or working class zeitgeist. And very likely was largely astroturfed by ruling class propagandists

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                “Israel’s been doing this for 76 years!” isn’t the comeback you think it is. Nor is, “Oh, genocide is where you draw the line?”

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                  So…. No response on where you were before Oct 7th? Okay, how about this.

                  What were you upset about in 2020? Or… 2016?

                  Because we know you couldn’t have been bothered to care in between those years.

                  I made my case. You all suspiciously only care during election years when Trump is posturing. And you suspiciously are only critical of his opponents.

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                    I voted for Hillary in 2016 and Biden in 2020. I was arrested at a Trump protest and shot by a wooden bullet at a George Floyd protest. I’ve volunteered in local political initiatives to make our local government more progressive and more accountable to voters.

                    You know nothing about me, so you just make up things that you think discredits me? What have you done other than punch left on Lemmy?

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        That’s kind of how ‘self rule’ works. You’re supposed to pay attention to politics.

        People not voting is how we got in this mess in the first place.

        Why do you think the GOP’s final defense is always “both sides do it?”

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            TIL telling people to get involved in politics and to go out and vote is exactly the same as telling them to not criticize the government.

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              People won’t do those things unless they realize that Democratic neoliberal orthodoxy is also the enemy.

              Criticizing Biden with the goal of awakening the people should be encouraged

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                So, in a few words, tell me how you intend to reshape the entire political landscape of the United States and usurp both major Parties.

                I’ve had folks tell me since high school that the Revolution was just around the corner, and the masses would rise and rebuild.

                What’s so special about your plan?

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                  how you intend to reshape the entire political landscape of the United States

                  Unions and democratic socialism. Aka, the Sanders methodology - and, aka, the way we got the New Deal

                  The alternative is either doing nothing and allowing conditions to continue to deteriorate, or supporting an armed revolution that will be instantly massacred by the most powerful military in human history. Neither are plausible options in the face of oligarchy

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                    You’re hilarious. They got the New Deal by electing FDR. Without politicians in the White House and Congress, none of it would have happened.

                    You speak against voting, and then mention an elected official [Sanders] and a government policy [the New Deal]

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        You and me both. Reddit literally browser finger printed my device and banned me in 2023 because I wouldn’t stop raising the flag on Biden. Now here we are and I want to do the whole told you so shit but I know more is at stake here than any other election I’ve lived through.

    • @WraithGear
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      Bull, to the fucking shit. Genocide isn’t just something you can fucking put off. Unless you don’t really care about the genocide. Seems you’re more upset at the optics. And let’s also mention that Biden is not any more angry at the genocide than you seem to be. All his moves are token and theater and even that was only bought with mass protests and plunging confidence numbers.

      People are being genocided ‘TODAY’

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        Seems you’re more upset at the optics.

        I’m more upset that in roughly twenty weeks’ time there is a critical, no-shit, very real existential threat to the actual democratic system that underpins this entire country, which as it happens supports much of the rest of the world, and a bunch of opportunistic yahoos would happily ignore it to bitch about one of the most progressive presidents we’ve had in forty years about an entirely different country’s genocide whose policies by the by is supported by that same existential motherfucking threat he’s fighting! For goddamned fuck’s SAKE what the hell is wrong with you.

        The ‘biden genicide’ crowd is absolutely performing the russian trolls’ jobs admirably. And seem to be proud of it.

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          in roughly twenty weeks’ time there is a critical, no-shit, very real existential threat to the actual democratic system that underpins this entire country, which as it happens supports much of the rest of the world

          Everyone agrees with this

          Which is why Biden should immediately pivot on this issue and save the United States from fascism

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      Also, if it wasn’t clear, Biden is super pissed off at Bibi for all his shit.

      It really fucking isn’t. At all. He recently went full genocide denier on Bibi’s behalf.