What I have learned:
- Russia has already won the Ukraine war
- Which NATO started
- A lot of people in the West think that Ukraine should surrender
- Also Ukraine was the world’s main provider of CSAM
- Also Ukraine is exploited by the West but if they can unite with Russia then their economy and everything else will finally be alright
It’s literally like a bizarro world and everyone is over there agreeing with it. I’m genuinely confused by, who even are these people (what is the mixture of Russian bots / Russian-aligned ordinary people / confused Westerners / some other explanation.)
I know we’ve had our run ins about this but it’s really about this election because Biden is doing egregious stuff. It’s not this election for no reason. And the shills that are just trying to make people never want to vote again are getting a ton of ammunition.
Have we had run-ins?
IDK, other than his absolutely war-criminal support for Israel I’m not aware of all that much about Biden that is real ammunition. (Not that that’s a minor issue 😢) Pretty much everything else has crumbled into weird half-truths and propaganda when I’ve been poking at it, I think; what were you thinking of when saying he’s doing egregious stuff?
I also don’t think that refusing to vote for Biden is going to make anything any better. If someone is doing direct action to change things, or an influence campaign to try to push him to the left, that all sounds frickin fantastic. Just committing to not voting doesn’t really make sense to me though – it’s functionally the same as saying you’ll vote for Biden no matter what; i.e. basically no pressure at all to change his policy (but with the added horrifying danger of maybe electing Trump.)
Oh you’re not horrible or anything. You’ve just been on the other side of some of those conversations. Also as far egregious stuff he just dropped an EO on immigration that’s sure to get the ACLU fired up. Which doesn’t really spark joy in my life.
You can join the conversation here where I talk a little more about the background of that decision – because it came up over there, I looked it up, and migrants are currently waiting years for their cases to be heard (just to put some facts behind what I was saying in that comment).