• @[email protected]
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        Even by US standards if we go back a few decades. HW negotiated a ceasefire in Israel, and sectors both sides spent time and money trying to dismantle the nuclear arsenal. Biden is “modernizing” it. He’s genuinely to the right of the Republican Party just a couple decades ago in many ways.

    • @derf82
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      He is. But Trump and the other Republicans are fascists and even further right wing.

      • @Linkerbaan
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        Biden committing genocide isn’t fascist for you?

        • @derf82
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          Trump literally wants genocide.

          • @Linkerbaan
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            Biden literally does genocide.

            • @derf82
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              Really, he is personally wiping out a race of people? Not bad for a guy y’all claim is senile.

              Listen, Biden sucks, but the alternative is SO MUCH worse.

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                Do you think Adolf Hitler personally gassed 6 million Jews? You do realize that committing genocide is about policy not killing everyone with your own hands right?

                Biden calling himself a Zionist, providing israel with all the bombs to kill Palestinians with, cover them with three aircraft carriers against retaliation, intercepting missles towards israel and defending their ships against attacks in the Red Sea so they can continue their genocide means Genocide Joe is more responsible for enabling this genocide than even Netanyahu

          • @Linkerbaan
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            Are you denying Biden is committing Genocide in Gaza?

              • @Linkerbaan
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                So you are denying that America is committing genocide in Gaza?

      • @[email protected]
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        The only fascists are Democrats like you that believe only your candidates should qualify for the election

        • @derf82
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          It’s fascism to follow the constitution?

          And as far as I know, only one Republican has an issue with the 14th amendment. No one is stopping Haley, Christie, DeSantis, or even Ramaswamy from qualifying.

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            It’s fascism to pull your opponents from the ballot to prevent them from running in spite of the Constitution, yes

            • @derf82
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              Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

              Read it and weep, MAGA-moron.

    • @Nudding
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      Same. I was also banned from the climate sub for disagreeing that humanity is good for the planet lol.

    • @BassaForte
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      Whatever Biden is is better than dictator trump

    • davel [he/him]
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      Lemmy.ml is not without its share of LIB users, not to mention visitors from the rest of the lemmyverse.
      Wear your fake internet demerits as a badge of honor: they suggest you’re not being tailist.

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      He’s a milquetoast centrist with a couple progressive proclivities.

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      For years I’ve been saying it but his pussy supporters are terrified of the truth and would rather sweep his voting record under the rug than face it.

      Wouldn’t change anything to admit Biden isn’t the progressive we wish he was other than the party might have to act.

      • @june
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        I voted for him and will again.

        It’s abundantly clear that he has a history of conservative perspectives but also that he has moved just a touch to the left since Obama’s presidency. He’s still a milquetoast centrist, but has at least a couple progressive proclivities.

        • @Daft_ish
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          I don’t even know the candidate dems could put forward other than Biden but my annoyance had nothing to do with whether or not I’d vote for him. It’s the supporters who keep on pretending ol Biden just got a bad shake and really he is the best thing for this country.

          • @june
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            Ah yea. As bad as bernie bros and maga folks.

      • @Narauko
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        Seems like Trump isn’t the only person with a selectively blind cult judging by the down votes and angry replies. Any opinion that we should be able to do better than Biden around Lemmy gets flamed way too hard to be reasonable.

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          Not even what I’m saying.

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    Between his border policy, his climate policy, and his foreign policy he’s really fulfilling his campaign promise!

    “Nothing will fundamentally change.”

  • @utopianfiat
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    Unfortunately we proved just before the midterms that there’s a very linear inverse correlation between gas prices and perceived job performance. Refilling the strategic petroleum reserve is electorally smart. Until activists can detach these electoral relaities nothing will change for anyone.

    • @[email protected]
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      Weird how the only viable electoral strategy is indistinguishable from the status quo of making the rich richer at the expense of the poor.

    • @Nudding
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      That’s still a bad reason to increase the speed at which we’re killing ourselves.

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        It’s a great reason until there’s an alternative. As long as voters look to gas prices for their votes, taking action that raises them is politically toxic.

        Meanwhile leftists are literally criticizing the Biden administration for high gas prices’ impact on the working class.

        You want to change it? Let’s change it. Starting with activists.

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          Meanwhile leftists are literally criticizing the Biden administration for high gas prices’ impact on the working class.

          Which leftists are these? I’ve yet to run into them.

          You want to change it? Let’s change it. Starting with activists.

          I still haven’t been able to decipher what kinds of activists you’re alluding to.

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            Progressive liberals I guess? The Hill, Mar. ’22: Gas prices lead to tensions within Democratic Party

            Progressives are concerned that high gas prices are worsening inequalities, creating tension between activists who want Democrats to do more to condemn big oil and those trying to navigate Russia’s deadly invasion of Ukraine.

        • @Nudding
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          We are out of time.

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            that’s not an answer. sure go ahead and kill oil production, make gas prices high and give trump the presidency again. see how that works out for the environment.

            • @Nudding
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              I mean. It’s the only answer. You cant see the dominos start to fall like they have this year and decide “let’s pump more oil and maybe some Conservatives will vote for me over trump”. It’s too late and it was too late 10 years ago. This isn’t just a US problem. This is global societal breakdown in the next 10 - 20 years.

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                You cant see the dominos start to fall like they have this year and decide “let’s pump more oil and maybe some Conservatives will vote for me over trump”.

                of course you can. the demand for oil/gas will be there regardless, people aren’t all going to stop driving ICE cars just because Biden cut all US oil production. it’s political suicide, not just for Biden but for US environmental policy in general.

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                  So on we March to our doom.

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                Economic collapse is not an answer to anything. Let alone “the only answer”.

                All it does is highlight how big of a threat environmentalists are to society

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                  the economy is already collapsing. for us that is.

                  also oil only means collapse because they made it mandatory.

                • @[email protected]
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                  Economic collapse may be the best answer. Endless production and consumption of goods may make people have material improvements to their lives but it is… excessive.

                • @Nudding
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                  The slowest will be the first to go.

      • @acosmichippo
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        not when the opposition would increase the speed even more.

        • @bbuez
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          Cmon guys you’re both pretty, lets accept that were doomed and vote Big Asteroid 2024

          Really though vote now for the chance to vote again, not that it fucking matters because we’re 40 years late to taking any corrective action, but I’d like to vote again

        • @Nudding
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          So business as usual. We were doomed 20 years ago, when we could have had a fighting chance.

          • @acosmichippo
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            not exactly business as usual. Biden is doing more than most presidents have. Not enough, but also not nothing. But the fact is not enough will ever be done until public opinion drastically changes.

            • @Nudding
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              Biden signed off on a record number of new oil projects, it’s not business as usual, it’s business is accelerating as usual. Environment be dammed

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                there’s more to the topic than oil which is a necessary evil for the time being. or would you rather be beholden to OPEC and the Middle East?

                but sure, let’s go ahead and ignore everything else.

                • @Nudding
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                  Right. Kill ourselves slowly.

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      Until activists can detach these electoral relaities

      Which form of jargon is this and what does it mean in English? Is this polisci-speak of some sort? Who is an “activist” in this context, and what would they be detaching from what, and how?

      • @acosmichippo
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        clearly they mean environmental activists. and the “detachment” is accepting that low gas prices is key to getting elected over a republican who would be even worse than Biden for the environment.

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        Left vs right politics. A lot more useful worv could be done if they accepted the left says they are a friend but doesn’t act it. When transit projects cost so much you can never get transit that is close enough to driving that non fanatics consider not driving (activists often drive too). the leading states for wind power are red not blue - were did the movement go wrong that they are behind?

        There is also a lot they can do personally that most don’t. I’ve seen many houses where insulation upgrades would save money but activists often don’t invest. Electric cars are coming, but I wonder how many will buy. many activists complain about large SUVs but then buy them.

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          Are those people activists, or are they professional-managerial class Twitter liberals who think consumer choice is praxis?

          • bluGill
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            how could you know? greenpeace has successfully faught nucaear power at great environmental cost, they think they are environmental activists, by results they are some of the worst (many oil companies small innestmens in green energy of some sort which I’m going toiassert pulls then ahead - this is debatable)

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    The Bidenomics of blowing up Nord Stream and selling CNG to Europe at extortionate prices.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline nationwide has dropped to close to $3, and analysts project it could stay that way leading up to the presidential election, potentially assuaging the economic anxieties of swing state voters who will be crucial to Biden’s hopes of a second term.

    While Biden’s White House has publicly celebrated the decline in gas prices and pledged to help consumers struggling with inflation, the president has largely stayed mum about the oil industry’s record output.

    The White House has also largely stayed mum on the oil production boom, instead touting Biden’s legislative record as the most ambitious effort to combat climate change in history and contrasting his stance with that of Trump and other deniers.

    The statement praised Biden for protecting more than 21 million acres of public lands and waters and boosting clean energy manufacturing by invoking the Defense Production Act and facilitating private sector investments.

    Climate activists say base voters are frustrated by the softening of the president’s stance against fossil fuels, and mobilizing them will prove difficult despite the historic investment the administration is making in green power and accelerating the energy transition.

    Climate-conscious voters were particularly dismayed by the administration’s approval of the Willow project, which will allow hundreds of miles of roads and pipelines, airstrips, a gravel mine, and a major new processing facility in the middle of pristine Arctic tundra and wetland.


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    • @derf82
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      You think Mr “windmills cause cancer” Trump would be better?

      Have you bothered to look at the Inflation Reduction Act, which is much more a climate bill than anything?

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    And Trump is SURE to cut oul production! “Drill baby drill”. Geez