• @[email protected]
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    Three reminders:

    The president isn’t the only position of power in the US, it’s just the most public and obvious one.

    A vote against or withdrawn from Biden is a vote for Trump.

    If Biden wins, we can try a new candidate in the next election. If Trump wins there won’t be a next election.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      If Biden wins, we can try a new candidate in the next election.

      I probably won’t like that one either.

      • Bipta
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        Might as well throw away democracy then, huh?

        • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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          I mean, I haven’t been happy with democratically elected leaders for my entire life, so I’m used to it by now. I’ve given up hope. It’s actually kinda nice.

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          Actually yes. If our democracy is so broken that not voting for a piece of shit is considered bad, then anyone who defends it should be banned for life from voting.

    • @bouh
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      What a healthy democracy this is!

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      A vote against or withdrawn from Biden is a vote for Trump.

      And if you think that statement is incorrect, you’re straight up wrong.

      If you could prove Duverger’s Law wrong, you’d be famous, but you can’t.

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      If you don’t vote for biden you aren’t voting for trump. Anyone who claims otherwise should lose the right to vote.

    • @MotoAsh
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      So you’re just going to vote for open fascism this time? Only an evil person votes for the greater evil or allows a greater evil to win.

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        I dunno man, its either Light Fascism or The End of the USA. It’s a hard call only negated (to me) by being in a fucking red state.

        If Biden got Primaried he absolutely would lose.

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          If Biden got Primaried he absolutely would lose.

          You have a lot more faith in voters than I do. If Biden got primaried we’d get the same milquetoast liberal we’ve always gotten.

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          If Biden got Primaried he absolutely would lose.

          I’m sure you have strong evidence of this, with how confident you are?

        • @[email protected]
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          You mean like when he won the primary against Bernie, even though Bernie was actually more popular? The primary is only part of the picture–the other is the party apparatchik that gets its pick no matter what.

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          He is getting primaried, technically speaking.

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        I don’t think they said anything about who they’re voting for in 2024, you’re just being an ass.

        Plus, their vote only matters if they live in a purple state, otherwise the backwards way the US conducts elections means their vote is worthless.

        I live in a blue state. I could vote for Trump and rest assured it doesn’t even matter. I could vote for Mickey Mouse, it doesn’t matter, the state electorate goes Blue. In a way, this makes me lucky, because I don’t have to vote for the sack of worthless crap Biden is.

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          If you think presidential elections are the ones that matter for an individual to take part in, you’re already disenfranchising yourself better than any gaslighting about Democrats could ever.

          Joe’s not good, but not voting for him IS a vote for fascism. Period. Republicans don’t need good opposition to never the less be completely undeserving. Since we LITERALLY CANNOT pick outside of the two choices, you literally have a forced choice between fascism and shitty Democrats.

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            Buddy, at a presidential level, it doesn’t matter if an individual votes red or blue in VT. It goes Blue. Their impact is utterly irrelevant.

            And the DNC will never run a decent candidate with any intent to make fundamental changes to benefit the common person because they can always fall back on the kind of thinking you’re showing here to ensure nothing will change. And they have no motivation to, either. They maintain power just fine by doing the bare minimum of not being quite as repugnant as the Republicans, while still being utter bastards.

            Anyway, this kind of attitude is exactly what makes the vote blue no matter who people insufferable fools. Neither I nor the first person you replied to said anything about who their voting for, they simply expressed displeasure with utter dogshit choices we have. Fuck, it seems we even agree that Biden sucks. And yet you lept on them to call em a fascist for not liking Biden.

            Another person in this thread said I should be literally crucified for not liking Biden.

            It’s hard to understand why some people might be turned off by that kind of thinking, isn’t it?

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              Have no idea what was said because mod removed it. My experience is that a lot of people are reactionaries who only understand part of any given problem. They get into a huff because they make this ignorance part of their identity.

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            How many thousands of Palestinian children do our bombs have to murder before you reconsider voting for genocide?

            • squiblet
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              Getting Trump elected will make it worse. There’s no way in hell republicans would have a better policy on Palestine.

              • queermunist she/her
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                Trump is also extremely stupid. A better policy on Palestine is one that fails, and Trump is more likely to fuck this up.

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                  I don’t understand what you’re proposing Trump would do that would fail. Giving Israel more money, weapons and the go-ahead to 100% kill everyone (which is NOT what the Biden admin has done) or shelling Gaza from boats and bombing them ourselves has nothing to do with Trump personally being intelligent. In fact, it’s what he would surely do since he’s a moron.

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                  This is a horrifying viewpoint which is effectively pro-genocide. More genocide, and faster too.

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                  So better to vote in the guy who will make the US fascist, make it worse for its citizens, and most likely bully and potentially cause more death with its huge army in order to possibly maybe potentially help another country by fucking up?

                  Even if you’re not a US citizen, that’s some insane mental gymnastics to do in order to somehow be braindead about this genocide being Biden’s fault and try to frame it as if nobody else would or could have let this go as far as it has if they were the US President. And if you are a US citizen living in the US, you do realize you would be living in a Trump-run America? Legitimately, are you okay with actually making another country’s situation maybe slightly better at the expense of your own living conditions??

        • mo_ztt ✅
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          This is honestly pretty funny. IDK if you’re trolling with your other messages or not but this one is funny.

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      You are, of course, free not to vote for him. If you really are a queer communist though, then good fuckin’ luck with what’s in store for you 2024-2028 if Trump wins.

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        What about what’s in store for me if Trump loses? The rightwing still control the Supreme Court and can still win a majority in Congress and will still control my state on all three levels of government. Biden isn’t protecting me from any of that shit. That would violate the norms!

        Meanwhile, he’s supporting an ongoing genocide!

        If I wanted to cast a vote that would matter in 2024 I’d cast a 9mm ballot with my temple as the ballot box.

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          Trump would gladly send troops over to assist in the genocide. Biden is doing too little to address it and being too supportive of it. There’s a massive difference. It’s going to happen regardless of which of them wins. It will be better under Biden 100%. To claim otherwise would be feigning accelerationism. Hoping to get millions more killed so that something might change here at home.

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            If we’re at the point where we’re playing an ethics logic puzzle between different levels of genocide then it’s time to do something different!

            If you vote for Biden, you are voting for genocide. You are endorsing children being blown apart and buried under rubble. You are endorsing doctors and nurses and journalists being sniped and bombed. You are endorsing the use of starvation as a weapon. You are sending a message to the government that you want genocide and you will support more genocide, and that’s exactly what you’ll get under Biden.

            America is an abomination. At this point you don’t even get to vote for the lesser of two evils. You just vote for different branding.

            • @Eldritch
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              Cringing as I quote a fictitious asshole who has a point. “Your boos mean nothing. I’ve seen what makes you cheer.”

              Your criticisms are hollow. ML kvetching over Biden’s shit take. Calling him a monster for saying the wrong thing over something he really couldn’t impact much personally. While hand waving away the millions oppressed and slaughtered by ML governments. It’s hypocritical.

              There’s almost no nation in the world that isn’t an abomination. Especially the biggest ones. China, India, Russia and yes the US are all abominations.

              Everyone needs better. And yeah Biden is definitely flawed. Despite being one of the best presidents the US has had in nearly 40 years. Ironically you of all people should appreciate that he singularly is one of the biggest reasons we have marriage equality. His administrations NLRB decisions truly a sea change. Pushed to invest in national infrastructure that everyone needs in a scale not really seen since the new deal. But yeah, old man tone deaf, gotta go.

              It’s honestly too late right now to start pushing for better this cycle. They are seriously ready to put in place a fascist dictator. I know ML are 100% on board with dictators. But I think you would be concerned by the fascism part. Right now we need to survive and hold on to any type of democracy or republic we can. After 2024 we can focus on better younger Democrat candidates for 2028. But we have to remember good change comes incrementally and slowly with compromise.

              And don’t get me wrong. I’m open to any ideas for positive change you have that don’t involve magical thinking. Such as what if everyone did the thing that everyone doesn’t do. Or the typical conflict resolution ML employ. You get a gulag and you get a gulag disappearing and re-education for you and for you as well! Yadda yadda.

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                  Marxist Leninist. Most of those we mistakenly call Communist simply because Lenin and co chose it as the name for their authoritarian party. They realistically reject a lot of the basis of communism. And similarly, Marxist leninists reject a good chunk of the philosophy of Karl Marx. Misinterpreting the intellectual philosophical statement of a dictatorship of the proletariat. Something which on it’s face is contradictory and oxymoronic. As being a literal commandment to them. From a man who knew all too well the problems of actual dictatorial power and had spent most of his life fleeing from country to country trying to avoid it. Marxist Leninist are to Marxism what evangelicals today are to Christianity.

                  I can’t think right now of the actual country the .ML domain refers to. But Lemmy.ML and Lemmygrad.ML both use it as a reference to that ideology.

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              you are voting for genocide

              And if you don’t vote for Biden, then you are voting for children in cages and people being pushed under buoys in rivers as they try to escape whatever hellhole they left.

        • @[email protected]
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          Meanwhile, he’s supporting an ongoing genocide!

          LOL you’re delusional. Biden is provided typical support for the country in the way of supplies and money. Trump would send the actual US military over.

          Now tell me, which is worse?

        • mo_ztt ✅
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          “What about what’s in store for me if Hitler loses? The Nazis still control Brest, Lwow, and Kaunas, and Churchill isn’t protecting me from any of that shit. Meanwhile, he’s an open racist who supports atrocities in the colonies.”

          Like I say: Good luck.

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            Biden is supporting genocide! No matter who I vote for, Hitler wins.

            This isn’t fascism vs social democracy. This is Hitler Lite vs Hitler Delux.

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              Such a clueless take when Trump is calling for genocide IN THE US.

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              Yes, I do understand your argument. You don’t need to repeat it. I’m saying that advancing that argument is actively hostile to your own individual safety.

              I know two separate people whose life situations changed dramatically because of Obama-era immigration policies. If they were hostile to Obama because of drone strikes and warrantless wiretapping, I’d point out to them that yes, fair enough, but they could also be deported right now from a Bush or Romney America if things had gone a little differently. And Trump is much, much worse than Bush or Romney. He’s dangerous to people who aren’t even queer or communist.

              I think you’re being similarly foolish and contrarian about it. But of course you’re free to think whatever you want, I won’t keep going back and forth with you about it.

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                I’m saying that advancing that argument is actively hostile to your own individual safety.

                And your argument seems to be that you shouldn’t participate unless at least one truly perfect candidate is available. But not participating means that the worse of the two evils wins. So you’re, unironically, hostile to your own individual safety.

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                  Nope, my argument is the reverse of that. I’m saying we should vote for Biden if the only other possible outcome is Trump.

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                I won’t vote for genocide just to protect myself.

                At some point you have to find something that you value more than your own individual safety.

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                  Ah yes, all those people who will be safer under a Trump presidency. I forgot about them. How careless of me.

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      As much as I actually hate to say this because it’s the reality of the US, the support of Israel genociding the Hamas would’ve happened regardless of whomever was President. The US has given a ton of support to Israel in the past and we’re considered good allies with them, so we would have probably let the genocide slide no matter what.

      Do you think Trump wouldn’t be for this or something? Or Hillary? Don’t go all “gEnOcIdEr JoE” because you think this would’ve only happened with Biden - this would’ve happened because we are America.

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      You’re right, but if you think Trump would support genocide less, you’re wrong. Trump lives to embrace genocide.

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      You put down half a thought. So what are you going to do, vote for an actual fascist or not vote so that an actual fascist wins?

  • @[email protected]
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    I’m now convinced that a lot of this is trolling. People who say “Well I’m Muslim and it bothers me that Biden supports Israel so I won’t vote for him” have to be completely out of touch with reality or are completely fake. Same thing here–not voting for Biden ensures that Trump wins, and your theoretical third-party person has no chance of doing anything except dilute the vote.

    So? I’m really not buying this narrative or these polls anymore. The respondents are either morons or plants.

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      It would be so sad if, in a democracy, you were able to vote for your ideals instead of voting against fascism isn’t it?

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        This isn’t a democracy. I’m tired of pretending it is.

        If it were even attempting something close to a democracy, we’d have rank choice voting and more direct say in actions.

        And most importantly, we would not have UN-elected government positions.

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        It would be nice if Smurfs walked around singing all day long but that’ll never happen either.

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        It would be so sad if people saw reality as less than perfect and as a result petulantly made it worse.

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      Healthy democracy you’ve got here, where people who have real complaints about the parties of capital and genocide are dismissed as “trolls.”

      How about “fuck you,” supporting israel in any manner should should be automatic disqualification from any possible democratic process. If you don’t accept that you don’t deserve any of the rights described in the bill of rights.

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    1. Has anyone done some actual digging to find if the people the reporter talked to are real? Or is this just trying to make Biden’s campaign and prospects at a 2nd term worse than it is?

    2. You all do realize polls are ALWAYS going to be skewed going forward since they get their info from people who respond to unknown numbers right? My phone literally filters unknown numbers out so I don’t get them unless it’s ABSOLUTELY important, so I’ll never end up in a poll. For all we know if every American was forced to answer a poll Biden could be much higher in the polls than what news orgs say he is. But they don’t have a poll answered by all ≈330 million Americans. Not to mention polls can change rapidly at any time, something could happen in the months leading to election day that could swing voters more towards Biden.

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      1. I am going off what NBC has reported and let’s be honest, they probably went to HARO* for a lot of it. It doesn’t matter where I got it from I gotta go off the reporting.
      2. If Biden is really doing bad in internal polling the Dems message will skew towards it being a “vote for freedom” or not so I don’t know. I DON’T KNOW GOD DAMNIT. And that’s what frightens me. We could very much end up voting for Trump, and the only certainty is if he wins, is its over.

      * Cision Help a Reporter Out, basically a place where you can pay for “expert perspective” aka supporting viewpoints for your journalism without bothering to do the research

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    Ultimately this won’t change unless young Democrats actually take over the party and shift the overton window back to the left.

    This generally, and specifically electoral reform is the only way to get the USA out of its two-party hellhole.

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      The only way out of the 2 party system is to stay in the 2 party system? Math ain’t mathin.

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        Good luck getting any reform done within America’s FPTP by going 3rd-party.

        Politics is a battle of inches, and you need to walk before you can run, or else 3rd-parties are doomed to irrelevance forever.

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          How many inches have the dems walked backwards? Yeah I’ll vote for moving forward. You do you boo.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    “I genuinely could not live with myself if I voted for someone who’s made the decisions that Biden has,” said McKenzie, a 23-year-old working at Starbucks and as a union organizer in Madison, Wisconsin.

    “It’s so complicated, because it almost feels like if I were to give my vote for Biden, I will be showing the Democratic Party that what they are putting out is enough, which is the bare minimum in my opinion,” said Camarena, a 24-year-old living outside the Bay Area.

    Voters cited a number of policy areas that disappointed them, including insufficient moves to address climate change and Biden’s inability to fully cancel student loan debt or codify Roe v. Wade, as the president deals with a closely divided Congress.

    While Biden and Democrats pushed to codify the protections of Roe at the federal level, congressional realities made legislative efforts impossible.

    Biden wasn’t Kapp’s first choice as a candidate in the last election, and this year he plans to vote third party if the contest is a Biden-Trump rematch.

    “I think that there is a chance” of Biden winning back her support, she said, adding that she expects the president to call for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war.


    The original article contains 1,762 words, the summary contains 202 words. Saved 89%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

    • kingthrillgoreOP
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      Honestly, a genocide at home may make people feel a bit empathetic for what happens abroad. But that’s not an optimal outcome for anyone.

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    I feel as though clearing debt for the select few without actually solving the problem is a weak bid anyways. IMO that’s buying votes.

    But Bidens been what he needed to be: neutral and boring, with some attempts to break monopolies on the sidelines.

    Trump is insane. The mans selling crypto Pokemon cards of himself in jail. The two braincell populace will have him voted in.

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    Oh joy…. Here come the Biden cock suckers getting upset that younger generation won’t just shut up and vote blue no matter who….

    Lol. Give us policy. We will no longer keep voting for the lesser of two evils.

    I don’t care if you think not voting for Biden is voting for facism. Voting for Biden is a vote for right of center neoliberal politicians who takes legal bribes from corporations.

    A vote for Biden tucking literally means, “Nothing with fundamentally change.” He said it himself.

    • mo_ztt ✅
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      Lol. Give us policy.

      Of all the Democratic politicians you could raise this complaint about pretty legitimately, Biden’s not one. This is a pretty good overview of the substantive things he’s done. Obama did a better job of branding his accomplishments, but Biden hasn’t been just fucking off doing nothing.

      I don’t care if you think not voting for Biden is voting for facism.

      I don’t care if you don’t care. Not voting for Biden is making it more likely that Trump wins, which is, quite literally, fascism. That remains true even if you don’t like it.

      Voting for Biden is a vote for right of center neoliberal politicians who takes legal bribes from corporations.

      Accurate yes. It’s a goddamned shame, I 100% agree. Letting democracy collapse in the US completely won’t help though. Right? On that we can agree? Maybe not.

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        Along the same lines, fielding Biden knowing that he is polling quite low against Trump is making it more likely that Trump wins. There are 49 million registered Democrats. There are almost certainly qualified, principled, charismatic people in that group that would both energize the core and appeal to progressives, independents, and swing voters.

        If the Democrats’ stubborn pride allows a Trump victory, then we should lay the responsibility at the feet of those who were best positioned to provide a viable candidate who could win.

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          What’s your percentage definition of “quite low”?

          I mean, I do kind of agree with you. Biden’s old and a sort of “acceptable centrist” candidate. I miss Bernie. I’m still voting for Biden, because Trump is the end of the goddamned world.

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            He’s polling neck and neck with Trump, some polls have him trailing in key states. It’s early, granted, but his support of Israel’s approach to Palestine suggests that many progressives are at best uncomfortable with him.

            Primaries are still coming up, no? Why not push for someone better? You still end up in the same place if you’re unsuccessful.

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              He’s polling neck and neck with Trump

              Yeah. Which is nuts when you think about it.

              Who would you push for instead of Biden?

              The Democrats have a pretty good process going of pushing out any non-pro-establishment candidates, which leaves the field pretty much full of wet towels. Biden is above the average by quite a bit among the wet towels, in my opinion. Who do you see who could replace him? I’m genuinely asking.

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                I’m registered independent so I don’t get a say. I can dig into the options, but last time I might have been onboard with Yang; he seemed sincere. Sanders, though he has issues, would have been a much better choice as well.

                If the party elite are blocking meaningful representation within, that’s a problem.

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                  Yeah. Sanders was the most popular politician in America for years after the election. Don’t get me started about it lol. If the argument is “we need someone who’s a realistic candidate in the general election,” they had that on a silver platter, and they stabbed him in the back and threw him in the trash.

                  If the party elite are blocking meaningful representation within, that’s a problem.

                  It is, in fact, a massive problem. Let’s keep all the candidates down who people actually like, because the stuff everyone likes tends to be not the favorite thing of all our rich friends. Oh no! Why are we unpopular. Don’t people know we’re better than the Republicans?

                  Fuckin assholes. I mean, they are better than the Republicans, but ass cancer is better than the Republicans.

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        I’m old enough to remember when “young people” weren’t going to vote for Obama’s second term because of “drone strikes”.

        Voting is a chess move, not a love letter.

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          Voting is a chess move, not a love letter.

          Couldn’t have said it better myself.

          I feel like people from countries where they just recently got free elections can explain this better. I see all this conversation (entitlement? propaganda? cluelessness? The OP article is definitely in the “propaganda” category) from people who are talking about how not liking something Biden did, translates into deciding not to vote for Biden. To someone coming from some situation where voting is connected to your survival and safety, as opposed to the modern-day US where it’s more like a fashion statement, that seems like just pure careless idiocy.

          And, as far as the 2024 election, it is connected to your survival. Usually in the US it’s not. This time it is.

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            There is a reason that pollsters ask you how you “feel” about a candidate & not who you’re voting for. Can’t spin the latter.

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        I hear you on the branding point. He has done a terrible job letting people know about the minuscule things he actually has accomplished.

        But he has no backbone

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          What, to you, would be not “miniscule”? I linked a source listing concrete things he’s done in more detail than I really want to retype out here.

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      I don’t care if you think not voting for Biden is voting for facism. Voting for Biden is a vote for right of center neoliberal politicians who takes legal bribes from corporations.

      This is the one that’s getting me.

      As as one of the younger millennials, I also don’t really like Biden - in truth, the Democratic Party in the US is more akin to center-right than actual left, but it’s waaaaaaay more left than what the other party, the GOP, is. However, the unfortunate and real truth of the US today is that your vote isn’t for who you actually want - nowadays, you’re voting against what you don’t want. A large majority of people (myself included) didn’t even want Biden in office, but we wanted Trump in office less than we wanted Biden. Same with Hillary in 2016 - my vote for Hillary wasn’t for Hillary (full disclosure, I was a Bernie bro), but rather it was for against Trump. To not vote at all is, for all intents and purposes, helping vote in a person who wants to turn America into a corpofascist dictatorship.

      Lol. Give us policy. We will no longer keep voting for the lesser of two evils.

      There’s a quote that comes to mind from The Witcher series: “Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all.” This was said by Geralt when choosing between having to kill a person he knows and sort-of cares about to placate an angry mob, or helping the dickhead wizard out and killing the village, he chose… neither. And he ended up with the literal worst of both worlds by remaining neutral; the person he knew died, and he killed almost the entirety of the village before getting merc’d by a pitchfork and becoming the Butcher of Blaviken.

      I bring this up because it’s a perfect example of what not choosing can sometimes be: the greatest evil. Choose what more aligns with your morals and ideas, but recognize that if you do not speak up now for a step towards good because it’s not perfect, then you are part of the evil.

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      Yup and they will always shame the voters they need, the people who are correct, over the failures of the party. They can barely respond to the ridiculous issues the GOP are attracting voters with, they’ll say the issues aren’t relevant, while they lose over them and have nothing to say. Suggest they need to do better and you’re the problem. It’s 2016 all over again, Trump controlling their fears with his insane ramblings, any concerns from the left that the party should do better dismissed and shamed. It’s just so pathetic to see it happening like this again.

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      I see the fake-ass “Bernie Bros” have already started up for this election cycle.

      I don’t care if you think not voting for Biden is voting for fascism.

      Tell me you don’t understand math or game theory without telling me you don’t understand math or game theory.

      Give us policy.

      Tell me you that you don’t actually follow politics without telling me you don’t actually follow politics.

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    Well this is one reason why young voters aren’t taken seriously. They don’t vote or basically waste their vote so no reason to pander or even campaign for their votes.

    And then they wonder why they’re not a focus hah.

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      Voting in a rigged system like this where both parties are just slightly different levels of unacceptably terrible is meaningless anyway. Organizing outside it is the only way there’ll be change.

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        You could do both. You’d hopefully get the less shitty guy to win while hoping that the outside organizing works out.

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          Has that been working out at all? The “less shitty guy” is a zionist that’s supporting a genocide right now.

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            Has the organizing been working out at all? Yeah. That’s why you’d do both in the slim chance it works.

            And do you think the other guy is any better? Less shit option doesn’t mean a good one. Just less shit.

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              Has the organizing been working out at all?

              People haven’t been doing that at all. Just voting for dems and simping for them as if it’ll change anything - like it’s a football game.

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    Oh joy…. Here come the Biden cock suckers getting upset that younger generation won’t just shut up and vote blue no matter who….

    Lol. Give us policy. We will no longer keep voting for the lesser of two evils.

    I don’t care if you think not voting for Biden is voting for facism. Voting for Biden is a vote for right of center neoliberal politicians who takes legal bribes from corporations.

    A vote for Biden tucking literally means, “Nothing with fundamentally change.” He said it himself.

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      Biden has literally had a ton of policy victories that the average person should like. If you can’t find any, it’s only because you haven’t looked. No seriously go look. I’m not saying he’s wonderful, great or perfect. But if you think the likely alternative is going to be better than him. You’re only fooling yourself.

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          I’m not going to say none of it is but I think you really over estimate how much.

          Biden honestly has a singularly outsided role in the fact that we have marriage equality at all. More or less because Mr gaffe sputtered it out in the open. It basically forced the more hesitant and reticent hand of Obama in pursuing the policy. Who had traditionally been opposed whenever publicly asked.

          The NLRB Union decision under his administration administration was quite earth-shattering. A sea change. This sort of thing most of us thought we would never see again and would only ever read about in history books over the new deal.

          Not to mention his push for public infrastructure. At its highest point ever since, practically the new deal. Works that will benefit everyone and our desperately needed. As well as his American rescue plan and many of the other things that he pushed for, which as you said tended to undo a lot of the damage Trump did.