As shitty as it is, this country 1. Isn’t designed in such a way that would allow a third-party candidate a genuine chance of winning and 2. Has too many centrists that will vote for Biden regardless. Trump has repeatedly garnered heavy support in Republican polls, so they’re pretty much almost all in on him. Splitting the blue vote between Biden and whoever else will only lead to a Trump victory after which we might not even be ABLE to vote in 2028.
I’m legitimately having a panic attack. These airheaded anarcho-kiddies are genuinely going to land us all in camps.
biden’s doing literally nothing to stop states from criminalizing lgbt people’s existence
their fears about a trump presidency are valid but i wish these libs would stop putting their hopes in the DNC when its clear they have zero interest in running a candidate that isn’t complete dogshit
love how half the comments are like ‘fuck biden’ but have all been surreptitiously downvoted by the undoubtedly cis liberals that stalk every trans space online looking for the good ones™. also just in general i find a lot of trans spaces online (particularly on reddit) are overrun with liberal trans people that obviously dont show up to any community stuff IRL at all. if they did they might actually be radicalized
So what you’re telling me is that the only way to prevent trans genocide is for Democrats to win every election for every seat, forever? And then you just hope they don’t decide to compromise across the aisle out of fairness like they do constantly when in power or form a Democratic Anti-Trans caucus that pushes for it just like DFLA has done with abortion?
Yeah, that all seems like a feasible and robust strategy with long-term stability.
This precise argument is what broke me forever from national level politics ie “voting the lesser evil” for president stuff. Matt Christman made this argument years ago on Chapo (I’m not saying he did it first but his way of explaining really stuck in my brain). Basically as you said something like “if the Trump and the Republicans are the fascists, and the only way to beat them is to vote for the Democrats every 2-4 years, and if we ever lose an election then it’s over, then we’ve already lost!” Something to that effect. Which obviously he’s 100% correct about.
The other thing that convinced me, and it may have been Matt or the other boys, unsure, was the observation that if the democrats truly truly believe that Republicans are an existential threat to the Democratic Party, the country and the world they sure don’t act like it. Meaning that when they have power they never do actions necessary to reverse the harm of Republicans. So in that scenario, how is voting for the “lesser evil” who either is lying about their belief about Republicans or is too cowardly to act or doesn’t want to act, etc. actually any different, besides the timescale of [bad thing]? And the obvious conclusion is… if the Democrats are serious, if you believe their claims, yet they do not act when given full power, then it doesn’t actually matter which one is in power. The genocide that Biden decided to fully back has really driven a nail in the coffin of any semblance of “lesser evil”-ism.
we need a strong republican party
-biden, pelosi, several others
you can’t fucking use “they’re fascists” rhetoric and then valorize reaching across the aisle. who the fuck are you reaching towards Neville?
My personal tinfoil is that they know exactly what the fuck they’re doing, and trying to normalize Americans identifying as fascists in casual parlance so the elites can start getting Italian-style neofascists into the White House. Would line up with that Freudian slip from one of the State Dept.'s talking heads a few weeks back about “tailoring values to policy” regarding Amerika’s multiple on-going genocides rather than the other way around.
the term is “anarkiddie” and we’re fucking awesome
Critical support for anarcho-kiddies.
This is a real comment:
Shouldn’t these numbers be seen as a major victory, especially with Biden being blamed by pro-Russian and Chinese bots on social media and by billionaire-owned news agencies for things outside of his control? - As for Palestine, he’s been pushing for a ceasefire for a long time now, he’s been admonishing Israel, and he’s been dropping aid to Gaza. The countries that have stonewalled the ceasefire are the same ones that have smeared him on social media - Russia and China. - In terms of his successes/effectiveness, what are your thoughts on… his masterful handling of the Ukraine war
I feel like I’m losing my mind. I can’t do this any more. These people live in a fucking fantasy world.
The countries that have stonewalled the ceasefire are the same ones that have smeared him on social media - Russia and China
What the actual fuck
This is because China and Russia correctly shot down the fake ceasefire proposed by
Libs just eat up the propaganda like dogs
In terms of his successes/effectiveness, what are your thoughts on… his masterful handling of the Ukraine war
Bidens “ceasefire” was literally telling Palestinians to stop fighting so that Israel can come in and Massacare them. Props to Russia and China for vetoing this shit.
They talk about Biden “admonishing” Netanyahu, but it was always just Biden getting sassy with Netanyahu on the phone, and then immediately sending him billions of dollars worth of weapons after they hang up. Like Biden hasn’t been instrumental in manufacturing Western consent and support for the genocide of Palestinians for the last 6 months
What Chinese bots? Reddit is swarming with Israeli bots and these dumbasses are still focused on Russian Facebook pages.
Just so we’re clear here: Zionist astroturfing is a real, actual thing on Reddit.
I’ve posted things mildly critical of Israel on an unrelated, non-political, extremely niche and tiny subreddit. Then I wake up the next morning to a tidal wave of ACTUALLY ISRAEL HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF YOU ANTISEMITE replies, that outnumber the tiny community’s actual subscriber count.
