The only way we lose is if we stand divided.
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I would for vote Kamala. I would vote for a cactus with sunglasses if it had the Democratic nomination. You would do yourself well to consider anything that is weaking the resolve of the anti-trump sentiment straight poison to your brain. We have only one job this novemeber and that is to stop trump. The Supreme Court has given him the status of king. Quit acting like your vote is sacred and start realizing your vote is your final cry before your rights are forfeited.
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I am an unapologetic leftist, and, like most other leftists, I do not believe that engaging in the liberal democratic process will, or even can, bring about my ideal society. However, while I don't think voting is likely to make things meaningfully better, I do think it can prevent things from getting meaningfully worse. Maybe fascism can't be defeated with votes, but I can't see how anything is lost by trying. I mean, why make it easier on the fascists? I'm sure the fascists won't just give up because they lost an election, but that's not a reason to hold the door open for them. Again, I don't think voting for Biden (or whoever the Democratic candidate ends up being) is going to make things much better, but I do think not voting for him could make things much worse. So, we (leftists) should all vote for the Democrats this November. Not because it's going to get us nearer to our ideal, or our ultimate goals, but because it might help prevent the US from being taken over by fascists.
Change requires sustained momentum. Bouncing back and forth between Republicans and protest voting against Democrats. Is a sure fire way to see no change. If we were to say, show solidarity and dedication to keep all Republicans from elected office. Republicans would lose relevance and slink away. They might try masquerading under a different name like economic liberals playing Libertarian that generally vote Republican. But they will lose influence.
Once that happens. Then we focus on the worst of the Democrats, primarying every single one and driving them out. That sustained momentum and push is what's needed. To keep the fascist and the wealthy scattered and disorganized like they've kept the left. Though the left has done a fair share of that to itself. The right will eat itself as well especially once they're not winning.
Yeah, basically if the Republicans can be crushed in an election or two - Not just defeated, but absolutely demolished - then it could lead to them dissolving, and lead to the Democrats splitting and pushing the Overton window back left
I'd still argue that's a bit too short-term. It would have to last years. Not just elections. Probably 3 to 4 presidential elections at minimum. A good decade absence from from National political relevance will get the message across.
It starts with this election. You're looking down the barrel. No one wants you to pull the trigger america. Step back.
How sustained are we talking? We ushered in the Biden presidency with a huge mandate in 2020, and snuffed out the alleged “red wave” in ‘22 due to republicans’ reprehensible views on denying women bodily autonomy.
Biden and the establishment Dems have squandered this time by telling Americans who are suffering economically that the economy is doing great. That Biden is better than FDR, while our public infrastructure crumbles and our most popular social programs are at risk of closure.
When should we expect the Democrats to actually do something meaningful that improves the vast majority of normal people’s lives?
The Biden administration has been directly addressing that crumbling infrastructure with the largest federal infra investment in modern history. It just happens to be boring so the media doesn't talk about it.
Ok, so private contractors who are pals with Congress critters get massive checks from the taxpayers to maybe do something, but we won’t see any tangible improvements for at least a decade.
What are they doing in particular? Shouldn’t Biden be making his case as part of his campaign for president? It seems that whenever he gets pressed for details, he just gets flippant and says he’s done more for the American people than FDR and we’re just too stupid to realize it. I’m just not seeing it. I do see a record amount of oil and gas drilling, asylum seekers still in cages while building more of Trump’s wall for him, massive arms sales to enrich military contractors and slaughter innocents in the middle east, and a seeming lack of interest in protecting voter rights and civil liberties. So to me, it seems nothing has changed with Biden from the neoliberal status quo over the last 25 years. Considering he’s over 80, that’s not a huge surprise. Is it the media’s job to advertise Biden’s accomplishments for him?
We don't need to wait for the Republicans to stop existing before we get representation in exchange for our votes. With a more representative electoral system like Ranked Choice voting, people would be free to vote for those that best represents them, secure in the knowledge that their vote would still be counted even if their preference didn't win. Still counted against the republicans.
You see, we can have democracy and freedom at the same time. How we vote is controlled at the state level, so we should be able to make these changes in blue states where republicans have less influence.
Unless of course, the democrats in power in those blue states aren't interested in democracy.
So long as the republicans exist, the amendments necessary to get ranked choice voting wont happen. So yes actually, we do need to wait for them to stop existing
Do you have your guns, beans, and gasoline ready in case the fascists do win in November?
Nobody said it would be pretty.
Will your privilege save you when The Fall occurs?
Because the party is a coalition. If they did that, they'd just lose the swing voters who actually play kingmaker to repiblican backlash
Probably not.
Correct.
Yes, that's true.
how many times are you going to spam this? espescially that skewed youtube video that seems to be designed to push people toward strategic voting instead of voting for their values.
I always like to point out that the people on the far right are always going to vote, and they are always going to vote for the Republican candidate no matter what. Even if you feel like there aren't any "good candidates" you should still vote because even getting a less than ideal president is better than just doing nothing and letting Trump become a dictator for life
The only real solve is for several people to devote their lives to seeming like milquetoast centre right Democrats, getting into a majority of high ranking committee positions, and then all turn left at once and effect sweeping reforms to the entire platforms
It's impossible. You would have to be able to fake "real housewives" type social discourse and be able to social climb in that environment. It guarantees only dumb, thoughtless, bite backing, people will ever hold seats of power. Else you risk GOP game of thrones style politics where the GOAT is a spray tanned ballsack with a golden comb over.
Exactly why I bothered to describe a comically implausible scenario for everyone's enjoyment.
I think I'm out of jokes for now, at least until we find out one of Trump's kids has a mysterious illness that can only be treated by a tall drunk with a disquieting gaze.
IMO, the solutionis changing how we vote so the disenfranchised are encouraged to participate. More voters equals more democratic votes. So why arent democrats taking these easy votes? All it takes is passing electoral reform in the states they control.
A number of democrats have supported alternative voting system, but the higher ups are complacent and aloof.
Because that would lose more moderates than the leftists itd gain. The electorate is a third fascist, a third conservative, about a sixth leftist and a sixth social democrat
dictator for life LMAO 🤣
I would vote for the wrinkles on Biden's nutsack before voting for Trump.
Believe it or not, completely smooth. Yeah I don't know, just is.
Like eggs?
Old man nutsack gravity
I'm hoping Biden steps down and is replaced, but if he doesn't, as concerning as that is to our chances, I will still be voting for the Dem ticket against literal fucking fascism and encouraging everyone I know IRL to do likewise.
Man, I'd love some real ranked choice voting right about now, but in the meantime, it's Democrat down the line.
We live in the real world, and anything other than that might as well be saying "please stomp all over my civil liberties harder daddy"
It's not just having elections. It's having enough breathing room to enact fundamental change at all. We need to unionize every workplace, and start insisting that politicians of any party work for us. The path forward will be hard enough under Biden, but basically impossible under Trump. Voting is not sufficient by itself.
Something INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT that no one talks about is how when real pressure is laid on the table, Biden almost always bends. Having him stay in office, while not the best possible scenario, is also not the worst IF we all continue to pressure him. Granted, it would have to be done in different and more nuanced ways as he is then again the sitting President. However, I feel with the right people at the forefront and the correct pressure, we can enact change through him more significant than anything he has done these last four years.
And make no mistake my dear dissidents, he HAS done a lot of good.
Lobbying is the cancer eating at the system.
If biden wins you get none of those things and another „last chance” election in 4 years. Nobody wants to fix anything anymore. There are only people who want to destroy what remains for even more power.
I'd much rather have "another last chance election" in four years than a sham election in four years.
Every election is going to be a "last chance" election until there's another GOP win. Then either they were right, the Dems will learn and pivot to another tactic or they'll lose several more times because losing the last chance and still having another "last chance" right on schedule makes you look especially dishonest.
I'll do my duty and vote for Biden, but we're going to lose with Biden.
Ultimately it's not me you have to convince; it's the low-info battleground state swing-voter who now is either not voting or leaning Trump once again.
I will continue to advocate for Biden to step down until post-Convention; after that, well, I'll probably bet money against his victory. That way, at least it's win-win for me.
His opponent only has 3% more approval.
Go state by state and it gets a lot worse. He's poised to lose Michigan in a state the Dem Governor is going to swing by ten points.
Right but now compare that to 2020 disparity between candidates while keeping in mind Biden only won by 40,000 votes in 3 battleground states.
Doesn't seem too far off. Maybe about 5-6% worse than july 2020.
And additionally 10 points down nationally from where Biden was in h2h polling when comparing 538 polling aggregates.
Whats worse between 2020 and 2024 is that Biden has had 3.5 years to prove himself, give the Americans a chance, and he still had terrible approval ratings. These numbers are likely baked in because the electorate is very familiar with both candidates.
Aren't the 10% pretty moot, since it's a two party system?
Wait two weeks and we can talk again, because we're now at the time frame the trend for the final run will be set.
BTW, I have tagged you as "Both Sides Don't vote" for a while now.
I think it matters because Democrats must outperform Republicans nationally in popular vote in order to have any chance at an Electoral College victory. On the eve of 2020 election, Biden was up 8% over Trump, won by 7 million votes, and yet ultimately only won by 40,000 critical votes in 3 battleground states largely decided by low-info swing voters who once voted for Obama, then Trump, and then Biden again. Thus, if he's now down 3-6 points and not up 8 pts, that portends a sweeping Electoral defeat.
I guess we shall see for better or worse.
And honestly, what does that tag mean? I've never promoted BotH sIDeS and I've never advocated for anyone to not vote or vote 3rd party. Cite me otherwise. Good luck. Because I think you may be missing the nuance and forging a strawman out of my position.
Trump didn't get the predicted Marytr Bonus that normally follows a failed assassination, he can still do this.
Plus his Vice President is this guy - https://vxtwitter.com/JDVance1/status/1511311385543815180
Easily less likable than Paul Ryan
Even if he didn't, which it certainly won't hurt him, Biden is already underperforming not just his 2020 run by a full 10 points, he's doing worse than Hillary's 2016 run. I'm glad Trump chose Vance as it doesn't help him, but again it doesn't change the bottom-line.
We need to jump ship while there is still time.
Adam Schiff now just publicly called for for Biden to step down.
We need to be ready to stick to him no matter what if he doesn't though
Indeed, we'd have no other better choice. It just puts me back where I was pre-Debate, but with less hope.
God I wish that debate never happened, I wasn't even slightly worried about Biden's chances until that made me go "Oh shit..."
People I know irl have actually switched to Trump because they're worried Biden is a danger to himself and those around him. They keep saying "Oh Project 2025 will never pass, we got checks and balances", but that's not really true anymore
Project 2025 is already well under way. The supreme court has seen to that
I want to die
I'll be honest... I was still worried, and I think the Biden camp was, too. I just fell in line and tried to do my part in highlighting the obvious contrast between a fascist old guy and just an old guy who means well. It's why they took the debate in the first place because Biden's numbers have been on a steadily downward slope even without major Republican spending.
I've heard similar, in a critical battleground state no less from the likes of my one uncle. Obama->Trump->Biden->Undecided/Leaning-Trump. :))
How the fuck can you go from Obama to Trump? Isn't that like getting out of a Spike Lee joint and going "Can't wait to tell the fellas at the Klan meeting about this awesome picture!"
Stress Project 2025, and show them THIS - https://vxtwitter.com/JDVance1/status/1511311385543815180 This ad was the moment I knew that Vance was a disgusting human being who needs to be nowhere near the White House.
I can't believe they actually aired an ad that asks if I hate Mexicans with "Yes" being the answer the ad was not only expecting, but actively hoping for
Biden does one thing wrong. And that is Gaza. There is a shit ton he has done right:
Supreme Court reform
Student loan debt relief
Healthcare reform
Renewable energy act
Banking reform
Agriculture subsidies to be ecological
Helping local farms
Weed restriction reclassification
Tech privacy restrictions
Making medicare more accessible
Veteran affairs
And quite a few more. Give credit where credit is due. He's worked hard for us.
Supreme Court reform? Did Clarence get the boot without anyone noticing? Are there more than 9 now?
I think it was yesterday he filed for term limits? As well as an ethics code? It's still early. But it's a step in the right direction.
A toothless, self imposed ethics code, and he sat on term limits for 3 years
He's asking for congress to impose the ethics code. I believe the people on NPR politics called the democrats handling of the Supreme Court for the last 50 years political malpractice. Only makes sense they would chose the least impactful route to try to fix it, 50 years too late.
Sanctioning and providing material support for a genocide is not in the same category as any of these things.
Why pick that and why pick that now, this time? Why not before? Why not other genocides? Is it because you look good in a keffiyeh?
"Why do you care about the Gaza's genocide" is telling on yourself
Allow me to spell it out for you:
"Why do you care about the genocide of Palestinians NOW vs the last several decades of Israel's apartheid state? Why do you care about the genocide of Palestinians but not of trans people in America? Why do you care about the genocide of Palestinians but not of Ukrainians?"
This shouldn't be hard to figure out. People chose this issue now because they can afford to ignore the consequences of a Trump (or even just GOP) administration. They don't have to deal with what happens and that fact allows them to prioritize one genocide over another.
You're assuming a lot there about my politics, friend.
Even if Trump is defeated. Trumpism isn't over and we ill be in a endless loop of corporatists Dems will leave us in this same situation. This is the fork in the road for Dems to actually change and voters to demand better. Time is ticking, they have to figure out the best path forward.
Exactly, it is going to be awful if Trump wins but the social contract has been so thoroughly broken by austerity politics and democrats who campaign on how shitty republicans are (they are) and then don’t do shit when they get into power that I don’t think there is anything to save really if Biden refuses to step down and looses the election. The collapse was inevitable in the US, the Democratic Party would have kept only allowing older and more conservative politicians to effectively access the nomination until this very thing happened and the rest of the centrist Democratic Party would be too concerned with careerism to be the one to pull the fire alarm before it was too late.
I hate to say it, but I don’t see the point in voting for Biden if he refuses to budge on fucking virtually anything, we are going down with the ship and the sooner the Democratic Party collapses in a heap the sooner we can actually build something productive here.
A lot of people are going to suffer, but it isn’t the voters who aren’t convinced by Biden’s fault, it is the democratic parties fault for not giving us any choice but Biden type politicians and then expecting us to keep dealing with it indefinitely. Whenever progressives start to bring up concerns centrists just scream in our faces “NOW IS NOT THE TIME YOU ARE SO SELFISH” and guess what now it is wayyyyy to late for progressives to have any control or ability to save this, centrist democrats let republicans send this country off a cliff because they were too busy shaming progressives for yelling about how we were about to drive off a cliff.
We are off the cliff, sorry to all the Biden fans and centrists that have always treated me condescendingly like my views were unrealistic or naive, but y’all never listened to us and treated us like children and now we are locked into this ride. It’s your fault, not mine.
I feel like voters have gone above and beyond to get Biden to win the first time. If he really delivered or at least instilled enough confidence for people this wouldn't be as hard. Not being Trump becomes less effective overtime when people become numb to his actions.
I can only hope things turn out decently or everyone supports each other if the bad ending happens. Everyone gets shouted down until some type of exposing moment happens like that Debate. Even Trump voters actually vote for what they believe in, even if it is lies.
The problem is that Biden and Democrats won handily in 2020 by promising a path forward, but here we are 4 years later with not much path forward, just more treading water. Democrats didn't groom or build up any new candidates, they didn't make pushes in local government or the judiciary or any significant reforms. They've pushed a handful of executive actions that have been blocked and compromised badly with Republicans on so much else.
The current Democratic leadership is trying to get walked to first, but we need them to swing for the fence.
Much of that is the fault of the media having an insane and obvious bias towards Trump as well as the Biden team not shouting about what they've done constantly. It's been a historically successful presidency but nobody has any fucking idea because they're not doing anything to make sure people know about it.
Ok but Dems CANT run biden again, so that will be the framing moving forward.
Biden is just one in a line of status quo. How has anyone's life gotten better in the last 10 years? 20? 30? I'm only 36 so maybe going back 30 years is tough for me to say, but since I joined the workforce I've watched the rich get richer, and at the end of the day that is the battle that needs to be fought. If this is a turning point, maybe Dems put forward an actual progressive.
HILLARY!
Trumpism is over as soon as Trump stops running for office. No one else can hold his torch. Ramaswamy and others try but they suffer from a terminal syndrome called maturity that Trump can never have. As immature as Ramaswamy pretends to be he is still a mature adult underneath it all and is incapable of behaving like Trump.
There are no educated public figures, that are supposed to be taken seriously, as immature as Trump in the entire United States. He is on a level of underdevelopment all in his own.
There is at least one other, but he was born in South Africa, so he's not eligible to run for President.
At least he has somewhat of a medical excuse.
The choice is between boring corporatists and 100% concentrated evil. Undecided voters are the dumbest people on the face of the Earth.
boring genocidal corporatists
What really annoys me about all these political meme/card posts is the lack of spell checking.
They’re right, but dammit, at least try to make your point look good. That would be the ideal.
Ok, since you were less snarky then the last guy I'll fix it. But know this, im not trying bro.
The person who wants Biden to be the nominee the most is Trump. Notice he's gone completely quiet on him, not blasting him for his age like some democrats are, because he knows he can win against an 81yo Biden. As soon as he's confirmed as the nominee, Team Trump will turn around and try to make him look as old as dirt
When your opponent is making a mistake, don't stop them.
Until the next one. The republicans are a looming existential threat that senior democrats do not take seriously, nor do they know how to fight.
I hope we all remember the senior democrat leadership closing ranks to keep meaningful change (sanders) out during the last primary.
Joe's got to go.
My vote will be against Trump the Pedophile, no matter who it is, but I am beyond done with the dems. I agree that Joe needs to pass the torch to someone younger.
I agree. So we should all rally around a candidate who actually has a chance to beat Trump rather than blindly following some guy who's comfortable handing over the White House as long as he, "tried his best."
You've got a choice between TWO old men who are often incoherent. Why pick the one who's also the spawn of Satan?
I've answered this one. We have to seriously hammer home how bad trump is. That doesn't mean hit on every thing that makes him bad. Pick out the glaring ones, the ones that will impact your audience on a personal level.
Rule 1: Dont waste you're time on trumpers but if you do just hammer home how trump and epstein are intimately connected. It won't accomplish much but should leave every other talking point moot.
Suburban women: Trump has destroyed abortion rights and isn't finished. They will lean heavily on the economy but just remind them Trump is responsible for more debt then any president before or after him. You can also make the appeal that the strength of the dollar is dependent on the US stability and Trump is nothing but unpredictable.
College educated: Trump is a threat to democracy. Sight how his Supreme Court Justices are running a muck.
Working class: ... sorry gtg for now and watch game of thrones.
I'm just saying there is an angle to credible attack trump on every front because the main is a shit human being.
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HER EMAILSBIDEN OLD!I am curious who this is directed at. I think most people on Lemmy (excepting the Tankie minority who I mostly avoid) agree that voting democrats is the best political strategy in this election.
However, there is a separate and more contentious question of who the person we’ll be voting for should be. I don’t think the answer to this is obvious at all and it’s very strange to me that some people react with so much hostility to asking that question.
If this is about the first topic, I don’t see the need for it, and if it’s about the second, then it needs to be clearer and better articulated to sway anyone or spark useful discussion.
I think the discussion has been fine... but you do you, I guess.
It's not about that. It's about sleep walking into fascism. Before the debate it was metaphorical. If you keep voting for the lesser evil you still get evil. It just takes longer.
Now we're being asked to vote for someone who clearly cannot handle the duties of the office and is nothing more than a figurehead. Rubber stamping this does not protect democracy. It proves they can manufacture consent to put whoever they want in that office and you guys will keep pulling that lever thinking, "it could be worse".
Fine by me.
Come November, I will not be voting for an old guy named Biden. I will be voting for the Biden administration, an administration that rejoined the Paris climate accords, has made progress wrt medical debt, has seen decreasing levels of uninsured Americans, and made progress on myriad other issues. Because the alternative is...well, you know.
I am not voting for my ideal candidate, or my ideal administration, but that's because 1) I'm not an accelerationist, and 2) I'm smart enough to know how this works given our deeply flawed voting system.
I'm not sure you can really have it both ways --- the only alternatives for someone who doesn't want Trump but won't vote for Biden that I see are accelerationism, or complete and utter naivety...which is functionally equivalent to accelerationism.
I don't agree that those are the only avenues left. Biden is vulnerable to a replacement campaign now. We can sidestep the entire thing. Get a good admin and a president strong enough to fight the inevitable reactionary shit from red states.
Ok so let's have Trump instead?
No, thanks. Vote for Biden so that we don't have to repeat the fallout of 2016.
Vote for anyone but Biden, Trump, and RFK.
We aren't too close to November to replace him.
Would you vote for Harris? Newsom?
Yeah. Probably.
If that's true, what are the policy differences that qualifies them in you mind, vs Biden?
Well Harris has been critical of Israel, and that may have just been part of a communications strategy but it's all we have to go for now. Other than that she's far less likely to drop dead in the next 4 years and doesn't have bouts of senility that can occur at the worst times. (Let's be real, that debate hasn't been properly explained, the white house is holding on to jet lag from a trip two weeks before the debate.) The pro corporate shit isn't likely to change. And that's something we'll have to keep working on.
Newsom is the same. He hasn't been directly critical of Israel but he has reached out to support the Palestinian community in California. Which is probably more important and real to his position as governor. But he's a center dem just like Harris. And he's also not likely to drop dead.
Both candidates will inherit many of Biden's cabinet and staff and continue his policies. Newsom might take a lighter touch with immigration, (he'd have to frame it as trimming Biden's EO to protect it from the courts), but other than that I don't expect huge differences. Even differences I'd like to see.
Very reasonable expectations.
Maybe I'm not understanding your Biden position, then. It sounded like you refused to vote for Biden if he's the nominee.
But you seem to be OK with his policies, minus his handling of Isreal. But you also acknowledge that little is likely to change under the other frontrunners, besides maybe being a little more sympathetic towards Gazians.
And given that you also expect him to drop dead or become mentally incapacitated in the next 4 years, it seems like Harris taking the baton is exactly what you want.
So why is a Biden vote completely unreasonable to you? Or is that not your position?
The risk of doing nothing becomes the greatest risk of all. It absolutely could be worse, we all lived through 4 years of Trump (and the aftermath re:Supreme Court appointments). We don't need hypotheticals here, there's a clear comparison between 4 years of Trump and 4 years of Biden, and not voting out of principal doesn't stop anything.
In full transparency, I'm not voting for Biden in November because of the Palestinian Genocide and because I believe he's already ineffective at protecting LGBTQ rights in red states. But I'm not here to tell you not to vote for him in November. I should have been more clear above. We have the momentum to replace him and vote for someone that isn't just a figurehead. Biden and his allies are using the "vote blue no matter who" rhetoric as a club to stop people from talking about replacing him on the ticket. We can cross that bridge on August 23rd though, the day after the convention. Right now we need to fully and faithfully have the conversation about replacing him.
After November we need to better organize to prevent the mega donor class from steering us into a full Oligarchy. Something that's on the plate for both old guys.
I hate to break it to you but if it's Biden & Trump in November, regarding Palestinian Genocide and LGBTQ rights, Trump will absolutely be worse than Biden, so not voting for Biden will not change anything and just make things worse.
So this is an interesting issue. Either state's rights are so strong that Blue States can protect LGBTQ people as hard as Red States have been persecuting them or Biden is willfully letting Red States persecute LGBTQ people.
So no it's not going to be worse. It's going to be the same as it ever was in either case. And as for the Palestinians, my heart goes out to them but my vote isn't about what happens on the ground there. It's about the permissive morality of contributing to it. If we're willing to contribute to it there, then we're willing to contribute to it here. And you can see it shaping up in rhetoric against marginalized people by politicians from both parties. They disagree about LGBTQ people because that's a flashy issue they can use. The second you're talking about homeless people and immigrants the rhetoric converges.
We just approved forcing homeless people into camps, destroying all of their property, and using them as forced labor if they resist. Immigrants aren't far behind, we're on to trying to deny them asylum because they showed on the wrong day and return them to the hands of cartels in Northern Mexico. Something that's actually illegal according to our laws and international treaties we've signed. So now there's a displaced person problem on our border and in history that translates to forced labor. If you have questions about that you should read up on refugee camps where western volunteer doctors learn not to ask too many questions. The dynamic works whether or not it's officially declared a refugee camp.
I think all of these points really come down to the Supreme Court makeup, which got fucked under Trump. Trump was able to nominate 3 justices, which created the super majority we have now.
They have indicated that they want to undo previous decisions which codified gay rights. This isn't a red state/blue state issue, it will affect the whole country.
The same court made the decision about making homelessness illegal. The most direct way to stop these horrible decisions from being made will be to support the impeachment of the corrupt justices, and ensure that we have a president who will nominate justices who aren't corrupt and taking away our rights.
Okay I need you to understand this. The Red States have been ignoring the old Supreme Court rulings. They do not care. and the Homeless laws I'm talking about were passed by Democrats, in contravention of old Supreme Court rulings.
This is not a SCOTUS issue. They're the scapegoat on these issues and the myth that there would be substantive change if we just kept Biden in office.
Either States are powerful enough to ignore the federal government, or they aren't. And the implications of that are not good for Biden either way. Because he's either powerless, in which case so would Trump be, or he's willfully allowing this, in which case the worst case scenario is already playing out.
Citation needed. Regardless if states follow the rulings, the supreme court can shift the views of the nation. After 2015 same sex marriage ruling, there was much higher support for same sex marriage, with noticable large increases with Republicans corresponding to the Supreme Court ruling:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2017/06/26/support-for-same-sex-marriage-grows-even-among-groups-that-had-been-skeptical/
From the Article from 2017:
To your other point:
When Biden assumed office, we were in the middle of a global pandemic, still social distancing because there were no vaccines, and we're having a 9/11 worth of American deaths every day. Maybe returning to normal life wasn't substantive for you, but there have been huge changes over the last 3.5 years of the Biden presidency.
In this situation, do you think Trump would be willingly allowing atrocities or actively driving and enabling them? A Trump presidency would clearly be the worst case scenario here.
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Yes, you can manufacture consent. That was obvious. What will you do about it? The question being asked isn't, "how do we rebuild america." It is what do we do in novemeber. Any thing else is purposeful obsfucation.
Rebuild it... Like how it was in which year?
Why rebuild it like it was in the past?
Exactly
I'm not the guy above but I like to answer that with "Giving everyone the rights and benefits white men enjoyed in the 1960's."
So then we're building something new, not restoring to a previous state.
Then let's get the hammers and nails out. New or old it doesn't matter.
Short term, pressure for replacing Biden. November, vote if you can stomach it. Thereafter, get involved with your state party. March. If you're in a red state then you have a unique position of running on more progressive things that are actually people oriented. That's what led to Democrats taking state wide offices in Arizona. You aren't beholden to the DNC's mega donors.
If you're in a blue state plan to help primary an establishment Democrat.
Don't shirk away because you can't do it yourself, that's an unrealistic expectation. Organize your friends, your coworkers, your commuter bus, etc.
Nothing in politics is "over" if you can get a critical mass of people to agree to change things. And it's really the only way off this manufactured consent treadmill for corporate power and profits we've been on for the last 40 years.
Edit to add- Confining the question to November is a logical fallacy. We aren't that close to the election that we can do nothing but vote. So that's pretty much just another attempt to get people to turn their brain off, vote, and then sit around waiting for the next thing their told to do. If we don't "activate" and start acting independently of big money then we aren't going to have a democracy come 2028, no matter which person is elected now. Biden is a vote for an Authoritarian Oligarchy. Which isn't "Fascism" in a technical sense, but it's not going to feel much different for you and me.
Ah yes a figure head of the party who did all this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhatBidenHasDone/comments/1abyvpa/the_complete_list_what_biden_has_done/
Is just as bad as the figure head of a fascist, xenophobic, racist, authoritarian, nationalist, religious zealot party because they are both figureheads. You're right.
I'm not even going to start with a list put together by his base. The news can't put one together that doesn't get ripped to shreds once you actually look at it. I doubt his base has put together anything like a list that says what the policies actually do. And no the title of the bill or the PR elevator pitch has no relation to what it actually does. For example he actually severely cut EV subsidies and you all fell on your knees to thank him for it.
Give his base a little more credit than that. They aren't dumb enough to list the inflation reduction act, they call it environmental legislation.
Literally your best argument against this NOT ALL OF THOSE ARE REAL BECAUSE HIS SUPPORTERS COMPILED IT SO IMMA VOTE FOR A FACIST RACIST
You're fucking wild bro
I never said I was going to vote for Trump.
If your not voting, voting 3rd party, or voting for Trump ....any of those is a vote for Trump in America's presidential election.
Also your name is maggoty so...
And let's not get distracted from the main point by straw manning here. Your argument is ridiculous.
No. No they aren't. The only vote for Trump is an actual vote for Trump. Casting anyone who doesn't support you as an other who must support the bad guy was bullshit when Bush did it and it's bullshit now.
No it isn't. It's literally math and logic deduction. It's the bullshit two party system's failings.
Because you only have 2 options who are going to pull enough votes to win, throwing your vote to a 3rd party is taking a vote from biden. not voting is taking a vote from biden. all of that is equal to a vote for Trump.
You’re right, and I’m getting real sick of the “shut up and fall in line” demand from democrats.
In this current system, EVERY election now will always be “the most important one ever”, with fascism at the front door and our democracy being at stake.
When the options are between (insert every terrible adjective that accurately describes him here) Trump, and ‘guy with obvious mental decline’ Biden, the blame doesn’t lie with the voter. If Joe Biden can’t earn people’s votes, the responsibility lies with Joe Biden and the Democrat establishment.
There are millions of leftist voters in this country who are being ignored by the two parties, and the democrats are hostile toward them and don’t want to move left to gain their votes. The leftist voters then get villainized by dems for seeking out a third party that better aligns with their values. “How dare you not fall in line! A vote for a third party is a vote for Trump!” No, it’s not. It’s exercising what little democracy we have left. The only vote for trump is an actual vote for trump.
The Democrat establishment simply doesn’t offer enough to anyone left of them. I don’t want the status quo; the status quo sucks. It’s a deregulated capitalist hellscape full of cruelty, slavery, wealth inequality, and planetary disaster.
I wish the dems could step back and realize what they are advocating for. The best and only choice for president is currently an 81-year-old man dealing with cognitive decline?! No, that’s not okay! That is not acceptable!
I dont know how to explain this to you, but appealing to leftists would cost alot more moderates than the other way around
That’s why we’re voting for the administration, not the man. And we’re voting AGAINST Trump, not FOR Biden.
But you tell yourself whatever it is that makes you feel good about turning your back on those who’s lives are going to essentially be made illegal. Because beneath it all- knowing what’s at stake, and choosing not to vote anyway, is admitting that none of the shit you’re “concerned” about really matters.
Well they're already being made illegal, and all of the homeless people are going to be made illegal too. Don't be surprised when they start going into camps together, no matter whose president. Because Biden isn't fighting for them. He's going tooth and nail to make sure GM isn't pressured by actual competition and to make sure Landlords can still kill you for rent. But LGBTQ rights? shit, don't make me laugh.
At any rate my comments here are about replacing him so we have a chance. Because Biden is losing this election. The people who actually elect the president are responding to pollsters and they're telling everyone they won't vote for Biden. It doesn't matter if every democrat in every other state turns out. If they don't get the 100,000 or so undecided people in swing states, it's over. And we have a chance to avoid that.
It’s always interesting to see what you’ll tell yourself as an excuse. Whatever makes you sleep better at night man.
The rest of us just see you not giving a shit.
I don't look forward to telling you that you were warned. But if you and the rest of the Biden club keep putting your heads in the sand we're getting a 2016 repeat.
I’m sure it won’t be because of all the people not voting. But sure…. Blame voters. That’s makes total sense!
Oh it's not just the voters that won't even think about a replacement. It's the dem leadership who put us into this position. But if you guys had even the smallest amount of courage to tell the dem leadership you won't vote for Biden, he'd be gone tomorrow.
As long as it’s not your fault, right?
That figurehead happens to be surrounded by people who aren't fascists and support policy that I mostly agree with, so I guess I'll take my chances with them.
Sure, if you agree with the policies of the Oligarchy then who am I to stop you?
You're already retired though right? Because if you aren't then I wouldn't plan on them allowing you to ever do so.
I guess if that's what you think is the oligarchy, than I suppose I do. And no, I am not retired, but I would say I am fairly successful with decent savings and retirement set aside.
Just mark whoever has (D) on your ballot in November and stop paying attention to the presidential race. Your votes for your representatives and senators are FAR more impactful, and a United Democratic Congress is far more capable of stopping fascism than a Republican one
Good news, turns out some of the polls, especially those coming out of Georgia are misleading as they are failing to account for the Overwhelmingly Pro-Biden black vote
I'll rely on polling the day I have a fully stocked bunker, with all the amenities, that I can sneak away into until my inevitable death while eating cheetos on the shitter.
I'm sorry, but this really isn't true. Almost everyone here, leftist or liberal, is going to vote, and the vast majority of them are going to vote for Biden. There will be some protest votes, especially in safe states, but if you care enough to post on a left-leaning political group, you care enough to try to block Trump.
The people that will cost Biden the election are the people who don't argue online. They support the Democrats (or at least oppose the Republicans), but they don't always vote. They probably live in a state without mail-in voting, they probably live paycheck to paycheck, and they really just don't have a lot of spare time. They'll go to the polls if they think it's really important or they're very enthusiastic about the candidate, but if not, they'd rather rest or get a load of laundry done before work tomorrow, because it's not that important anyway. The Democrats need to find a way to get those people out if they want to win.
We all live in the same ecosystem. The people who argue online are the same people who might inspire their dipshit friends to have an opinion. Those people might convince their families to come with them to the polls. Troll farms demonstrated in 2016 and continue to demonstrate that they don't need to convince anyone. They don't need to tell lies or trick anyone. They just need to keep everyone at odds with each other. They do that with media loops and feeding negative discussions.
When I post in opposition, I'm not really having an effect. I get to diffuse some of the disinformation upfront which is still pretty good in my eyes. But really I'm just swinging because I have fight in me.
I mean, fair enough, and it's not like trying to get leftists and liberals to work together will hurt. I'm just saying, don't worry too much about those divisions, as they tend to work themselves out; worry about voter turnout. There are also things you can do to help with that, like volunteering to give rides with Souls to the Pools or Carpool Vote.
We could unite over democracy right?
We should help work towards passing electoral reform in each of our states. Then you can put all those people upset with the democrats into the game. Let them to participate in the electoral process.
More people voting means more democratic votes. Don't you want more votes for the democratic party?
What about a cactus WITHOUT sunglasses?
Whoa whoa whoa, why wouldn't he have sunglasses?
While I will vote Biden/Kamela I gotta make a slight correction or addition. Our vote is voiceless. We don't vote for president, the electoral college does. Between us and the electors there is a sea of shit that allows the final outcome to not represent what we want.
I want 1vote=1vote. Ladies and gentlemen, we have the technology.
I want to be able to vote for longer than 1 day. I want if possible a constant...1vote that I can take back and switch at will.
I want what you want and I promise to keep voting until it happens. We should try other stuff too, though.
Yes, we keep trying and we keep demanding until it's finally here one day.
I think we should do what that California town did Seth they're mayoral elections... Let's elect a dog. If we can't do that, then I'll just vote for anyone who isn't Trump.
"Ideal"
For fucks sake, spell check before you meme.
Made worse but misusing the template
The problem with this meme is that it's written by a shelter middle class white person. Minorities and poor people HAVE been dying due to Democrats' capitation and appeasement to Republicans for years now.
That's extremely simplistic. The complicated truth is:
How can you discuss the flaws of First past the post and NOT want to change the voting system?
Its not that we dont, but that we effectively cant. That requires a Constitutional amendment, which requires a two-thirds vote.in both the house and senate
duverger's "law" is basically a tautology. it does not have predictive power.
You're right, minorities and poor people have suffered and some died while Democrats were ostensibly in charge. What do you propose an American does on election day?
Barring a cataclysmic reordering of American politics, it's still true that voting for anyone but the Democratic candidate will increase the odds of Trump winning. Trump is a blatant liar, corrupt, rapist, and racist. He's promised to enact revenge on those he perceives as his enemies, and his proposed policies will cause suffering an order of magnitude more than what is already unjustly inflicted on minorities and the poor.
It sucks. We should have good candidates to choose from. We should have ranked choice voting and a multi-party system, but we don't.
It's inflicting harm on yourself and many others to do anything other than vote Democrat in November. There's more we can do than vote, but that's a bare minimum.
So… to summarize, conservatives are killing people, the democrats AREN’T killing people, but not doing enough to stop the people from being killed, sooooooo….
It’s best to just not try and stop the conservatives from killing more people?
Do I have that right?
Biden is actively aiding and abetting the genocide by sending munitions and tens of billions of dollars of war funding to Israel, and using America’s UN security council veto to prevent the UN from acting.
Sigh…. Again-
Trump will do FAR worse. You know this. Everyone knows this. Biden is trying to put the brakes on things there and being diplomatic with Israel is not the easiest thing to do. You know damn well that if he tried to stop it, congress wouldn’t just block that from happening.
You people don’t ever seem to understand how politics work. You think knits just so easy to simply stop doing something.
Donnie “finish the job” Trump WANTS to support Israel. And if you get your way, he’s going to-
So stop with the bleeding heart bullshit. I’m not buying it. If you cared, you do whatever it takes to keep Trump from winning the White House.
Congress has no control over the US using its Security Council veto to protect Israel at the UN.
That’s all Biden’s doing alone.
ROFL! Okay buddy.
Thank you for agreeing.
Ahhh, right. You’re putting the Edgelord’s “you agreed with me because you aren’t offering an argument!” card into play.
Whatever makes to feel like you’re not part of the problem dude. I said what needed be said. I’m not entering ignorance any longer.
Youre missing that those are literallynthe only two options that are available, and changing that is politically impossible
Oh I’m not missng anything. What I’m seeing is a lot of people that don’t under how shit works.
The projection is real
Oh shit. I found Candace Owens account!
Huh? Candance Owens downplays minorities' struggles, much like Democrat toadies like yourself.
Except your are parroting her rhetoric.... so I guess you're down playing minority struggles.
she has never said that the problem with democrats is that they are too much like republicans.
Nah, plenty of people besides her say this. You'd know this if you ever actually listened to the minorities you demand blindly vote for you.
This is the most devisive argument I've encountered today. I can only imagine that a republican would be this divisive. Now I know.
I took a look at their profile. Best as I can tell they're either a tankie or one of those "both sides" kids. You know the type. Not worth engaging with, IMO.
I feel like both groups fall under the idiotic umbrella of Republican.
Idk what tankies have to say about it, they're cut from the same cloth as the maga chuds.
Don't let "not ideal" be the enemy of "replacing Biden for a candidate that can beat Trump."
Be honest. He's totally senile and not fit to run a bridge club.
Stick with him and you deserve to lose.
4 months before the election?? Are you a sleeper Republican agent, or just utterly clueless?
I am clueless Europen, from here it looks like Biden already lost elections and that putting anyone else would mean that Trump will lose.
Than again, this might be just what media is selling me and people around me think.
No it's clear as day here too for anyone who has ever stepped foot out of their preachy pundit bubble.
Not a single person thinking of voting Democrat will change their mind if Biden gets pulled. Literally 0.
Exactly replacing Biden will get more votes than not replacing Biden, it's a purely positive move.
I juat don't understand why Democrats don't nominate literally anyone else and win election, without risking Trump winning?
I don't put this on some random people when real culprit is Democratic Party. It is almost like they want Trump to win.
BINGO, YEAH I'M VOTING BLUE NO MATTER WHO BUT FFS DEMOCRATS LOVE TO LOSE.
Why not put it on the republican party?
Why not stand up to the republican party?
I just don't get you.
Why would they? They know their voter base is a bot that will vote blue no matter who. They don't have the incentive.
Yup, the centre and left needs to stop being so divided and just work together on things we agree with by voting for Joe Biden and supporting ranked choice.
I tried searching democrats.org for Ranked Choice voting and didn't get any hits. Can you share the information you have?
Here is a great resource for that!
https://fairvote.org/
Do people not know that other elections besides president are going on? Republicans barely won the house in an midterm, no way they win it this time around. Also, no way Republicans get 60 senate seats. Supreme Court is going to SCOTUS regardless of the president, we just won't get to start fixing it for a while.
The only thing I worry about is Ukraine- but 6 more months of American help to shore up some good defensive lines and decrease Russian capacity and they could do without us for the next 2-4 years.
If you don't like Biden, just focus on your local and state races. If we win the house and senate but loose the whitehouse, maybe DNC will learn to push for exciting POTUS candidates (or to push for the interstate compact)
If trump wins he has 2 branches. The third branch has been effectively useless for years. No, I don't think it will protect anyone. Especially when the president has been given license to murder members of congress.
Republicans almost definitely win the house if Trump wins. They won't have 60 senators, but they could have a majority, there's more democrats up for election which a Trump victory could cause some to flip.
I would vote to shit my pants every day for the next four years before not voting against TFG.
Sad to say but if we vote Biden we'll stave off civil war for another 4 years but nothing will get done because Republicans will block everything as they've done.
If trump gets elected a lot of plan 2025 bullshit will be implemented, Republicans will setup a outright theocracy based on religion and put our laws back to the 1800's until the regular people (us) will protest and whine but we'll be the kindling that the right will use to ignite widespread instability furthering their reasoning to further put laws against the people.
You won't know until you know.
Is the cactus pro-genocide?
genocide is not really meh
It's not like Trump would have condemned it either.
Oh, that makes it okay then.
Of course not. But in the American implementation of FPTP, even more so than somewhere like the UK, you must pick the lesser of two weavels.
I remember the time there was a genocide in Rwanda and then they implemented FPTP and the genocide stopped. Wish more people would learn the lessons of history.
well, yeah. choosing between two genocidal maniacs says a lot about democracy, or the lack thereof.
Context. We are talking about a US presidential candidate.
Because of the military industrial complex there are only two types of US presidential candidates.
Ones who have contributed to some form of genocide around the world
And
Ones who have yet to contribute to some form of genocide around the world
this is exactly what makes it not meh, any other country would be a brutal militaristic dictatorship.
See the "other country" part of your response. That's where context comes in.
You're right, in the most basic, duh, observational type way, the US Government is toxic to the core.
If that's validating to you, and you think we need to linger on it, you're not really ready for the discussion you are currently taking part of.
I'd like to go back in time and live there with you, with all my heart. I really can't though. So, please stay where you're at. When this goes up, fork in electrical socket sytle, we will need you.
way to write a lot of things without really saying anything.
i'm still a bit surprised that "genocide is not just meh" has elicited such a controversial response here.
That's because you don't understand subtext.
Biden's position on Israel/Gaza isn't good, but it's entirely expected. Israel is the only real US ally in the Middle East, which means the US is going to side with Israel pretty much regardless of what Israel does for strategic reasons if nothing else. The odds we'd do anything more severe than asking nicely if they'd maybe tone it down a bit while still giving them everything they want is functionally zero.
And that's not really going to change regardless of who is president.
so genocide doesn't matter in the face of losing their tight grip hegemony over the middle east. isn't good is a bit of an understatement. i dont think this is a fair justification for what the us does around the world.
It's not, but it's also not something you're going to change by voting for Biden, Trump, some candidate with no chance of winning or no one at all. Because every road leads to the US continuing to support Israel.
exactly what i mean.
That stupid Adam Schiff keeps telling Biden to drop out. I think Schiff-head needs to shut the hell up. Is now really the time to undermine confidence in the incumbent?
Biden will drop out. Full stop. It's the people still defending him that are delaying the inevitable and lowering the chances of a Democrat president. Anyone who thinks Biden has the best chance to win is living in an isolated echo chamber at this point. This is the closest real world example to The Emperor Has No Clothes that I've ever seen.
This additude is how we end up with a Weekend at Bernie's presidential candidate. Just like activism within national politics is essential to our country's vitality and growth, activism within party politics is essential for the party to stay relevant and effective. Just as our country will be lost to corporatocracy, oligarchy, and bigotry if no one fights for democracy, justice, and equality, our party will succumb to corporate donors, consultants, and myopic geriatrics if we sit on the sidelines.
Dems have a serious old people problem. We are the party of Dianne Feinstein, who clung to her senate seat until death despite being literally senile. We are the party of Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Hillary Clinton is another symptom of the same disease. She used the power she accumulated within the party over decades to foist herself on a reluctant party base by calling in favors and pulling strings that only someone who has grown old floating in the stratosphere of national politics can.
This country needs a revolution, and it needs to start within the Democratic Party.
I mean trump has already been president and elections kept on being a real thing
Did you miss this whole January 6th thing? I can understand how... it was very minor.
Did elections stop that day? No. Did they stop with Trump while being the president? No
Face it, whoever gets to be president, will do so for 4 years. And boringly so, you guys will vote again, in 4 years time for a new candidate.
Wait, are you intentionally ignoring the scheme with the 7 false slates of electors that were poised to overturn the election? The only thing that stopped it was Pence’s unwillingness to go along with the scheme. JD Vance on the other hand is the opposite. So what are you basing your opinion on at this point?
Reality? Fact: trump was president. Another fact: elections didn't stop happening? Same with many other republican and democrats. You guys will be fine
Can you address the scheme to overturn the election using false slate of electors in 7 states?
Are you intentionally ignoring what I just wrote? Can you address what I wrote?
A recent Supreme Court ruling gives the president sweeping immunity. Do you think Trump won't abuse that to keep himself or one of his friends in power ad infinitum?
You can guess all you want, that's not reality tho.
That's like saying, "Let's not put the gun away even though the toddler is near it because there's no guarantee the toddler will play with the gun"
Why do you have guns in front of a toddler in the first place without safeties.
Why are you not complying with home gun safety guidelines. Are you insane
Here, educate yourself
https://projectchildsafe.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PCS_FirearmsSafety_Jan2019_v2.pdf
Right, so? If we go with that then you can find anything to justify whatever you want, no point in arguing 😉
I see someone has not been paying attention.
He's suggesting we will still have "elections".
Ever notice how the GOP has stopped pushing for voter ID laws..
The post 2016 republican is so fucking crass. They've abandoned civility and are going straight for the throat, everytime. Instead of signaling they want to disenfranchise voters they are full on attempting to setup fake elections. Instead of dog whistling that president should be an authoritarian dictator they are 'writing' it into law with their fraudulent supreme court.
If there has ever been a motivating factor for the 2A people to do something it's right now. Except, they were never about standing up to tyranny they were only about installing it. That's exactly why school shootings are allowed to continue. Why they would only offer thought and prayers.
About that, https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8281
Trying to console my friend who lost 23 relatives in an afternoon, during a US-armed Israeli bombing run of Gaza. I keep telling her "This feels bad but Donald Trump will be worse". But she won't listen. She just keeps screaming "my little nephew was only three years old!" and "my family is dead! my family is dead!"
I'm hoping she'll come around by November.
Uh huh... So what are you saying is the alternative action we should take?
https://www.gofundme.com/f/a8jzz-help-me-and-my-family-get-out-of-the-gaza-strip
A good place to start.
Might also consider protesting the conversation in Chicago if you're in town. If you're looking for something more local, Palestinian solidarity groups have formed in damned near every major city.
Do what you can to help people escape the holocaust. Then call/write/picket your congressman's office to lobby for asylum for Gaza refugees.
I think that's all great! We should all do that AND vote for Biden.
https://lemmy.world/comment/11225290
Except that he is president and has done the job exceedingly well.
Consider how big of a fucking loser you have to be do go back and try and gloat days later in an internet argument. JFC you fucking child. Touch some grass, and experience the world. Lol. Fucking loser.
Greetings Comrade! The central office has directed that all attacks are to now focus on Biden's dastardly plot to assassinate Dear Leader.
Comrade! You are in danger of a serious reprimand. Tidy Bear is on his way to your apartment now to ensure that your mission objectives are VERY clear. вы понимаете?
There are a lot of hypothetical conversations in this thread about fascism and "November" but for me this election is about something actually happening right now. People are being exterminated by US weapons in Gaza. I will not be voting for an administration that sanctions genocide. There has to be a political price for this kind of behavior.
I can't acknowledge voting for the Democratic party as "the lesser of two evils." To me it looks like Americans are afraid of losing their country, while the rest of the world has been running for cover from American weapons for over a century. The era of American exceptionalism and impunity is over. It's time to rejoin the rest of the world. "Fascism or genocide" is not going to cut it.
That's the choice we've been given though. Except it's really more like "fascism AND genocide or just genocide".
There are more than 2 choices.
If you consider "throwing my vote away on a third party that doesn't stand a chance in our shitty FPTP system" a choice, then sure I guess
They may not win, but if you want to make a statement then third party is the option that is neither fascism nor genocide.
Ok, except if enough people vote third party, fascism will win. So I'm not sure that "statement" is a very strong one.
If enough votes 3rd party then maybe neither fascism nor genocide will win.
You may even influence future american policy away from fascism/genocide
That's a naive take at best. Until we have voting reform, 3rd parties don't actually have a chance of winning anything. The only thing voting for a 3rd party accomplishes in our shitty FPTP system is pulling votes away from the Democratic option, making the chances better for the Republican option.
A vote for dems is still a vote for fascism. They've got 3 bills right now in congress to stifle and delegitamize leftist organizations.
What you mean is "disrupting my day to day life fascism and genocide or status quo fascism or genocide"
Ok now you're just calling anything you disagree with "fascism".
Don't take that the wrong way - I'm not trying to defend Democrats delegitamizing leftist organizations. But words have meaning, and when you just start throwing them around at everything that bothers you, you water down that meaning.
Thats just one example of many, regarding democrats exhibiting fascist behaviors and tendencies.
This Insistence that we not call any behavior fascist or any long standing trends problematic until they've reached their final form and theres nothing to be done does way more damage than calling something what it is when it checks 4 out of 5 instead of all 5 boxes
Being less overtly fascist than Project 2025 does not automatically make something not-fascist
You're putting words in my mouth, on top of beating around the bush. Either say what you want to say directly, or don't bother responding.
Which bills are these?
I'm blanking on the third one at the moment but one is to streamline stripping nonprofit status of organizations that "support terrorism" (Palestine) and the other makes any criticism whatsoever of Israel legally antisemitic hate speech which again is largely going to affect leftist orgs but will also allow the board of education to strip funding and accreditation from colleges that allow pro-Palestinian protests.
Reading this bil...
This is the definition of antisemitism the bill adopts: https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism
Since the bill applies this definition to title VI, it would apply to any organization receiving federal funds subject to title VI.
Doesn't count all criticism of Israel, you just can't question it's right to self determination, the validity or potential racism of a Jewish ethnostate, or levy any criticism that wouldn't be leveled at literally any other nation in the same scenario. You also probably couldn't speak Ill of AIPAC since that could be deemed demonizing Jews as collective.
Can't strip college accreditation, could strip federal funding - basically they'd be stuck operating under the same kind of restraints a college that doesn't want to follow title IX does.
I find it deeply amusing though that most of the people upset about this one would have been strongly in support of it prior to 10/7/23 as a move to fight white supremacy and neo-Nazis. If it was passed back then and been turned on students now it would have been a real "be careful what you wish for" moment.
How many other countries have situations that match the Israel/Palestinian conflict?
The state of Israel doesn't get to hide behind antisemitism. It is a system of governance, not a person, not a race, not a religion. It cannot be offended.
So glad I can say the shape of their country looks silly #freedom
Really would have saved us all some time if you just said you were another right wing Zionist who wants to stamp out anything left of midright Biden.
I would label these as pro zionist bills.
They have nothing to do with government provided public services.
Why do you prefer being killed yourself and still watching genocide happen?
While watching it get even more backing from the US
And trump will triple that backing, hell probably send our own guys to do it. Actually stopping the genocide is not on the table rn, sorry
Yeah, if anyone is going to put US boots on the ground, it is Trump
Because for me politics is about principles and voting for my own interests and the interests of the greater good. There are people who are running who represent those interests. The duopoly is all about scaring people into voting for one of them, and I'm not going to respond to scare tactics.
Democracy is also about accepting multiple viewpoints and arguing your own. I won't be intimidated by this kind of thing.
Fam, Im not trying to intimidate you into shit. I'm scared shitless because you're willing to toss entire demographics under the bus for people halfway across the world that probably don't even like you. Im sympathetic to wanting to be principled, but enabling another genocide for the sake of that moral stance isnt worth it. The duopoly doesnt exist because people have no valuea, it exists because aby FTTP system will always produce a duipoly. Even if you want to change that, it'll have to be done through one of the major parties
This narrative that it ends with Palestinians is insane to me. Democrats are by and large openly supportive of this genocide, and its not going to end there. They're cowtowing to the rights hatred of Muslims now, anyone who thinks they won't move onto trans folk next chasing Republican voters because they keep telling the left to eat shit is willfully blind.
I think that's a naive position honestly. The major parties have in their interest the perpetuation of American imperial hegemony, at the expense of people worldwide that it considers expendable, as well as the planetary ecosystem. I have a lot more sympathy for victims of this system than people who have benefited from it (albeit indirectly or unknowingly).
I'm not the one who put in Biden you dip shit. I primaried against him in 2020, was vocally against him in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
You fucking wish that a biden win is impossible. You are the trumper and the fascist and everything that goes with it because effectively, everything you do is for him.
"Blue MAGAs" "It's over. You lost"
This troll has no intention of having a meaningful discussion. He lives in a bizarre reality where voting against a rapist, dictator, and felon is the same as going full cock in hand for an authoritarian. Block him and move on.
"Blue MAGA" What fucking fascist circlejerk birthed that nonsense?
The term has been around for just over a year.
AKA Blue Fash/ Blue MAGA/ BNMW (But actually only Biden).
It started as a descriptor for those defending Biden running again (when it was a literal campaign promise that he would stick to one term). Got more traction when the DNC cancelled/ disallowed any debates that would have put Biden on stage and have him challenged from within the party. The DNC pushed for a coronation and fed the line that anyone challenging this was "for Trump" through their various mainstream and alternative outlets.
Dummies ate it up, and post October, say, November, when it was clear that Biden was taking the wrong side of the Gaza/ Israel issue and he started to see challenges to his policies from within the party, thats when the Blue MAGA rhetoric really got going. Its rhetorically very similar to what we saw coming from r/TheDonald in the earliest days of the MAGA movement. No space for nuance, gaslit trolling, vote-shaming, etc.
When we saw a write in campaign for Undecided, that should have been the "SLAM ON BREAKS/ PULL HANDLE TO STOP" moment for Joe Biden, but Blue MAGA, in both mainstream and social media, worked to prevent a serious discussion around Joe Biden until very recently, when it became so appealingly glaring that he couldn't win, even their abuse wasn't enough to halt the conversation.
It literally wasn't a campaign promise. I know all you ever do is misrepresent things. But for Christ's sake at least put basic effort into making it hard to fact check your lies when you troll. "Aids signaling he might be a one term president" doesn't constitute a campaign promise.
Axios doesn't agree with you:
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/03/biden-campaign-democrats-pledge-one-term
What this axios? From the literal link you just posted?
It was a campaign promise dude. It was in his rhetoric. He said it several times. Was it litterally in his platform? Did he sign a contract? No but thats never how campaign promises work.
You are being obtuse if you think that's how campaign promises are made.
And like clockwork, here you are.
How does it feel to be on the losing side of history AGAIN?!
No no no, people were shutting down anti-joe sentiment since the 2020 election. It's not blue MAGA it's corporate control. Reddit was being commercialized and anything left of Joe was bad for business. Lemmy is a silo so when people transitioned after the mod strike they were finally allowed to say the fucking truth. Unfortunately the tankies and right wing ideologues got here first because they were driven from reddit long before the leftists.
Most people were fine with the fact we had to throw down for joe again but because of obvious discourse bad actors have been amplifying in-fighting just about the time when there was nothing left anyone could do. They did the same thing with Bernie in 2016 and guess what, it's working again.
This whole sub is a testament to it. April, May, June, none of my memes would have gotten traction.
I think this (if a bit dated) macro highlights the definition fairly well:
The know your meme article is worth a read. We're both wrong on dates. It was coined in 2017. Obviously its usage has transformed several times, and I think my defintiion is probably the most accurate current working definition, specifically for the period from post WI/ MI/ MN primaries to now. Its the definition Jon Stewart used recently.
Another example is MSNBC host Joy Reid saying she would vote for Joe Biden if he was in a coma. Or Whoopi saying she would vote for Joe Biden even if he was shitting his pants on stage.
And this is the whole rhetorical point. It doesn't matter that these Blue MAGA have incredibly low standards or are only interested this one guy. Saying you want insist on running the comatose pants shitter is not convincing to others and its losing Democrats the elections, entirely. Hence the actual panic in the Democratic party at this point, because Joe Biden's down ballot impacts are that you give team red a super majority in BOTH the house and the senate.
If you actually care about winning the election, its not about you being convinced of something; its about what is going take to convince a majority of people other than you of something.
See. This is just not TRUE. Its not supported by the data. Look at the previous 450 days of polling. Look at the write in campaigns when the DNC shut-down anything resembling a real primary. You have to come to terms with the actual material fact that no, most Democrats right now do not want Joe Biden as candidate. This intentional ignoring of the facts is what qualifies as Blue MAGA behaviror.
Polling data is notoriously shit. Joe won the primaries in 2020 and a better candidate has not emerged since. 2020 showed us that both candidates were not popular. Ever.
In fact, Joe gets less credit then he deserves because he has done phenomenal for being a fucking useless dinosaur.
Blue MAGA is thought terminating terminology and I will never submit to your fucking bullshit. I didn't when you were screaming "alt-left" and I won't wen you start saying blue-fash. You want the fucking "both sides" argument so hard and it's absolute shit.
Edit:
Also love the fact that "only political DNC insiders votes should count" is in your meme and that's exactly what you want to happen at the convention.
If you've lost your connection to reality, and it seems like you have, I don't know what other term to use for you. And its accurate in the sense that Red MAGA and now, you, with Blue MAGA, are in a cult that has completely detached its self from reality. The only thing guiding your rhetoric is your fear and your feelings. You have nothing to back up your argument for supporting Biden. When confronted with reality, you dismiss it.
Its sad to see whats happened to supposed "leftists".
You are a walking definition of Blue MAGA.
"I don't know why you get up in the morning, you're just gonna die eventually anyway"
Easier just to block some folks.
Yes plug your ears to anyone who disagrees with you
lol you say you were against Biden until 2023? And now you’re this? Congratulations, you stand for absolutely nothing.
I hope Biden wins. And then I want him to go to The Hague. Y’all gotta quit pretending that Biden is the only thing saving your country from fascism. It’s an embarrassment.
You're the embarrassment. Ushering in fascism and pretending you're better than anyone. People dead in the streets you'll sit at home drinking your own piss thinking, "I sure told that guy online once."
Or maybe thats you?
Ok, let's here it. How am I ushering fasicm.
Let me guess:
Im the one letting biden be the dnc candidate? Laughable
No one polling at his levels has won a Federal office, ever. Not once.
Biden can't win. Its just what it is. He's too unpopular with his own party, with likely Democrat voters, with Independents. And that was the case before his disastrous debate performance (and the extended disaster encoure he's offered post-debate). Its just plain, boring as cake fact that this particular candidate is losing the election, severely. Its pretty well established that due to a variety of factors, we need to see a Democrat polling at 8-+ their competition nationally to be break even on election day, and ideally 12+ to be comfortable. Biden was up on Trump 8 going into election day, and barely squeaked by. 40k votes in like 3 counties in swing states made the entire difference. That victory was so tight it made our buttholes squeak.
You can't stop fascism/ Trump/ Project 2025 with Biden as the candidate. The campaigns that are doing internal polling see that. And its not new new's. Biden hasn't been winning this race at any point in his campaign.
You have to make a choice: You can either make your commitment to stopping fascism and Trump and project 2025, or your commitment can be to Joe Biden.
You can't have it both ways because the data is the clearest its literally ever been in American electoral politics: Joe Biden is going to lose this. It doesn't matter if we have to figure out at the convention. It doesn't matter if they want the delegates to decide or want to do another coronation. What matters is that if you refuse to get on the side of replacing Biden, you are conceding this election to DJT and come what may.
Cake is delicious, not boring.
There is no side to get on. Joe Biden has to step down. Then we can talk.
Here's your meme, "take it up with Joe."
Who knew it was the guy online who was passionate about stopping trump that gave "everyone in the swing states" the ick.
Apologies.
Yep, democrats will do anything but appeal to the voters they actually need. Hillary didn't campaign in Michigan and spent a fortune in campaign money in Texas, but they're still blaming her loss on Jill Stein (as if people that would rather vote third party in a swing state would switch to the democrats if only you yelled at them enough).
Biden lost critical swing state Muslims, a swathe of Gen Z and there's probably a bunch of independents that do care about the age issue and also don't see the "great economy" Biden keeps talking about.
Idk how to tell you this. They dont need ledtists nearly as much as they need Obama-Ttump-Biden suburbanites in Wisconsin. Even jf you got a replacement candidate, they'd just be a moderate. Because an actual leftist is probably the only thing that would lose even harder
But if you just shame them harder, or maybe tell them Democracy is even MORE on the line than ever ever, pinky promise (sorry we played this card then we didn't even bother to prosecute the guy who put democracy on the line right before the election and whoopsie it went all fucky wucky and the clock ran out).
There is a culture of trolling and abuse that has been allowed to foment on lemmy where the only acceptable view is effectively a form of diet-facism that comes from within the culture around the DNC, where questioning the decisions and strategies of people who are objectively bad at winning elections is simply disallowed.
This thing's over with Biden as candidate, and BNMW earned the L.
They didnt not prosecute him, sycophantic courts managed to delay until this point, and then scotus granted him immunity. That outcome should've been obvious when an impeachment couldnt even get through