Perfect time to teach Biden a lesson by not voting for him -- or so I've been told by those with too much privilege and not enough brainpower.
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I'm voting for Biden to stave off Jerry Lewis Hitler, as I did last cycle and Clinton before.
That said, a lot of Biden enthusiasts need to stop with the "you also need to say you like him and his politics" crap.
No one should feel enthused about always getting wildly varying degrees of bad as the only choice, merely afraid. At this point we're voting whether to keep the water pumps on as Titanic sinks to buy a little time instead of declaring the water at our waist "fake."
Vote to keep the pumps on, sure, but it helps nothing to pretend our rigged capitalist hellscape, that neoliberals and fascists alike declare as "the only way," isn't eating the itself and us and defended by both parties far above the people (we will take every measure to protect our beloved ~~society~~ economy! Here Fed, I'm sure you'll ensure these relief funds trickle down after private shareholders get plenty of relief, of course), while it continues wrecking the planet for a few more short term cash grabs before the owners fly off to their prepared havens, con complete. Nox.
A vote for Biden is a vote for us to not add state sponsored scapegoating, persecution, and ending bodily autonomy to our doom in motion like a cherry. Yes let's do that(edit: meaning vote for Biden if unclear)...
...but don't delude yourself into believing it's any kind of salvation.
...but don't delude yourself into believing it's any kind of salvation
Why, are there very many evangelical democrats that need reminding?
I just want a functional fucking government
Functional government
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That said, a lot of Biden enthusiasts need to stop with the “you also need to say you like him and his politics” crap.
That's certainly not a significantly pervasive mindset -- at least not around here. The general sentiment is "hold your nose and vote for him anyways".
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They're all over the fucking place here. It's wild. They're almost for certain foreign cointelpro.
I do think theyre making perfect be the enemy of, well not exactly good, but in this case the better option, but Im not so sure theyre foreign ops. If you were running a campaign like that, wouldnt you want to concentrate your messaging on the places where the greatest number of people would be to see it, or at least a lot of people? Lemmy is certainly not immune to influence campaigns, Id bet it might even be more vulnerable than most given the lack of central control that might try to inhibit one, but its also currently incredibly small and obscure as far as social networks go. Would it really be considered worth the resources, to such a campaign, in its current state?
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Keep in mind though, that there’s a LOT of bad-faith propaganda-shilling accounts right here on lemmy desperately trying to convince you that both sides are equally as bad and not to vote this year.
Best advice is to report and block them when they share their misinformation and don’t fall for it.
I’m sure we all know who I’m talking about.
Yep. I've had multiple people suggest that Biden would be just as bad when it came to the rights of queer people. The sad thing is, some people get convinced by that.
Some people really will believe anything about someone they don’t like. Like I’m not a Biden fan, but he has been solidly ok for a US President
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I keep telling people- the queer genocide that has already begun with Republican restrictions on trans rights and medical care is going to ramp way up and encompass queer people as a whole. Including my daughter.
And yet I keep being told I'm excusing genocide by voting for Biden in order to stop Trump from killing her.
And yet I keep being told I'm excusing genocide by voting for Biden in order to stop Trump from killing her.
Lucky. I'm being told that I'm endorsing it for the same reason.
The thing I love is that I ask them- name me a candidate that has a significant chance of beating Trump who isn't Joe Biden.
Obviously, they can't. But they try very hard to avoid that.
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Between Trump installing 3 Supreme Court Justices, having his SC cronies overturn and I quote "SETTLED LAW" on Roe V. Wade and PP V. Casey, giving Putin access to one or plural NOC lists, withholding military aid to Ukraine because he knew that Putin was going to launch a full scale invasion, divulging classified info to Russian diplomats in the White House, asking Russian hackers to hack Hilary's campaign, are the American people angry yet?
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I hate being right sometimes. Pretty soon interracial marriage will somehow be a topic again.
Trump is already talking about how American bloodlines are getting too muddy. It's already here, they just haven't said the quiet part out loud yet.
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Convservatives never not plan to ban abortion. The time of year does not matter.
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If any state decides to do this, then it deserves to suffer a brain drain of LBGTQ people and allies who will gladly take their immeasurable skills and talents elsewhere. In short, doing something like this is a good way to ensure the death of one’s state.
However, the “I am moving to another state” or whatever tactic is shortsighted, and not everyone can afford it. The better tactic is to organize political action, protest and VOTE Democrat. The only political party in any meaningful position to favor LGBT+ rights is the Democrats.
Moving to another state is more than just affordability anyway. People shouldn't have to give up their homes and everything they've known. So many states with far right legislatures have a gerrymandered to hell population that's 45% very liberal. Half of the population is just being completely disregarded and considered subhuman.
I'm in a red state; so far my healthcare has been denied and the new censorship laws targeting education are making me realize I need to flee if at all possible. It will take a lot of time, money, and effort to move, but the writing is on the wall.
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Yeah but why do WE always have to move far away. Expensive, tons of bother , and news flash, we’re not all super geniuses, some of us are just fry cooks. Queer janitors deserve freedom from the shitstains of humanity too
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That's their plan. They want to cement minority rule by consolidating Democrats into fewer states so they will always win the electoral college. Only having hateful idiots in their state is a pro for them, not a con. It gives them more power.
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Conservatives Plan to Ban Abortion and Cut LGBT Rights
There's a problem with this headline.
If they f**k with long-established law like this, they're not "conservatives".
Conservative doesn't mean they don't want to change things, that's an intentional misconception. Its obvious if you see how much settled precedent they are willing to overturn. Conservatives just believe they deserve power, they think they have the divine right to rule over others and that other people do not have that right.
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These P25 people are just so...hateful. Carrying all that hate seems like it would not be fun.
I remember when republicans were about less government. Pepperidge farms remembers….
I don't think they ever truly were. They've always supported the expansion of the military and police, having shit loads of foreign military bases, controlling women, controlling the LGBTQ+. The only way they could ever be considered to be wanting less government is in the form of their laissez-faire, pro-privitization economic policy, which just lets corporations do whatever the hell they like. So all it is, is trading one form of control to another. Instead of government controlling things, corporations control everything.
The GOP platform is, and always has been anti-freedom.
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If he would only just extend his fingers when he gestured like that. Then it would be a lot clearer to more people what a nasty thing he is.
It wouldn't change a single thing, I'm pretty sure
Its 2016 all over again.
Every effort to drag the Democratic party over to any kind of popular position is getting labeled as a betrayal. Every effort to oppose Republicans at the state and local level is denounced as uncivil. And as soon as the dust settles in November, the national media will fall in love with the winner, and grow increasingly irate at anyone critical of this abysmally unpopular tumor of a Presidency.
starting next january
¿????? Thsi started like, 10 years ago!
More like 50. They wrote their playbook in the 1970s, and have finally started seeing the fruits of their labor. If we can shut them down hard in this election, and the midterms, and the next election, the GOP may finally die. That doesn't mean these people will stop trying to take control. They brainwash their kids into being true believers. This isn't politics to them, it's a holy war.
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