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Just two months ago, Biden said that the invasion of Rafah is a “red line” Israel must not cross.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/96pmD

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[–] Hildegarde 44 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Banning young people's favorite app and then doubling down on the genocide is not the sort of strategy that wins elections.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I guess the Zionist crowd is more important to him than most young people, then. What a shame.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If genocide Joe loses it's his fault

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

seems like he's been actively trying to lose the election for months

[–] Fosheze 2 points 6 months ago

It's like he's old and wants to retire but if he tries to leave on his own the DNC is going to kill his dog.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So you are ready to vote for his competition?

[–] Hildegarde -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes! I have voted third party and intend on continuing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A vote for third-party looks like a vote for anti-vax alien conspiracies, but is really a vote for Trump. Take a bow: you sure showed them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Mooooooommmmmm, the liberals and libertarians are fighting again!

[–] Hildegarde 1 points 6 months ago

ur dumb

a vote for a third party is a vote for a third party. They count the votes for the person who you voted for. That's literally how voting works. Read a book.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Dear "journalists", if your headline contains the word "slams", I just assume it's a poorly written article and I don't read it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Slams them with the door until they're dead

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In this case, it's more literal than figurative. Cops did slam people to the ground, both students and elderly professors alike.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes but the title claims Biden slammed them.

...I'd love to see him try, honestly.

[–] fuzz00713 2 points 6 months ago

I think we could get good pay per view numbers on that.

We bill it as "Octogenarians in the Octagon".

[–] mydude 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Final phase, now where have I heard something similar?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

That was intentional, I'll bet.

[–] STOMPYI 7 points 6 months ago

I'm voting for the wizard

[–] TropicalDingdong 0 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Man I fucking hate to have to do this to all the Biden apologists on lemmy who let it get this far, but we told you so.

Thanks. You've handed the election to trump.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

All you powerless people on the internet; this is your fault.

This is what idiots actually believe.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Amen brother.

All the way through I have been saying "we need to hold Biden's heels to the fire, not be sending the message that his fascist tactics are working."

"BuT tRuMp!!!"

Now Trump wins because liberals are disenfranchised and what's worse, I predict that will only drive the DNC deeper into fascism.

They rigged Bernie out, and doubled down on the fascism then.

This cycle, there isnt even a viable candidate that they are suppressing, and they are tripling down on the fascism.

Biden has already lost, and Progressives are more likely to team up with him (Edit: By him, I meant Trump, not Biden. They have become the same Party with a little bit but not much disagreement over abortion) than to resist him.

America really is fucked right now...

[–] TropicalDingdong 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Yeah I don't know what we do.

I want Bernie to run third party. I don't think Biden can win.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We have to fight fascism non electorally. Protests, etc. Don't let them win!

[–] TropicalDingdong 3 points 6 months ago

by tooth and claw

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Split the vote and lose the country. You need to be okay with this.

[–] TropicalDingdong 2 points 6 months ago

Thats a fallacy based on the assumption Biden can be elected. If Biden can't win, then literally any other vote is a better, more strategic option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The people who hand this election to Trump will do so at the polling booth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Bullshit. Don't blame voters for Biden risking handing the forever keys to the country to the fucking Nazis just to protect a genocide. Some people have actual principles and if one of those principles is to not vote for a guy that arms and funds a genocide, don't you fucking dare blaming them. This is on Biden and his handlers thinking it was a jolly fine strategy trying to manufacture enough consent for a genocide among Democrats and Independents to win an election. The obvious weak link is that genocide is a bit of a hard sell to non fascists, in case you didn't realize.

Many democrats and independents will still do their duty and vote for Biden, but many simply can't or won't vote for a pro genocide politician even if the alternative is so much worse. Some things simply can't stand and consequences be damned, you know? Conservatives feel that shit over stuff like trans people needing to use the bathroom and naughty books, but genocide is one of those things that can make even a Democrat put their foot down. I mean, who could have figured the woke brigade was against genocide? Camp Biden surely didn't.

To summarize, Biden shot a big gaping hole in his own foot and you are blaming the voters for his almost inevitable loss in the upcoming foot race? Is that about right? I can almost see him aiming at the other foot right now, thinking more speed holes will give him an edge.