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[–] [email protected] 98 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This phrasing is so weaselly you baited me into fact-checking it. Congratulations!

on track to

meaning it's crediting Biden with things that haven't happened yet? I didn't investigate how many future acres he needs to make this meme true.

more land ... first-term persident

The Pacific Remote Islands are much larger, but mostly water. Created by Dubya, expanded by Obama, both times in their respective second terms.

modern

Personally, I'd have counted Carter as modern. His Alaska Conservation Act weighed in at 157 million acres. I think that one got Congressional approval too, so maybe they're only counting land protected by executive fiat.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

I appreciate this

[–] blazera 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bidens protected acres havent even lasted past his first term. Millions of acres of previously protected land got put for sale exclusively for oil and gas extraction.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

So this post is green washing.

[–] BigDiction 24 points 7 months ago (17 children)
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[–] zakobjoa 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

What's with the Biden stanning, Jesus.

[–] someguy3 18 points 7 months ago

Pointing out the things he does in a sea of "he's not doing anything" is apparently very necessary.

[–] PugJesus 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Sorry that some of us don't want to live under a fascist regime?

Or do you prefer "Sorry that some of us are willing to recognize when the current administration does something right, especially when 99% of the useful idiots swarming every post are some variant of 'Not Trump isn't enough, what has the Biden administration actually DONE for us?'"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not wanting trump doesn't mean everyone needs to praise Biden for something that you have to add 10 qualifiers to, to make it seem like it is impressive. Nor do they have to like Biden or his policies. Also, false dilemma?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

While more land is protected, he's still approved roughly the same number of drilling permits, and the US is now producing more oil than any country in history, despite promises to stop drilling on federal land.

[–] spongebue 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

the US is now producing more oil than any country in history, despite promises to stop drilling on federal land

Those two things (as you state them) are not necessarily mutually exclusive if oil production happens in places other than federal lands.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Right but it is happening on federal lands.

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[–] Xeroxchasechase 9 points 7 months ago (8 children)

All these "Biden is not perfect enough" comments everywhere on lemmy are quite disappointing. Start to sound like propaganda.

No one, surly not a politician, can be good enough in the eyes of purists. (And the conclusion is obvious of course)

[–] IzzyScissor 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

D- do you think this meme isn't propaganda?

We're allowed to call out BS in our politicians when we see it, even the ones we voted for and plan of voting for again.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (8 children)

No one is claiming that they are upset because he isn't perfect. Writing a blank check for Israel to kill tens of thousands of civilians is an act that most Democrats aren't happy about.

He is acting in ways that his constituents dislike, the way they show their contempt is by criticizing his actions. What about that is propaganda?

It doesn't take a purist to understand that enabling a right winged government to partake in an ethnic cleansing isn't exactly progressive policy.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Bro really called purists people who are not ok with the biggest humanitarian crisis of the 21st century.

Not to mention how he hasn't fixed any internal problems, he just didn't make things a lot worse, which is a pretty low bar to begin with.

Like in this case, we are fucking light years away from anything even remotely close to saving the environment and reversing the damage we have done, yet we have to applaud this party for not making things even worse? Like, have you seen what environmental scientists say about the situation we are in?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (6 children)

It’s not exactly Biden’s fault that he’s being propped up and foisted upon us by the establishment, but they really picked a poor candidate for an election that is supposedly the most important one of our lives. Almost like the DNC doesn’t mind losing.

Consider AZ, where a dem senate candidate is up in polling, and Biden is down by like 12 points. For that matter, polls show him losing in every swing state, which is where it matters due to electoral college bs. Or just the fact that he is now frequently confusing things he did as vice president with things he’s done as president, while publicly speaking. He even still gets confused about his son dying in war, which didn’t happen…Beau died at home from a brain aneurysm.

For the good of the nation, we need a few more degrees of separation between “good enough,” and one foot in the grave.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

There's definitely a concerted effort to discourage people from voting against Trump by focusing on anything not-perfect about Biden, yeah. I mean, they know they can't get these people to vote for Trump, that'd be too much for them, but if they can get enough people not to vote against him, then they can tilt things in his favor. And they know that progressives have always been a little bit inclined toward giving up in frustration whenever something isn't as good as it should be.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Anyone got extra context on this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

wont stop me from doing it myself.

Fuck your precious metals, land is even better.

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