• themeatbridge
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    427 months ago

    “If I’m talking about electric vehicles and climate change, and then (a student) asks me, ‘What about all the emissions caused by the bombing of Gaza?’ I’m like, well, you know, can’t help you there,”

    Maybe you need a better answer than that?

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      The emissions that would continue or escalate with Trump in office? He’s worse for everyone except rich white industrialists.

      Trump repealed 112 environmental regulations in one term, undoing over a decade’s worth of progress.

      Biden just reenacted gender discrimination law that Obama created and Trump subsequently repealed.

      SCOTUS repealed Affirmative Action, overturned Roe vs. Wade, and left protest law up to the states due to the heavily conservative appointments made by Trump.

      Trump’s tax cuts expired for the low and middle classes in 2022, but the larger tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations continue through 2024. Biden’s tax proposal begins in 2025, with cuts for the low and middle class, and heavily increased taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

      Russia will succeed in their invasion of Ukraine if the US fails to provide support, which is Trump’s position.

      Trump also said the Israel’s biggest problem is recording their atrocities, and they should just finish what they started in Gaza.

      I could go all day, but you get the point. Abstain or vote third-party if you’re looking to invite this back into the White House.

      • themeatbridge
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        87 months ago

        Agreed, any of those are better answers than, “Welp, ya got me there.”

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            147 months ago

            Well that’s the most frustrating part of the campaign. Biden is making all of the same mistakes Hillary did when it comes to motivating the base and young people. It’s like watching your grandma try to check her email. What should be a simple thing turns into an exercise in patience, but if you try to help, she gets belligerent and acts like you can’t possibly know anything she doesn’t.

            Biden is bad at articulating his message. That trickles down to his volunteers. There’s never been a more important election in our lifetimes, and Biden is making unforced errors.

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      It’s such a dumb simplification and false question, what’s he supposed to do? Pull out charts demonstrating that unchecked hamas bombimg canmpaigns against Isreal would be less carbon friendly?

      What the person is saying is I don’t care about the environment or any other issue so I’m going to disrupt you talking about anything else

      I’d love to see them locked in a room with the just stop oil protestors that pour oil on the road trying to cause accidents - battle of the delusional egomaniac single issue voters.

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        17 months ago

        How about "We’re not going to agree on every issue, or support everything that Biden does, because this isn’t a cult. Biden is imperfect, and we need to speak loud so that he hears our concerns. But it won’t matter at all if Biden loses the election. He won’t be able to do anything about anything if Trump wins, and you can be damn sure that everything you care about will be worse if that happens.

        So yes, we are all of us concerned about what Israel is doing in Gaza. And we are concerned about climate change. And we are concerned about equal rights, the rule of law, foreign interference, immigration, the economy, water, food, energy, and housing, and a vote for anyone but Biden is a vote for catastrophe."