• Monkey With A Shell
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    456 months ago

    It’s all just right wing propaganda, convince the population ‘Biden is bad, take your ball and go home’ and you suppress the vote. They can’t institute poll taxes or tests any more, and with vote by mail becoming commonplace they can’t rely on showing up at polling places with guns to suppress turnout.

    When more people vote the left wins, and that’s what the right are afraid of, thus the persistent drumbeat of ‘stay home if he’s not good enough’.

    • Sybil
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      166 months ago

      biden isn’t on the left, so whether he wins or trump, the left does not win.

      • TurboWafflz
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        This is true, but trump is far further to the right than biden. I’ll take losing less over losing more any day even if we can’t have an actually left leaning candidate

        • Sybil
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          46 months ago

          I expect to have more options on my ballot

          • Monkey With A Shell
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            156 months ago

            I’d love to see a ranked choice multi party system, but as things stand that’s not the option we have.

            • Sybil
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              46 months ago

              I won’t vote for genocide, regardless of the system

                • @[email protected]OP
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                  You have aided it by voting for Biden in the 2020 primaries and by refusing to hold him accountable during his term to the people who gave him a chance.

            • @[email protected]
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              36 months ago

              I’m sure that voting for a candidate from one of the two dominant parties will lead to ranked choice voting.

          • @[email protected]OP
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            46 months ago

            Hell I’d settle for centerists making material compromises with the left but the mere suggestion that they do so makes them seethe. They’d rather lose to MAGA.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      66 months ago

      It’s crazy a comment like this gets so many upvotes when

      1. Thousands of registered democrats have voted “uncommitted” in primaries around the country. Most notably Michigan.
      2. People are clearly worried about Biden’s chances in 2024 despite his win in 2020. Which means somebody who voted for Biden in 2020 won’t in 2024.

      If you shut every one of these conversations down with baseless accusations that 20/20 hindsight is gonna be super awkward when someone asked “Who could have seen this coming??”

      • Monkey With A Shell
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        66 months ago

        Concerned, yes, and made all the more so when there are a sizable number of people willing to throw a vote out to make a point because he’s not flawless and instead let the wolves in while they pretend that their hands are clean.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          46 months ago

          he’s not flawless

          You mean he goes around congress to ship weapons to fuel a genocide. Speak plainly.

      • @[email protected]
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        36 months ago

        Wtf does this have to do with anything about the comment you’re replying to?

        If you shut every one of these conversations down with baseless accusations that 20/20 hindsight is gonna be super awkward when someone asked “Who could have seen this coming??”

        There will be no questions about what happened in that case. It will be because of YOU and people like you posting this shit

        • @[email protected]OP
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          36 months ago

          It will be because of YOU and people like you posting this shit

          You’re telling me you believe voters need to cater to politicians? It’s Biden’s responsibility to represent the people he needs to get elected. His failure to do that is is own. What don’t you understand about democracy?

  • PugJesus
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    366 months ago

    Yeah, every day I see these memes they get more pathetic.

  • @[email protected]
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    166 months ago

    That’s what I don’t understand.

    Biden is wildly unpopular for more reasons than he can fix before the election.

    If beating trump is all that matters, why the fuck are we running Joe Biden against him?

    The party learned nothing from Hillary. Or they’d rather have trump than someone who agrees with voters.

    • PugJesus
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      286 months ago

      If beating trump is all that matters, why the fuck are we running Joe Biden against him?

      Okay.

      Name who is running for the Dem nomination who will perform better than Joe Biden.

      Go.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        126 months ago

        It’s not our job to come up with a solution to a problem created by moderate and liberal voters, the DNC, establishment Democrats and Joe Biden himself. We had solid people running in the 2020 primaries. The people who voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 are responsible for figuring a way out of this mess. Not us.

        • PugJesus
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          276 months ago

          It’s not our job to come up with a solution to a problem

          Yeah, that’s about the response I expected.

          • @[email protected]OP
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            86 months ago

            Moderates and liberals are free to come up with a solution. They are the majority of the voters after all. What’s their solution?

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              Moderates and liberals are free to come up with a solution. They are the majority of the voters after all. What’s their solution?

              “Vote for Joe Biden considering that he’s the best actual candidate running”?

              I dunno man, maybe we just don’t think “Surrender to fascism because we want to teach the DNC A Lesson™ like we TOTALLY did in 2016, 2004, and 2000” is a viable option. Guess we’re just not left-wing enough to understand that making sure fascism wins is the REAL left-wing praxis. /s

              • @[email protected]OP
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                66 months ago

                “Vote for Joe Biden considering that he’s the best actual candidate running”

                We did. In 2020. And then Biden proceeded to cater exclusively to moderate and liberals and left progressives and leftists out in the cold. In other words, the only solution moderates and liberals have put forward is “Give us everything, shut the fuck up and vote for who we tell you to.”

                Respectfully, we reject giving that “solution” a second try. What else have they got?

                • PugJesus
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                  166 months ago

                  We did. In 2020. And then Biden proceeded to cater exclusively to moderate and liberals and left progressives and leftists out in the cold.

                  Fucking lmao.

                  Respectfully, we reject giving that “solution” a second try.

                  Yeah, we get it, you crave fascism, you can stop shouting it from the rooftops.

              • rutellthesinful
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                46 months ago

                “well if you can’t think of a solution, then ‘full speed towards the ravine’ is clearly the logical choice”

              • Sybil
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                36 months ago

                “Vote for Joe Biden considering that he’s the best actual candidate running”?

                i much prefer cornel west or jill stein

      • AlwaysNowNeverNotMe
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        66 months ago

        Running for the nomination is a good way to be exiled from the party.

        Not that Democrat primaries are very democratic. They just run 5 slightly less progressive candidates that all agree the popular progressive can’t win who all drop out at the 11th hour.

      • @TheKMAP
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        26 months ago

        As if any party would ever primary their sitting president.

        Is it too late to still be wondering what a Bernie administration would have accomplished?

    • @[email protected]
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      66 months ago

      “the party learned nothing from Hilary” I think they learned a few things, even if not as much as we’d like. They did turn down the power superdelegates have in primaries, for example. Moving in the right direction, even a little, is more than “nothing”.