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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

They want so badly for Joe to have no responsibility because it makes their vote easier. If you're gonna vote for a financier of genocide and veto-er of ceasefire, you have to own that. Idc if the other guy is worse that doesn't make Joe innocent, just recoginze that you're also voting for a monster. Just this monster is smart enough to hurt most the people who can't vote him in or out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like it's telling that when you offer up any criticism of Biden, the main reply you get is "sO yOU'd rathEr HAvE tRuMP?!!?"

Well, no. But honestly if the best thing they can say about their guy is that he's better than a blatant fascist then that's pretty damning.

Also if they won't tolerate any criticism because he's a marginal improvement on the worst possible guy, then what they're saying is that they'll allow him to slide all the way down to being about as bad as Trump before they'll do anything about it, and if they'd do that, then they wouldn't do anything about it when he did get there, because the bad guy would be even worse by that point. They are enabling a rightward slide.

Honestly I see elections as voting for your preferred enemy. They are never on our side. How about this, we agree that he's better than Trump and that any reasonable person is forced to vote for him, and then we criticise him because we want better than neoliberal austerity and genocide apologia?

If their answer is no then they don't actually want the world to get better, just not change too much, which is basically the platonic ideal of what they call conservatism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Honestly I see elections as voting for your preferred enemy. They are never on our side. How about this, we agree that he’s better than Trump and that any reasonable person is forced to vote for him, and then we criticise him because we want better than neoliberal austerity and genocide apologia?

You get no argument from me.

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