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    I honestly wonder what I’d do if a non-maga candidate replaced trump. Not vote for them, but I might vote for a third party at that point. Unless something changes, it wouldn’t much matter; my voter registration is in a place that is very comfortably red so I’m not going to be able to change that.

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      You can still affect local elections, which arguably will have a greater impact on your day to day life anyway.

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        I live in a similar red area and democrats need to come back here for the local change to happen. More than half of local seats only have a Republican option. There are almost as many Libertarians running as democrats. The democrats gave up on way too many rural areas.

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          I vote for whom I want in the primaries

          Boomer Democrat voters in the 2020 primaries: That’s cute you think you have a voice. We’ve already chosen a geriatric establishment white man.

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        Didn’t you say you were never going to post here again after accusing the mods of being Zionist genocide supporters?

        Just curious.

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            So, did you set a specific date for when you’re going to leave this community like you said you would? Because I know if I thought the mods were…. “Genocide supporting zionists”, I wouldn’t feel comfortable supporting their community with content for any longer than I had to.

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              A community that only gets to see one view of the world is the one that most needs factual correction.

              Why does reddit r/conservative ban anyone that opposes their viewpoints? They want to keep the echo chamber going.

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                So you lied. interesting that lies should come from someone that’s banned for misinformation so often.

                Who’d have thought it could happen.

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          Damn Trump didn’t lie about WMD’s in Iraq killing >1 million people but he’s a convicted sex offender! That’s so much worse!

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            Treason Trump supports War Criminal Putin whose killed many millions in Ukraine. Bush was terrible too but historians rank Convicted Felon and Rapist Treason Trump as the absolute worst for his neofascist attacks on democracy and the rule of law and Treason Trump will still be ranked dead last 50 years from now and 100 years from now.

            How sad is it when being a certified rapist is not even Treason Trump’s worst crime?

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      I was genuinely excited for Obama. I strongly supported him during the primary, was thrilled he won, and was very hopeful when he was elected.

      Quickly disappointed not long after, but at least when he was first being elected it was definitely a “I really like this candidate and am hopeful they’ll live up to their promises.”

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      I think as candidates Clinton, W. Bush, Gore, Obama, McCain had sincere support overshadowing the need to stop some particular bad person instead. As misguided as I think it is, Trump voters also are all about Trump less than stopping Biden. I can’t personally remember a race where “the other side must be stopped” as pretty much the sole consideration among the voters until the Trump era.

      Yes, third party candidates are dismissed in a self fulfilling prophecy, but also that reality drives most reasonable would-be third party candidates to one of the viable parties, generally leaving third party candidates that wouldn’t be that popular anyway.

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        I think as candidates Clinton, W. Bush, Gore, Obama, McCain had sincere support

        Joe Biden was better and more progressive than literally every one of those guys. It’s not Biden’s fault that you haven’t been paying much attention.

        I can’t personally remember a race where “the other side must be stopped” as pretty much the sole consideration among the voters until the Trump era.

        I can’t personally remember a president who has achieved more progress than Joe Biden, and I can remember every president starting with Nixon.

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          Note I didn’t claim the were progressive or that Biden did nothing, I’m saying voter sentiment is basically “not trump” rather than “for Biden”. I’ll accept that Kerry was in a similar position of being the “not W” candidate, but other than that I can’t think of a candidate whose popular support was so much more about “the other guy” than the candidate themselves.

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            WTF? Dude it is not Bidens fault that Convicted Felon and Sex Offender Treason Trump has been ranked as the worst president in history by historians. That means there are lots of “Biden Republicans”. But Dems would be voting for Biden over any Republicrat.

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            You mean the people that Biden got the UN Security Council to pass a cease fire resolution for?

            Arabs are the people who aren’t doing shit for Gaza. How Egypt/Lebanon/Turkey etc aren’t taking in refuges from Gaza and shipping tons of aid in or even offering peacekeepers? Any or all of those countries could have easily done more than Biden but they didn’t lift a finger. Looks like Arabs don’t care anything at all about Palestinians judging by their actions.

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        I can’t personally remember a race where “the other side must be stopped” as pretty much the sole consideration among the voters until the Trump era.

        The Kerry '04 campaign might as well have been “Anyone But Bush”, and it went down in flames as a result. Every time Kerry was pressed on any kind of progressive-ish sounding issue, he ran to the right for fear of spooking the moderate centrist voter. Every time Bush was pressed on his conservative bona fides, he just pointed to 9/11 and said “I kept us safe” and the news media ate that shit up.

        In the end, you had the Strong MAGA Security candidate in Bush and the flaky swish liberal candidate in Kerry. Kerry lost by 3M votes and 35 ECs, dwarfing the Bush/Gore defeat. Then he slunk back to the Senate and triangulated votes with John McCain for the next eight years.

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        If you’re a progressive, Biden has been the most progressive president since Kennedy. Lol.

        If you’re not. Are you willing to have American democracy end, because you personally weren’t courted by the president?

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          If you’re a progressive, Biden has been the most progressive president since Kennedy. Lol.

          Not the flex you think it is

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          Knowing EC, it’s very much the latter. In fact I suspect you should expect to be called a genocide supporter by them. Since you have dared not say something horrible about Biden.

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                Purported positions?

                Fuck, tell me what my positions are, wise and ancient omniscient one.

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                Ahhh gotcha. Yeah I’m new to the site as a reddit exile and still figuring out everything here.

                Yeah, those people are just tiresome, and they have no idea how geopolitics works. It’s annoying, and one of the effects of republicans cutting funding for schools and not teaching civics anymore.

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                  I agree. And welcome to Lemmy 🙂 yesterday was my first anniversary of joining. It’s a very different place from Reddit. But it still has a lot of similar problems unfortunately. However quite a bit more can be done about it. So it’s definitely worth sticking with

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          Biden has been the most progressive president since Kennedy.

          LBJ was more progressive than Biden, and he took office after whom?

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            That’s up for debate. For me, he’s the most liberal since Kennedy but if you think it’s LBJ instead, that’s fine too!

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              Oh, he’s certainly the most liberal since Kennedy. But he’s not progressive except in the slogans of centrists.

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                I think that’s a no true Scotsman kind of thing. Biden has done plenty of progressive policies. He’s forgiven billions in student loan debt (and wanted to forgive more but R courts are political), he’s passed infrastructure, and he’s also passed some bills to keep the cost of medicine down.

                Could he do more? Sure. If voters showed up at the midterms and gave him a D house, he could have done more. But they didn’t.

                Way too often, people let perfect be the enemy of good. Biden is good, not perfect.

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                  Sure. If voters showed up at the midterms and gave him a D house, he could have done more. But they didn’t.

                  If Democrats had used the majorities we gave them during his first two years instead of getting in their own way, this would be a convincing argument.

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                  He’s forgiven billions in student loan debt

                  Using a program signed into law by George W Bush. Does that mean Bush was also a progressive?

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        With no aspirations toward better than “okay”.

        When you take the first step on, say, a hike, do you have no aspirations to take another and another?

        Or would you say… well, this first step is too hard… I’m just gonna lie down and take a nap?

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          Where is all this “incremental progress” you centerists always talk about? Is it in the room with us now?

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            Where is all this “incremental progress” you centerists always talk about? Is it in the room with us now?

            Undoubtedly you have the privilege not to notice it.

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              Billionaires are richer than ever. Housing is more expensive than ever. Food is more expensive than ever. Healthcare is more expensive than ever. Education is more expensive than ever. The planet is hotter than ever.

              Are you referring to the pretty rainbow flags that McDonald’s hangs once a year? Or the BLM posters in the middle of a gated community with all white residents?

              Go on. Tell me about this incremental progress.

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                Go on. Tell me about this incremental progress.

                I can be out and not fear for my life. I can even marry. My partner now only rarely gets “gook” or “chink” yelled at them.

                99.8% of the time when this stuff comes out of folks it’s because they are white and heterosexual and usually male.

                For people secure in their white, hetero-normative privilege it’s understandable that they only care about things that affect them… and there isn’t all that much that affects them directly. But the truth is this is a VERY different world here in the US than when I was growing up. It’s now a world that despite the noise from the MAGA crowd I can exist comfortably and securely as opposed to having to hide in a closet.

                Whenever I have this discussion with folks who aren’t gay or trans or BIPOC, it never occurs to them that there is a difference. Universally it turns out that since they aren’t affected by these huge cultural shifts, they also don’t look at the changes that make life easier for other groups. The simple fact that federal workers now have a $15 minimum wage means that a number of my peers now are not starving working for public lands agencies. That a number of labor laws have been enacted (including recently the non-compete thing) that makes discrimination against protected groups doesn’t affect people like you because you are not typically discriminated against. In some cases the pandemic relief for you folks was just a nice bonus to spend on luxuries, not groceries. The grants for schools didn’t matter because if you have kids they go to nice schools already.

                I’m not going to argue with you - it’s impossible. But please understand that your incredibly narrow view of the world is not shared by those who have experienced this seismic shift over the last 2-3 decades.

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                  Ok. You’re telling me this is incremental progress because what you’ve gained is worth more than everything else that’s gotten worse. Fine. I’ll accept that in the context of this conversation.

                  How much more expensive does housing, education, healthcare and food have to get before we can focus on it? How hot does the planet have to get before we can focus on it?

                  When do we stop focusing on a specific experience someone has because of their race, gender or whatever else because the overall experience of everyone has gotten so bad we need to address it?

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                Billionaires are richer than ever. Housing is more expensive than ever. Food is more expensive than ever. Education is more expensive than ever. The planet is hotter than ever.

                Thanks to everybody who didn’t vote Dem.

                Healthcare is more expensive than ever.

                Not for people who have Obamacare vs before Obamacare.

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          Or would you say… well, this first step is too hard… I’m just gonna lie down and take a nap?

          That’s what the party did with the public option and increasing the minimum wage.

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            That’s what the party did with the public option and increasing the minimum wage.

            So because you didn’t get everything you want you are just gonna stamp your feet, take you ball and go home?

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              Where do centrists keep getting this?

              People to your left are allowed to be dissatisfied even when you get everything you want.

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                Yeah this “you’re throwing a tantrum because you didn’t get everything you wanted” is rich coming from the people who got Joe Biden elected in the 2020 primaries. It’s pure projection on their part. They would throw a tantrum if they didn’t get everything they wanted. The moment progressives start dominating primaries these people will stop showing up to vote in the general election.

                It’s pure ego. They’ve built their personality around being “the good guys” compared to Republicans so when someone comes along and says “we need to do more” it’s a crisis for them. They can’t let anyone accomplish more than they did because it would force them to admit they became complacent.

                Democrat voting Boomers are still Boomers at the end of the day. Selfish pieces of shit.

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                  Yeah this “you’re throwing a tantrum because you didn’t get everything you wanted” is rich coming from the people who got Joe Biden elected in the 2020 primaries.

                  How do you know that? I voted Bernie and I think you’re throwing a tantrum.

                  They would throw a tantrum if they didn’t get everything they wanted.

                  I voted Bernie. Not throwing a tantrum. I’m thrilled that Biden is the most progressive president since LBJ if not FDR.

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                  They would throw a tantrum if they didn’t get everything they wanted.

                  They have. In 2008, Clinton supporters literally formed a PAC to try to get McCain elected because they were so upset that a Black man got the nomination.

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              That’s EXACTLY what they do. Every four years. The Bernie bros did the same thing in 2016, and again in 2020. And these clowns think they’re pulling some new grassroots movement. They have no idea that they’re already considered to be non voters.

              They’re doing nothing. And by that I mean, they’re doing a LOT more nothing than even they think they are. Their little “protest” is completely meaningless.

              Unless their intent is to get trump elected, and for some- this is the case.

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                The Bernie bros did the same thing in 2016, and again in 2020. And these clowns think they’re pulling some new grassroots movement.

                A greater percentage of Sanders supporters voted for Clinton than Clinton supporters voted for Obama. Clinton supporters formed a PAC to get McCain elected.

                They’re doing nothing. And by that I mean, they’re doing a LOT more nothing than even they think they are. Their little “protest” is completely meaningless.

                Since they can be safely ignored, why aren’t you ignoring them?

                Unless their intent is to get trump elected, and for some- this is the case.

                Why do centrists pretend that those to their left are all the way to their right?

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      It’s really not, because a lot of left of center voters just won’t bother to vote for someone they don’t like.

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        Then frankly, they are idiots. Any foolish “protest vote” come November is just helping Trump.

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            We aren’t “protesting” anything. We are safeguarding America’s longstanding core values of democracy and the rule of law.

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                We don’t value democracy and the rule of law because they are “cute”. We value them because countries that don’t have them are a nightmare to live in.

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                  The party that sues to keep 3rd parties off the ballot, is a private corporation that can select their own candidates, and gives voters no choice but their hand selected candidate is the party of democracy?

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          Maybe 2024 is the year people realize you can’t shame voters to the polls. 2016 should’ve been the year that lesson was learned, but alas, here we are.

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            i’m convinced that there are permanent blind spots that all societies have and this is the american blind spot.

            i also wonder if it spells our demise as a society as well.

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          I never said they were rational. I’m saying they matter. Calling them idiots does nothing to keep Trump out of power.

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    and that is why we the people will lose this election as well

    we either stop supporting bad candidates from any party or we get stuck with them

    why the fuck does any want four years of Trump or Biden is wild

    Both are too old and both are set on taking us way back in time

    already lost women’s rights and worker’s rights

    how much do y’all want to lose?

    guess we will see in the next four years what we get to lose next already getting to the point crossing state borders is difficult

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    Thanks Democrats. Hopefully you risking everything to stroke this dudes ego doesn’t give the Republicans control forever. Exact same shit as 2016. I have no choice but to vote for Biden. I wonder whom the democratic party will pick next, probably Mayor Pete, and it’ll then be another vote for Pete to save democracy.

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    Yes. Please do be motivated by stopping Trump!

    And especially don’t be demotivated to go voting because you don’t like the alternative.

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    Im not American but doesnt everyone usually vote to keep the worst out not the best one in?

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      Well, millennials voted for Obama because he genuinely inspired hope. Then we saw how he governed and it killed our entire generation’s sense of hope.

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        Then you saw Biden being a better president than Obama because he was more experienced. Maybe the answer here is to pay more attention to what a politician does than what he says

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          LOL, if that were answer, then Biden would be judged on the anti-drug legislation he spearheaded in '84, '86, and '88 that gave us expanded sentences for possession, civil asset forfeiture, and the racist sentencing disparity between crack and powdered cocaine. He’d also be judged on the 1994 crime bill he co-authored that led to the largest increase in mass incarceration in 40 years. Oh, and let’s not forget the time he teamed up with Robert Byrd, a Senator and Klansman, to pass anti-bussing legislation. Point is, Biden has benefited a lot from people listening to what he says and forgetting what he’s done.

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            Biden has benefited a lot from people listening to what he says and forgetting what he’s done.

            You mean forgetting that Biden has the lowest unemployment rate since the 1960’s? Forgetting that he raised the minimum tax rate on corporations from 0% to 15%? Forgetting that that every few days there is a record stock market high? That nobody could have handled Covid or Ukraine better?

            Biden is the victim of a lot of people forgetting what he’s done.

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              I don’t think you understand my point. You made a comment about how I should judge politicians on their actions, not their words. So I pointed out that Biden’s actions before his election included anti-bussing legislation, several racist drug bills, and the worst expansion of the prison-industrial complex in history. I’m glad you’re happy with Biden’s performance as President, but you clearly ignored a lot of what he did as a Senator and listened to what he said as a presidential candidate (or you really like racist drug policies and mass incarceration).

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                I couldn’t care less what Biden did in the 1970’s. It is ridiculous to call him “racist”, as he was the running mate of the first black president.

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                  Your original comment:

                  Maybe the answer here is to pay more attention to what a politician does than what he says.

                  Your current comment:

                  I couldn’t care less what Biden did in the 1970’s.

                  Maybe the answer here is to not leave condescending replies to other people’s comments if you’re just going to completely contradict yourself and negate your own point.

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      If you have a non proportional system where parties don’t make coalitions, there’s no other choice (unless you live in a region where a specific party always wins with a majority of the votes, then do what you want).

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      Kinda… mostly because the best ones never become candidates. The parties push the candidates that serve the interests of the partys donors then try to convince the voters they actually care.

      Most elections are a choice between two mediocre candidates.

      With the current state of the Republican party, it’s truly about getting more of them out of power. Unless you’re a white Christofascist bootlicker.

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      I used to mainly vote third party as a protest vote for both sides to do better. Didn’t matter the party, really.

      I voted for Obama out of genuinely wanting him in office. I thought he was decent overall but he did disappoint me.

      I voted for Biden purely to keep Trump out of office. Even so, I think Biden has largely been a better President than Obama was, though the Gaza/Israel thing is really testing that. I would love to have a more progressive choice, but any time I am disappointed in Biden, I just remind myself the alternative and I would crawl across a mile of broken glass to vote for him.

      So I would anecdotally say this election is outside the norm.

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        So I would anecdotally say this election is outside the norm.

        I worry that it’s the new baseline.

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        So I would anecdotally say this election is outside the norm.

        as will be the next, and the one after that, as well as all of the ones following; meanwhile you’ll continue crawling over broken glass and giving a pass to ongoing genocides because you believe it’s better than the alternative somehow without realizing there’s one alternative.

        no one knows the right answer, but there are plenty of wrong answers and 2 of those have been placed before and you’re told that you must select one.

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          Told? It’s just math. If you want to change things, you have to either do it from within an existing party or wait for an existing party to implode and then maybe there is an opportunity for change.

          I’m fifty. I spent a lot of fucking elections wasting my vote on third parties, thinking I was sending some kind of message or making things better, but here we are. I wasted every single vote prior to 2008. Would anything be different if I hadn’t? No. Would anything be different if a bunch of people hadn’t? I don’t know. Maybe.

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            as i said before: no one knows the right answer, but there are plenty of wrong answers, we know they’re wrong because we’ve tried them and things don’t get better (and we sometimes try it again with the same results); we’re only allowed to pick from among those wrong answers only.

            trying anything otherwise might also be a wrong answer; but we will never know because there are plenty who will shame you if don’t pick the same wrong answer they do.

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              Fair. Government is hard. There is no such thing as a right answer. Just shit that we find out later didn’t work. I’m not happy with either of the two parties; I don’t really believe in parties anyway. But here we are.

              Fight the good fight, my friend, but just don’t let fascism take us. My grandfather fought against the fascists in WW2, and here I am doing the same (though admittedly with way less personal risk) 80 years later. I don’t like it, but it is what it is.

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        So I would anecdotally say this election is outside the norm.

        If you mean “unique in 240 years of American history” I agree.

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    Only the best current reason. When frump is out of the picture for good we can focus on other things

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      I wish I believed that. There will always be some new threat. There will always be some dire threat keeping us voting for second worst instead of ever expecting better.

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        Biden is not 2nd worst. Out of the 4-5 candidates running Biden is by far the best.

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            You support a regressive Libertarian candidate over the most progressive candidate since FDR. And a Kremlin stooge. And a nutbag billionaire. Got it.

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              the most progressive candidate since FDR

              by what standard?!

              dude literally voted against gay marriage; gays in the military; permanent student loans; advocated against gays in federal service; racial integration; sexual harassment claims; blocked access to non-american social media platform; and blocked americans from affordable electric vehicles.

              was it the one law that passed decades after it was no longer an issue and, not only did nothing, but gave bigots legal protection for their bigotry?

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                dude literally voted against

                Presidents do not vote on anything. I said he was the most progressive PRESIDENT since LBJ/FDR.

                by what standard?!

                Raising taxes on corporations. Wealth inequality is the number 1 problem in the country. Reducing wealth inequality is the biggest thing FDR did. But also: Reducing costs of ACA and Medicare. Increasing access to health care. Lowering prices on drugs thru direct government regulation. Reducing student loans. Action on climate change. Reducing taxes on lower/middle class. That is just some of the obvious stuff.

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        Cant say. Nobody can read the future for good or bad. I just prefer to be optimistic rather than not. All i can say is that the current choices are all there is and, as always, the lesser of two evils is what we have to work with

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    Only reason he won the primary in 2020. Idealists don’t do well against fascists but moderates are inoffensive enough to

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      It’s a dangerous game, as Biden’s not bringing anything to the table on his own. Hillary lost in 2016 with a 10-pt plunge in support, because of the Comey October Surprise. Biden could easily suffer the same fate, if his lackluster supporters get spooked a few weeks before the general election.

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        Biden’s not bringing anything to the table on his own.

        You mean, besides besides being the most progressive president since LBJ?

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          That’s a low bar. LBJ was racist,

          “During his first 20 years in Congress,” Obama said, “he opposed every civil rights bill that came up for a vote, once calling the push for federal legislation a farce and a shame.”

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            LBJ was the president who got the most important civil right bill passed. Biden was the most progressive president since LBJ and FDR.

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                  Logical thought is essentially a process of figuring things out step by step. Think of it like putting together a puzzle where each piece must fit perfectly with the others to form a complete picture. It’s a way of thinking that helps connect ideas in a rational, sensible order. It starts with simple truths, builds on them, and leads to a solid conclusion, just like following a set of directions to get to a particular place. source

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            does repeating this lie help you believe it?

            LMFAO. I believe that Biden was the most progressive president since LBJ because I have been paying attention to politics since Nixon was in office. I can remember the end of the Vietnam War, and the minute details of every administration since. Which particular president do you think was better than Biden?

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              I can remember the end of the Vietnam War

              how do you not remember biden’s anti-gay votes or his anti-gay, anti-me2, pro-studentloandebt, or pro-isreal advocacy; like most boomers do?

              was it because none of that affects you or is it because you’re willfully ignoring the last few decades to make his presidency look better in your eyes?

              or is it simply because trump is so bad that the alternative is automatically good enough?

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                How did you not know that Biden has done way more to nullify student loan debt than every other president?

                How did you not know that Biden got a Gaza cease fire passed by the US security council?

                biden’s anti-gay votes

                The president does not vote against anything. I said Biden is the most progressive PRESIDENT.

                How can you not know that Biden has been more progressive on me2 or lgbtq THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT?

                or is it simply because trump is so bad that the alternative is automatically good enough?

                Well we know that Convicted Sec Offender Treason Trump was ranked worst of all presidents by historians. So a house plant would be better than Treason Trump. But doesn’t change the fact that Biden has been the most progressive president in the last 50 years.

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                  he literally use to brag about getting the bill that created our student loan debt problem passed the senate.

                  also: he’s been in federal politics for over 50 years; but we can only judge him for 3 of them?

                  ysk that cherry picked 3 years has been hit and miss at best.