• jabjoe@feddit.uk
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    8 months ago

    You honestly think the choice isn’t Biden or Trump? (If nothing unexpected happens)

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      8 months ago

      The choice is much bigger than electing Biden or Trump, yes. If you don’t want more Trump policy in the future, then Biden doing well in the election is counter to your interests. Pretending that there are only two outcomes - even that there is only one “Biden wins” outcome and one “Trump wins” outcome - is very much reductionist, to the point that no political analyst would take you seriously.

      Biden’s record oil-drilling, draconian immigration policies, climate inaction, sacrificing the poor for the rich with the economic policies - if he commands a strong lead, it only shows that Trump-like policy is acceptable as long as a Trump-like character isn’t behind it. If you oppose MAGA policy then it is in your interests to decouple from the Democratic machine. It is in your interests to sink the victim-blaming narrative that Democrats lose elections because Democrats don’t vote, so that the reality that the Democratic platform has no unique appeal (other than nominally not being Republican) can be exposed.

      Or you can take the easy way out and believe in a reductionist view of the world that consoles your ego at the cost of supporting the killers and giving up your own agency. But you can’t expect everyone to be able to live with being a sellout.

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        8 months ago

        Yer, if lots of you think like that, philosophically not tactically, we all get Trump. Men like him you only normally get to vote on once, then it’s a life term they take. You managed to escape that the first time, the insurrection failed. Second time, he’ll try harder.

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          8 months ago

          Yes - but what do Americans do about Biden? If you don’t have a solution to both parts of the problem, then you don’t have a solution at all.

          If Biden is good enough then the genocide, the extraction, the climate collapse, the K-shaped recovery, it all continues just the same. Innocent people will continue to suffer and die just the same.

          Your scope is too limited. Relying on good tactics makes for bad strategy.

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              8 months ago

              You’re not even trying anymore, lol.

              You say you care about people dying, but you only demonstrate concern about your excuses for justifying those deaths.

              It’s like the epitome of virtue signalling - I really think you’ve set a new bar here!

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                8 months ago

                Yer, was thinking of calling it to. I tried. Hope you guys don’t end to with Trump, for all our sake.

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              8 months ago

              Oh shut up and stand in front of your man’s drones if all you’ve got is redditor platitudes to try and cudgel out support for your genocider.