This phrasing is so weaselly you baited me into fact-checking it. Congratulations!
on track to
meaning it's crediting Biden with things that haven't happened yet? I didn't investigate how many future acres he needs to make this meme true.
more land ... first-term persident
The Pacific Remote Islands are much larger, but mostly water. Created by Dubya, expanded by Obama, both times in their respective second terms.
modern
Personally, I'd have counted Carter as modern. His Alaska Conservation Act weighed in at 157 million acres. I think that one got Congressional approval too, so maybe they're only counting land protected by executive fiat.
I appreciate this
Bidens protected acres havent even lasted past his first term. Millions of acres of previously protected land got put for sale exclusively for oil and gas extraction.
So this post is green washing.
This is barely a meme.
The news are cool but this community recently seems just liberal (the us version) propaganda. Actually Im seeing this in every big political community recently, must be the election.
I don't know if these posts just stick out more but I feel like most posts I see on Political Memes is PugJesus cheerleading the democratic party. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they were on their payroll.
I was gonna make a contrasting post lauding the amount of airable land withheld from corporations under Trump's administration. I went straight into research.
Guess who didn't do much saving of land?
What's with the Biden stanning, Jesus.
Pointing out the things he does in a sea of "he's not doing anything" is apparently very necessary.
Sorry that some of us don't want to live under a fascist regime?
Or do you prefer "Sorry that some of us are willing to recognize when the current administration does something right, especially when 99% of the useful idiots swarming every post are some variant of 'Not Trump isn't enough, what has the Biden administration actually DONE for us?'"
I think it's paid posting Either feds or Israeli hasbara
While more land is protected, he's still approved roughly the same number of drilling permits, and the US is now producing more oil than any country in history, despite promises to stop drilling on federal land.
the US is now producing more oil than any country in history, despite promises to stop drilling on federal land
Those two things (as you state them) are not necessarily mutually exclusive if oil production happens in places other than federal lands.
All these "Biden is not perfect enough" comments everywhere on lemmy are quite disappointing. Start to sound like propaganda.
No one, surly not a politician, can be good enough in the eyes of purists. (And the conclusion is obvious of course)
D- do you think this meme isn't propaganda?
We're allowed to call out BS in our politicians when we see it, even the ones we voted for and plan of voting for again.
Of course this meme is a propaganda, but all these comments are all over lemmy even on serious communities. Sorry, it was a rant generally on lemmy.
No one is claiming that they are upset because he isn't perfect. Writing a blank check for Israel to kill tens of thousands of civilians is an act that most Democrats aren't happy about.
He is acting in ways that his constituents dislike, the way they show their contempt is by criticizing his actions. What about that is propaganda?
It doesn't take a purist to understand that enabling a right winged government to partake in an ethnic cleansing isn't exactly progressive policy.
Writing a blank check for Israel to kill tens of thousands of civilians is an act that most Democrats aren’t happy about.
Okay, but it literally is. Most Democrats remain in favor of either the current course taken by Biden, or increasing support to Israel.
For the record, while I'm happy support of Israel has decreased, it's not the simple electoral calculus many leftists on Lemmy seem to think it is. I would love it if the US electorate, or even just the Dem base, was strongly against the genocide. But by and large, we on here, who actually follow foreign affairs, are in the minority.
Bro really called purists people who are not ok with the biggest humanitarian crisis of the 21st century.
Not to mention how he hasn't fixed any internal problems, he just didn't make things a lot worse, which is a pretty low bar to begin with.
Like in this case, we are fucking light years away from anything even remotely close to saving the environment and reversing the damage we have done, yet we have to applaud this party for not making things even worse? Like, have you seen what environmental scientists say about the situation we are in?
Gaza is not even the biggest crisis of the last 2 years. An order of magnitude more people died in the Tigray genocide and there was nary a peep from any of you back then.
Not to mention number of COVID deaths.
It’s not exactly Biden’s fault that he’s being propped up and foisted upon us by the establishment, but they really picked a poor candidate for an election that is supposedly the most important one of our lives. Almost like the DNC doesn’t mind losing.
Consider AZ, where a dem senate candidate is up in polling, and Biden is down by like 12 points. For that matter, polls show him losing in every swing state, which is where it matters due to electoral college bs. Or just the fact that he is now frequently confusing things he did as vice president with things he’s done as president, while publicly speaking. He even still gets confused about his son dying in war, which didn’t happen…Beau died at home from a brain aneurysm.
For the good of the nation, we need a few more degrees of separation between “good enough,” and one foot in the grave.
There's definitely a concerted effort to discourage people from voting against Trump by focusing on anything not-perfect about Biden, yeah. I mean, they know they can't get these people to vote for Trump, that'd be too much for them, but if they can get enough people not to vote against him, then they can tilt things in his favor. And they know that progressives have always been a little bit inclined toward giving up in frustration whenever something isn't as good as it should be.
Anyone got extra context on this?
wont stop me from doing it myself.
Fuck your precious metals, land is even better.
must have something to do with that carbon tax thing. Basically you can credit money to your country if you have assets that reduce carbon dioxide, making it incentivizing to keep forrests.
"Protected more" is a meaningless metric. The threat of destruction is not eliminated with a one-time response, but they're acting like it is.
I could get the same results by saying "I hereby threaten the entire planet with destruction unless I get a soda in the next few minutes."
"Oh, I got one? I guess that means I saved the planet."
I'm not sure if you're conflating Biden with the totality of human civilization here, or just not understanding what protecting public land means in the context of US government action.
No no, I get that US corporations ask for public land for privatized gains all the time, and keep increasing how much they ask for when they get it. The number of requests keeps going up, so the number of refusals going up isn't shocking.
Did you realize that almost 11 million acres of the 12.8 million of 'conservation' were simply rollbacks from the Trump era to the Obama era? He had 2 years to so that, but waited until 2023. Edit:Source
My point is that it's a single metric and out of context does not actually tell you why they were threatened to begin with. I.E. maintaining the status quo does not warrant a medal. Still voting for him.
<cough> willow project. <cough>
Trusting Biden on climate…. Is a two edged sword that cuts you twice. Like those cheap razors with extra blades…
Except Biden actually could protect a lot less. Your planetary threat is just a delusion.
Sorry, let me try again:
"I'm a big greedy oil company and I want 10% of your public land." "Ok. Here you go!" Meme: Biden gives oil company everything they want!
That would look bad, so instead we get:
"I'm a big greedy oil company and I want ALL of your public land." "What!? No. You can only have 10%." Meme: Biden saves 90% of public land!
But in this case it's closer to:
"I'm a big greedy oil company and I want ALL of your public land." Trump: "I'll see what we can do." ~4 years later~ Biden: "Hey, can we cancel that?" Meme: Biden set to be greatest conservationist president in history, possibly time itself
You can skew stories dramatically when you focus on one detail.
You're better off not voting. Then nobody wins and we can have an anarchist society
You’re better off not voting. Then nobody wins
This is what happens when you remove civics as requirement for graduation.
