If you think two party system suck, just don’t hope for a multiparty system. Those suck even more. You never know which idiot will end up building a coalition and coming to power.
Everyone has to either eat poop or glass. It's going to suck either way but one way is going to significantly suck more than the other. Guess what? There's a vote tomorrow and if you don't vote then you might have to eat the worst one. Do you just not vote and prove a point to your non-existent audience or vote for the lesser of two evils?
Because bipartisan is about voting for the lesser evil to ruin your life. Being complacent just relinquishes to an assurance it will be the shittiest because the bigger voting population are looking for the easiest way to fuck you up. Voting is that easy way for them. They don’t even care that they will be fucked over by it too. They just can’t stand someone out there will have sex with someone they did not approve of and apparently this is more important to them than accessible healthcare or slowing climate change.
I think Biden is generally doing ok. He's obviously not exciting or inspiring and he's probably not handling the Israel/Palestine situation very well (though that whole situation is pretty fucked regardless and I'm not picking sides), but he's getting a decent amount of stuff done. I wish we had a better democratic candidate and I wish there was a republican candidate who wasn't a complete nut job. I also wish there were more than 2 viable parties and we had ranked choice voting, but here we are.
If there was a better option than "guy who weakly calls for a ceasefire" I'd love to hear it. The only other viable side is all but verbally calling for a total genocide of Palestinians in Gaza if not beyond
Eat shit Russia we all see you. Go drown in a puddle 🖕
A dog is better than Trump, better than Putin.
If you can't see that, then you are an enemy of life, and many including this one.
I fight fascists every day.
I'm TIRED of weakness having such a loud voice.
I'm TIRED of our weakest showing their bellies and pussies to their would be killers and rapists on the Internet while real ass people fight in the street and in jails and in Ukraine.
I am currently incarcerated and will be released and will fight again and again and again and again
Fuck you weaklings, we will march over you too 😂
More powerful than you can imagine, completely ready to die, in love with death to get things done.
In general, yes. Authoritarianism is usually a sign of desire for a strong man, any strong man. They might not want to directly support Russia, but they like/respect Putin.
I believe the implication is that these people are part of a psy-op from Russia. It was a common theme of online discourse during Trump's presidency, with some decent factual evidence to back it up iirc. Many pro trump accounts on Twitter were suspected of being operatives, or even just bots, for example.
It's kinda stale as a reference, but there is still a significant chance that these kinds of accounts still exist and engage in spreading disinfo.
No. He's not good, just not the worst to anyone with a reasonable viewpoint. I don't like him, but he's ironically less terrible than most politicians, even those that claim to be to his left. As VP, he was often more left wing than Hillary and Obama on international issues. He came out in support of gay marriage before Obama, and has been more left wing as president. He's less wealthy than previous presidents, and despite Republican attempts to find evidence of any short of corruption, Biden's sins mostly come from incompetence. He was my last choice in the primary, but less because he was evil and more because he wasn't good.
He’s fine. Everything that people whine about him is stuff all presidents have done and republicans have done worse through the last five decades if not more.
Unless you want Russian victory in Europe and mass violence and perpetual domestic terrorism in the US 👍
Have enough guile to see past any impulse that didn't come from, to you, any identifiable source. And if your impulses run categorically parallel to Russian propaganda, and make you behave like a Russian (rapists, sneak murders, child thieves by the 100,000s and counting; centuries of psychopathy) and you align yourself with the Kremlin, whether or not accidental, congratulations, you are a target of anyone with a soul who cares about the safety and prosperity of life on Earth and we will put you in the zone or the ground.
Everyday footage of the cleansing in Ukraine fills me with a dream for the liberation of the United States from the MPE (Mass Psychosis Event) we've been laboring through. With each day I can see the future is ready, willing and eager to be shaped by those willing to accept it on its terms, NOT the terms of a Demagogue or Despot.
Russia will not exist after 2100 because old school evil won't survive the coming wave after wave of truth and consequences.
My main concern isn't even that he's doing a good or bad job, it's that he's clearly a dementia patient and shouldn't be in that position to being with. I had a grandfather who had alzheimers, which is a more severe kind of dementia that just gets worse, and having seen even a glimpse of it due to my parents keeping me out of view of the more severe "episodes", I really think he shouldn't be in office at all. Not to mention that dementia has a very high chance of turning into alzheimers, meaning that, if Bidens dementia does turn, he's only gonna get worse and worse and worse until he can't even make a sound.
The office of the president is more than one person. It entails his cabinet and the rest of the appointment apparatus as well as any ramifications for SC nominations. You think the orange Twitter all caps guy with "look my uncle having known nuclear" is better? There are downstream effects that are real beyond this bizarre talking point about dementia that keeps getting parroted. At the minimum be consistent in your logic ffs.
I wanted to add this extra bit, it seems that Biden would be in the third stage of dementia, with symptoms being: Losing things and minor memory loss, getting lost while traveling, difficulty finding the right words, verbal repetition, and trouble with complex tasks and problem solving.
Like I've said in other threads, I agree with you BUT people need to understand that Biden doesn't have the political capital to stand up to Israel right now.
We're on the brink of sliding back into Trump and who knows how fucked up we're going to get, so he can't be fighting another fire.
The US has always sucked Israel's balls, so Biden is just not rocking the boat.
I know it sucks, but our shitty political system and the fact that the half the population has brain damage means, he has to tread very very carefully.
If he blows his little wad on Israel and Trump wins because of it, EVERYONE will be fucked around the world, including Palestine.
I know we all wish Biden could be the shining liberal giga Chad we want, but US politics allows only so much at a time. Hell, I think he's done more than I would have hoped for and still part of his base is shitting on him for not doing enough...
"Everyone who disagrees with me is a Russian troll" such a shit tier DNC shill take. Next up whining about Bernie Sanders and dusting the Ruth baeder Ginsburg action figure.
Russia is a horrible place for LGBT people and general dissenters. The draft and war has been disastrous for the economy. Russia having any clout internationally is mind boggling.
He's actually done some good during his term, so yes. He's done a ton to combat climate change, reinforced many govt agencies so they can actually serve their purpose,
Are there democratic candidates I would prefer over him? Absolutely. But this is politics, it's all about realistic compromise. I'd rather have him than a traitorous conman spearheading a party of insurrectionists.
I do. No surprise billing, the omnibus bill, irs actually doing taxes, interest from student loan can't go above original principal along with payments based on income along with forgiveness after 20 years. I can't point to a president that has gotten more done that effect be personally in a beneficial way in my lifetime.
I held my nose and voted for him. All of the folks in my social circle did the same, as did most of my peers at work. Everybody hates him - actually seems like those of us that voted for him hate him more because we expected something useful from him and he’s given us jack shit fuck all. The couple of Trumpers in the office don’t seem to hate Biden nearly as much as all of us who voted for that worthless prick.
If it’s a choice between him or Trump yeah I’ll vote Biden again because that’s like asking would you rather forcibly be given herpes or have your dick chopped off and thrown in a camp fire. They both suck but I guess I’ll take herpes thanks
Uggh yall do realize almost everyone in power is bad, right? It really isn't that hard. There's only a little bit of nuance here. Maybe Putin's made it a little higher up on the human garbage tier list but so what?
"not perfect" is what I'd call the best democrats personally. On a good day. Joe Biden is enabling genocide, building Trump's wall, and letting republicans attempt to legislate people like me out of existence -plus he's been shitting the bed on covid-19 since day one. I do NOT think he falls into that category being as he's a self-proclaimed centrist and capitalist and I think he deserves FAR greater scrutiny considering he stole the democratic nomination in 2020 from the massively-more-popular-among-constituents Sanders and moved the goalposts for the party further right, and maybe even the whole country
You might find this hard to believe but I'm not either of those things, I'm a scared, depressed trans woman - follow my onlyfans and find out.
I'm not criticizing the most powerful person in the world just for fun.
Either you all are being intentionally disingenuous, or you're significantly misinformed. There's a difference between passive support of a ally doing terrible things and actively starting a war yourself and doing terrible things.
Honest question, is funnelling them money still passive support? I understand aid for Ukraine defending their soil, but I'm not ok with sending my money to help Israel do a genocide.
Almost as if it's in some countries' interests for people to get distracted from following the war in Ukraine until Trump gets elected and that some people are deliberately using the situation in Gaza to do just that.
Equally bad?? Putin is trying to criminalize LGBT+ right now. What is comparable to that that Biden has ever done? That is one thing, but we could go down the list if you want.