shoppingrat
joined 8 months ago
i was ALAB
Assigned lame at birth
Can we please get some last minute action on the key issues, secured before we get to the vote? Biden still hasn't officially declared a climate emergency, which we are unarguably in. Even fossil fuel companies aren't even denying it anymore!! Could we actually get what we need out a democrat: real immigration action and asylum for all parties affected by US intervention and our role in climate destruction, sweeping student loan debt forgiven, meaningful action towards decarb, codify new civil rights for abortion and LGBTQ+ and halt weapons and money to israel by forcing him to declare a national emergency? I mean maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic but is there not some precedent for dealing with how dire this situation is? Like it shouldn't really be something we need to elect someone to make sure gets fixed. We have the powers, we should be able to just get it done. Why are so many people fear mongering us into making a choice against our consent for a president and admin that has barely done anything he said they would instead of just fucking saving the world from donald trump like they claim they are tryin to do? And I mean come, how did hitler lose his power?? Yall keep comparing trump to Hitler but are trying to politely make it so he can't "take over the world and destroy democracy"? Like this is pathetic yall. WHAT ARE WE EVEN DOING IF ITS THIS BAD?? WE ARE REALLY LETTING THIS BE UP TO A FUCKING TWO PARTY VOTE?? WHO HONESTLY THINKS THAT THIS ANXIETY WE ARE ALL FEELING IS 1) WARRANTED AND 2) NECESSARY ON ANY LEVEL?
we know whats wrong and we have historical precendents and more options than this sad state of affairs we are boxing ourselves into. we just don't have the collective hutzpah to rise up and demand an end to this bullshit. you can see it in the faces of people at protests for palestine though. something about watching a genocide unfold while being governed by the guy who we're told won't let democracy die. do the people in palestine have democracy? what's left of ours when you are painted a political enemy of the state because you are calling on your president to do more for a stateless people and we taut ourselves as leaders of the free world? remember #notmypresident? is biden my president? because while i did vote for him last time, i don't think he is the president i thought he was. what can you do when you have buyers remorse? would you buy the same product again? then if you find the store doesn't even have what you want, why go there at all? voting has its place. i just don't think the issues we are facing should be up to a vote on whether we resolve them or not.
It has become commonplace to emphasize the extent to which the US political world is polarized. Politicians and partisans of each party don’t simply have differing solutions to the country’s problems — they often seem to live in separate and fundamentally incompatible versions of reality. But on one thing, nearly everyone can agree: Donald Trump is still the center of the country’s political universe.
Trump is cruising to victory in the Republican presidential primary despite barely campaigning and remaining the subject of numerous major criminal and civil trials. GOP voters strongly preferred him over Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who essentially ran on Trump’s program, but with fewer personal scandals and a severe charisma deficit. DeSantis dropped out in January, as did Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor whose more strongly anti-Trump campaign barely registered.
Last week, Trump won 60 percent of the vote to defeat Nikki Haley, his only remaining opponent, in her home state of South Carolina. He went on to beat her with 68 percent of the vote in Michigan a few days later. Whatever Haley’s motives for remaining in the race through Super Tuesday (March 5, when fifteen states will hold primary elections), there is next to zero hope that anyone besides Trump will be the Republican presidential nominee. The Supreme Court’s decision today to reverse Colorado’s move to exclude the former president from the ballot just delivered the Trump campaign even more good news.
Even Joe Biden appears to be letting Donald Trump set the agenda for political discussion in the presidential election. Despite four years of incumbency, the president has largely focused his reelection campaign on Trump — in particular the threats he poses to democracy and abortion rights, as well as the many instances of legal jeopardy in which Trump is entangled.
this is hella old but apparently still relevant
yup the US seriously is not a civil country. i would know, i live here.
thats what the law is becoming. a way to enforce the will of the corporate state.
Notice the key word they use being "sue" in all of these articles. But please, go off on how uneducated we americans tend to be with legalese and government procedures. That's a very class conscious thing to point out! Would help if democrats educated people about it but then they would be able to effectively navigate the elites world.
https://www.voanews.com/a/gop-states-sue-biden-administration-over-new-border-policy-/6933897.html
It also seems you didn’t/can’t read the article in your first link
What the one about the "horrors" of socialism? If there are any horrors of socialism, its that it allowed capitalism to exist. Everything the US condemns "socialist and communist" countries of is usually just a projection of its own bullshit.
You’re very good at ranting and criticizing democrats while ignoring 80% of what I respond with.
I'm not sure which parts i didn't respond to, can you clarify? otherwise stop moving the goalposts
WOW, really? Well let’s just “both sides!!” it and discourage Biden voters so we can get Danald Tramp elected anyway
I encourage people to vote for whoever they want. If they can vote uncommitted on a primary to show they dont support him thats amazing and will not risk the election to trump as y'all like to keep screaming
100,000 people in michigan is just a bunch of kids whining and pouting on the internet? good try at badjacketing though.
and its not stopping. in washington the UFCW 3000 are endorsing uncommitted in the primary. so working class union members are whiny pouty children? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/washington-s-largest-labor-union-endorses-uncommitted-primary-vote-in-rebuke-to-biden/ar-BB1jaQPE I'll save you a click:
The union's executive board reached the endorsement decision on Wednesday night.
"Currently, many voters, and UFCW 3000 executive board, feel that the best path to have the best nominee, and to defeat Trump, is to vote 'uncommitted,'" the union said in a statement. "The hope is that this will strengthen the Democratic party’s ultimate nominee to defeat Trump in the General Election in November."
"We need a nominee who can run and beat Trump to protect workers across this country and around the world," the statement continued.
With over 50,000 members, the union is a force to be reckoned with as Biden seeks to win over voters in the primary contest.
The president is facing an uphill battle as he seeks to mobilize the broad coalition of Americans who delivered his 2020 White House win. His continued supply of weapons and diplomatic cover for Israel's brutal assault on Gaza is one of the major sticking points for young voters and voters of color.
Just this week, more than 100,000 Michigan primary voters cast their ballots "uncommitted" in solidarity with Gazans under siege after a three-week campaign. Biden won the swing state by just over 150,000 votes in 2020.
"We stand in solidarity with our partners in Michigan who sent a clear message in their primary that Biden must do more to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Biden must push for a lasting ceasefire and ending US funding toward this reckless war," the Washington union said.
If you understood basic economics you would see that this is a tactical approach to getting our elected leaders to do what needs to be done. I have something they want/need. They have the power to affect change the way that me and a lot of other people want. Its called bargaining. If they want what we have, our consent, then they have to earn it. Don't they like to call this country a meritocracy? We know they won't keep their promises after they get our vote. they don't need us after that so why would I so easily give up the only bargaining chip I have when there is no sign they will perform
yea means i wouldn't be able to vote anyway cause i wouldn't have a permanent address. personally i rent so i do have an address but yelling at disenfranchised citizens that they are bad because they didn't vote is such a dem thing to do. why don't they house them instead of cast them off as a non-important demographic? i know thats off topic but if i did live in a cardboard box like you suggested, then i wouldn't be able to vote anyway.
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