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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Biden wants to talk about broadband; the students want to talk about civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip.

Democrats tout a road-widening project along Interstate 26 in Columbia underwritten by Biden’s infrastructure program; the students are focused on “food deserts” that contribute to diabetes and obesity.

“In our neighborhoods, we have gas stations, fast-food restaurants and liquor stores. We don’t have access to the same food,” said Tierra Albert, a 19-year-old sophomore at Claflin. (“I don't want to vote for either one,” she said of the presidential contest.)

Asked if they believe elected officials are addressing such issues, a chorus of voices filled a campus conference room: “No.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

The kids are all right.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do have to ask, what can presidents do about local buildings and locations of grocery stores and the like.

Are we thinking like mandates or laws about zoning?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

These articles are just ragebait. Political illiterates will always say silly things. Better to go after people that actually vote.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In my city, the county and a private non-profit put up millions of dollars to ensure a grocery store could operate on the city’s south side which is a food desert. It went bankrupt in 2 years. There’s this thing called a free market. I feel bad for them but this is reality. Not voting for Biden because he isn’t throwing billions of dollars to subsidize grocery stores so the other guy can put people in power who think slavery had its benefits is not just the dumbest fucking thing they can, but its incredibly dangerous for them. Good luck to them. They don’t know what the stakes are in November.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is the same sort of rhetoric that centrists are using against the Palestinian/Muslim/Arab community in the Midwest, who are pretty ripshit angry at how Gaza is being handled, and are being turned off to voting for Biden because of it. Yes, I know that Trump would be far worse than Biden for them and their families abroad. But at the same time, you can’t just tell someone “vote for this man who is letting Israel bomb your grandparents and cousins because the other guy will do worse”. Best case, they’ll tell you to fuck off.

Disregarding and belittling the very real and concrete concerns of a demographic in swing states that will be highly critical to keeping Trump out in November is courting disaster.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m sorry for being economically literate

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine coming on lemmy and yapping about free market capitalism like it's fine.

We fucking hate capitalism here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh I’m sorry I upset the hive mind. You’re all free to move to North Korea btw

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

I’m sorry for being economically literate

You’re all free to move to North Korea btw

#doubt

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

I’m sure trump will do them a solid for sure /s

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

From 2020:

A day after Sen. Bernie Sanders' resounding victory in the Nevada caucuses, Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., said his state's electorate could be uncomfortable with voting for someone who calls himself a socialist.

"I do believe it will be an extra burden for us to have to carry. This is South Carolina, and South Carolinians are pretty leery about that title socialist," he said on ABC's "This Week," the day after Sanders' resounding victory in the Nevada caucuses.

hmm...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More from 2020:

Rep. Jim Clyburn, the influential lawmaker who helped lead Joe Biden to an overwhelming victory in South Carolina, says the Democrat National Committee should "shut this primary down" to help the former vice president's chances in November.

And now he's trying to get more people in his state to show up and vote, when he tried to disenfranchise voters in other states the last time. Go figure.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

How will South Carolina Democrats let the nation down this time? Clyburn and SC are largely responsible for Biden winning, swung primary momentum to him in 2020 (Bernie was winning easily until then). Shortly after, Dem leadership rushed to organize the "Biden support wagon" (drop outs, endorsements) for Super Tuesday, and... the rest (insert COVID) is history.

Biden has done fine, supported progressive policies, and most of "his failures" originate from congress and Republican obstruction. Take your pick SC: Biden or Trump. Then kindly STFU.