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When you compare Biden to Trump vs. the effects on the Palestinians, were Trump president again, he would not just help the Israelis exterminate the Palestinians, but encourage them to do so quickly- as he's already told Bibi to "finish it". So your dichotomy is more than a bit disingenuous .
Remember how blaming individuals solved climate change, too?
I'm starting to suspect that Taylor Swift doesn't even care what we think!
I remember!
Could never of had a Bernie because Hillary bought the DNC.
In exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised… This victory fund agreement, however, had been signed in August 2015, just four months after Hillary announced her candidacy and nearly a year before she officially had the nomination.
Emphasis mine. It was a captured field, with a performative primary - Hillary/‘s campaign abused their position against a broke DNC and elevated herself above all others.
Emphasis mine. It was a captured field, with a performative primary - Hillary/‘s campaign abused their position against a broke DNC and elevated herself above all others.
Supreme court also ruled that this was fine and very cool, very legal.
This is why young people need to vote in every election especially the local ones, even the ones that seem insignificant like a school board election. The only way for a Bernie to win a primary is if such a candidate is not an outlier. The entire party needs to move to the left and that starts from the ground up. Since people need to get exposed to more left wing politicians so left wing ideology becomes more normalized and at the moment it's not.
When young people vote you get people like AOC and Omar into office. The only way to get a Bernie elected is if there are more AOCs and Omars filling seats in local, state and the federal government. From the school board all the way up to the Senate.
Too young to remember how bloodthirsty Hilary was as secretary of state. Member when "we came, we saw, he died tehe"?
A lot of retrospective handwringing forgets this, or the vile comments that came out during Bill’s multiple sexual assault allegations.
Hillary was not the right candidate to fight Trump, Jeb Bush more likely. After Obama, returning to an establishment candidate was a mistake, and I don’t care if “it’s her turn” after stepping aside in 2008. Politics has real consequences for people who don’t vacation in the Hamptons.
Yeah but she paved the way for ISIS with such girl power
It didn't all happen in 2016. Fascists have been quietly diminishing the power of the electorate for decades now. We'll keep on having "the most important election of our lifetimes" until we manage to undo the damage. IF we manage to undo the damage.
If we manage to have any more non-sham elections.
The problem is fascists, but it is also compounded by neolib Democrats never reducing government authority either, but often even strengthening it, knowing full well that power can easily be seized by the extreme right at any time.
Ummm.... Trump will turn UP the genocide.
Way more pro Israel rhetoric that any Biden comment but he then doubles down with lots of anti Palestine comments.
If the choice is between genocide and genocide + fascism, and there is no viable option 3 without genocide, then the argument is still embrace the genocide or democracy ends. The alternative is embrace genocide and who really needs all this democracy anyway?
Yeah I'm not sure how to take this post. The image is clearly both-sides-ism but the text of OPs post on it appears to be calling that bad.
This posting format makes sense in specific subreddit/communities like /leopardsatemyface or /whitepeopletwitter. But here it just makes it unclear what the intended message is.
Your dichotomy of saying we have to pick between the Turd or a Douche is disingenuous.
As someone who voted 3rd party in 2016 and regrets it. While you are technically correct, the last 8 years have shown that there is so much more on the line than what I was protesting against with my 3rd party vote. I didn't like Hillary Clinton's positions on war. And sure, my vote probably wouldn't have mattered all that much as I live in a very red state, but every time the Supreme Court does some bullshit, I feel a bit of regret that I didn't use my vote to support the best candidate who actually had a chance.
If he had more votes in the primary, then that could have been true despite the superdelegates. As it would be true for any other candidate.
But he/they didn't, and here we are moping over something that didn't happen years ago while the USSC lays the final stones in the foundation for an actual dictatorship.
Bold strategy. Let's see how that works out.
There are some elections between 1929 and 1939 that would be more consequential.
The DNC failed to put in a non-establishment candidate, so the Republican voters made it happen.
That huge failure continues to haunt this country while the DNC and the Republican voters double down on their mistakes.
Nostalgia is a good tool against anxiety, but it may perturbate the notion of reality
I love that I get to choose whether Palestinians get the slow death of starvation and disease or the fast death of bombs and bullets
Given enough time, shitty Twitter hot takes pollute everything. Interesting implication that somehow Hillary might have a less pro-Israel policy than Biden.
Also: She's cray
Also she could do a better campaign
We can still have Bernie. But the DNC would rather have Trump.
They could put Bernie forward, but we'd get Trump.
Cope
Bernie would definitely outperform Biden. This is just a fact. Left-Wing candidates do better with higher voter turnout. They get higher voter turnout when people are actually excited about the person they're voting for, especially young people. Young people hate Biden. You can see this from all the protests about the genocide and Palestine he's enabling. Will have low voter turnout compared to Bernie. Biden might lose the election giving us Trump again.
Don't mean to tell you what you already know a stranger. Just saw you being gaslit and wanted you to know that you're not crazy 👈😎
Yeah, how did the Bernie magic work out for Jamaal Bowman? Somehow he is the best candidate but can't get people to attend a rally for an incumbent Democrat let alone vote for him.
Have you considered that? Maybe the amount of attention Americans give the presidential election is many times more than any other election? Do you think Americans are more likely to know the current president and who they ran against In the last election than their own senator? Or their own member of the House of reps?
Do you think that might affect things?
Be serious my dude
How is a screenshot of a twitter post a meme?
Twitter screenshots make up, like, a third of all memes at this point.
What we learned without any doubt was that the Democrat Party does NOT represent the people; only their own power and clubhouse alumni. They proved that they were exactly who the fascists said they were. Fast forward to today, and Joe is telling me what he'll do to stop fascism in his next term if I give him money to do the job he already gets paid to do, but wont do a goddamn thing to stop fascism RIGHT NOW WHILE HE HAS THE POWER. To my first point: Joe has been in DC SINCE 1972.