• mufasio@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    If you really believed that then you should be demanding that Biden appeal to more voters. It’s a two-party system as you say, and if it’s “really the most important election of our lives” then you should be doing everything in your power to pressure democrats to appeal to more voters, right? I mean, I guess he is trying to appeal to a certain kind of voter with his border, police, Ukraine, Israel, and neo-liberal policies, but I’m not that voter. I guess he thinks enough voters on the left will still vote for him because orange man bad, and maybe he is right.

    But it turns out I’m a single issue voter, and that issue is whether or not you are actively aiding, abetting, covering up, assisting, and committing an ongoing genocide while vilifying, firing, silencing, arresting, and censuring anyone that dares question it. You know, there’s just something about genocide that puts me off a candidate

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      8 months ago

      So, how do I call Biden up and demand things?

      • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
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        8 months ago

        Honestly the mass backlash of the american populace should if we where a democracy change his mind, but we are not so it does not. The mechanism that we have, that is utterly worthless but what we have short of revolution is to vote… voting for him is rubberstamping and giving approval to everything he has done.

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          8 months ago

          So your realistic recommendation is?

          • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺@lemmygrad.ml
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            I mean, bare minimum do not endorse him or try to get others to vote for him. Your vote is between you and the ballot in secrecy in this completely farcical ritual that Americans do every other year. I would like to know however where your cutoff for realistic begins and ends, because I have a feeling that our ideas are difrent, for instance, I think a federal Minimum Wage of 40.92 (Finaly updated my number for inflation) is not only reasonable, but floor for any negotiation, while I assume you would say it is not.