• zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    Obama’s first term was disappointing. His second term was abhorrent.

    Crazy how term limits change a politician’s incentives to behave.

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    It’s an article literally saying that “leftists can push Biden to the left” while pointing to these accomplishments as proof:

    [Biden’s administration] embraced massive government intervention to stave off the worst economic impacts, including handing millions of families monthly checks (by expanding the child tax credit), giving all kids in public schools free meals, boosting unemployment insurance and extending health coverage to millions.

    All of those policies were temporary and have now expired. Truly the most progressive president since LBJ.

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    “It’s been four years, and your arguments in favor of Biden are the same as before he was elected. Ask your party for a less shitty candidate, if harm reduction is your goal.”

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    maybe-later-kiddo anakin-padme-1 “In a president’s second term, they don’t need to cater to public approval and can make bold changes!”

    bloomer anakin-padme-2 “Great! Biden will do good things then, right?”

    maybe-later-kiddo anakin-padme-3

    doomer anakin-padme-4 “Biden will do good things then… right?”

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      The fact that so many people believe Biden isn’t counting on the republicans to halt any student loan forgiveness he brings forward is hilarious.

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      But yeah, can’t wait to hear how it’s my fault Biden lost to Trump in 2024.

      … but if you don’t vote for him “you ain’t Black.” Or whatever nonsense he said that time. (I’m not a Black person, I’m just using his words for satire.

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        I caught that shit and I’m black. I usually give my reason for not voting Biden as “I won’t vote for a literal segregationist” which usually gets them to shut up, or at least switch tactics from “you ain’t black” to “well, people can learn and improve”. Still tired but not as staggeringly stupid

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    work their hearts out

    not sure I’ve ever seen this specific phrase before, seems almost like a threat

    sure there’s ‘bleeding hearts’ and ‘wearing your heart on your sleeve’ and ‘knock your socks off’ and ‘work your ass off’

    but ‘work your hearts out’ like wtf

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    Hell of a fucking statement right here:

    What about everything supporters of Bernie Sanders have found so thrilling about the Vermont senator’s vision of the future, from universal health care to free college? It’s true Biden was never going to deliver that, but to be honest, neither would Sanders had he been elected president.

    Motherfucker, then why bother? If nothing ever gets delivered then why should I give a fuck? What’s the point?

    I won’t vote for the Republican oppositon but I actively hope Biden loses.

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      I’m going to clue you in on a secret. 2020 election? That was child’s play compared to what’s coming. The 2024 election is the MOST IMPORTANT election of our lives! The fate of democracy is at stake!!

      (be prepared to dust off this statement every four years)

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    Ask a Democrat with a long memory what the numbers 97,488 and 537 represent, and their face will twist into a grimace.

    Lmao I have been following politics way more than any normal person should and those numbers are absolutely meaningless.

    Make up shit.

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      In 2000, Nader’s vote total in Florida of 97,488 was far more than the 537-vote difference between Gore and George W. Bush.

      author is a turbolib who took all the wrong lessons from 2000

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          The Supreme Court stepped in during the Florida recount and said “stop that, Bush is president now mkay”, and for some reason everyone listened

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              not sure if I can articulate the lessons rn but it’s the same people who are still mad about Jill Stein costing Hillary the 2016 election, ignoring that Gary Johnson got 3x her votes. if you vote you have to vote for the Realistic Option, they think if those voters didn’t have Jill Stein that they would have been forced to vote Hillary instead of just not voting like most of the working poor

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              The lessons they took is that the democrats need to scold lefty people into voting for them instead of changing their policy positions to appeal to those people. They blame 2000 on people voting for Ralph Nader of the green party instead of on themselves for not getting more votes or on the conservatives for stealing the close election from them (Gore actually won, the SC just appointed Bush to the presidency anyway).

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          Ralph Nader was an independent presidential candidate who got some votes in 2000, where the democratic candidate was Al Gore and the republican candidate was George Bush Jr.

          The election came down to an extremely close race in Florida. A recount was halted and Bush was given the presidency (partly because of deliberate sabotage on Bush’s part, see the Brooks Brothers Riot) by the US supreme court.

          Libs claim that Al Gore would have won Florida (and thus the presidency) if Nader hadn’t ran. This ignores that there’s no guarantee Nader voters would have voted for Gore instead of just not voting, or voting for Bush. They do this because they believe that america’s institutions are functional and just, so any evidence to the contrary is blamed on individual bad actors, including the voter base. This belief in institutions is largely the result of propaganda, as it was and is transparently obvious that the country is rotten to the core and must be torn down.

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        Damn it’s crazy how third party voters keep costing democrats elections. It seems like their success or failure really hinges on winning those voters. So I wonder what they’ve done to…

        Oh right I forgot, “The democratic party can never fail, it can only be failed.”

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    no votes for anybody that supported sending the child de-limbing bombs to ukraine.

    i’m only conforming to the International Community™️’s own goddamn treaties on this shrug-outta-hecks you want my vote don’t flaunt international law, simple as.

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    During his last campaign, Biden said anarchists should be prosecuted. He’s not getting anything from me.