• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Yep.

    Billionaires own the media, and billionaires really really really want to make sure the furthest left America goes is neoliberals.

    So anything that isn’t 100% Biden gets shouted down as undemocratic, which is so hypocritical it almost breaks my brain.

    Biden is a bad candidate, and ignoring it and running him anyways it what may allow trump to win.

    If trump wins, billionaires are fine. If Biden wins, they’re still fine.

    The only way they lose is if instead of Biden there’s someone who’s platform matches what Dem voters want.

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      4 months ago

      The problem is anti-Biden proponents never provide a viable candidate who can beat both Trump and Biden in November when asked to do so.

      Whinge about Biden all you want, but unless an alternative is provided, it’s shouting into the void at best and helping Trump at worst.

      I support what Michigan did, and I hope Biden gets the message, but I also hope they’re not so far up their own asses that they forget that handing the presidency to Trump in November won’t actually solve the problem of genocide and will likely bring along other human rights violations.

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        They’ve proposed Sanders twice, and while he’s not running this time (and at this stage too old), he beat Trump by huge margins in every head to head poll, both cycles. Unfortunately the corporate media made sure they pushed their corporate friendly candidates (Clinton in 2016, Biden in 2020) instead of creating a fair playing field.

        You could see in this cycle as well where Marianne Williamson and Dean Phillips did not get any airtime, while on the Republican side candidates that were polling below 1% got entire CNN town halls. (Not to mention how third party candidates get treated).

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        4 months ago

        but I also hope they’re not so far up their own asses

        Some of these uncommitted voters have had family members killed in Gaza and you nonchalantly just tell them get their heads out of their asses? Wow.

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          Yes. I’m sorry for their loss, but the dead are gone. Society, government, the future is for the living. There is more at stake than just Gaza, and whether they like it or not, this FPTP system means they get to choose between two candidates they won’t like, both of whom will commit genocide, one who has a possibility of relenting, and one will make their lives even worse.

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        4 months ago

        The problem is anti-Biden proponents never provide a viable candidate who can beat both Trump and Biden in November when asked to do so.

        Plus Gavin Newsom has already told these people to fuck off.