Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) panned Democrats who are upping their criticisms of President Biden ahead of the November election, saying they might as well don a “MAGA hat.” Fetterman not…
I am someone who will likely end up voting for Biden. But when Rashida Talib says vote uncommitted, or Bassem Yousef says the same, or Andy Levin in Michigan saying that he understands why. All I can say in response to that is I get it. I wouldn’t dream of trying to talk them out of it. What I’ve seen people on lemmy and in general liberals do, is callously talk about people like them as if they are too dumb to understand what it is that they’re saying. I would argue that they’ve thought about the counterfactuals and completely understand the impact of a trump presidency. They can’t support the guy actively causing their people harm. Again. If I was caught between the nazi guy and the guy supporting Nazis overseas, I’d likely not vote for either.
If I was caught between the nazi guy and the guy supporting Nazis overseas, I’d likely not vote for either.
Totally understandable. But in our voting system, you’re effectively supporting the Nazi Guy. You are lowering the amount of votes he needs to win. People can do whatever they want, but they don’t get to act like they aren’t participating when they absolutely are. Not voting ≠ not participating.
If someone understands the counterfactuals and implications of a Trump presidency and chooses to “sit out” they should absolutely be classified as supporting Trump. That’s what they’re doing. We need to be strategic just as much as Biden needs to be a better candidate and step his shit up.
Nope. This is Biden choosing to tank his presidency. This is not on the voters who are telling him what they need from him. 80% of democrats want a ceasefire. Biden is effectively setting up a Trump presidency all on his own.
Fine, let’s say Biden is intentionally tanking his presidency. Let’s say he’s actually super buds with Bibi and fully supports what Israel is doing.
Even supposing that, he’s still not only a better option than trump on this specific issue, but an entire slew of issues.
The only way this argument is even viable is assuming that DONALD TRUMP being in power would result in less dead Palestinians. That’s absurd and I think everyone knows that.
Primary, do what you want. Send a message. The general, pick the option that results in less death in Gaza. It’s gonna be Biden or Trump who wins, there is no “nobody wins” scenario on the table.
I am someone who will likely end up voting for Biden. But when Rashida Talib says vote uncommitted, or Bassem Yousef says the same, or Andy Levin in Michigan saying that he understands why. All I can say in response to that is I get it. I wouldn’t dream of trying to talk them out of it. What I’ve seen people on lemmy and in general liberals do, is callously talk about people like them as if they are too dumb to understand what it is that they’re saying. I would argue that they’ve thought about the counterfactuals and completely understand the impact of a trump presidency. They can’t support the guy actively causing their people harm. Again. If I was caught between the nazi guy and the guy supporting Nazis overseas, I’d likely not vote for either.
Totally understandable. But in our voting system, you’re effectively supporting the Nazi Guy. You are lowering the amount of votes he needs to win. People can do whatever they want, but they don’t get to act like they aren’t participating when they absolutely are. Not voting ≠ not participating.
If someone understands the counterfactuals and implications of a Trump presidency and chooses to “sit out” they should absolutely be classified as supporting Trump. That’s what they’re doing. We need to be strategic just as much as Biden needs to be a better candidate and step his shit up.
Nope. This is Biden choosing to tank his presidency. This is not on the voters who are telling him what they need from him. 80% of democrats want a ceasefire. Biden is effectively setting up a Trump presidency all on his own.
Fine, let’s say Biden is intentionally tanking his presidency. Let’s say he’s actually super buds with Bibi and fully supports what Israel is doing.
Even supposing that, he’s still not only a better option than trump on this specific issue, but an entire slew of issues.
The only way this argument is even viable is assuming that DONALD TRUMP being in power would result in less dead Palestinians. That’s absurd and I think everyone knows that.
Primary, do what you want. Send a message. The general, pick the option that results in less death in Gaza. It’s gonna be Biden or Trump who wins, there is no “nobody wins” scenario on the table.