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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Biden is the president now.

Regardless as to what happens in a few months, the current sitting US president through action and inaction is endorsing genocide. It doesn't matter who else exists, because the office isn't held by anyone else.

We should be able to have a conversation about human rights abuses without invoking the name of someone worse.

I don't imagine many people are on the fence about who they're going to vote for and constantly screaming about the Cheeto any time criticism of the president is brought up really only serves as admission that yeah, Biden is that bad.

All I see is deflection, constantly. No one wants to talk about Biden, successes or failures. It's as if the only exists as a comparison to Trump. And if a candidate only looks good when compared to a pile of shit, then he isn't a good candidate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I mean, I read the response you replied to as "it not just biden, it is the system as a whole, and anyone that ever got close to being president".

And I agree. every president you have, there is some unjust war you are involved. As americans get pissed with their president, the rest of the world just rolls their eyes and says "here they go again".

genocides are gonna keep happening as long as you keep voting for these dumbasses in your primaries. And I can't see the situation changing anytime soon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you can find someone who has a chance of winning and will do something than please point them out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

my quick reply would be Bernie Sanders

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

And the democrats did everything they could to make sure he would not win the primary in spite of how popular he was. There is no winning.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately in the US running for president has serious financial barriers. Even the wealthy people who run need to appeal to corporate sponsors(I personally call this corruption, but the Supreme Court apparently decided it's not.)

I don't know how we are ever going to get a decent human being as a candidate until that changes, and I don't know how to change it. We can vote, but only for whoever has money, and none of those candidates seem to even acknowledge this is a very serious problem. It's not even on their political radar, so it's not a talking point.

Plus, even if a decent, non corrupt person managed to make it to the primaries and win.... the electoral college could just vote the corrupt candidate in anyway.

Sorry rest of the world... I wish our system wasn't totally fucked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Do you think the 8 years Biden was Obama's VP and the policy that administration had on foreign policy and the military ISN'T relevent to the Biden's Amin policy?

You're asking to talk about Biden's policy WITHOUT bringing up Bidens political history? Without brining up Trump, the man he is currently running against, and who's policy and rhetoric is CLEARLY effecting domestic policy for Biden's Admin, and ignoring the US's overall polices over the last 20+ years that we have been militarily involved in the Middle East?

What are we allow to discuss? Biden's horoscope?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

I really believe that the only difference in outcome for Palestine between Biden and Trump will be who lies about their feelings better. Trump doesn't give a s*** and will pretend to care and Biden doesn't give a s*** and will pretend to care in the other direction.