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Biden is the Democratic nominee against Trump. Get over it. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm sick of posts complaining about Biden's debate performance, or his age, or his response to Gaza. Comments saying he should step aside or "we coulda had Bernie."

Shut the fuck up.

Biden is the nominee. He is the person Americans need to vote for to prevent another Trump presidency. Simple as that. There is no other option. The DNC isn't going to change their nominee in July of an election year. You're an idiot if you genuinely think otherwise.

It's fine to criticize a president. Even one you support. But we are four months from the next election and all posts and comments attacking Biden right now are fuel for Trump. I don't care if you're a Russian troll or a well-meaning progressive. Criticizing Biden right now helps Trump win. Full stop.

Get your heads out of your asses and realize what is at stake.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Not American, but am anti-fascist so anyone is better than Trump. However it’s wrong to say that there is no other option.

The New Zealand Labour Party (centrist-left) won the election in 2017 by switching leaders much closer to election day:

On 1 August 2017, just seven weeks before the 2017 general election, Ardern assumed the position of leader of the Labour Party, and consequently became leader of the Opposition, following the resignation of Andrew Little. Little stood down due to the party's historically low polling.

Jacinda Ardern Wiki

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And if America had ranked-choice voting you might be right that there's another option; unfortunately though things don't work like that here so there is indeed no other option.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

We don’t have ranked choice voting either and don’t directly vote for prime minister. It’s a proportional system. If anything this should reduce the effect that a leader has on the popularity of the party compared with first past the post jurisdictions.

Given that the US does directly vote for President, personality and popularity have much more weight, and therefore a more popular candidate could turn it around. How likely that is I’m not sure, as I don’t know a huge amount about the alternatives other than AOC and Sanders, but Jacinda did show that it’s possible.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Given that the US does directly vote for President…

The U.S. president is not directly elected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That’s splitting hairs. Notice I said “vote” rather than “elect”. I’m well aware of how the electoral college functions and that you can lose the “popular vote” but still become president (e.g. Bush Jnr and Trump).

The fact remains that on ballot you directly cast a vote for the president.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hey, you got any openings there in the New Zealand? Heck - Old Zealand, whatever, something with less heavily armed, grossly unhealthy authoritarian fetishists? Looking to start, say, in about five months?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately we’re no socialist utopia and we recently swung to the right in the election last year. The deputy prime minister is a noted xenophobe, pay-to-play corruption is on the rise, and most of the social policies of the last 6 years are being rolled back and then some.

These changes aren’t necessarily popular, lots of people voted against the incumbents rather than for the new government, but the next election is 2 years away and the electorate has a short memory.

It’s also worth knowing that much of our international reputation is a smokescreen. We’re not clean and green despite what our tourism marketing says. Almost every party in our parliament subscribes to neoliberalism to varying degrees and thinks deregulation will solve our productivity problems. We have one of the worst housing markets on the planet which is more like a Ponzi scheme thanks to a lack of capital gains tax and incentives for speculators. Finally the cost of living is extreme due to a lack of competition in the food, banking, petrol, electricity and water markets.

We have been falling in the OECD rankings on most metrics since the late 80s when we embraced Thatcherism/Reaganomics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

And yet.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

B-but terminally online ~~Redditors~~ Lemmy users (Lemmists?) tell me that every single country in the world has a perfectly functioning election system and that the US is the only one with problems??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The preferred demonym (preferred by me) is “Lemmunists,” or “Lemmunistas” if you’re nasty.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

"I'm sick of posts complaining about Biden's debate performance, or his age, or his response to Gaza. ... Shut the fuck up."

US provided weapons were used to kill tens of thousands of innocent people, many of whom were children. You're tired of people "complaining" about it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

"It's OK, they were brown"

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Nobody is owed the peoples' vote. You can stick your head in the sand and pretend that everything is fine but don't be surprised if it doesn't pan out come election time in the US given past and current polling. Also, the whole Russian troll/useful idiot accusation that gets leveled at everyone who feels differently about anything from Biden's chances at winning to his responsibility for what's happening in Gaza is very condescending and shows a complete lack of flexibility in thought other towing the official party line. I wonder what you would say if Biden willingly chose to resign tomorrow.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Every time another Biden stan posts stuff like this, an angel shits in a bucket

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Man it must be wild to live your life this gaslit.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How democratic. Don't criticize candidate because alternative is worse.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Hey, here’s a thought: spend a couple minutes thinking about why people are upset. Until you’ve done that, take your own advice and shut the fuck up.

Plenty of democrats are concerned about his capacity and are saying there should be another nominee. Not random people, members of congress. If they’re not settled on Biden maybe you should be the one shutting the fuck up.

Also, dude could easily keel over any day between now and November. If he was a healthy 60-something year old people might be less concerned. But a candidate who has a decent chance of dying before the election is a bad candidate.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Nah, fucking do better. We have 330m people and this is the best you got? Get fucked. Throw the whole fucking system in the trash. I'm talking about that system that lets Trump get away with shit and puts me in jail and convicts me for trying to escape a guy who attacked me on the road. There ain't shit any of you "good guys" have going on that fucking matters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Shut the fuck up.

Fuck you, enjoy trump.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is you love Trump and want him to win. Ok, got it. Yeah I don't remeber 2016 either 🤦‍♀️

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

I'm sick of hearing that Biden is the only person who has beat Trump as an equivalence to the only person who can. Out of 2 people who tried? Trump is a super weak candidate. Weaker than he was in 2016 and 2020. Anyone could beat him. But, here we are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

So you want Trump to win. Got it. Why don't you just vote for Trump then?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It's almost a pity you're not a Russian bot, because you're doing a goddamn job at alienating voters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Shit sandwich or shit sandwich with sprinkles.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I wonder if Harris (VP) is now going to cause a Sarah Palin dynamic.

I’m not a USian or plugged in that much, so it might have happened already.

But if she’s as unpopular as I hear, and Biden looks like he’s on his death bed, a Biden vote practically becomes a Harris vote. How does that play out against Trump?

EDIT: lol ... downvotes. There's a difference between a question or thought that's plain wrong and one that you just don't like however relevant it might be. I have no particular views on Harris (and she's clearly no Palin, in a good way) ... I've just heard that she's not particularly viable electorally and figure that this dynamic could be real now in ways it wasn't at all in 2020.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I don't want Harris, but i understand that she's likely going to finish the term if Biden wins. I'm willing to vote for that to try to keep the other guy out. If he had someone else as a VP, people would be more on board. Also, if she had been out and about more in the last year or two i think people wouldn't be so concerned.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I like Harris. That’s another reason to vote for Biden. While Harris doesn’t particularly excite me i think I like that in a political figure. Politics should be boring and not like the wwf that we seem to have now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Bernie's publicly endorsed Biden so anyone arguing for Bernie this point is basically arguing against Bernie

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago

Bernie should shut the fuck up and once again ask for our financial support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Terry Crews for president!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

Neoliberal tears are almost as tasty as those of a facist