Usually, that's the accusation leveled towards "Vote Blue no matter who" types, not the far-left types who deny that Democrats have ever done anything that has improved anyone's life.
The DNC completely restructured their convention process after this happened. Sanders and his supporters fought hard for this change, at least try to pay attention:
Adoption of superdelegate reform (2018)
On August 25, 2018, the DNC approved a plan to reduce the influence of superdelegates by barring them from voting on the first ballot at the Democratic National Convention, allowing them to vote only in a contested convention (i.e., if a Democratic National Convention did not choose the nominee on the first ballot, because no candidate received an absolute majority (more than 50%) of the pledged delegates elected from the outcome of primaries and caucuses). This does not preclude superdelegates from publicly endorsing a candidate of their choosing before the convention.
this has nothing to do with how they structured the primary, favoring hilary with party resources. they chose hilary long before the first superdelegate vote.
2 is kinda irrelevant in the context of the election though. If you think Biden supports them too much wait until you see the alternative. Trump doesn’t strike me as the kind of guy to say “Palestinians need our help”. He strikes me as the guy who’ll say “See? This is why I’m writing a new Muslim ban”
I’m no fan of Biden (though I did and will vote for him) but that’s not what happened. He did not bust the unions, the 12 unions still exist. He broke a strike, which is the intended purpose of the Railway Labor Act of 1926.
The law he put before congress to force a resolution to the three year negotiation deadlock would have guaranteed the workers 7 days of sick leave per year (they wanted 15). It passed the House but the Senate knocked it down to 1 day, with a 14% immediate pay increase and an additional 25% over the next five years.
Biden continued negotiate for the unions to get the sick days. They don’t all have them yet, but at this point 61% of the workers do have 4 short notice paid sick days with the option to trade three personal days for an additional 3 short notice sick days. Negotiations are still happening, the Biden administration is still part of them.
The Ohio derailment disaster was not a result of worker error (or lack of sick days) but lack of maintenance regulations, which was not something that was being negotiated at that time.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't his Administration forced to continue those by SCotUS?
Some, but he's also put some effort of his own on being seen as 'tough on the border' due to increased migration.
A stupid decision, but a predictable one considering the hand-wringing our population goes through every fucking time there's a bump in scary furriners coming in to this land which our ancestors were born i-oh, wait
Agree, but that looks like it’s starting to turn as well
Honest question, where have you seen this?
All I’ve seen is talk about possibly maybe telling them to stop genociding. Other than that it’s business as usual. The whole siding with Israel at the ICJ trial isn’t a great look
In international politics, there are very few unscripted statements. What is said is an important reflection of a country's concerns, and behind-the-scenes demands. There is a distinct contrast between statements from before the current crisis and statements since, especially compared to the unconditional bootlicking normally offered by the US State Department to Israel.
We are at a point where support for the current course is wavering, and there is the possibility of change in our Israel policy, depending on how the opinions of the electorate continue to develop on the issue.
Remember when Kamalla Harris said during her speach at COP28 something about the US putting pressure on Israel and then not a week later the US vetoed the resolution for a Cease Fire at the UN Security Council?!
It’s wasn’t even that long ago that this happenned.
There really is no reason at all to believe that the Biden Administration has finally given up on their practice of trying to sway voters their way by nothing more than “talking the talk” whilst completelly refusing to “walk the walk” (at times, quite the contrary)
I think the DNC finally discovered Lemmy. There’s been a huge uptick of VBNMW and “how dare anyone question Biden” posts. Voters can be critical of Biden and the Dems and still vote for them to “stop Trump”. Even though Trump is merely a symptom of the crappy system we have.
Edit: also, calling the far left nut jobs isn’t going to win any of them over.
The really wack thing is everybody already knew when Trump removed criminal only focus of ICE and the holding time limitations that it would weaken the border. We already had data about how those policies improved border security from the Obama Era, but Trump still did what he did to put children in cages for many months for no fucking reason at all.
I’m hugely dissapointed. I wanted Obama-Era 2.0 and instead I have to watch the Palestinian Genocide. Old removed really got my hopes up, if the election outcomes weren’t so grim I’d hope he got primaried.
Long story short, it’s the evolutionary cycle of slurs. Slurs over time so they lose their offensiveness and new ones come in their place. Decades ago “idiot”, “devil” or “shit” were hugely offensive now we use them as normal words. Now we are at the point when sexuality-based slurs slowly lose their power and racial slurs take their place.
My guess is that it could be partially caused by social changes - younger generations are not forbidden (and sometimes even encouraged) to openly discuss sexuality so sexual words are not taboo for them anymore so they can’t offend them anymore. But racism for them is a big and very serious issue so new slurs are related to that topic. I can imagine though that in the next century when racism is not an issue anymore, people might use n-word in jokes.
More importantly, though, Gender divides do not even approach the magnitude problems that arise from Racial and Ethnic divisions. While it’s possible to take away one gender’s rights and freedoms in subservience to the other, the two genders have and will always comprise one people that they both belong to, incapable of existing without the other at any large scale. On the other hand, racial divides can and have lead to a sort of segregation that divides peoples and historically they have attempted to eradicate each other on many occasions. Sure, a product of the past you might try to argue, but a wound that lingers and festers in a way that makes silly gender disputes look cute.
EDIT: Hang on, were they talking about LGBTQ slurs when they said “Sexuality Based”? I can see how being called a fag might upset somebody back in Vietnam, but I think most people actually use it as a term of endearment these days? It’s at least no more insulting than Retard is.
TBH I realize it’s not a good symbol to keep around in any context, but it’s still about as innocent (comes with comparatively low animosity) as the word that got removed so I felt like I had to know.
I too would love to see those stats OP uses to claim a win. Apprehensions are up because illegal crossings are at an all time high second year running and even once someone is apprehended they are released into the United States, often with Fed issued phone to report into their “probation” office source: nytimes.com/…/illegal-border-crossings-data.html This meme was written by someone who dislikes Republicans so much they are finding any reason to cheer Biden, like maybe he wouldn’t stink if he wasn’t such trash, this feels like trying to blast him with axe spray, my disgust has only increased.
Also it’s been proven presidential policy has little to do with economic outcome and unemployment rates. Honestly any president other than Trump probably would’ve caused an economic upturn due to the unpredictability of Trump. Also the pandemic being SOMEWHAT over has more to do with unemployment than Biden.
yeah and im a big supporter (well relative to what I see on the internets) but obviously all of it is not attributable to him. All the same there have been more things that actually improve my quality of life over what any other president has done in my lifetime and all in one term with an adversarial congress. I loved obama but man he wasted a nice majority trying to play fair with a bunch of known cheaters.
well you have to compromise to some degree but man obamas first term he was bending over backwards to get their input and sign off and they still fought everything he did tooth and nail. He figured it out his second term but had lost the majority at that point.
He’s actually done the exact opposite when he directly refused to supply Ukraine with long range missiles early in the conflict, when they had the manpower and logistics to attack Russia directly. But instead he doomed Ukraine to a war of attrition what they can’t possibly hope to win without a serious import of soldiers (which isn’t happening). Biden handed Ukraine to Russia.
hindsight is 20-20, and even then i’m not sure that would have been the right choice
back then we there were a lot of people legitimately very worried that russia would use nukes if they felt “cheated”… international diplomacy is a tricky shit show of a game. who knows what would have happened
It depends on the company youre getting it from, but there is a coming price cap. Eli lily (as of last march), novo nordisk (as of last september), and sanofi (as of jan 1st) have all lowered their prices to the cap for insured, uninsured, and medicare patients. Those are the three largest insulin producers in the US, but not all of them. It’s been rolling out slowly over the past year.
Anytime someone whines about lemmy not getting widespread adoption I’m linking this comment section. Cesspool of a community. Go touch some fucking grass lol.
I hate when people are making valid points, but to get their point across they add bs like that. It just invalidates the whole argument, just stick it the straightforward facts.
Yeah, but it’s about messaging and PR. Many people perceive Trump to do better especially on economy, even though more debt is added to the national debt during his last presidency. People tend to prioritise economy more than other issues; and Biden isn’t doing anything to market himself and his administration that they’re do better on handling the economy.
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