#Biden isn’t losing because voters are stupid; Biden is losing because Bidenistas are stupid:
“Desperate to not lose #Michigan, the #Biden admin sent top aides to meet with Arab Americans there …. If the White House thinks they can fool Palestinians and their supporters with meaningless platitudes, then they actually value Palestinian lives even less than is already wholly obvious.”
Just so you know where we are and understand that they're ALL fucking fascists and they're GOING FOR IT.
"In a stunning reversal, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-K.Y.) is urging the Senate G.O.P. caucus to vote against the bipartisan border security and foreign defense aid package. It comes after spending weeks helping a bipartisan group of senators craft it, and just hours after he spoke in favor of the legislation."
@StillIRise1963@retrohondajunki well, we shall see when the House passes a stand alone $17b Israel aid package and that goes through the Senate or not. If this occurs then Trump keeps the border crisis as a campaign issue while the war keeps escalating, with Biden appearing as impotent to the choices made by others. His 50 years in the public sphere has all the drawbacks without any of the advantages that #VBNMW were claiming would be why Biden was better than Sanders in '20
"finally, i am not trying convince anyone of anything. they either can think, or they can't. and if they can't there is no point"
You get how that is a very cynical perspective, that there can be nothing done, then why be abrasive to non-voters? Either persuade or do no harm, that is the choice, you are choosing the 3rd choice of being harmful in being deliberately off-putting. It's not just you it's the whole vein of #VBNMW who are not helping in an inevitably close election
@accretionist
Then there's nothing that you can do, but antagonizing those individuals is self-fulfilling prophesy that makes certain that whatever you do won't move the needle and then you can just shift blame on them for not being able to make the right decision through #VBNMW demeaning of those voters
Either adjust your communication to be as effective as necessary or take the hippocratic oath and take a course of action that does no harm. Being abrasive isn't without harm.
I'm seething and unsure what to do about this. A friend, someone I've known for years, just said some of the most racist shit I've ever heard. And he then says "it's science." I said, "it's eugenics."
Conversation got bad and heated to the point I almost walked out. But I'm absolutely flabbergasted that people still say this shit, nevermind believe it's science.
I didn't know about it, you've some link(s) about the grave health issues related to agent orange? And perhaps the legal issues? Might be better in a new thread ...
Elections in this year 24 will be a choice between pest and cholera. While US citizens might profit from a better choice (I heard you #VBNMW guys), I think internationally the impact of US politics will rather be negative anyway (no doubt that "negative" has a very large range). #uspol#uspolitics
The Fascist comprador selling out Argentina (not the first one) is the one Biden is baccing. The #vbnmw people said biden would save us from fascism, once again, material realtiy disagrees.
Two men kept the children chained up in the basement. The Monster liked to use his fists. The Monster's Keeper liked to use candy.
...Do we need to debate which one is "worse"?
No. Hell no.
That's a meaningless, awful, despicable, gutwrenching question with no real answer, and there's no point wasting the time or energy-- much less sanity-- contemplating it. Just typing it made me queasy.
Both are kidnappers and rapists. Both are monsters. There is no "lesser" evil here. What matters is stopping them BOTH, and getting the kids OUT of that damned basement. Period.
...I've been asked if I have permission to relate this story.
Yes. I do.
Not only that, but my friend brought it up himself, while I was ranting about the plutocratic duopoly's game of Good Cop / Bad Cop. I repeat: it was during a political discussion that I learned about this chapter of my friend's past, when HE volunteered the comparison.
It is not a comparison made lightly.
I'm going to keep saying it: voting in fear is not democracy. It's a hostage situation.
Billions of lives are at stake. Climate change is already hammering us like the fist of an angry god. More than half a century has already been squandered while we politely wait for incremental change and the monsters in charge spend our last best chances at a habitable future betting instead on round after round of musical deck chairs. The Nobel prize was awarded to a deranged economist who calls 3C global temperature increase "optimal"-- even though that's halfway to the opposite of an ice age. The world will be unrecognizable. The scale of the destruction and suffering that's coming-- that has already started-- is unimaginable. The people who got us into this mess are not going to save us.
All our rulers care about is jockeying for power, competing with each other for money and control to see who secures the best bunkers and yachts and private armies while the world burns. They will say anything to shut us up, and toss us only just enough scraps to keep us pacified and complacent-- they've already written us off for dead, and they're already looting our corpses. They'll go on promising incremental change, promising they'll send help, while they crank the gilded doors on the bunker shut and lock it behind them. They'll smile and wave and give us a reassuring thumbs-up while we burn.
We think Democrats and Republicans are enemies. They fight over us the same way predators fight over the entrails of their prey. Just because one hyena brushes their teeth more often and has better breath than another, doesn't mean we should crawl obligingly into their jaws looking for salvation. The enemy of our enemy is just another enemy-- but they'll spend a lot of time and effort assuring us our only real hope is to curry their favor.
The "good" cop smiles and promises to protect us from the bad cop-- IF we behave. This does not make the "good" cop good. It does not make him our friend. It does not make giving him what he wants a good idea. They may not get along, they may not like each other much, but they collect their paychecks from the same banks, vote to fund the same war machine, sip the same champagne and nibble the same caviar while riding the same yachts and the same private jets to the same sex islands, and ALL OF THEM MUST BE STOPPED.
The right fist punches, until being strangled by the left fist feels like a blessed relief. The bad cop softens us up so we'll capitulate to the good cop. Both of them are laughing at us.
We are prisoners, trapped and brainwashed and exploited.
Some of us have come to identify with our oppressors, fawning on them for survival.
Like trusting, desperate children, we are too frightened to face the fact that BOTH of our parents are abusive. It's far easier to blame our siblings for misbehaving.
Don't you DARE say anything bad about Momma. She's the one who wipes our tears and tells us she loves us (before locking us back in the basement). Vote blue no matter who, kids, or else we get the orange hose again. This basement is the only world we can ever hope to know, so we have to be good and make the best of it. Don't talk back.
I hate to break it to you, but Momma is part of the problem. Momma is not going to do anything real to put a stop to the violence in this house.
This house which, by the way, is flooding AND on fire.
We don't have time for this shit. We have to stop this nightmare and get out of this trap.
Our captors will not help us.
....Not even the "nice" one who smiles and promises candy.