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Online discourse: "You have to convince me to vote for Joe #Biden"
Why? I don't like Joe Biden. The idea that anyone has to convince you to fall in love with Joe Biden is as absurd of a #political assertion as the #MAGA cult and #Trump, that #politics is about #passion
It's also the height of #privilege and #entitlement, that you don't have to care about your #trans compatriots, you don't have to care about the #climate, that you don't have to care about #women and their right to control their own body, etc. You're going to assert your single issue, to the exclusion of all other issues, and even go backwards on that one issue
"Tactically, that means admitting that you'll hold your nose and vote for Biden in the general is something that should be left unsaid"
thank you
but for those who don't vote, and we get Trump, as a structural function of our fucked up voting system and what an abstention/ 3rd party vote means functionally, then they, in aggregate with other such fools, are responsible for Palestinian suffering. Because they know Trump is worse on that issue
"well i refuse to participate in such a fucked up system. i won't #vote"
do you (royal you, not you Maier) have a choice? welcome to reality
it should be better, but it isn't, so you do what you can
you don't whine it should be better then drop out and help make things worse
that is entitlement and privilege
that all the fucked up thing #Trump will do won't effect you, because you're not #trans, you're not a #woman, you can't be bothered to care about the #climatecrisis
In response to the ongoing debate whether the US should lift restrictions on US weapons being used inside Russia, US House Speaker Mike Johnson said that "Ukraine should be allowed to prosecute the war in a way they see fit. They need to be able to fight back and us trying to micro manage that effort is not a good policy."
he just goes with the flow. in the past that meant opposing ukraine aid for his position within his political party
he's a creature of creating, maintaining and extending power
there's no principles behind his words, just positioning himself
so the positive news is that he sees the reality of his situation is to go all in on ukraine, probably for no greater reason than he is no longer a backbench GOP hack, but a rep of the wider country
It honestly drives me to the brink of depression that half the American electorate barely knows where Russia is, let alone has the capacity to understand what a president beholden to them (a second time) would be like. I feel like I live in a bad horror movie.
"change the paradigm bro, utopian society bro, benevolent AI ruler bro"
AI is like crypto. lots of excited fanboys, tons of money flowing in, little to show for all the dreaming untethered from real world needs and concerns