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Nononono you see life is easier if you just say BoTh SiDeS and move on. Sort of. You kind of have to repeat this mantra every time politics comes up for the rest of your life. But it sure beats thinking! That shit is hard!
If you keep saying "in a socialist utopia this wouldn't happen" and do nothing long enough, a revolution will just happen and solve all the problems!
That's what I'm saying!! Communism is the only way bro
Any day now!
If I put a picture of Karl Marx in my profile, does that make communism happen? I'll do anything to have an excuse for not voting!
Nah you also gotta make sure to tell everyone on the Internet that both sides are the same so third party is the only real way
And when you or your partner get sent to prison because you had a miscarriage, you can rest easy knowing that at least you didn't vote for the guy that wouldn't have sent you to prison for having a miscarriage
Just a friendly reminder....
The first thing I'll do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BdrOrwmk78Y
Im pro choice https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nmzdkAbu8dY
Not my highest priority https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxiDZejZFjg
parody... No https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1z4uhxpOnN0
Man I guess this makes him worse than the guy that'll throw gay people in prison or something
Don't get me wrong, Fuck Joe Biden, but don't act like he's worse than the guys who promise to do awful things and then follow through on those promises
"Thinking is hard" is 5/4 of the way to right wing ideology.
Also 7/6 of the way toward a [insert label] person who thinks the whole system is so corrupt that we all may as well give up on anything but spreading doom
I think the best course of action is to just not vote! That way, I can be blamed when the United States becomes a facist religious country!
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Bro you just changed my life with this revelation!
When they're both drawing money from the same basket of mega-donors, they're both pushing the same draconian border policies, they're both encouraging historic levels of new carbon emissions, they're both bankrolling an endless series of nightmare wars abroad, they're both advocating lower taxes and privatization of Medicare/SS, they're both deep in bed with Wall Street, they're both "pro-life", they're both religious sycophants, they even both call one another "communists" as a derogatory slur...
FFS, man. Where's the line?
The more you think about it, the worse the situation looks. Its lose-lose. The only real question is whether we get Trump terrorizing the LGBT community at home or Biden flinging bombs at brown people living abroad.
Half the shit you said is flat out wrong, the rest is oversimplified thought-sloth. You're 100% in the camp of thought avoidance if you can write this comment.
Biden had a full Congress to work with when he took office in '21 and he rolled back virtually nothing advanced by Trump.
Actually, strike that. He let a bunch of the COVID-era good stuff lapse. No more monthly allocated child tax credits. No more suspended student debt payments. No more free testing and expanded Medicaid.
His immigration policy is worse. His foreign policy is worse. His fucking MONETARY POLICY IS WORSE. How do you pick the same Fed Chairman as Trump and get a worse monetary policy?!
literally pointing at Biden's actual policies while actually in actual office
These suck. Avoid that at your own peril.
Why are you lying about literally all of this? Satire or Putin puppet?
Have we moved from "Thought Avoidance" to "Insidious hand of the evil foreigner" this quickly?
People who allow themselves to think wonder "why". Try it sometime.
Gibberish
Yeah you have literally no idea what the fuck you're talking about, like at all. That's okay, not everyone needs to know everything about everything.
Check out Biden's first 100 days of executive orders.
Objectively false as long as the perspective you have isn't that of a xenophobic bigot.
Explain. If you're referring to the stuff in Afghanistan then you're unfortunately misled as Trump ensured that would have to happen through actions he took at the end of 2020.
"Literally pointing at Biden's actual policies" by making shit up lmfao get the fuck outta here. Also, yeah, Dems had 2021-2023 to make stuff better. Unfortunately, yes, Sinema/Manchin have had disastrous effects in passing bills. Can you please point out a better bill from the current Congress or any Congress since Obama than the Inflation Reduction Act? Because I can't.
I hope that you're simply ignorant, the only other explanation is blatant malice.
The Biden administration Tuesday announced its most restrictive border control measures to date, issuing plans for a temporary rule that will penalize asylum-seekers who cross the border illegally or fail to apply for protection in other nations they transit on their way to the United States.
This, combined with the Texas state practice of police forcing migrants onto private property and then arresting them for trespassing has created an impossible situation for anyone seeking legal refugee status.
I'm referring to the ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the neighboring territories in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon. I'm talking about our support for ethnic cleansing in Modi's India and Zewde's Ethiopia. I'm talking about our theft of $7B from the Afghani treasury on the departure of US troops, plunging the country into a famine. I'm talking about our continued military occupations in Haiti and Niger and Libya and Mali and Somalia. I'm talking about our tacit endorsement of the Polish blockade on Ukrainian harvest exports, because we've wedded ourselves to the US/EU agricultural deregulation efforts. And our support for Spainish, French, and German governments in the war on their own farmers who are in revolt over collapsing wholesale farm prices.
I'm talking about our $250B weapons export market in 2023, the highest in US history, which has contributed to escalating tensions from the Korean Peninsula to the Red Sea to the South Pacific.
Every year Biden has been in office has resulted in more war, more killing, more ethnic cleansing, in large part thanks to his international endorsement of some of the bloodiest wars since Vietnam.
He has been a fucking disaster. In the midst of a labor shortage, he's ratcheted up interest rates to depress wages. In the midst of record global temperatures, he's overseen a new peak in US fossil fuel production and consumption. In the midst of record domestic energy consumption, his FTC and SEC have green-lit a new wave of bitcoin mining and energy hungry AI data harvesting.
More money than ever before for the FBI, the NSA, and the Pentagon. Some of the lowest salaries for educators, medical staff, and agricultural workers in 40 years. Biden's "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" has flooded the investment markets with cash while doing nothing to improve quality of life for lay workers or retirees.
This is all real shit. Its why he's fucked in the polls. America under Biden has gotten materially worse. You are not better of today than you were four years ago and that's saying something given where we fucking started.
You're cruising for the edge of a cliff screaming "Just stay the course", and I'm sure you'll be back here blaming the folks that called it once you crash land into November.