I think the statement should be changed to "those who went to college tend to not support the GOP"
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
174 points (96.3% liked)
Self-Aware Wolves
1083 readers
1 users here now
Submit posts (from anywhere) where people unknowingly describe themselves.
Specifically, someone who, when attempting to mock or denigrate their political opposition, accidentally describes themselves. They aren't self aware enough to notice. Or, alternatively, someone who accurately describes the world while trying to parody it.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
What statement?
I wouldn’t say I support Biden. I feel most people don’t. I do know that I don’t want republicans to keep themselves over represented especially in our highest courts anymore. The DNC is the only Biden supporter.
There's not many Biden supporters, it's just there's no alternative that isn't batshit insane.
Voting for Biden is like breaking a leg, and the Republican alternative is like getting your leg amputated.
Very few people want either, but if one of the two are gonna happen, it's a pretty easy choice.
I'd view it more as just... Biden is practically a net nothing. It's like your house is on fire. Voting for Biden is like standing by and watching it burn down. Voting for Trump (or really any other GOP member) is like adding a nuclear bomb to the fire (to own the libs or something).
Biden does do some good and some bad things, but the good things he does are often just not enough (eg, as a Canadian, I absolutely cannot comprehend how Americans defend their cluster fuck of a healthcare system). If the house wasn't on fire, that'd be fine, but not even trying to put out the fire is pretty shitty. There's gonna be a lot of deaths and damage.
As bad as it is to ignore the fire, leveling the entire city is just so laughably worse.
I support biden. Dudes a hero for beating Donnie then making it stick. Also he's been a pretty good president.
He's been kind of a wet blanket but the IRA and union support are pretty fuckin based.
Ol' Joe boy supports the Irish Republican Army? Damn, that's not what I was expecting.
Little known fact, the O'Bidens had to change their name after coming to the united states.
Individual Retirement Accounts too!
You mean like when he made it illegal for railroad workers to strike?
And then he claimed that he negotiated for them and gave them four sick days, as if that’s supposed to be a win for them? They didn’t get the pay raises or the reduction of brutal hours or even the amount of sick days they wanted but that’s supposed to be a union win for the Biden administration?
It's almost as if the ability to critically think about something leads to saying "republican plans are stupid", fascinating.
More like you can see that they really don’t have a plan
90% of the time you're right. The other 10% I hear about this trickle down economics bullshit and it makes me want to exhume reagan's dead ass just so I can use him as the pinata he should have been.
Ronald Reagan? The actor?
If only he had stayed as a shitty actor...
That old man is like 2s from having a revelation, but his mind quickly backpedals because that would mean he’s the bad man
Knowing things makes you a Biden supporter…
Knowing things makes you want to tear your hair out at the fact that we’re trapped in a two-party system that almost without exception only gives us a choice between “bad” and “worse”. It also makes you never vote for the GOP for the rest of your life.
I’m more anti-GOP than pro-Dem. If there was a centrist GOP party that was focused on legitimately improving efficiency and making our tax dollars go further then I’d consider that option. But I have no interest in the current dumb culture warriors trying to walk us back to the 1950’s by gunpoint.
If there was a centrist GOP party that was focused on legitimately improving efficiency and making our tax dollars go further then I’d consider that option.
I believe the expression is "and if my grandma had wheels, she'd be a bicycle." Unfortunately, a lot of people seem to vote on how they wish the GOP was, rather than how the GOP actually is.
Which is why I don’t vote for them.
The Dems are centrist gop policies from the 80s. Obama is right of reagan.
Some people are really suckered by the Overton window in the USA.
So in your world, Obama was like murdering gay people with his own hands or something?
I hate this argument because it reduces politics to economic policies. If you can't see that the US has made significant social progress since the 80s, then this conversation will likely be a waste of time for both of us.
Obama extra judicially killed a us citizen. His hands aren't clean. There is no argument. I'm merely pointing out that Obama policies are right of Reagans.
Facts don't care about your feelings remember. You can hate the fact all you want.
The whole point is if you're expecting Dems to pull us left you've got a rude Awakening coming.
What point are you trying to make? That the Dems are fiscally responsible option or something because not really, they both spend like crazy. And yeah US politics have shifted to the right, I’m not fucking suckered in by that we literally have two options because well that’s just how things when you are working off of an outdated document from the fucking 1700’s that can’t be updated effectively…Overton window has shifted a bit since then too.
The Democrat party, on average, is center-right, my dude.
No shit
You're almost there. Keep going...
Get fucked
I musta gone to college wrong, I ended up a communist. It's all the same to them I guess.
It is. I'm decidedly not communist but I've definitely been called one.