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[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Whoa, whoa, whoa, nobody said anything about Donald Trump.

It is absolutely possible that Biden can start to do better. For some reason a lot of people on the internet want him to not even have to try to do better. I just don't understand why our expectations are lower because the other guy sucks. He can and should have high expectations, meet them, and be better than the other candidate.

[–] echo@lemmings.world 11 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Because you have to be smart enough to pick and time your fights. Biden has done some of the best work we've seen in a long time.

I think you know this, though.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee -4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Dude, I've been voting since Obama 1. Every election is a crisis, every election is "just trust me bro, this one is too important, you can pick your principles out of the dirt next election, please, bro, I mean it". I've become convinced that this is a situation where tomorrow never comes. The republicans leapfrog is into fascism, and then the democrats keep us right where the Republicans left us, saying 'oh, man, if only we had four more years, or a few more legislators. Oh well, here's a new bipartisan domestic surveillance bill.'

I've never voted for a Republican and I don't intend to start, but I'm sick of being clowned on with this fucking line. I know I'm being played, and you can't make me like it.

[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Every presidential election is important, and it never makes sense to make a "protest vote". That's just not how voting works.

I'm sure somebody has cried wolf at every election, but McCain and Romney never aimed to become dictators. Republicans currently have a published plan to institute fascism. It's pretty obvious that these elections actually are exceptional.

[–] Windhover@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Every Presidential election is too late. The elections to sway things start at the party and local level and continue on up. Most people aren’t involved in those and so they’re left with the choices at the end that were long since selected by others.

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