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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago

uhh, yeah. If we give him what he wants he'll go right back to comitting genocide.

When power balks, when it takes a step back, you don't congratulate yourself and go home. You kick it in the balls, stab it in the throat, and steal it's wallet. There's no "incremental change", you either go all the way or you lose everything. We didn't "win" by making Biden stop sending bombs, because he didn't stop sending bombs. this is feint, and if we fall for it he's going to shiv us in the kidneys.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago

Getting tough on Israel is when you give them 500 bombs instead of 1500

[–] Blottergrass@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Why don't they just focus their energies on getting new voters? 30% of eligible voters are unregistered. You could counterbalance the "lost" votes from the cocaine left and their toxic podcasts with just a fraction of newly registered voters.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

What energies? They're tired and old

[–] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Those people are too alien to them since they cannot imagine not picking a horse in their two horse race. Not to mention that they know those 30% are not gonna be receptive to their shitty politics.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Because that would mean putting money and resources into local, on the ground organizing and building community connections. Can’t fit overpriced DC consultants and media producers into that equation.

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

immigration

infrastructure

education

police reform

supreme court

abortion

take your pick he sucks on them all

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you don't get it he can't that's all congresses job and you didn't vote hard enough in 2022 for him to do anything

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

the fucked up thing is no, some of that is not. his choice to continue most of trumps immigration policies is purely executive

he choice to let pete basically do nothing at all in regards to the countries crumbling infrastructure is another executive decision. he could have pulled a "im going to use homeland security and anti-terrorism funds to make sure the nations bridges and other infrastructure is safe from attack" and just basically funneled that to the dept of transportation.

there are so many loophole dirty tricks to employ here and they do none of them because they dont want to

[–] Wolfman86@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The abortion thing was amazing…such a huge step back for the USA.

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

i know and its wild that he and the dems just kind of stood down on it

well its on my states ballot and ill be voting even if i skip every other choice on the damn thing

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How about the fact the US imperialism is a genocide machine that will continue no matter who you vote for.

Fucking blue MAGA. At least some of the comments are sane.

[–] sir_this_is_a_wendys@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I hate these people so much. They are like a centimeter to the left of chuds and always have this smug aura. They need the smirks wiped off their face.

[–] GlueBear@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

You know what's extra stupid? I'm thinking of that video of the Isntraeli business man in Egypt getting shot in his own car by some random Egyptian. Like the Egyptian guy not only recorded himself dumping, but he literally says in the end of the video "shalom from the children of Gaza." He was part of a group that's going around carrying out vigilante justice against Isntraelis and (suspected) mossad agents.

Even if those stupid gulf countries "normalize" the Arab people will not. I don't think they actually understand that Arabs in general do not fuck with Zionists period. Normalization was only going to benefit the monarchy and ruling class, which the average Arab hates more than westerners hate their own government.

It was destined to fail.

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Am I out of touch with the Isntreal persecution of Palestinians?

NO! It's Iran who is wrong!

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

Tell these Redditors to "get tough" on deez nuts

Gottem

[–] hexinvictus@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

Biden: hey Israel could you kill less innocent people?
Israel: No

Libs: Biden is getting really tough on Israel.

Yeah I'll never vote for a Zionist, period

[–] Yor@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Immediately disregarding anyone on using decade+ old meme templates

[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sir_this_is_a_wendys@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In 2022 my boss gave me the afternoon off so I could go vote. I smoked a joint and went hiking instead. The next day she was like how was voting? And I said oh great hardly any lines 😂

[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol i voted in my primary but wrote in a socialist and didnt do anything else bc no one was running for anything

I live in a totally red state. All my politicians are scum.

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Biden isnt ever getting tough on Israel, and if Democrats wanted to win this election they would have backed someone with a different platform.

If Biden supporters were soo scared of Trump winning they would have pressed for a primary with alternative candidates, or at the very least called for Biden to reverse his positions on key issues. [-1]

That's a lot of words to say "nyet" [+7]

You dare to criticize our genocidal warmonger? What time is it in Moscow, comrade?

[–] GlueBear@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Man, fuck reddit and redditors

[–] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would call this guy a moron if you'd linked the comment

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Holy fuck reddit-logo's comment collapsing bullshit is such a fucking nightmare to navigate and ctrl+f for a comment in a busy thread, jesus christ. Have to click a million tiny ass [+] and god forbid if I accidentally click two pixels too far to the right and hit the username instead. Here it is tho.

https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/1cobdgn/dont_worry_putin_will_come_up_with_something/l3ebyqj/

[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

No matter what happens, remember that it's leftists' fault that the Democratic Party couldn't find a person capable of beating Donald Trump, who was the most unpopular president in history when he was in office, a man who is one of the most blatantly criminal and corrupt people to ever hold that office, who has no small amount of innocent blood on his own hands and is also personally repellent (even if he can be funny when he's ripping on someone else who sucks).

They found the one fucking guy in America who can lose to this person, and they're gonna blame us for it.

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

/r/politicalhumour

oh i get it, its a joke!

im not a us citizen, i dont get a vote #democrcy

[–] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

What are they even on about, nothing's changed

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Same reason I voted against Biden for a third party in 2020: As one of the architects of the Iraq War, Biden is a mass-murdering war criminal and is therefore unfit to rule. He should not be free to hit the campaign trail and run for President; at minimum he belongs at bare minimum in prison in the Hague.

That was a good enough reason not to vote for him in 2020 and since he still isn't in prison and just spent 7 months overseeing an obvious genocide, it's even more true now.

[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

I"m really burnt out at work. I'm gonna take a day off on election day for self care, and lie to my colleagues I'm taking the day off to VOTE. One single vote doesn't matter anyway.

gigachad

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Tough on my dog biting people (I’m lightly tugging on his leash after he chewed the mailman into a puddle)

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It could've been done months ago... (November even) let's just hope he maintains the peace for a month (who am I kidding)

[–] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

May as well be looking at peak r/TheDonald in 2016