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I tried faking being nice when I'm irritated about something, and the result is usually just even more off putting.

No, I'm mad because people are spreading transparent bullshit on my social network and not even bothering to pretend that they themselves believe it.

I get it if I'm being hostile and condescending and calling them shills and then, wo ho surprise, they're not excited to talk with me. Makes perfect sense and I'd probably do the same. But it doesn't change the fact that they're saying stuff that's wrong and then not bothering to address on any substantive level if I or anyone else says "hey Biden actually did on YYYY-MM-DD this thing you said he was deliberately not doing because he hates the voters"; they just fly away like Superman to the next misleading meme. They've got a right to do it of course, just like I've got a right to call them liars about it and explain why.

"Y'all" is the shills, OP included. I wrote the above in response to some conversation about Biden; at this point I'm using it as a copypasta because I haven't seen any of the here's-something-bad-about-Biden-gotta-go-my-planet-needs-me crowd have any real substantive response to any of it and it constantly irritates me that they're constantly posting "hello fellow kids we all agree Biden sucks for these vaguely-defined reasons" things, and I'm tryin to be a hero by putting it up when I see them do it.

Parts of this meme, I agree with. The main part ("Republicans get everything they want") is a load of horseshit as it pertains to the current president and the current election.

Yes, in the beginning. Now I definitely don't think it's a sincerely held belief for a couple of different reasons (mostly that they're totally uninterested in talking about whether what they're saying is true or not -- most people on the internet who have opinions on politics are interested in explaining their opinions, not like "no time gotta post more memes" about them.)

“This year we selected leaders in different fields. We honored men for the first time. We thought RBG’s teachings regarding equality should be practiced. We did not consider politics,” Julie Opperman, the chairperson of the org, said in a statement. “Instead, we focused on leaders, who, in their own way, have made significant contributions to society.”

I actually don't think that the issue was that it was being given to men. I think the issue was that if you think Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch (!) are the people that Ruth Bader Ginsberg would have wanted to honor, someone needs to maroon you on an island somewhere all alone where you can't infect the others.

Bill Burr had a great bit on Conan. He explained that he was more comfortable with the Republicans.

"I know they don't like me," he explained. "They're just pushing old people down the stairs... GOD MADE THIS FOR ME!" Whereas "the Democrats" (I would amend this to "a lot of the Democrats") are pretending to be for the working class, when they're the same crop of etc etc.

"So you feel like the Republicans are more honest," said Conan O'Brien.

"WHAT? No. No no..." said Bill, as if he was trying to reboot his whole explanation and try to explain again from the beginning what he'd been trying to say.

These folks aren't operating in good faith.

You don't say 🙂

I'm mostly just posting this stuff so that other people can read. Maybe I should get a job with the Biden campaign.

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Somewhere there is a parallel world where left-wing activists mobbed Washington the way Roger Stone mobbed Miami-Dade, Al Gore fought his way to the presidency, we took strong action on climate change 24 years ago, 9/11 quietly never happened because he took the intelligence warnings seriously, no Iraq War, no Abu Ghraib or Guantanemo Bay, no Afghanistan, no 2008 theft of everyone's pensions by the bankers, we're all driving electric cars and eating locally sourced vegetables right now instead of wondering if our kids will ever buy a house or our grandkids will live to adulthood.

If y'all are going to post an incessant drumbeat of why Biden sucks, I'm just gonna keep pasting a few of the reasons why he doesn't. It's not just that it's not his fault that the Republicans kept him from doing good things (although they did prevent him doing much more than that); even hampered by their obstruction, he still managed to among other things:

• He took the biggest action on climate change in US history; the goal of the climate bill is to put us on track for a 40% reduction in US emissions by 2030. It’s way too late but that’s clearly not Biden’s fault since he started fighting for it basically as soon as he got into office, and managed to achieve passed legislation which is several standard deviations above the norm for “let’s ignore it until we’re underwater and on fire” US politician status quo.
• He ordered the forgiveness of half a trillion dollars in student debt, about a third of the current total balance, and the Supreme Court told him no. He’s still managed to forgive $138 billion worth of it even against stiff Republican “no we need that money to give to Wall Street criminals pls” resistance.
• He introduced a bill to legalize marijuana federally, which the Republicans killed in the senate.
• He achieved the lowest unemployment in 20 years after having been handed an economy that was still digging out from the apocalypse that was 2020.

The shitshow that is supporting Israel during its accelerating genocide, I won't defend all that much. But the overall attempt to paint him as the same as the average Democrat is dead wrong. (And, for what it's worth, "the DNC as a whole and Hilary Clinton specifically are tone deaf media idiots" I'll also fully agree with.)

All the folks that like to post memes like this haven't had much success in trying to say any of the above isn't true.

Agreed, Clinton was terrible. I knew a few people who came from Honduras during the years after she engineered the coup there if that gives you some idea what I think of her.

I have low hopes in general for the Democrats; that's why it was so surprising when Biden actually turned out to be quite good.

It's a few more than 3 🙂

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