[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I have been saying this since Obama.

In 2020, people believed they were voting for healthcare, defunding the police, emptying the migrant concentration camps, protecting Roe v Wade, etc.

When you fail to do the things that brought people to the polls, and do the things the opposition wants instead, the opposition's voters still won't vote for you and your own voters just don't vote.

Trying to appeal to moderate republicans just lowers your own voter turnout. The republicans will always vote for fascism over diet-fascism.

But no, pointing out these very obvious mechanisms just gets me labeled as an evil conservative Chinese Putin-bot trying to disrupt the election.

dropping out of the race at the convention

The face of the party is infinitely less important than the impact the policies have on people's lives. It doesn't matter if it's Biden or Pete Buttigeig at the front, the dems only shot in hell is to use every power at their disposal short of drone striking Trump and the SCOTUS (maybe) to demonstrate to voters that 1. They want the same thing the voters want (eg, not genocide) and 2. They will actually do those things (no blaming the parliamentarian or norms or some rules you set or fear the SCOTUS might ask you to stop).

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 points 12 hours ago

The adderal or whatever they were giving him for the 2020 debates would kill him now.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 34 points 12 hours ago

For Final Jeopardy, I want to see each of them try to draw a clock.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 0 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Do you just do things entirely at random with no input from your understanding of the world?

No? Then congrats, you've got ideology. I'm gonna assume it's liberalism, since they're typically the only ones both dumb and arrogant enough to think they're not only non-political, but non-ideological.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 day ago

Well if you speak Tagalog, they'll hate you for being Mexican.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah no in the context of a german explaining why rounding up jews and throwing them in jail for protesting Israel is no big deal, you gotta be really, really obvious when you're making a joke since we're already well past poe's law.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 day ago

I'd hope it would have you asking yourself why you're supporting the same policies we all agreed were bad under Trump.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

These shithead illegal immigration policies probably wouldnt even be in the spotlight if scared old white people weren’t the biggest swath of participating voters.

Fascists are never going to vote democrat.

Triangulation doesn't work. When you triangulate yourself to be 1 inch left of hitler, the people who want hitler vote hitler, and the people who wanted not-hitler don't vote. When you get elected for being not-hitler, and proceed to facilitate genocide, people who wanted not-hitler don't vote

You learned nothing in 2020.

You learned nothing when Obama lost the house and senate in 2010 after not pulling out of Iraq+afghanistan, ending the war on drugs, and doing other stuff that voters expected of him, instead tryed to reach out to moderate republicans.

You learned nothing when Kerry lost after campaigning on doing the wars more competently in 2004.

And you will learn nothing in November.

Now what the fuck do we do about this impending presidential vote?

Pressure Biden to cut off all aid to Israel and sanction them until they give equal civil rights to Palestinians and return their homes, use military hospitals to provide healthcare to women, send in the military to destroy the child-drowning fence on the rio, etc.

Doing good things instead of bad things is only way Biden can hope to be reelected (no, the republicans or the parliamentarian or the SCOTUS or Joe Manchin or civility and norms aren't an excuse).

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

no shit, “from the river to the sea” is forbidden in Germany

You understand why this is fucked up right? Is it also forbidden to say "Hawaii will be free" or "Free Tibet"?

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 day ago

While I don't doubt that more Germans are becoming more antisemitic, promoting zionism does not combat antisemitism. Lord Balfor (of the Balfor Declaration), was extremely antisemitic. He was very explicit about how removing jews from Britain and getting a shiny new colony were both positives.

But also that statistic is useless because a significant number people arrested in Germany for antisemitism since Oct 7 were Jews protesting against Israel.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No, it's because that's where they counter the 's propaganda with truth and facts.

Same reason Reddit's director of policy comes from The Council on Foreign Relations and worked for Madelin Albright. They certainly wouldn't be using Reddit to influence the perceptions of Americans, the primary users of Reddit.

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Among other changes to immigration law, the measure would make it more difficult to gain asylum in the United States and increase detentions and deportations of those crossing into the country without authorization. It would also effectively close the border altogether if the average number of migrants encountered by immigration officials exceeded a certain threshold — an average of 5,000 over the course of a week or 8,500 on any given day. The bill also would give the president power to close the border unilaterally if migrant encounters reach an average of 4,000 per day over a week.

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