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Today in things that never happened: whatever the fuck this post is.
Nobody liked Biden.
Did you get offended because someone argued for critical support in the absence of choice??? You're acting like a butthurt baby.
Nah people would get fucking pissed if you said you didn't like biden. I've seen lots of pretty standard anti-biden (not the genocide joe trolls, those deserve the hate imo) comments get blasted, and to avoid it you had to write a whole disclaimer about how you're still going to vote against trump before you could get to the criticism of biden, or even just saying you think he should drop out. And if you thought he should drop out you had better have had a replacement in mind too
IMO people are seeing a fear of even more disenfranchisement, and confusing it with uncritical support.
Tbh, I’ve been restraining myself from calling him genocide joe, exclusively because I didn’t want to drive people away from voting. Now I can acknowledge that I suspect even W would have been more assertive about Palestinian aid than Biden was without feeling like I’m bringing on a president who would be even worse.
Quick, someone inform Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works that they actually didn't think Biden was the most progressive president in history after all.
that bar is so low it might actually be possible.
Still a garbage conservative, but amongst other garbage conservatives.
Even then, that needs to be compared to Presidents like FDR.
It also depends on if you mean progressive relative to the times vs progressive on a direct platform comparison.
Even the most progressive historical presidents were disgustingly conservative compared to today, in many aspects.
It's usually more sensible to analyze historical context, as everything is a product of its time and conditions.
Maybe for academic purposes.
But from a more "absolute" perspective, it still means he'd be making progress, just not as much as we'd like (although personally I'm not convinced of that).
What is "progress?" I wouldn't consider Biden to be making progress if the overall trend is still negative, and the root cause isn't being addressed. To be somewhat fair, I don't believe the Democrats can do what needs to be done while maintaining their position, similar to what is happening to the Labor Party in the UK from its conception to now.
Historical progress is relevant because it is a good indicator of what people were fighting for and against. The French Revolution was progressive against the Monarchy, even if the resulting French society would not be considered progressive today.
I agree with you, but I'm not sure that's a reflection of what people mean when they're supporting Biden.
Ugh, put your straw man away. Show me one single .world user who thought that.
"Joe Biden has led the most progressive Administration in the nation’s history, investing in social justice, environmental programs, curtailing abuses by corporations and predatory institutions, stood with workers (both on the picket line and in the halls of government), developed initiatives and instituted policies to combat racial injustice, staved off a nuclear power’s assault on a weaker neighbor, overseen the largest growth in real wages in over a half century, passed keystone legislation which committed the largest investment ever into green policies and programs while also committing the largest investment ever into revitalizing the nation’s infrastructure, put more federal judges on the bench in his first term than the last two presidents combined, weathered the highest levels of inflation in generations so well that US fared markedly better than peer nations, guided the economy through that inflationary period without the need for a Volcker Shock, expanded trans rights in every corner of the federal government, oversaw the largest reduction in childhood poverty in the nation’s history, reduced pharmaceutical prices for Medicare users by over 20% on average and brought the cost of insulin down to less than $30, and that’s just off the top of my head.
It’s trendy for the terminally online to knock Biden, but he’s gotten more done in three years than any President in recent history has in eight. I’m not ceding this ground to low-information voters like the commenters here seem to perpetually be. I’m excited to vote for the President who has achieved more leftist goals in three years than any other American elected official has over their entire career."
https://lemmy.world/comment/9431889
Do I win a prize now? Or do I just get crickets when you knew quite well that people over there have been strongly and actively supporting Biden himself, not just voting against Trump, even after genocide began?
If you genuinely think this didn't happen, you haven't been paying attention during the last month. Like there haven't been hundreds of people doing this shit:
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12559334
In response to a fucking meme stating a reasonable concern, which honestly is pretty telling of the mental state of some people. This is just an example I could google from memory, but this behavior has been rampant.
You're confusing a fear of voter disenfranchisement with uncritical support.