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The ones that will suffer most under Trump are the ones threatening to get him elected. The Dems know this. If anything, that’s leverage Biden has and is using, unfortunately.
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The ones that will suffer most under Trump are the ones threatening to get him elected. The Dems know this. If anything, that’s leverage Biden has and is using, unfortunately.
At the end of the day though we just have to see whether current strategy works out come election day, I feel. Or if/when, God willing, a peace is attained.
Yes, but it only works so much as that leverage exists. When the alternative is Trump, that leverage isn’t gonna be realistically useable come November — and there are definitely folks who don’t just say they won’t vote for Biden over this issue (which is imo good, since that’s the whole point of a democracy). I just worry that this strategy actually does extend to the general election and make even more people suffer even more… IMO, focus should be on bottom up — specifically the legislative branch, where there’s quite a few especially in the House where a primary campaign could do well and force the issue at hand.
There’s been a Gaza for decades, it’s not going to stop just because the genocidal Bibi tries to, even if it is being turned into rubble. The primary uncommited campaign is good, and I support it, but people saying that they’re gonna vote for Trump over Biden / that they’ll abstain entirely are just not going to help either present or future atrocities — wiping your hand clean doesn’t save lives.
Honestly though, at the point where only two people would need to flip for the majority to go to the Democrats, it seems crazy that no one’s tried.
Yeah, I assume in general that nothing on the internet ever goes away. At least makes it somewhat more annoying though.
i did the thing that means it’s probably less archived (by editing all the replies before deleting), but i assume some of it probably remains out there. Nothing I can do about that.
One thing i miss about Lemmy is shittymorph tbf
Glad I deleted everything on there. fucking hell.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO :(
That being said, I don’t know, maybe you’re right. But I’d rather people not lose their jobs due to political wrangling.
There’s been shutdowns before. It’s not really leverage when so much is on the line.
I agree! But they’ve shown repeatedly that they’re unwilling to compromise, and the American people have shown that they don’t care that much about Republican unwillingness to compromise at least with the Democrats (remains to be seen about the Speaker fiasco). Given that, it’s better to keep things running and keep people paid.
I don’t really see another option, unfortunately — the alternative is just going to be a shutdown, given Republicans don’t know what compromise is. And lots of people will suffer if one happens, likely for no material gain.
Against people that want to see the people of Palestine not be constantly bombed into oblivion. Trump’s US will be significantly worse for women and minorities, so most people in those groups will end up better off under Biden because at the very least the Democratic Party aren’t literally white supremacist fascists. Those that don’t vote for Biden will largely be doing so as a protest vote or through apathy, which is significant (especially when you can see the size of the uncommitted vote, which is quite significant, and I hope grows), but also self-defeating — so it makes sense for the Democrats to pander to the type of person that would vote for Nikki Haley (which unfortunately somehow has a demographic much bigger than the left) instead, since they wouldn’t necessarily be endangered as harshly by Trump and so need incentives to vote for Biden.