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The Pennsylvania Democrat recalled his time serving as a Hillary Clinton surrogate in 2016, even after he supported Bernie Sanders in the primary.

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[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 153 points 1 year ago

I don't like Joe Biden, but this isn't a presidential approval poll, it's an election, and he's clearly better than any of the alternatives. And when it comes down to it, he's been better than I expected. We could have just had an exclusively centrist presidency, and while there's been plenty of centrism, he has been persuadable to progressive action.

And frankly even if you can't bring yourself to express support Biden for some reason, it should be pretty easy to want anyone who willingly associates with Republicans to lose and lose badly, because they're way beyond stealth-mode fascism now. Even the most jaded "they're all neolibs" voter from earlier elections can't possibly ignore that the Republicans are just fash now. There's a real danger if they win that cities end up with federally tasked jackboots kidnapping protesters like Portland.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 50 points 1 year ago

When the vote is between someone (and a party) who says "climate change is more worrying than nuclear war" and "climate change is a hoax" the choice should be clear for any reasonable person. All the treason stuff aside (though very important, everyone should already be decided on that), climate change is the biggest issue for everyone I know. Probably for any average person under 50 if I had to guess.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I've seen people saying Hexbear users have been brigading politics communities of other instances. Not sure if it's true, but it would explain the massive influx of idiotic far right morons with a 6th grade writing level making bad faith arguments.

[-] thoro@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Hexbear is leftist and lemmy.world defederated from the instance so you're speaking of phantoms

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think he's suggesting hexbear users are making accounts on non-defederated instances to troll

[-] thoro@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

So baseless conspiracy without a shred of evidence.

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