It's been hard trying to ram into liberals' thick skulls that the "lesser evil" voting shtick that comes every four goddamn years doesn't quite energize people to haul their asses to the booths, especially when said lesser evil is the incumbent. But I've seen some come around recently, so it's something.
Also doesn't help when the "lesser evil" policy continues to become increasingly indistinguishable from the "greater evil" policy.
We have reached peak evil. There's no crime that is actually worse than genocide. Libs have lesser-eviled themselves to the bottom of the pit and arrived at the ultimate evil. technically they've been there for a long time, but the rank and file had no idea. Now they know what's going on, it's in the news, it's on their social media.
"Meet me in the middle," says the unjust man...
sure says the other unjust man
They are both unjust
Look, you're just going to have to hold your nose and vote Genocidal Fascist Party. You don't want Fascist-Genocidalist Party to win, do you?
Also, Donald Trump is an evil fascist, but he's a cheap evil fascist. He would definitely inflame tensions with rhetorical support for Israel, say "Jerusalem is definitely seriously the capital guys", and probably appoint his son in law as their diplomat.
...but he probably wouldn't send them free weapons. There are a lot of areas where he is the greater evil but I don't actually think this is one of them.
The US has given weapons to Israel since the 1960s.
The libs would actually pretend to care about Palestinians and pretend to side against Israel if Trump were president.
Most liberals don't give a shit and are arguing in bad faith, be it consciously or not
Easily the funniest thing would be Biden winning the electoral college but losing the pop vote.
Funniest outcome: Biden has a massive stroke shortly before the election, Trump wins easily vs a literally braindead opponent, then trump dies of McCardiacArrest before taking office, leaving us with president, uh idk maybe Matt Gatez or something.
leaving us with president, uh idk maybe Matt Gatez or something.
Mike Pillow
chuds would shed their material bodies and ascend to a plane of pure cope
Hey champ, can we maybe not talk about genocide right now?? Huh bud? Chief? Can we not do that while the most important election of our lifetimes is happening?? That ok buddy?
1 year into the term: hey buddy it’s only been a year. These things take time. Be patient.
2 years in: champ it’s almost midterms. We can’t lose the Senate over Palestine, the adults in the room have more important concerns.
3 years in: fam we have [arbitrary self- or GOP-initiated crisis like a government shutdown or Supreme Court decision] to deal with. This has to wait. We only have so much political capital.
4 years in: this is the most important election
Liberals will blame three groups in this order: "Woke" leftists against genocide, Palestinian/Arab Americans, Black people
Yeah. I'm cool with it. Fuck those fascist shitheads. Some were handwaving "Genocide Joe" saying it was a GOP talking point. Fucking hell. I used to wonder, how could the Holocaust happen? How could so many people be complicit in something so horrible? I still don't understand it, but I'm afraid I'm starting to.
The rhetorical refuge of libs trying to vote scold right now is that genocide is going to happen either way, so you need to swallow your selfish pride and vote for the least bad genocide enabler.
A vote for someone endorsing genocide is apparently not approval of the genocide either. Vote for genocide but shake your head while doing it so everyone sees you disapprove.
where did you come from?
where did you go?
I'll never vote for Genocide Joe
Bit idea: Joe Biden is a tankie.
- Supports sending the tanks (to Ukraine).
- Supports Muslim genocide (in Palestine).
See? Bona fide tankie.
Bona fide tankie
I think the term is actually Bona Fidel when applied to tankies
Most low income people were materially better off under Trump, whose pandemic policies resulted in the lowest childhood poverty rate since the 90s. (These welfare policies were cancelled or expired under Biden.)
Dems will still assume 3rd party and non-voters have a strong Biden preference.
If not for the pandemic, he wouldn't have done any of it. It wasn't a particular position of Trump's to give that money, he just was in the position to do so at a time of crisis.
The intent doesn't change the reality. If your kid only had food to eat because of a Trump policy and you're presented with a choice between him and a nigh-identical ancient piece of shit, which one do you think you're going to pull the lever for?
But how many people are going to see it that way vs just “Trump instated these programs that helped us, Biden took them away.”?
I was banned from two different lemmyworld political coms for being against this kinda shit lol
At this point, does it even matter what their spin doctors and their strategic autopsies conclude? If an electoral system only presents two options against genocide: feverish support, or guilty complicitness then it's fucking useless, it belongs in the garbage. It sucks that it took me a genocide to really really recognize how useless partisan electoralism is, because it's hard to dispell the illusion that maybe it'll give you some crumbs if the right guy comes along. Nope, not even in the face of genocide will it cede an inch.
They can line up along party lines because it spurs controversy, which increases turnout and publicity. There’s plenty of money floating to both sides to balance that out.
Our cowardly, self-serving politicians won’t dare bite the hand that feeds them. The Mossad is our second pair of eyes in the Middle East, and Israeli backed AIPAC money runs deep in American politics.
Idk tho today's election results look pretty bad for the GOP lol. Just like the midterms did. Its possible that Joe himself will lose the presidency while GOP lose heavily elsewhere though? But like, the GOP is still dealing with a deflated base that got what they wanted in Dobbs and don't care anymore, and continue to run on culture war bullshit that noone actually cares about.
There's also the issue of RFK Jr, who is apparently mostly pulling votes from Trump.
Like yes absolutely 100% the genocide is going to deflate the zoomer vote* that helped Dems out so much in the midterms but I think the GOP is having electoral problems too, not the least of which that they support the Genocide too, which is going to make the whole thing a mess.
*Not to mention the Muslim vote which obviously tanked for good reason, and is a material thing in at least one swing state.
God RFK has been such a pathetic worm on this issue
I know he sucks for other reasons but it especially pisses me off that he knows that Sirhan Sirhan is innocent and thus should know that the CIA framed a Palestinian for his father's murder and yet he still supports zionism like a miserable little cuck and both sides this genocide
Meanwhile he has no problem with actually being antisemitic to jews with his insane covid conspiracies
I'm expecting Islamophobia to become even more ingrained as usual with libs leading the charge and going "If Muslims didn't want Islamophobia maybe they shouldn't have voted for the Muslim ban president 💅"
Nah, havent you heard? The dems won the Kentucky governors race by a few points so absolutely nothing has to change and Biden will breeze to victory in all the swing states polls say hes seriously underwater in
Where was that tweet about democrats looking themselves in the mirror post 2016 and saying "we gotta get more racist"?
Blaming others for their own cataclysmic failures is just about the only thing that the Dems keep their promise on
Are there even enough of us in this country to swing a fucking vote? Why do we keep getting blamed for everything?
The biggest voting block in the country and irrelevant at the same time
This isn't devil's advocate this is parody
I decided to delete the thing I needed to explain and just leave this part.
spoiler
Leftists need to understand that genocide isn't on the ballot and vote for what is
Obama had a close election against Romney in 2012, but that was with Obama who has a lot more charisma than the wet noodle that's Biden. Romney isn't really charismatic and the only reason libs like him is because he's "respectable." Trump has genuine charm and anyone who says otherwise hasn't spent a considerable amount of time in rural parts of the US where he's still adored.
I hope the democratic party loses the next thousand elections
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