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[–] rio@hexbear.net 96 points 5 months ago (21 children)

Remember to vote if you don’t want

  • ~~inhumane racist border control~~
  • ~~supporting genocidal middle eastern dictatorships~~
  • ~~blatant nepotism that goes unpunished~~
  • ~~abortion rights to be erased~~
  • ~~student debt crisis~~
  • ~~COVID to be treated like a joke~~
  • ~~jingoistic militarism~~
  • ~~unnecessary trade wars~~
  • ~~cost of living crisis~~
  • ~~insane neocons running the pentagon~~
  • ~~geriatric with clearly deteriorating cognitive abilities~~
  • sex scandals with porn stars
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 49 points 5 months ago (1 children)

WW3 is still on the table too

[–] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Tbf its arguable that ww3 has already started.

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[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 47 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Trump really did have the most consensual sex scandal of any president.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago

tails-what

Its too early in my workday for you to have broken my brain with this observation.

pain

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[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Those Biden signs in DNC offices actually have the gall to claim he ended the standard of having kids in cages.

[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They're now free-range child prisoners

[–] context@hexbear.net 26 points 5 months ago

free-range child ~~prisoners~~ indefinite detainees

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[–] roux@hexbear.net 88 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

Trump winning 2024 isn't anyone's fault but the Democratic Party's.

Not only does our votes not really matter, but it's hard to even pretend voting can even change anything at this point. The DNC had one job, and that was to win against Trump. And for some God damn reason, they thought Biden was their guy. Our system is a fucking joke.

He won in 2020 because it was a clown show to begin with. If they actually want to do anything worth while, they need to push actual likeable candidates that millennials, zoomers, and marginalized people don't feel disgusted in voting for.

I know the "just like me frfr" meme exists but like it's literally a blueprint for a win for them. But instead they wanna try and attract people so old they are gonna die halfway through this next term so it doesn't even matter. Dems just need to run a young socdem and it's an easy victory. I don't know why this is so hard for them.

E: dumb typos because Android's keyboard is garbo

E2: I didn't realize this comment got this much traction. Jerboa and crappy mountain Internet isn't giving me notifications. I tried to read through and do follow up comments but y'all have spot on analyses as usual.

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 71 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He won in 2020 because it was a clown show to begin with

And to be clear he barely scraped across the finish line in 2020 in what should’ve been a landslide election against one of the least popular presidents in history.

[–] diego_maradona@hexbear.net 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] RustyVenture@hexbear.net 35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

He was also toast before he got the shot in the arm that was all of the other Reagan Democrats dropping out simultaneously except warren-snake-green and we were ordered to treat the Jim Clyburn endorsement and SC primary win as if it decided the whole election. Right before all this the man was talking about leaving record players on for kids at night to help them learn, saying he didn't care about young people's issues, saying he'd veto M4A, and getting chewed out by his eventual VP pick for being a segregationist.

I'm still convinced that if Trump started selling cloth "Keep America Great" masks on his campaign website or worn one around for a few days he would've won.

[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm still convinced that if Trump started selling cloth "Keep America Great" masks on his campaign website or worn one around for a few days he would've won

It genuinely annoys me that he didn't do something like that. It could have been an easy fucking layup to both get a bunch of cash and also not get his hogs killed but he couldn't even do that. The reactionary nature of the hogs was such that as soon as "the libs" started masking it was all but guaranteed that they were going to cough into each others open mouths

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[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

meaning Biden, right? (I don't think Biden would have managed a win without COVID)

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[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 56 points 5 months ago (2 children)

He won in 2020 because it was a clown show to begin with.

Let's be really clear - 2020 was the start of a literally biblical level world plague. It goes beyond a clown show. The dems just had to show up.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago

And he still barely won.

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[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 53 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Dems just need to run a young socdem and it's an easy victory. I don't know why this is so hard for them.

it is against the material interest of the democratic party to hold and wield power

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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It seems like there's a bunch of establishment critters who have been wringing him for Obama-era nostalgia 'till antimatter starts coming out.

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[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 79 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Turns out doing literal genocide and paying for it with record high prices on food and housing is a losing strategy. Who could have guessed

[–] Zrc@hexbear.net 39 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

ok but have you considered that trump would call the genocide he's unconditionally arming extremely very good instead of calling the genocide he's unconditionally arming very very good?? checkmate tankkkies

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I still can't believe political discourse in this shithole country got to the point where "Ok yes, our candidate is committing genocide, but have you considered the OTHER GUY would also do genocide (and like it more)?" is a literal line of thought but here we are

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[–] Sebrof@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But with Trump we'd have two genocides, maybe even three. smuglord

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

With Trump food prices wouldn't even exist because we wouldn't have food. Trump will literally delete the existence of food from America if he is president that's just the fact

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[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 58 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Didn't you hear OP? Drumpf was convicted and is a felon, and Biden 'took action' on 'alarmingly high' numbers of migrants crossing into the US, which will also make Republicans look like hypocrites when they oppose it

Biden will win by 400 electoral votes

maybe-later-kiddo

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 42 points 5 months ago (5 children)

It would be so funny if the core dem base will get complacent because they've convinced themselves that Trump can't possibly win now.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

they're in a state of permanent panic about Trump winning so I don't think that's gonna happen

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 25 points 5 months ago

I agree, the fear of the orange man will likely get the rad libs to show up in droves

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 52 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Biden better start cancelling student debt and arming Palestinians fast if he doesn't want to lose then

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 47 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Real talk, libs would flip their shit if he actually armed Palestine. A ceasefire to stop torturing babies on camera is something even many cynical libs can support. Arming a group that CNN calls terrorists would quickly remind us why libs are fucking tools

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 39 points 5 months ago (4 children)

stop torturing babies on camera is something even many cynical libs can support.

Their politics are really just "I don't like what I'm seeing on TV and I would like to speak to the writers please." Talking to my boomer relatives, the thing that bothers them the most about Trump 2: Electric Boogaloo is that they will have to see him on the news again

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 27 points 5 months ago

This is every lib. Trump is a swaggering asshole who embarasses them on a world stage. It's entirely optics for them.

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[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Genuinely at this point if he wants me to vote for him it’s more than a ceasefire I need, I want air strikes against Tel Aviv and military aid going directly to Hamas

And while I certainly don’t think that’s like, the majority opinion, I do think it would give him a much higher chance of winning than what he’s doing right now

[–] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 43 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Hamas' rockets are bad and given their unguided nature there is a good chance they hit civilians. That is why Hamas and all resistance factions should be given guided missiles instead

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago

I want air strikes against Tel Aviv and military aid going directly to Hamas

sicko-wistful

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[–] hexinvictus@hexbear.net 42 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Maybe bombing more people will pump those numbers up

[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago

If the democrats were really worried about it, they would start bombing republicans

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[–] StalinStan@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I just can't get hard for this one. Last one was fun cause of Trump derangement syndrome. I feel like everyone will just be phoning it in this time.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago

50,000 vote election

[–] egg1918@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just can't get hard for this one.

Lmao I'm going to start using this for completely nonsexual things too

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[–] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well if that happens I will personally blame libs for vote shaming people and empowering fascists.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] halfpipe@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago

I still think that Trump fatigue and the repeal of Roe give him enough of a floor that there's no chance of a complete electoral teeth kicking, but if I still gave a shit about the Democrats I'd be worried.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"You think there will be elections? Well think again Jack!" - Generalissimo Biden

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