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Democrats need to pull themselves together and remember: Biden is still better than Trump (www.usatoday.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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While rebutting another post here on Lemmy, I ran into this. This says exactly what I want to say.

I am not a friend of Biden's Administration. I think they drug their feet over a variety of things ranging from holding Trump and his goons accountable for January 6th through rulemaking on issues like OTC Birth Control and abortion rights, and yes, I think he's too quick to please big business. But then I remember what the alternative is, and ... well, disappointed in Biden or not, I'm voting for him. Because my wife is a Black bisexual goth woman, four strikes under Team Pepe's tent. And I have my own strikes for marrying her as a White dude, and respecting her right to not have kids since she doesn't want them is another strike against me. And I care about my Non-Christian, Gay, Transgender, and Minority friends, and will never willingly subject them to Team Pepe.

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[+] [email protected] -11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The key word in the title is Democrats. Leave those of us that are not Democrats or Republicans out of the conversation.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hey, pal, I didn't write the headline, so don't give me crap about it. But here's a fact you miss with your "not democrat or republican" nonsense. Do you claim to care about Non-Christian, Gay, Transgender, or Minority people? Then you must vote for the Democrat. Because come November, one of two parties will win the election. That's just how the American system is designed currently, and it's going to take LOTS of hard work to fix it, and there are gonna be LOTS of people who will fight you tooth and nail to stop that from happening. But until it happens, either a Democrat or a Republican will win that seat, like one has every year from 1860 until the present. That's even more likely if the only time you're pushing for an alternative is during the General Election and not, say, during the Primary or for local elections.

And to remind you, the two men who have a lock on that office in January consist of:

A man who is admittedly old, who has a speech impediment and a history of engaging mouth before brain throughout his adult lifespan, who is a bit stuck in the past and thinks that solutions that worked on problems back in 1980 will work on problems today, and who is too friendly with Israel as a nation to recognise that Israel's leader is more akin to his opponent than anyone on his side of the political aisle.
A shithead who is only 3 years younger than the other guy, who doesn't have a speech impediment to explain away his word salads, who once famously bragged that he could take any woman in the world he wanted despite her thoughts on the matter because 'he's a star' and 'he's allowed to do that', who mocked and denigrated disabled people willingly and openly, who quoted Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini freely and pridefully, and who encouraged shitheads to run down Americans protesting shithead policies, and who has a plan to double down on all that bullshit come DAY ONE and he promises to be a dictator "only for a day!" if he wins.

One of those two will be in office come January. Nobody else. Your third party or no-vote won't change that. If you stay home or vote third party in 2025, you should be fucking ashamed of yourself if you even begin to think you're a friend to any of the issues the Left stands for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I'll start with democrats are not left. They are to the right of people like Reagan and Nixon. Your party doesn't give a fuck about Non-Christian, Gay, Transgender, or Minority people either, talking like they do then doing nothing to protect them makes them no different than their Republican counterparts. Using marginalized people as human shields to defend shitty politicians and their shitty policies doesn't make you an ally, it makes you an enemy of their progress and keeps them further subjugated.

Cant change a system if no one has the balls to actually challenge it and refuse to keep propping it up.