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The only way we lose is if we stand divided.
(lemmy.world)
PS.
I would for vote Kamala. I would vote for a cactus with sunglasses if it had the Democratic nomination. You would do yourself well to consider anything that is weaking the resolve of the anti-trump sentiment straight poison to your brain. We have only one job this novemeber and that is to stop trump. The Supreme Court has given him the status of king. Quit acting like your vote is sacred and start realizing your vote is your final cry before your rights are forfeited.
The term has been around for just over a year.
AKA Blue Fash/ Blue MAGA/ BNMW (But actually only Biden).
It started as a descriptor for those defending Biden running again (when it was a literal campaign promise that he would stick to one term). Got more traction when the DNC cancelled/ disallowed any debates that would have put Biden on stage and have him challenged from within the party. The DNC pushed for a coronation and fed the line that anyone challenging this was "for Trump" through their various mainstream and alternative outlets.
Dummies ate it up, and post October, say, November, when it was clear that Biden was taking the wrong side of the Gaza/ Israel issue and he started to see challenges to his policies from within the party, thats when the Blue MAGA rhetoric really got going. Its rhetorically very similar to what we saw coming from r/TheDonald in the earliest days of the MAGA movement. No space for nuance, gaslit trolling, vote-shaming, etc.
When we saw a write in campaign for Undecided, that should have been the "SLAM ON BREAKS/ PULL HANDLE TO STOP" moment for Joe Biden, but Blue MAGA, in both mainstream and social media, worked to prevent a serious discussion around Joe Biden until very recently, when it became so appealingly glaring that he couldn't win, even their abuse wasn't enough to halt the conversation.
No no no, people were shutting down anti-joe sentiment since the 2020 election. It's not blue MAGA it's corporate control. Reddit was being commercialized and anything left of Joe was bad for business. Lemmy is a silo so when people transitioned after the mod strike they were finally allowed to say the fucking truth. Unfortunately the tankies and right wing ideologues got here first because they were driven from reddit long before the leftists.
Most people were fine with the fact we had to throw down for joe again but because of obvious discourse bad actors have been amplifying in-fighting just about the time when there was nothing left anyone could do. They did the same thing with Bernie in 2016 and guess what, it's working again.
This whole sub is a testament to it. April, May, June, none of my memes would have gotten traction.
I think this (if a bit dated) macro highlights the definition fairly well:
The know your meme article is worth a read. We're both wrong on dates. It was coined in 2017. Obviously its usage has transformed several times, and I think my defintiion is probably the most accurate current working definition, specifically for the period from post WI/ MI/ MN primaries to now. Its the definition Jon Stewart used recently.
Another example is MSNBC host Joy Reid saying she would vote for Joe Biden if he was in a coma. Or Whoopi saying she would vote for Joe Biden even if he was shitting his pants on stage.
And this is the whole rhetorical point. It doesn't matter that these Blue MAGA have incredibly low standards or are only interested this one guy. Saying you want insist on running the comatose pants shitter is not convincing to others and its losing Democrats the elections, entirely. Hence the actual panic in the Democratic party at this point, because Joe Biden's down ballot impacts are that you give team red a super majority in BOTH the house and the senate.
If you actually care about winning the election, its not about you being convinced of something; its about what is going take to convince a majority of people other than you of something.
See. This is just not TRUE. Its not supported by the data. Look at the previous 450 days of polling. Look at the write in campaigns when the DNC shut-down anything resembling a real primary. You have to come to terms with the actual material fact that no, most Democrats right now do not want Joe Biden as candidate. This intentional ignoring of the facts is what qualifies as Blue MAGA behaviror.
Polling data is notoriously shit. Joe won the primaries in 2020 and a better candidate has not emerged since. 2020 showed us that both candidates were not popular. Ever.
In fact, Joe gets less credit then he deserves because he has done phenomenal for being a fucking useless dinosaur.
Blue MAGA is thought terminating terminology and I will never submit to your fucking bullshit. I didn't when you were screaming "alt-left" and I won't wen you start saying blue-fash. You want the fucking "both sides" argument so hard and it's absolute shit.
Edit:
Also love the fact that "only political DNC insiders votes should count" is in your meme and that's exactly what you want to happen at the convention.
If you've lost your connection to reality, and it seems like you have, I don't know what other term to use for you. And its accurate in the sense that Red MAGA and now, you, with Blue MAGA, are in a cult that has completely detached its self from reality. The only thing guiding your rhetoric is your fear and your feelings. You have nothing to back up your argument for supporting Biden. When confronted with reality, you dismiss it.
Its sad to see whats happened to supposed "leftists".
You are a walking definition of Blue MAGA.
You've lost touch with reality. You think you're some sort of 'online freedom fighter' that will change political discourse using the most advance meme technology. You're some schmuck on a smartphone and the government will bring you to your knees before the revolution even has a chance to begin. You're either losing at a rigged game till you die or winning some sort of lottery. The meme revolution is a fantasy.
You are the one rejecting evidence of polling, not me.
Oh, the polling again. Ok.... right... polling is infallible now.
Omg 2016, every week, listening in to 548. "Well we did this with the model and if we pull this lever and we switch these numbers... 2.5 to a 1.7... Rutgers... margin of error... tune in 45 mins before the election and I'll run the model one more time."
Nate Silver is the master of edging over poll numbers. You'd like him
Its you being in denial of reality. I know you dont see it. People deeply in the wrong almost never see it. But you need to be told.
Denial of what?
Objective fucking reality.
No, what am I in denial of?
You should move on to Rumble. You are the same as a Trumper.
Do you think you could stop trolling for five minutes and address the objective fact that Biden is losing this election and that if we don't replace him, we get Trump?
Or are you too Blue-No-Matter-Who to do so?
You are a fucking troll dude, and you've gaslit yourself into believing a complete fantasy. You are a living example precisely what happened in r/TheDonald.
If it’s rigged against me why waste my money on it?
Don't?
Oh, you think I don't realize voter turnout is abysmal? No. Be a statistic w/e.
Also, the correct answer is “Because it’s the only game in town.”
You are all over the place here.
What the fuck I'm just putting out memes. Sorry, are looking for my advice all the sudden?
Are you appalled that after everything there are people who still support drumpf no matter what?
If so, can you not see the parallel in reacting to any valid criticism of Biden's chances with things like "iD vOtE fOr a LiTeRaL tUrd u LoVe TrUmP tAnKiE"?
I genuinely thought Biden might die on stage during the debate. His follow ups have been arrogant, out of touch, and full of senior moments. We need someone capable of fighting billionaire funded christofascism, not an 81 year old invalid who's been championing the status quo for decades.
I plan to vote for Biden, but the odds ain't great. Feel free to ignore the facts and call me a russian plant if it helps you sleep at night.
This is both sides bullshit. Moving on.
And like clockwork, here you are.
How does it feel to be on the losing side of history AGAIN?!
It literally wasn't a campaign promise. I know all you ever do is misrepresent things. But for Christ's sake at least put basic effort into making it hard to fact check your lies when you troll. "Aids signaling he might be a one term president" doesn't constitute a campaign promise.
Axios doesn't agree with you:
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/03/biden-campaign-democrats-pledge-one-term
What this axios? From the literal link you just posted?
It was a campaign promise dude. It was in his rhetoric. He said it several times. Was it litterally in his platform? Did he sign a contract? No but thats never how campaign promises work.
You are being obtuse if you think that's how campaign promises are made.
No it literally wasn't. A campaign promise is a specific thing. He didn't promise it. And you can twist and kvetch all you want about it. But it's not going to magically make it something that it never was.
I think he should have only been one term. Quite frankly I think all the people that were running this term were pathetic and that's the reason he decided to stay in. But a campaign promise is a very specific thing.
If a guy says he's going to do or not do a thing in a campaign, thats a promise.
It might have been one he never intended to keep, but he made sure it got out there and into the media.
Quote where Biden himself said it on the campaign Trail and I'll believe you. Point out official campaign Communications highlighting this as a promise and I'll believe you. If all you have is his aids signaling that he might. That's not a promise. And you and those like yourself are playing stupid semantic games in order to lie.
Biden acknowledged it as a campaign promise:
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/president-biden-campaign-2024/card/biden-explains-why-he-abandoned-bridge-candidate-pledge-Ni4jjZiF87PatTTsgeEx
And? That article does not make it so. Last I knew. Campaign promises were supposed to be about future actions not past actions. But he slipped up and accepted such loaded wording from a Rupert Murdoch media outlet. We can critique him on that. But not actually making a campaigns promise that was never made.
There is a ton to critique Biden on without having to make things up. And yet people like yourself do it constantly. Like you have some innate need or desire to feel offended. But in the end all you really do is harm actual discussion. The fact that you cannot pull something from the campaign. Where Biden or his campaign actually made this promise just really goes to show how manipulative and dishonest you are.
Anyhow I've made my points and you proved that you had none. Bye felicia.
BIDEN FUCKING ACKNOWLEDGED IT AS A CAMPAIGN PROMISE!!!
This is why the world isn't taking you seriously. You just deny deny deny, then presented with evidence, you move the goal posts.
It was a campaign promise to Biden and he decided it wasn't a priority. His words. Not not ours.
Your entire cult lives in bad faith.
5 years after the campaign ENDED sweety. You can't find a single recording, quote, etc. Contemporaneous with the actual campaign. And if you were an honest or sincere person that should worry you. But it doesn't. That's how we know you aren't just a sincere person who was duped or radicalized. You're here in bad faith.
I asked you for actual evidence of the president or his campaign officials during the campaign making the promise publicly. You come at me with an article from 5 years after the campaign ended. That's just dishonest sweetie. Again bye Felicia this will be the last you'll hear from me on this. I've got better use of my time than talking to someone like you.
Dude.
You are fucking lying. You didn't even watch the fucking video.
Here is is again, saying the same fucking thing.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-12/biden-explains-why-he-is-no-longer-bridge/104089790
5 years after the fact. Not a lie sweetie.
You've gaslit yourself into a fantasy.
And I'm sure you still ardently defend that they're The Berenstein bears. They aren't. Never have been. But I'm sure you feel strongly that they are 😁
Seeth
Do better.
Stop lying. Stop trolling. Stop gaslighting yourself and others.
That is so rich coming from you 😂🤭