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[-] LadyAutumn 61 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The number of people who are seemingly ignorant of any of the actual politics of Joseph is alarming. Democratic aligned politics has devolved to the same level of Republican politics in the sense of metrics and language. "Economy good" is an absolutely wild way to summarize Joe's politics and the impact on politics that he had. He was a conservative man. From his earliest days as a politician, he was conservative. He played a not insignificant role in creating the modern political landscape. Including in essentially running interference for Clarence Thomas during his initial candidacy for the Supreme Court (Thomas had dozens of credible allegations of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct). Biden was notoriously pro colonialism throughout the entirety of his political career, including active support of Israel and its colonization of Palestine going back to the 70s. He spent decades campaigning on anti-crime discourse that prioritized higher budgets for police to spend targeting minority communities, a fact he was absolutely aware of.

The political legacy of this man is not "Economy good". It is a lifelong career against workers rights, minority rights and pushing conservative agendas within the democratic party against leftist ones. His term as president did not see any degree of preparation for the rise of fascism. He played a significant role in the failures of the democratic party during the election campaign. Refusing to step aside, proving his own incompetence over and over again, refusing to push a progressive platform, refusing to denounce colonialism and genocide, and ultimately playing into many of the same political talking points of American fascists. Joe Biden is a stain on American history. He spent his last 4 years of political relevancy fighting against workers rights and protecting international genocidal institutions. All the while he made an absolute mockery of the institutions of political power in the united states and helped truly ring the funeral bell of American trust in federal institutions.

Let his failure be a galvanizing lesson about all the failures of American liberalism. Leftism is the only true political opposition to fascism. This election was not lost because democrats went woke. It was lost because they refused to change. It was lost because of their own blatant hypocrisy and refusal to campaign on working class politics and humanitarianism. Liberal conservatism handed the reigns to fascism.

[-] PyroNeurosis 7 points 2 days ago

Joe Biden has been among our better Republican presidents.

[-] sgbrain7@lemm.ee 26 points 3 days ago

this was a good read. the democratic party isn't as left as it seems to want people to think

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[-] Bloomcole@lemm.ee 36 points 3 days ago
[-] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

When were those days, exactly? I've studies a hell of a lot of history, and I can really only point to two moments:

  1. The American Civil War, but we were both the good guys and the bad guys there, so doesn't really count.

  2. WW2. We fought against fascism. We were squarely on the side of the good guys.

I've never been alive when America was the good guys, and neither has the vast majority of anyone else.

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[-] socsa@piefed.social 31 points 3 days ago

Joe Biden was a perfect example of how delegating authority to the right technocrats, and then standing back and staying out of the way is the best form of executive leadership. I legitimately have no idea why he gets so much hate even from his own party.

[-] Sprawl@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago

He has the same problem I have at work. When everything is going well, no one really knows. The servers keep running and everyone is happy with IT, but after a while, people start to question what it is we are doing.

[-] InversionOfControl@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Yeah that worked out great re: Merrick Garland’s justice department slow walking Trump’s criminal charges.

I will never forgive Biden for appointing a fucking republican to attorney general after the previous republican administration attempted a coup. Biden is dog shit.

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 days ago

I voted for him and was honestly expecting worse.

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[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

If that quiet old man hadn't decided to try to cling to power despite no longer being fit to hold the office, we might not even be in this predicament.

[-] Bloomcole@lemm.ee 30 points 3 days ago

You're missing a little genocide factor and a shitloads of unkept promises here

[-] balssh@lemm.ee 25 points 3 days ago

Yeah, the “leftifts” that didn’t show up for those “reasons” are as bad as the magatards and bear the same responsibility. As a leftist myself (not in US though) I curse the absurdism of leftist politicians and electors and their puritanical behavior that can’t seem to do real politics.

[-] Bloomcole@lemm.ee 17 points 3 days ago

You want them to keep voting for the lesser evil until eternity with both evils moving further to the right every election, got it?
Nothing absurd there.

[-] Fredthefishlord 15 points 3 days ago

Harm reduction is better than nothing. Yes, I fucking do, then I want them to vote for better people on a local level as they have the option to do. First reduce risk of further harm. Then treat the wound.

It's crazy that you would rather have a dictatorship than a centralist .

[-] balssh@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

Yeah, like you vote the mediocre and not fascist candidate and you can still protest. But if you vote (or don’t participate) the fascist one then you’ll not be able to protest and suddenly the genocide might be coming home.

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[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 3 days ago

Both parties keep moving to the right becuase voters keep rewarding right by wing behaviour. You get the politicians you vote for

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[-] lemmingthelemmers@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

All of those words to say "I don't actually believe in anything and I have no clue of what I am talking about."

Very impressive.

[-] balssh@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

I believe in pragmatism and not letting fascist take over for free.

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[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 3 days ago

Libs are willing to support genocide as long as their personal privilege is maintained. That's a big part of how liberalism supports fascism. Trump is just a continuation of Biden.

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[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 127 points 4 days ago

It might have been nice if Ol Biden had actually given a shit about the coup attempt and pushed to have the people at the top of the food chain tried for it. We might have avoided this whole situation if Trump had been tried while he was still persona non grata. Instead, his admin chose to treat it like any other criminal enterprise instead of the existential threat it was. Now we are all paying for it and I doubt the country will survive.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 days ago

These people are co-workers and collaborators. They're not putting each other in jail.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 56 points 4 days ago

Biden was too old or naive to recognize that the era of civility in politics was over. At the very least, SCOTUS ruling that presidents are essentially kings should've kicked him in the ass. I guess thx for the economy Joe, but it wasn't nearly enough.

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[-] the_q@lemm.ee 21 points 3 days ago

"When I wasn't directly affected things were good!" Do better, guys.

[-] Soulg@ani.social 12 points 3 days ago

"When things were better, things were better" is a bad thing to say now?

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[-] Blinsane@reddthat.com 66 points 4 days ago

Same old song in every country. Trying to talk actual economics with someone who votes for the right shows how little they care about facts and how much their decisions are based on feelings and what they're told by the people they consider their superiors.

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[-] clumsyratio@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 2 days ago

I miss it, but I still want change. Not "machete" change like we're getting, but "scalpel" change.

[-] EisFrei@lemmy.world 76 points 4 days ago

It's time to post the two Santas again.

http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/thom-hartmann/two-santas-strategy-gop-used-economic-scam-manipulate-americans-40-years/

First, the Two Santas strategy dictates, when Republicans control the White House they must spend money like a drunken Santa and cut taxes to run up the U.S. debt as far and as fast as possible.

This produces three results: it stimulates the economy thus making people think that the GOP can produce a good economy; it raises the debt dramatically; and it makes people think that Republicans are the “tax-cut Santa Clauses.”

Second, when a Democrat is in the White House, Republicans must scream about the national debt as loudly and frantically as possible, freaking out about how “our children will have to pay for it!” and “we have to cut spending to solve the crisis!” Shut down the government, crash the stock market, and damage US credibility around the world if necessary to stop Democrats from spending money.

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[-] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 10 points 3 days ago

Just because Trump is terrible it doesn't make Biden any better. We're talking about a genocide enabler here. Ffs.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Followed by another genocide enabler. Your math sucks.

[-] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 7 points 3 days ago

Not at all. I'm simply pointing out Biden sucks.

[-] Tempus_Fugit@midwest.social 36 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Be careful saying this around here, you'll be labeled a lib, crucified, and stalked by tankies.

[-] Mouette@jlai.lu 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Democrats main motive while in power is also to make money for themselves, in a less stupid and obnoxious way than Trump.

This meme is liberal propaganda, how the Democrats booming economy helped the average american ?

Spoiler it has not, but weapons manufacturers getting those billions of public spending to support Israël. And I'm sure the friendly and nice people that are Democrats do have so shares in them.

What a clown show they just have nothing to do and they'll end up getting elected and doing the same thing. That is if the whole countries has not turned to civil war before the next election of course.

[-] artichoke99@lemm.ee 16 points 4 days ago

real shit. i cannot believe that people are still praising the democrats and calling anyone left of center a "tankie"

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[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 days ago

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats look for long-term, stable corruption while Republicans want to get as much as they can as soon as possible.

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