When Your Rulers Ignore Voters But Are Terrified Of Protesters, That Tells You Something
When Your Rulers Ignore Voters But Are Terrified Of Protesters, That Tells You Something
When nobody in power will lift a finger to earn your vote but they’re falling all over themselves trying to stomp out a robust protest movement, that tells you what the powerful are actually afraid…
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"Biden’s genocide in Gaza"
Bullshit article is bullshit. Biden is not the one killing people in Gaza. Put the blame on Bibi where it belongs.
Did Staples build the Staples Center? No, they just paid for it.
That argument doesn't work when the US is Israel's prime armament supplier.
Yeah, I am aware that Biden stopped a single shipment last week. Kudos.
Exactly. Biden isn't doing the genocide.
Supplying weapons? Sure.
Enabling it? Maybe, yeah.
Condemning it? No he is not, and should.
But he isn't DOING IT.
I agree with you but the way things are right now, if you want to keep your right to criticize your government, you have to still vote for Biden at the election.
If you stay home or vote for Orange Man, hating what your government is doing overseas will be the last thing you'll be complaining about.
Yeah, exactly. I hate it. I hate that NOT voting for Biden is one vote closer that Trump could win again and end our democracy like he is promising to do. That's scary. And if that does happen we will never again have ANY votes for anything, let alone protesting a foreign genocide.
We need to all be pushing and campaigning to get Ranked Choice Voting in as many states as we can.
Until then the reality is we get to choose between A or B. There are no other viable options. You can choose to not vote, you can vote 3rd party, but that does absolutely nothing at all but toss the vote away. And you will never convince me otherwise until a 3rd party candidate gets anywhere close to the other 2. And 2-5% of the country is not that.
It's good to see that the current choice is helping spread awareness about RCV
Mr. Beast’s latest video did more to raise awareness of ranked choice voting than this election.
Edit: Okay, it was 3 weeks ago. RCV is at the end.
So what's your definition of criticizing the government? Because everytime I see someone do it they are met with rubber bullets and tear gas by the state.
like the time Biden had a protest cleared so he could get pics in front of a church?
OH YEAH WAIT
I'm talking about what we are able to do right here. If Trump gets in, he would tolerate it like China does.
You know Trump was already president for 4 years and wasn't throwing people in jail for saying bad things about him right?
You're gonna love project 2025.
I like how Biden is powerless to do anything and it's not his fault that he can't get anything passed but all of a sudden when Trump gets in office he has the power to do anything he wants.
I like how Biden is powerless to do anything
Yeah, Biden's too busy:
- saving the economy,
- ukraine,
- forgiving school loans,
- rescheduling mj,
- pardoned MJ incarcerated,
- expanding healthcare,
- cutting insulin costs (THIS SAVED SO MANY LIVES IT’S BONKERS),
- stood up for unions & labor (FIRST PRESIDENT TO EVER WALK A PICKET LINE),
- increased overtime for millions,
- ended federally subsidized discriminatory mortgage lending,
- went after airlines, cable companies, phone companies, concert ticket sales and hotels for their fucking ridiculous hidden fees!,
- started a drone industry right here in the US so we won’t be caught like Russia is, developing new weapons while getting blown up;
- restarted microchip and solar production IN THE US,
- brought back net neutrality,
- and much more - you just don't care because you'd rather tear it down than be part of the solution.
Figures.
Hey remember when Biden told rail workers they weren't allowed to strike?
Remember when Biden funded the genocide of over 30 thousand women and children
Why do you support baby killing and rape?
Yep. Biden and more importantly Congress enable Bibi the butcher. But they aren't committing genocide. And anyone who implies they are is making light of genocide. There's plenty to criticize everyone on without making shit up.
My issue is people are so heavily throwing shit at Biden, almost NONE of them are talking about anyone else, and most of those same people go really quiet when asked to have the same energy for people here in the U.S. I understand how important this is, there is a very terrible situation happening. But like fuck, how are we supposed to help anyone when we're seemingly one good coop away from full on facism.
Almost, like maybe, the Democratic party should have had a primary.
This is the outcome they get from the actions they've taken.
They care more about implementing a genocide then keeping Trump out of the white house.
The people hiding behind Gaza are effectively causing the same issue. So many of them fluff their arguments with "and Gaza!" and feel strongly that anyone who debates them are for the genocide, even if the person supports the protests and condemns the evil that is occuring. Meanwhile, these same people are also indirectly saying that Trump should become President by placing often all blame on Biden. I'm sorry. It sucks. This is the situation.
We are effectively dividing ourselves. Nearly none of us who lean Progressive and/or Left believes the situation in Gaza is good. We understand the severity. We just want those who use Gaza as a do-all for any of their arguments to, bluntly, shut up and consider the alternatives. Because let's face it: They'll still be screaming genocide right up to Trump stepping into a second term. If that happens I hope those same people don't disappear because we'll need them when we are no longer in a position as a nation to help others. We'll be too busy probably literally fighting for ourselves and our neighbors.
Don't downplay the situation in Gaza. We SHOULD highlight it. It isn't the only extremely important event we need to focus on though.