I generally agree, but I'm not going to knowingly give money to ghouls who are trying to make my existence worse. I'm not at all against using [redacted] but I do think the idea that boycotts are worthless isn't correct. Boycotts have been successful in the past, it just requires some solidarity and that part is what has been missing from a lot of the wider calls recently. I do think we could impact their profits. But we can do both this and sabo-[redacted]
With android you can avoid the google play store so they don't get a cut of ad revenue. I don't know whether Google gets a cut of phones they didn't manufacture just because Android is on it, considering Android is open source and the manufacturers are responsible for updates.
It's absolutely a disgrace how the Dems handled it after an entire year of Trump trying to pretend it just didn't exist or was just a cold and using that in their campaign. Then when it became convenient for them they began to pretend it was over.
What status quo was there when Dems allow the rollback of everything even when they're in power without even the suggestion of a fight? Unless you mean the status quo of everything continually getting worse under either party's admin.
Dem cheerleaders are blue maga. Nothing the Dems do are ever part of the problem; it's always someone else's fault.
It wasn't non-voters who forced the Dems and Biden to do the following:
- For his first official act, Biden fought with his own party to prevent regular people from getting an already promised $600 check; completely ignoring the fact no one expected any PPP loans to be repaid.
- Pulled a complete 180 on immigration, successfully building even more of the border wall and deporting more people than Trump.
- Refusing to even entertain the idea of stopping Israel's genocide in Gaza, even at the known expense of voters.
- Declared the Covid-19 pandemic over by simply no longer testing for it, despite it continuing to overwhelm hospitals and kill people, all so that people could be forced back into work.
- Ripped pandemic era support away from citizens that was responsible for nearly eliminating childhood poverty and food insecurity; forcing people back into $7.25 an hour minimum wage jobs with no benefits.
- Refused to do anything about the increasing violence and state hostility towards queer people, especially in red states.
- Scolded to constituents for not giving Biden enough credit because they insisted the economy was great (but only for the wealthy.) They ignored that inflation (caused solely by corporate price gouging they refused to challenge) grew more than wages. Sure, wages began to outpace inflation, but total inflation since the start of the pandemic is still higher than wage growth in the same period.
- Made student loan forgiveness a means-tested application process that they then sat on for two months, instead of immediately clearing balances and destroying documents, as if begging SCOTUS to block them.
- Doing absolutely nothing to restrict the unchecked presidential powers they worked with the GOP to expand for the last several decades, even as the threat of a second, even more overtly fascist Trump administration became more and more likely.
- Dicked around for 2 years not taking the prosecution against Trump seriously and making this entire ordeal a possibility in the first place.
This election was entirely the fault of the Democratic leadership. They failed. All blue maga does is try to deflect blame from them while they continue to screw all of us.
I'm so fucking sick of you blue maga morons trying to shift blame from the party pissing our futures away for their own financial interests to the people who see no material difference between "We'll fix nothing, you'll starve, you'll suffer, and you'll enjoy it." and "Okay, now we're putting 10% of you in camps."
It wasn't non-voters who decided to squander a 15 point lead over Trump in just a month and a half. It wasn't non-voters who forced the Dems to do absolutely nothing to stop a genocide. It wasn't non-voters who forced the Dems to rip away the pandemic era assistance that nearly eradicated childhood poverty only to force people back into $7.25 an hour minimum wage jobs with no benefits. It wasn't the non-voters or protest voters who did literally fucking nothing to restrict presidential powers. It wasn't the non-voters who made the Dems declare themselves powerless to do the bare fucking minimum to protect queer people. It wasn't non-voters who made Biden take a complete 180 on immigration and successfully complete more of the border wall and deport more people than Trump did. It wasn't non-voters who made Biden's first official act to fight with his own party over denying regular people a $600 check that had already been promised, while neglecting the fact that no PPP loans would ever be paid back. It wasn't non-voters who made the Biden admin use a means-tested application process for student debt forgiveness and then sit on it for two months, without simply wiping the debt and destroying documents, as if asking for it to be overturned by SCOTUS.
It's all you blue maga enablers passing the blame, insisting they're never part of the problem even as they set up the presidency with massive unchecked powers for the GOP to exploit. You idiots are the problem
And, remember, it almost didn't even work the second time. Biden was the only candidate running for the nomination poised to lose to Trump and he was forced on us, seemingly as punishment for us demanding healthcare. They were willing to throw 2020 and would have lost had the unpredictable and extraordinary circumstances of Covid-19 not occurred, along with Trump's absolutely bungled response. Covid-19 was the sole event that propelled Biden to the white house. And then he was exactly as ineffective and terrible as all leftists predicted and we got Trump back because of it.
Closed my account last night. Made my partner close theirs and cancel prime too.
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