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[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 100 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Biden had one (1) job. And that was to save the union from fascism. He misunderstood, appointed Merrick Fucking Sit On His Hands Garland because of vibes or some shit, and then fucked around. Now we are all finding out what it is like to live under fascism. Thanks Biden!

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Yeah. Fuck him.

Insofar as the president is, by nature, a flawed and pressured human being, I generally try to make allowances for poor decision-making, outdated thinking, and political maneuvering (requiring even speech to be measured and often untruthful about intent or feeling - if not outright lies about the facts) both around the electorate and elected officials. It would be unfair to expect miracles of even the best men, much less mediocre compromise candidates of the sort which generally succeed in American politics.

But Biden made a series of unforced errors, and by what became increasingly obvious as immense hubris rather than simple miscalculation. He very well may have lost American democracy (or what amount of democracy we had) to a fascist demagogue, and a remarkably stupid and incoherent fascist demagogue even by the already-low-standards of that job, and it's very conceivable that even unfucking ONE of Biden's many mistakes could have made all the difference in preventing that cretin, considering the closeness of the election.

Fuck Biden. His name is mud.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago

Garland would have been on the Supreme Court if not for Trump, it was thought Garland would come after Trump for revenge over it...

Lol no

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 50 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Don't forget:

1-Enabled genocide against increasing opposition from his base. 2-Didn't go after Trump for treason. 3-Didn't go after price gouging, giving Trump a massive gift for his campaign. 4-Refused to step down despite clearly being unfit for a second term.

Biden did have a fair number of accomplishments during his term, but each one of these failures outweighs all of them combined.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

3-Didn’t go after price gouging, giving Trump a massive gift for his campaign.

I agree with your other points, including the fact that he lost the fucking Republic to fascism through his deeds resulting in his overall legacy being an abject fucking failure, but the tools by which the president could, even purely theoretically, go after price gouging are extremely limited. And political concerns with the ever-fickle and reactionary US electorate would make direct presidential action even of that limited sort of questionable wisdom even for a presidency as motivated on the issue as one headed by Sanders or Warren (assuming the makeup of the rest of the government remained roughly the same).

[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I agree, though I'm starting to think that we're being and limited by our own minds here a little. Look at how much raw power Republicans are exerting now, to much more evil ends, and they're fine doing it. I think if Dems actually grew a spine, many would follow. A reactionary electorate can go both ways, since it's mainly acting on vibes/spite/etc. Most believe nothing ever happens anyway, which is why they tell you to relax when the MAGA breaks key institutions. So I think some direct presidential action in a good direction would be good. Let the pundits scream all they want, they'll call him a communist baby eater anyway.

PS: I hope that was coherent, I didn't proof read it and I haven't had my coffee yet.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

To some degree, I do agree that the spinelessness of Dems works against them.

But on the other hand, Dems have a VERY different demographic than the GOP does. And the Dems have spent the past 30 years building the 'adult in the room' narrative which traditionally plays well to the actively voting segment of that demographic, and going for "Fuck the rules, we no longer believe in them" would likely not energize much of the base, and disillusion them the same way many left-wing voters were disillusioned in 2024 by the Harris campaign's unwillingness to trumpet any firm ideological position.

Ultimately, I think Dem strategy, or lack thereof, is a contributor to this whole debacle - but the fundamental problem is that there's not really a 'winning coalition' that's evident at this point in American politics. Chasing swing voters by vibes instead of ever-increasingly-milquetoast policy might be marginally more electorally successful (though massively better for the country's policy), but as unlikely to be the desired silver bullet any more than mainstream Dem attempts at shit like 'country over party' or 'return to normality' at changing the overall result of elections.

Our electorate is fucked, ideologically incoherent, low-information, and infected with deep, cultural-level maliciousness and tribalism. God knows how we dig ourselves out of this one, but however it might occur, I'm almost certain that it will happen at the grassroots, changing the electorate first and the strategy second (changing the electorate's outlook, resulting in winning elections and being able to implement rational and useful policy), rather than vice-versa (winning elections and then changing the electorate via implementation of rational and useful policy).

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[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Too bad Biden will be remembered for his greed and wanting a second term just to doom us to Trump's second term. All the good he did will be wiped out over the next 4 years.

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[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 29 points 1 week ago

Post this on Facebook and watch your account get banned.

[–] Susurrus@lemm.ee 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

As usual, mass propaganda turns the world black and white, and divides people exactly into two groups to make sure they never unite.

By the way, you can acknowledge that both sides are made up of the worst scum human history has ever seen and vote for the "lesser evil" at the same time! You don't have to, and you probably shouldn't let your vote influence your entire personality and/or belief system.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 11 points 6 days ago (10 children)

Both sides can't be "the worst" if one is "the lesser evil".

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

So there's two factors that gave Trump (barely) the election (all the battleground states were narrowly chosen)

One, I speculate and no one seems to be addressing, is the trillion-dollar far-right propaganda machine. FOX News, OANN, Michael Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Joe Rogan and so on. It's continuously pumping content out to the population telling them that liberals are all communists and women should all be tradwives. Also that everyone nonwhite or poor is a leech on the economy.

The other is the King Log vs. King Stork thing. In those industrialized nations where the left-side party is neoliberal (preserves the status quo), the far right parties get strong support. It was happening across Europe around when Trump got elected, though there's been a left-side push-back since, possibly due to Trump providing a visible example of who they don't want in office. Canada's economist / banker PM was elected due to Trump, we are pretty sure.

Biden was as right wing as they come in the Democratic party, and for 2020 the party's principals (who get their own votes) chose him, deciding that everyone else was too socialist for them. Biden was Biden (that is, an establishment neoliberal) with some efforts to appeal to the public. And then in 2024 he pulled out of the race, and Harris took over and in the last few months of campaigning appealed to less-nazi Republicans, which alienated her base.

The election was won by MAGA disciples voting only top ballot (for Trump and nothing else) and lost by low-information Democrats who weren't motivated or decided to send a message by failing to show.

Regardless, figuring out how he won is more important than figuring out how to get rid of him, because even if he dies, the GOP is going to churn out Secret Hitler after Secret Hitler, and the Democratic party, determined not to go left, is going to fall into irrelevance, just before they are imprisoned / killed as political enemies.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ironic since all of those bills were heavily cut down to gain "bipartisan" support and then Republicans still refused to vote for them, classic Democrat move. Kinda like how he gave up the race to Trump and then went on a photo tour with him like they're buddies (which is pretty massive evidence for the Uniparty theory imo).

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Ironic since all of those bills were heavily cut down to gain “bipartisan” support and then Republicans still refused to vote for them, classic Democrat move.

They were heavily cut down to gain the support of 'moderate' Dems whose support to pass them was literally indispensable. The Senate was literally at 50-50 for the first two years, and 51-49 for the next two.

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Meh.

IMO, the problem is that Dems aren't focusing on the economy in the correct way. Yeah, Biden did some good things. But you've still got massive wealth inequality, high rents and home prices, venture capital firms buying up small companies and jacking prices way the fuck up, executives raking in huge profits and salaries while laying off workers, etc. Dems keep saying, "the economy is great!" while working class people--the vast middle class in the US, which includes mid-level white collar jobs--are feeling like they're working hard for less. Ever since the crash in '08, jobs have been less stable, and people have been turning to gig work to make ends meet, or to have anything extra in their budgets. Sanders is the only left-leaning politician that's really banging on that drum.

Dems used to be out there running for good jobs for hard working people, work with dignity that you could live on. But they've been ignoring their roots for the last 40 years, and have been bought and sold by corporate America. The liberlization/globalization of the economy [EDIT] has largely been a disaster for working-class people, as they've been forced to compete against lower-wage workers, while the capitalist class gets even larger profits. (OOH, the liberalization of America's trade policies has resulted in millions of people outside of the US being able to live in something other than grinding, abject poverty.)

In addition to that, Biden's debate performance was a fucking disaster, and made it very, very clear to everyone that he was absolutely not fit to be president. Harris should have put some distance between herself and Biden, but she couldn't, or wouldn't; she was suggesting that we continue the same policies that are squeezing the working class, rather than calling for systemic reform.

Meanwhile, Trump was promising that he'd make foreign companies pay, and that he'd bring good jobs back. If you're a low-information voter that doesn't understand how tariffs work, and don't think about the logistics of bringing all the manufacturing back, then this sound great.

Meanwhile, you've got the whole right wing media machine telling people--mostly men--that they're right to feel screwed. And yeah, they are. It's just that it's not 'libs', women, typical immigrants, etc.; it's corporate profiteering, trade globalization, the loss of power from unions, importing highly-skilled labor to displace higher-paid American workers (e.g., H1-B abuse), outsourcing everything, etc.

If Dems want to win, they need to get serious about good jobs that pay a living wage for middle America, putting a choke-chain on corporate profiteering, and rebuilding the power of labor.

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[–] mofreak@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

He only did genocide like a smol bean 🥹

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[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)

this makes trump look like a funny cartoon villain stealing candy from the elderly, rather than a nazi intentionally persecuting minorities.

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[–] Redfeather@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Totally the same. Biden picked Deb Holland for head of DOI and attempted to make an earnest apology for the US's genocide of Natives via boarding schools.

Tronald Dump did exactly the same thing and cut $300 billion from food assistance that includes Indian country, which are basically third world countries with very little access to food, clean water, housing that isn't a makeshift sheet metal, or healthcare that could prevent life long disabilities and/or premature death.

[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago

Glorification of the badies, because the worst came to power...

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This isn't the fault of a corrupt politician .... or a corrupt political party ... or a corrupt opposition political party

It's the American people who just blinded accept all this, vote for it, don't question it and do as little as possible about it all and just live with it and hope that it all just goes away on its own.

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The American people didn't blindly vote for this. Fox News (among others) has been brainwashing them for decades. Fox is the number one watched source of news. Republicans have also destroyed education and regulations to allow for people to be brainwashed.

It's not as simple as laziness.

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People are choosing to watch Fox. That is 100% on them.

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[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

These comments make me realize just how many people don't really know their history.

[–] Ilixtze@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I am not American, but I believe in the Biden side someone forgot to add "Genocide enabler"; And yeah I guess it goes on trump's side too. But I wonder if that affected the campaign trail.

[–] rhvg@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There’s a difference between enabler and maximizer.

The dilemma is if most people understand trump would be a maximizer and don’t want it, Biden might be less an enabler.

Ultimately, American people as a whole are the real genocide enabler.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

There’s a difference between enabler and maximizer.

Yea, everyone knows. And it's a painful choice to make regardless of your decision. I resent the conditions that doom us to choose between a cop and a gangster.

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[–] Ilixtze@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump was never going to stop any war, but I think the question is about the people who didn't vote. Maybe people don't see viable alternatives? Maybe people are hopeless over there? Why do I keep seeing more and more American immigrants in my country? Maybe people are running from something?

Again, I am a foreigner; But the way I see it; The American government seems very invested on the Genocide of the people of Gaza. On the other hand; The polls I keep seeing on the matter say that American citizens would rather have all that money spent on better healthcare than Giving Israel weapons to kill unarmed civilians.

Now this is just a thought, but maybe, just maybeeee, condemning the indiscriminate killing of those people and running on better healthcare might have improved their chances of winning.

Also maybe that contradiction of morality was a boon to the Republican party to exploit during the election. Like feeding on the hopelessness of a voter base that doesn't support all the decisions of what is supposed to be their party.

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[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago (7 children)

There has not, and will likely never be, a US president who is not sympathetic to Israel. It’s just variations of support. Kamala would not have been any different than Biden.

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[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 12 points 6 days ago (9 children)

Do not glorify Biden. Go back to Obama if you want an actual worthwhile role model. Biden was 110% on board with Bush in going to Iraq and spent the last 20 years of his career aggressively trying to break social security. Fuck boomer Biden.

[–] Kinperor@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (12 children)

I would say Obama is even worse than Biden as a role model to glorify.

You can draw a direct line between Obama's fellating of wall street and the rise to power of MAGA. He was elected on a mandate to punish the bankers and utterly failed at this task, he failed to enshrine Roe Vs Wade, and started a few wars. Combine this with other events like the management of Bernie Sanders' first attempt at the presidency, and you have a spectacularly inept democrat party that lost all credibility/appeal with swing voters.

Taking the current politics at face value, Trump would have 0 appeal if the democrats had a reasonable management of the border, if the democrats had actual economic politics instead of identity politics and didn't bend the knee to the military industrial complex as much as republicans did.

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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

At least he really pushed back against the ongoing genoci- oh wait, no, he did the opposite of that.

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[–] Sunshine@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago (6 children)

It's really frustrating people dont want to recognize Biden's accomplishments.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It isn't a great list considering the child tax credit was a provision of the american rescue plan, the pact act is a particularly small bill that targeted military veterans, and there's nothing past 2022.

Recognition of four accomplishments in two years gets buried quick by the inaction and inability of the following the next two.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

It isn’t a great list

The bar isn't very high.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago

Also the IRA is largely getting blocked or repealed. It would have been great had it been implemented but calling it an accomplishment seems like a stretch given the current situation.

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[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I guess it depends where you live 🇵🇸

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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

They both support their genocidal garrison state no questions asked.

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