• Pentacat [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Outside of presiding over massive inflation, the loss of women’s right to choose, genocide of the Palestinians, the arming of Nazis in a proxy war, increasing terror at the US border, increasing warrantless surveillance on Americans who aren’t in Congress, increasing police budgets everywhere, killing free speech, and making criticism of Israel a hate crime, what mistakes can you point to that Biden has made? We’re actually lucky if you think of all the bad stuff throughout history that he hasn’t presided over.

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          don’t forget abandoning covid guidelines and caving to the rightwing’s policies and stiffing us on our promised stimulus checks and debt forgiveness.

          Oh yeah, and betraying the BLM bloc you just coopted by saying “defund the police is a rightwing idea”

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          Good comment. Even if you argue, as Democratic partisans will, that few of these were things that Biden had any control over (e.g. inflation and Dobbs), the fact is that he was the sitting president while they happened. That will make him unpopular, even if that’s “not fair”. And people will vote against him (or not vote) because he’s unpopular, even if “the alternative is worse”. If you specifically argue that he didn’t have any control over these things, he looks weak, and that makes the problem worse. And no amount of lecturing people about how they’re wrong to react in natural, perfectly predictable ways is going to change that.

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      This is what I am being told by every lib on the Discord servers I am in.

      EDIT: They like to repeat the gotcha of when it takes place like its some sort of master move.

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        Oh thank god, it won’t affect the next election, the most important election of our lives. But I fear the consequences of alienating the youth for the election after, the most important election of our lives

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        I clearly remember Dems parading the youth vote as key for Obama winning, and for 2018’s marginal D wins. They really must think people forget within 2 years.

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        If Trump wins the election I’d bet my left toe that he drops the ban. It’s literally free political points in the young demographic, which keeps the GOP off his back.

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          maybe-later-kiddo but presidents aren’t kings! They can’t just do things people want. It would take an act of Congress. What’s that? Congress is friendly to the trump administration? What’s that? Trump unbanned tiktok thirty seconds after taking the oath of office? Obviously he’s double mecha Hitler because he did this very popular thing!

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      They already banned juuls.

      It just seems so obviously gerontocratic that the only things that get stunning bipartisan support (other than genocide) are banning the things the kids like.

      In a couple of years, the only laws passed in the US will be laws saying it’s illegal to not have dinner with Meemaw and Pep Pep.