• IndiBrony@lemmy.world
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            To be fair, this is partly how I’ve been looking at it. In the event that power gets delegated to the VP, you want to know the right hand man isn’t an absolute crock of shit as well.

            But surely even an old man suffering dementia is a better candidate than Trump.

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        4 months ago

        They’re laying around all over the place. The thing is none of them want to run right now.

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        To the point I personally love to make…

        Trump. Biden. George W. Bill Clinton.

        Were all, at one point, simultaneously high school students. All born within 4 years of one another.

        1992 - 2028. With the exception of Obama, all under the rule of one very, very narrow demographic.

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        Seriously, the whole too old argument is a bulldog with rubber teeth. Trump’s a buffoon with or without cognitive decline.

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          On what grounds? Hating Biden for being a liberal right winger propping up genocide does not make them a supporter of someone even more right wing.

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            Only if they refuse to vote for him to keep the even more right wing one out of office.

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              Biden isn’t catering to Leftist voters. That doesn’t mean pointing out Biden and the DNC as right wingers is support for Trump.

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                I didn’t say it was. I said refusing to vote for him is, albeit passively. Hate Biden all you want, but keep the objectively far worse guy out of power at all costs.

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                  The original point was that pointing out that Biden is a right wing monster makes you a Trump Supporter, which is goofy.

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                  He’s not objectively far worse. He’s arguably slightly worse.

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    You have to vote for Genocide Joe to finish off the Palestinians and throw even more asylum seekers into concentration camps and send more missiles to Nazis, otherwise you’re a fascist or something.

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      Genocide Joe goes so fucking hard. It rolls off the tongue so well, I can’t stop saying it. Genocide Joe. Genocide Joe.

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      I mean at least Biden is a slow roll, Trump would rather nuke them.

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        This only logical conclusion to this naive utilitarianism is reaching a point 30 years from now when liberals will be frothing at the mouths in support of the dem candidate who wants 5 genocides as opposed to the republican who wants 10.

        There is a legend about a certain species of caterpillar that can only cross the threshold of metamorphosis by seeing its future butterfly. Proletarian subjectivity does not evolve by incremental steps but requires non-linear leaps, especially moral self-recognition through solidarity with the struggle of a distant people, even when this contradicts short-term self-interest, as in the famous cases of Lancashire cotton workers’ enthusiasm for Lincoln and later for Gandhi. Socialism, in other words, requires non-utilitarian actors, whose ultimate motivations and values arise from structures of feeling that others would deem spiritual. Marx rightly scourged romantic humanism in the abstract, but his personal pantheon—Prometheus and Spartacus, Homer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare—affirmed a heroic vision of human possibility that no longer seems to have any purchase in our fallen world.

        Mike Davis

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        If I was on the receiving end of the genocide, I would rather just have a nuke end my people’s suffering than get slowly meat-grinder’d to death by the IDF; but that’s just me.

        Also bonus points for irradiating the fascists in Israel.

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        If Isreal just wanted every Palestinian dead and nothing else, don’t you think they would have dropped their own nukes on October 8? Zionists have no interest in irradiating the manifest destiny prize they’re currently waging a doomed invasion to take.

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    I’m. Not. Amused. Crypt keeper has a solid track record and is the last hope at keeping literal nazis from power. In fact, I wish he was more dead just to show that I’d vote for a pile of dirt over donald j trump.