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[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, its not. But that was never my supposition. All I was asking. Was for people who were breathlessly repeatedly posting and complaining about such actions from Biden take equal and appropriate responses towards his opponents. Is that too much to ask? Apparently yes. Yes it is.

Is it too much to ask people to consider the likely knock on effects other actions? Absolutely going by popular sentiments around here lol. Is it too much to ask for Democratic party to actually really look at what happened and reevaluate things? Indubitably. Is it too much to ask those e nomine on the left to do similar? You better believe it.

I'm not asking anyone to not criticize Biden. I'm just wondering where all this enthusiasm and energy was when it came to trying to make sure the other bad guy didn't get elected.

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

I'm just wondering where all this enthusiasm and energy was when it came to trying to make sure the other bad guy didn't get elected.

Probably because around 99% of the people using Lemmy already know that Trump is worse, so complaining about it feels irrelevant and like a waste of time. What does it accomplish when everyone already agrees?

When people here complain about the amount of Biden-bashing from leftists, now that actually accomplishes something. What that does is give people who are debating between voting blue, voting third party, or not voting at all (and there are a lot of those people around here) the impression that dedicated Democrat voters don't care what Democrats do as long as Trump does something worse. This promotes the idea that "both sides are the same" and discourages people from voting blue.