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Fuck Off with that "both sides" nonsense.
I fucking love a general pardon for marijuana convicts. I fucking love a 35$ price cap on insulin. I fucking love the enshrinement of gay marriage into law. I fucking love that Joe Biden orders government agencies to provide abortion pills and other medical assistance to those who seek it, even if they live in republican states.
I fucking hate everything about republicans.
Either way you as a country still need something better than First Past The Post voting, which absolutely centralises power in to just two parties and makes a 3rd party impossible.
Mixed Member Proportional looks pretty good, where half of all seats are tied to local electorates and won by the votes in them, while the other half are given out to parties based on what's needed to make the assembly match the overall voting of the country, e.g. if your party gets 50% of the popular vote but only wins 25% of location-based seats, you're given enough unassigned seats to make it so that you control 50% of seats in the assembly.
Too bad one party has no interest in making it the system you use, and the other would actively fight it because it would kill them as a political force forever
America not only needs something better than FPTP, America deserves it
Yeap. It's a sad thing. And it only contributes to more polarization, which is fucking terrible.
Look, Biden is unambiguously better than anything the Republicans are offering, and everyone should vote for him in 2024.
But he's failed us so many times now. He broke the railroad strike, he let the Republicans push him around on the budget when the Dems could have passed it back in December when they still had a majority, he let student loan forgiveness fall through, the Dems didn't codify abortion rights when they had the chance (they had a LOT of chances), and while it's good that Dems have actually been defending gay marriage on a national level, they did very little to protect trans rights on a federal level when they had the chance.
So yeah, vote for Biden because that's most likely to lead to the best outcome as far as voting goes. But don't buy into this electorialist lie that we have to back Democrats on everything they do, and that we shouldn't criticize them when they fuck up and flounder in the face of fascists in the Republican party. Don't buy in to the lie that the left is at fault for Republican wins because they critiqued the Democrats. There's more to political action than voting.
So, saying Biden broke up the rail strike doesn't tell the whole story. They were going to strike over sick days, Biden got them sick days. https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid
Biden forced through some amount of forgiveness, despite the SCOTUS decision. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/19/biden-is-forgiving-39-billion-in-student-debt-heres-who-qualifies.html
The rest of what you said, Yeah, can't refute that. But until we get STV voting Democrats are the best option we have. Perfect is the enemy of Good.
I don't disagree that the democrats are preferable and are worth voting for in the generals. Only that criticizing them isn't the same as both-sidesing.
This is why primaries are so important. Go vote to have an actually good option in the general election.
100%. When it comes to elections, this is where leftists have seen the most success. Especially when it's on the state and local level.
I love that I have the option to vote for people on specific platforms in NY. I can show support for the Working Families Party while still voting for Democrats as the politicians can run under multiple parties so I'm not just tossing away a vote just to send a message
"Look, Biden is better, but what about [stuff Republicans did]?"
Oh, so the Republicans broke up the rail strike but the Democrats didn't? First I'm hearing of it.
Not to mention, I'm talking about how he failed us. If he had a way forward to stop Republicans from fucking our shit up and then folded over, that's failing us. Not to mention the shit that Democrats get up to on the state level when they have control, where they pass rampant anti-homeless and anti-worker policies themselves.
You sound like a dupe right now. Sure hope you aren't letting the SPD cuck you like the Democrats are cucking the people that buy into their narrative.
cuck
Trumpist detected. Why are they always so obsessed with cucking? Play leftist somewhere else, you guys are really obvious to spot.
Trumpist detected
you guys are really obvious to spot
Are you being serious right now? If you are, you're about as good at spotting trumpists as transvestigators are at spotting trans people. Am I an "obvious trumpist" when I comment "based", too? Or when I was literally saying people should vote for Democrats and calling Republicans fascist (they are) just a couple comments ago? This is silly.
Maybe I should say shitlib detected cause that's what this is looking like lmao
Yeah man tell me more about how the guy who used an executive order in his second month in office to make it easer to unionize and released $36 billion to pay for the pensions of union workers and who's supported by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, the American Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and has personally supported and helped the auto workers union strike and always talks about unions in the highest regards is actually an anti-union monster because he had to prevent a railroad worker union strike which at most would have benefitted 100k people, but would have cost millions of workers job's in the process.
You know, maybe the railroad workers union shouldn't have tried to kill the entire country, but done limited, but still impactful warning strikes. But, alas, all-or-nothing types do not understand that the needs of millions outweigh the needs of thousands sometimes.
Must've been something about all that cucking of yours that skewed your perception.
First it's "biden would never do that, that was the republicans!!!" But now it's "based Biden breaking up cringe strikes done by the greedy railroad workers".
Man, you're never beating the shitlib allegations. This is the exact kind of thinking I was talking about in my original comment. Good luck with that.
I don't think he's commenting in bad faith, you both basically agree with each other.
Republicans did not break up the railroad strike. They were for it, but they did not have the power to do it. That was all Democrat.
Did the general pardon for marijuana convicts happen yet? Are there plans to legalize or is it bad luck if your arrested a day after the pardon.
Democrats are superheros in comparison to the republican core but compared with about anyone else they are dumb, slow and ineffective.
Did the general pardon for marijuana convicts happen yet?
Yes, and that you don't know is a statement about the shitty state of US media, which does not adequately report on what democrats do compared to what republicans say. Because it gives less clicks.
Are there plans to legalize or is it bad luck if your arrested a day after the pardon.
No plans for federal legalization (impossible with this senate anyways), but the pardon applies also to later convicts
regardless of whether they have been charged with or prosecuted for this offense on or before the date of this proclamation
and you can apply for a pardon certificate here: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/presidential-proclamation-marijuana-possession
"on or before" doesn't include after.
Pretty cool it also applies to later convicts. A bit weird though that something is remains criminal by law but you can apply for a pardon certificate.
The modern quality standard for news reporting seems low almost everywhere. I was only really exposed to US media on reddit but other times a US president only has to sneeze for something to be reported and imitated worldwide.
Pretty cool it also applies to later convicts. A bit weird though that something is remains criminal by law but you can apply for a pardon certificate.
The modern quality standard for news reporting seems low almost everywhere. I was only really exposed to US media on reddit but other times a US president only has to sneeze for something to be reported and imitated worldwide.
Pretty cool it also applies to later convicts. A bit weird though that something is remains criminal by law but you can apply for a pardon certificate.
The modern quality standard for news reporting seems low almost everywhere. I was only really exposed to US media on reddit but other times a US president only has to sneeze for something to be reported and imitated worldwide.
I just want to see the gay anthros have sex
i don't really understand what you're getting at
the humour isn't really a political jab, it's just supposed to be a cursed notion
Not to be that guy but the insulin thing started under a Trump order and was finalized under Biden.
That’s called being a Neoliberal.
We are Neoliberals.
Why you gotta go and make it feel dirty?
Why is the quality of this so terrible?
This is the original:
It has high milage
It adds to the funny obvs
Dems can allow themselves to do bare minimum because they know that you don't have other choice, because not voting or voting 3rd party is a terrible idea. They can occasionally do more than bare minimum, but at its core two-party system basically holds country hostage
Not only that, but with Dems it's all morphine.
The cancer is terminal.
Not to mention that many of them really want what the Republicans are trying to pass, especially when it comes to economic issues, so they can just deliberately not put up much of a fight to ensure Republicans get what they want and so that it looks like they're progressive from the outside.
why terrible idea
Because of how the system is set up, if people don't vote specifically for dems, republicans win, and then start doing all sorts of nasty sruff
Spot on with the rapey vibes coming from the elephant.
fortunately for him, the donkey is a sub and is into that shit
just like in real life
The "third parties" that run as part of the two parties are smarter. Think Bernie or the Tea Party. Then you can vote for them in the primaries without being used as a tool by the other party.
this comic fucked me up
Happyroadkill is amazing
I ship it.
It's funny because there isn't one