Which is fair. But you have to assess. Who else is likely to get in. Is there anyone else besides the Republican? If there is let's get behind them and push them. But if there isn't as sucky as this may be a right-wing Democrat is still better than an outright fascist. Although they shouldn't be left in for more than one term at most. We should start lining up someone to primary them in the very next election. They don't get a pass just because they're not Republican.
Well I don't think it's impossible to be a good politician. But I don't think politician should be a career path. And more that politics should be local and hierarchically flat. Once you start having middle managers etc. Those above them become far too insulated.
You will always have people falling into leadership roles. And there's nothing wrong with that. But they need to be close to the people they lead and answerable to them.
And I can agree that over the last decade plus Biden has had a good amount of growth as a person. Which is always a good thing. He and most Democrats are unfortunately still highly inadequate for what's needed to be done. But growth is always good.
Here's a hint I'm an anarchist so generally not anyone above mayor. But seriously, Biden who dismissed Anita hill, who voted against busing Etc. I think he gets a lot of flack for things he has no control over. And in fact I'm one of the people that's been voting you up here. But let's not kid ourselves into pretending he was some really good guy/ politician at that level. That would nearly be an impossibility.
I would get more accomplished if I went to our fascist Governor's residence and took a shit on his doorstep.
That's literally privileged blue state leftist talk. Is writing in Joseph Dejacque going to return the rights my SO, my mother, my sister, and my nieces all lost? Is writing someone in going to flip the state legislature to actually get it to implement the ballot initiatives citizens here pass? Is it anything but the definition of empty virtue signaling? It's like starving, seeing a half eaten hamburger in the trash. Going, I could eat it to relieve my hunger. But no, I will let the fresh imaginary hotdog sustain me.
Don't get me wrong, under the right circumstances write-ins can get someone like Mukowski elected. But that's the exception not the rule, and requires someone write-in worthy running to boot. As an anarchist I'd like to see nearly all of them run from office however. Till then I'll fight the fascists with any effective means at hand. Though it must be nice to be able to be choosy. Unfortunately it rarely coincides with self awareness.
I live in a red state. I'll vote for anyone that stands a chance of keeping a Republican out of office. That's just basic harm reduction. And yes that would theoretically include even a CIA democrat. But the joke's on you. Republicans largely run unopposed here.
The CIA didn't create Putin. He was literally a tool of the Vanguard for 16 years. Long before it fell. Literally every single Russian oligarch has ties directly back to the Vanguard as well.
Fuck the CIA and all. But nothing is more predictable than Leninist unable to acknowledge their own failures and needing a scapegoat.
It's occurred several times in my life time. And if any issue would have seen another. It would be Israel. Take it from someone who has lived here 50 years and isn't a third party.
I'm not here to defend biden. He absolutely could and should have done more. I'm just here to call out the people attacking the Democrats for things that were largely out of their control in that presidential election. Only succeeding at helping to get the actual fascist into office. Not that Democrats didn't contribute to that plenty on their own as well.
I suggest you read up on what a veto proof majority is. Literally they could stop and override his veto on just about anything regarding israel. And best of all it doesn't care if you buy it or not. It simply exists. All we can do is acknowledge it and take it into account.
The only reason Trump is able to do any of the things he's currently doing. Is because he has the support of far too much of the Judiciary and the majority of the legislature.
Deny all you like. While I sympathize with a lot of you, and think you had good intentions. You were played like fools and that is just a simple fact. Something that we should remember and try to do better about in the future. And the first step on that path is to acknowledge you are manipulated.
We have our work cut out for us. We have a whole legislature and Judiciary to replace before replacing the president means anything.
Because the problem with Israel is our congress. They are owned by them. Even if Biden has come out strongly against israel. The Congress would just override him. Biden was never a good politician. But on top of that he had nothing but shit options available to him. I still think he should have stood up and forced Congress to go against him. But current events in Israel were never going to be stopped by a presidential election.
There was nothing any president the United States could currently do to stop the fascism in israel. Not only that. It literally wasn't even on the ballot. However outright fascism at home was.
Between standard fascit Republican vote suppression, disenfranchisement, and one sided myopic amplification of propaganda surrounding current events in israel. Many people who were against Republicans and against the genocide in Israel. We're literally convinced to vote for the fascist who would make it worse. Because of all the propaganda.
It's a damn shame that we weren't in a place where the genocide in Palestine was on the ballot. That absolutely should have been one of the issues we could differentiate on. It just never was. And all the short-sighted focused attacks on Biden and harris. Only brought the fascism and genocide home.
Biden wasn't perfect, he wasn't even adequate, but he was somehow still better. And I wish we had him right now or Harris. But all these fools couldn't stop from being manipulated into making unachievable perfection the enemy of something that we could have actually had.
ACAB was never premised on any black and white statement of every single cop being a monster. Rather that due to the systems in place and the overwhelming corruption. It is impossible for a cop to ultimately be good. Especially as long as the systems of we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing are allowed to persist.
Plenty of people go in with the aspirations of helping the community. Those people are the exception. And often weeded out before ever joining the force. And on the off chance that they were to actually make it in. Are pressured and beaten down to Overlook and accept the corruption of their peers or risk personal threats or loss of their own job.
You may have a friend who is generally good and is also a cop. They may be a good friend. But that doesn't make them a good cop. The system makes that impossible.
No one should want to take over the world Etc. Everyone should leave everyone to live their lives. Just because we're peaceful doesn't mean we're not armed. We just don't use the bullets against our neighbors. We reserve them for tankies and fashies with boners for world domination. That's how you keep other groups from conquering you.
This isn't rocket surgery it's basic Anarchy. And it's really sad how so many replies to my comment just completely lack any self-awareness or irony.
Let me ask you this. Where you live are there any national elected political parties that aren't largely an embarrassment. That can be expected to do things that benefit yourself and other people over enriching themselves and their friends? Have you never stopped to ask why it's always that way?
Countries are problematic artificial constructions. That historically have almost always turned against those they govern when the alternative becomes inconvenient. Who ever implied that having a county was a goal or condition of winning? You're thinking at the wrong level.
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Which is fair. But you have to assess. Who else is likely to get in. Is there anyone else besides the Republican? If there is let's get behind them and push them. But if there isn't as sucky as this may be a right-wing Democrat is still better than an outright fascist. Although they shouldn't be left in for more than one term at most. We should start lining up someone to primary them in the very next election. They don't get a pass just because they're not Republican.