• sozesoze@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I don’t get this Schrödingers democracy thing here. The American people should save democracy by voting for Biden to stop Trump. But they can’t make demands against the pro-Israeli positions of Biden. You aren’t even in the real election phase, the election is in six months, and people can’t criticize or demand better action from their own elected president. Hell, I’ve seen these kinds of memes since the primaries, which are meaningless for Bidens candidacy except that you can send signals that you maybe have to change your course. But nothing has changed at all since then either, only empty words. How is this democratic then?

    I’m not even saying that Biden has to do everything the most radical people on the pro-Palestine side demand. But Biden doesn’t even try to find a compromise. He could maybe leverage the power that the American government has over Israel to stop the bombing of Gaza. If he feels brave he could even demand the stop on more settlements.

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      2 months ago

      It’s the Schrodingers democracy of the shrodingers “free” world we live in — Politics is pay to play, corporations are people and both can donate unlimited money, wealth equality is worse than the guilded age, but we totally have “democracy” bro. Also you should shut up and support a genocide because we’re fighting to prevent the fascists from taking power, which will surely lead to genocide… Only worse!

      This is the kind of discourse you get with a 2 party system ruled by a corporatocracy masquarading as a democracy — the propagandized neoliberal drones are most of the comments you read. Ultimately vote for Biden, because the alternative is literal Christian fascist dictatorship, but give Biden and neoliberals hell; make them believe they’re gonna lose all the way to voting day.

      • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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        2 months ago

        give Biden and neoliberals hell; make them believe they’re gonna lose all the way to voting day

        I agree with this, but people really need to stop qualifying every critique with their intent to vote for him anyway. Biden has already been saying he doesn’t believe his polling numbers are real (why liberals aren’t panicking about that indifference is beyond me), we really can’t be sending mixed signals here.

        He risks losing if he doesn’t change course, full stop. He needs to know that risk is real.