• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Obama also campaigned that he would codify abortion into law, got elected, and then said it was not a priority. Then didn’t do anything to protect reproductive rights.

    This image is complete propaganda.

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      7 months ago

      Obama goal: end FPTP so the 2000 election doesn’t happen again and again Short term easily reversible promises

      Biden goal: what democracy, and how exactly

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      7 months ago

      Ah yes, the old “it’s propaganda because it doesn’t include literally everything that has ever happened”.

      Bush dodged that shoe like a fucking boss so how bad a president could he have been?!

      Is it rosy colored? Sure. Does it still have a generally true premise? IMO yes.

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        7 months ago

        Really stupid that we beat down the people on the left that demand a better candidate than the one who said he would be a one term president. A man who is further left than Nixon in most aspects. Yet, we have all these people who will die on the hill of Biden and we continue to ratchet to the right.

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          7 months ago

          The meme here overstates Biden, but that’s not where you were originally poking.

          It’s totally fine to want a better candidate, but I don’t get down with cutting off your nose to spite your face: “Haha allowing authoritarianism and the erosion of democracy by non participation or durden voting will sure teach the Dems to pick a better candidate! Got em!”

          Side note, I think you mean right of Nixon, yeah?

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          7 months ago

          A better candidate would have been 2021-2023. You missed your window of THREE YEARS.

          Okay, so let’s say Biden in 2024 for the sake of argument. Who’s the best candiate starting 2025? For the next President? Who. Name someone. Anyone.

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            7 months ago

            For the Democratic Party: Pritzker would have handled it well. Maybe Beshear, even Evers.

            By 2025 I will be curious if Hobbs or Shapiro will have the chops. Maybe even Grisham or Kotek, who knows.

            And that’s just the governor pool.

            There are options and have been options.

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          7 months ago

          Biden never actually said that, but the fact that you think he did tells me all I need to know about how little you pay attention and what news sources you follow.