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      Or when they say but he’s the most progressive president since fdr

      True but that just show how far right the country has been.

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            It’s a damning nail in the coffin for people arguing to work within a system to change it through the “necessary channels.” Rosa Luxembourg was correct, revolution is the only real path for change, whether that be by threat of revolution a la the Civil Rights movement, or by building up parallel structures from without, or, hopefully never coming to it, violent means.

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              Civil Rights was also mobilized through labor but all notion of class identity has been eroded away. Recent labor actions are a breath of fresh air.

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                Recent labor actions are a breath of fresh air.

                Yeah, columnists were really quick to give Biden credit for the UAW’s hard work.

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      Except he’s not the lesser of two evils. What a braindead take.

      If you have to eat brocoli or asparagus, you can whine about lesser of two, but when one guy is LITERARILY trying to overthrow democracy and is actively calling for a dictatorship you are NOT choosing between the lesser of two evils.

      You’re choosing between broccoli and Ebola infested diarrhea.

      When Republicans stop being INSANE we can go back to the bOtH sIdEs / lesser of two evils circlejerck, until then stop this muddying of waters bullshit.

      The two options aren’t similar or even in the same stratosphere.

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          Im not sure that’s a real person, all these overly hostile if you dont vote biden you’re as evil as trump posts only serve to try dissuade votes for Biden. It’s the kind of noise that helps break down any cohesion between those who are anti-trump.

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        The difference here is that for leftists, liberalism is still evil, just that fascism is far more so. Biden would still be considered the lesser of two evils in that instance.

        Talking down to leftists as though their complaints are illegitimate and pushing a narrative that “Biden is good, actually” just furthers voter apathy, the correct way to engage with leftists is to point out how voting as a leftist is loss prevention. Because voting will never move America to the left, leftists must work on the ground to build grassroots movements, unionize, organize, protest, and more, while voting Democrat to keep fascists out of office.

        Telling clearly passionate people that their criticisms are invalid and that their problems don’t matter is an extremely privledged position to hold. For many people, the status quo itself is bad. People can’t afford to just vote Democrat, they already can’t afford many necessities and are already being targeted by fascists.

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        You’re choosing between broccoli and Ebola infested diarrhea.

        If you saw, “Broccoli: better than Ebola infested diarrhea! - Brought to you by the Broccoli Growers of America,” you would say that their messaging needed work.

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      And when you look at how Israel is basically fascist when it comes to Palestine and Biden has backed them unconditionally it blurs the lines even more.

      But lives overseas don’t matter as much as American lives to most of the US.

      Is Trump worse? Hell yes. Is Biden good? No.

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      Thing is, people have lots of reasons to not like Biden. I assume my reasons, for instance, are probably completely different from your reasons. But that’s what you get when the guy is actually responsible for things. He’ll need to make some decisions that almost nobody likes. That doesn’t yet make them wrong decisions, or the totality of his governance wrong.

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      If only people would dig a little deeper they would find Biden has really done a lot. Further, he is discouraging Israel in many ways. MSM fail.

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        I mean, his administration kinda has, like with the restrictions on the M16s heading over there, but he himself is out publicly calling himself a Zionist and offering the most lukewarm criticisms possible, if at all.

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      It’s extremely condescending towards leftists from a vague sense of liberal superiority, like an out of touch talk show host or establishment dem.

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              No, radlibs, I don’t want a “strong republican party” as an opposition to “keep us in check.” The ones I love and care for aren’t privledged enough to play with that kind of fire. I want cooperation and a movement for leftist organization.

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      They understand. They just want their hostages to shut up and develop Stockholm syndrome already.