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[–] TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Still the best of the two choices though isn't he?

[–] grazing7264@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

πŸ”»πŸ”»πŸ”»

becoming a genocide denier because I'm too weak to deny my vote to the American Liberal Party

point-and-laugh-1 point-and-laugh-2 isntrael amerikkka

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The thing I love about this take is that it's a perfect demonstration of where pragmatism and triangulation gets you.

[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Logical outcome of doing ethics only through maths

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lim x/2x
x -> genocide = 1/2

Right there in black and white!

[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago

You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to Genocide Joe

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Liberals support genocide but pretend to be reluctant about it.

[–] puff@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don't even know that that's true. While Biden has made a few small things very marginally better for a small number of Americans, he has also made life miserable for millions of people internationally by instigating a war in Europe with his nemesis, enabling and funding a genocide and regional war in the Middle East, and very nearly instigating yet another war between Taiwan and China. Trump was horrendous for domestic things like transgenderism. He also didn't start three wars in four years that have so far already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, calling Xi a dictator, smooth move. What a moron, all the Chinese/Taiwanese Americans I know were like, WTF is wrong with this guy?

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago

But also, he's the second worst of 2 choices. And if you're Palestinian or Houthi, he's the first worse.

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

Bud you never had to comment, it’s okay to not know anything.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We have more than 2 choices. I'm voting Jill Stein -again!

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

Ghost of Eugene Debs! and Albert Einstein as his running m8.

[–] EdelethIsBae@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

if the two choices are genocide im not participating in your pathetic farce of a democracy

[–] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago

No. He is much, much worse than Trump.

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

hell yeah dude

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

For a party that claims to care about Democracy its shitty to not even hold a Primary in most states. In my state the only options I get are Genocide Joe and "No Preference". So guess who isn't taking the Democratic ballot?

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Yea in the same way between being shot in the head and the stomach getting shot in the head is the better option.

[–] TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I don't have time to answer all of you but I wondered how you justified handing the election to Trump. It appears that's not just a side effect but really the goal.

[–] MoreAmphibians@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

You seem like the kind of guy that would say we have to vote for Hindenburg over Hitler.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Libs quit doing drive-by posting and actually defend their stance challenge.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago

Challenge rating: it's almost as if

[–] m532@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago

They captured you in a box.

You have to look outside.

[–] half_giraffe@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

If the democratic party was at all interested in the opinion of the general public (which includes you and me), they would at least run some primaries and go through the motions of a western liberal democracy. Instead, they've decided to rerun 2020 on the hope that the bold message of "He's not Trump" will work again.

The election is in eleven months - if Biden loses the fault lands squarely on the democrats for covering their ears and saying "lalalala" any time someone suggests maybe actually doing something resembling democracy. Or hey you can continue to pre-blame the left for an election that hasn't happened yet and accuse us of actually being conservatives, certainly that will convince us to line up behind Genocide Joe.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here I'll justify it.

I won't vote for anybody actively and enthusiastically enabling a genocide.

If that is too high a bar for dems to clear, that's dems problem not mine.

Now let's flip it.

I wondered how you justified supporting a genocide. It appears that's not just a side effect but really the goal.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

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[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

It appears that's not just a side effect but really the goal.

michael-laugh libs can't imagine any politics outside of vote

[–] TC_209@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

The last time I voted for a Democrat for President, she beat Trump by more than three millions votes then conceded, handing the election to Trump all on her own.

[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

shut the fuck up