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It's also possible to look at this situation and see you as the one who is fixated. Just explain simply what you think happens in November when you refuse to participate in the (albeit shitty) democratic process. We'll wait.
If that version of the future includes some accelerationist fantasy where things get so bad here -- for people of color, LGBTQ, lower and middle class, human rights, wage gap, regulatory capture, &c&c -- that we all have some great awakening and there is a violent uprising... Then I'm sorry to tell you that you're a terrorist.
People here aren't arguing for you to like Biden; most of us don't either. We're asking for you to live in reality.
Being "very unfair" to expect that the President represents those who elected him by changing his position to match that of those who elected him is not just broken Democracy, it's the full-on acceptance that the President of the United States of America shouldn't even care to represent his voters (otherwise it would not be "very unfair" to demand him to change his position to align with that of his voters), which is the kind of shit from countries like Russia were the vote is pure theatre and citizens have no power.
I mean, it's fair if "in my country the vote is not a real election of a representative of voters" is what you accept as reality, but that's like saying in Russia that "well, Putin will do whatever he wants either way so people most vote for him", which not really a moral argument to push on anybody who is unwilling to endorse by voting that rigged system with a meaningless vote.
Whilst that's a perfectly valid choice for you fully accept that you don't live in an actual Democracy, that doesn't really give you the moral highground to convice others that they too must fully accept it.
What Biden is doing here isn't great, no one is arguing that. If you replaced him with trump right now trump would be orders of magnitude worse. If trump gets back into the white house, our country, lives, and future will be orders of magnitude worse. That's a fact. Our stupid ass first-past-the-post voting system means you have two choices, Biden, or worse-in-every-single-measurement-unless-youre-a-millionaire-and-you-likely-arent Trump. Choose wisely. Your future depends on it. It's really not a hard choice.
Get politically active and push for change, but don't help bat shit insane MAGA put a king into the white house by extending your apathy to voting day. Please.
It's our duty to be the last line of defense to keep a rapist racketeering felony indicted man who believes he is above the law from leading our country again. That is much more important than our quibbles with Biden.
Genocide is not a quibble
I established that with Trump it would be worse regarding the genocide. The quibbles are the other things people are bitching about.
If the genocide is what you're concerned with, understand it will be orders of magnitude worse with Trump. That's all really that needs to be said.
So the choice is between a genocide, and a worse genocide
Wow, America really is the land of the free and the home of the brave. Makes you really glad to have been born in such a wonderful democracy.