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I'm convinced that Lemmy is riddled with Russian bot farms trying to stir up shit. I'm mostly democrat and believe Biden is a net good over Trump, but I won't delude myself into thinking they care about me personally. How-fucking-ever, Trump is a literal threat to our democracy and if we can't rally against him by rallying for Biden, we're absolutely fucked. And you morons are just giving into this extreme lefty rhetoric because of people like Hasan? That mother fucker is a millionaire and lives like one too.
Lemmy is a worse echo chamber than reddit. I was proud when I came here during the API-bullshit and supported Sync for Lemmy but I can't do this shit any more. I'm actually embarrassed to come here and read all this anti Biden shit while you guys complain about roe v wade being overturned, billionaires (which trump made the biggest tax cuts in history to), Israel (which is somehow Biden's fault? 🤣).
I believe this post, OP. Whether you're trolling or not. Everyone else can go fuck yourselves. Go ahead and ban this one too, mods. Since we're not living in an echo chamber.
Many of us on the Left will vote for Biden because we're terrified of another Trump presidency but like to complain about how we resent having to do so. I want far more than dems give us. I want actual care for the people who make up our country. I know I'm not gettin' that, so I complain and vote for the less-bad of the two.
It's just so exhausting, right? Im with you 100% on this.
Suppose we survive Trump, 60-40 ish. Who comes next? Is every future election going to be a fight to keep democracy?
Yes.
it was 51-47 last time and it's been getting closer and closer each time.
the fact that you don't know either of this despite it being available in a 5 second google search proves that we're screwed and going to have to keep doing this until there is no longer a "lesser evil" to vote for.
EDIT: this isn't any kind of an indictment on you; i feel that your view is extremely common and felt the need to point that out.
Honestly, I think the left needs to lean into shit like this post. Just loudly pretend Biden is the best president ever and should be unanimously elected god-emperor of the earth for life. We can have the real adult discussion when some jurisdiction finally smacks Trump with something that'll bar him from office (or he kicks the bucket) and enough of the boomers have died off that the Republican party can't win purely by catering to the most deranged of them. Or at least wait until 2028 when we have Democrat primary.
I don't think that people are dumb, but most are too distracted, tired and disengaged to see "vote as harm reduction" as meaningful motivation to vote for someone. Nuance does not make for good propaganda, and while propaganda is distasteful, it's necessary.
Even if you're of the opinion that the only way to effect meaningful change is through violent revolution, the far left in this country does not have and is not in a position to co-opt the infrastructure necessary to do that, nor the widespread political support.
Counterpoint: lemmy is full of reddit bots making it seem like there's an echo chamber so that people abandon it to go back to reddit
Before the Reddit API exodus, Lemmy was a lot harder left leaning. Lemmygrad (literal communists) were the largest instance, and tankies on Lemmy.ml still make up a decent portion of the userbase. So don't be surprised that there's a lot more extreme viewpoints here.
Seems to happen more and more with the internet as a whole. There's always a douchebag or edge lord to come in and drop a post "bomb" just to watch ppl squirm. Hell I don't even think it's the internet that is bad, it's the ppl on it. Alot of us are sick in the head and it's depressing.