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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A great philosopher once noted that Evil will always triumph, because Good is dumb.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

Good isn't running.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

If Biden was good he would have said AIPAC be damned, there's children being blown to bits and pieces over there. Your support is pulled, Jack."

But he didn't. I don't want any of this other shit about politics either. Fuck that. Executive order that shit away if you have to. Put American fucken boots on the ground, if Americans want to be heroes maybe we can leverage this massive fucken military to dig people our of the ashes and rubble.

But whatever you fucken do, don't change definitions to keep getting fucked by Beni. My eyes are fucken bloodshot. Stop. What is anyone going to do? You wield the biggest stick in the known universe. Protect people with it you fucken goon.

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

We are not choosing good over evil, we are choosing the lesser of two evils though the line is getting blurrier.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Are you seriously suggesting that Biden is almost as bad as Trump?

[–] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

People really have absolutely no idea how much genuinely good things Biden has done because they only pretend to care about Gaza and they're too stupid to realize that Trump will be 100x worse for the entire world including Gaza

[–] knightly@pawb.social -1 points 3 months ago

Are you seriously incredulous at such a comparison?

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

50 years of accepting any degree of evil has resulted in these two pieces of shit being the options available. The lesser evil eventually grows into an enormous evil

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[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Biden thinks he'll be winning against Trump. In fact he'll be not losing to someone even worse than him. If the conservative idiots would nominate an even slightly same candidate, Biden would be in real trouble . The only thing that keeps this asshole afloat is the even bigger asshole on the other side and the idiots not able to free themselves from him. Holy shit, this is so fucked up.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There isn't anyone on the republican side to really oppose Trump. The typical republican insider is no longer popular with voters, many tried to imitate Trump, but that fails because it's more about the outsider status than absurd statements. They could have tried an actual conservative candidate, but that's unthinkable to the republican elite, like running Sanders is to democrats.

The democrats have done a horrible job curating future candidates. The Republicans aren't much better, but at least have a lot of governors. With 12/16 years of the presidency they have no one electable on the national stage. This is a failure of leadership to not have one cabinet or congressional official be someone with a future.

This leads us to a race where the most popular option would be neither of these two.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 months ago

Exactly what I meant. They failed to realize that neither is a good choice and now all the spares they have is assholes or candidates they don't trust.

Great job, really.

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I'm not sure, who this good she is referring to is

[–] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So. Our democracy hinges on the fact that the lesser of two evils is being a clown, to protect a ICC criminal dictator, while innocent civilians die daily, and will for another 7 months, to American paid bombs.

I wonder if we can move to Canada based on political asylum from Trump. Because if not, we are so fucked.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

The majority? Absolutely! Too bad that's not how we elect Presidents.

[–] Binthinkin@kbin.social 4 points 3 months ago

Old people and poll articles crack me up.