• DearOldGrandma@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    You’re talking about primaries and I’m talking about presidential generals. I voted Bernie each time in the primaries because I think the DNC establishment is too far right. I personally think Bernie isn’t progressive enough, but this is the US.

    We’re literally in agreement on this part, and I said Biden was morally dubious. Guy’s a terrible person and a horrible politician, don’t get me wrong. But I’ll take Biden over Trump any day, because at least Biden has never incited an insurrection

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      6 months ago

      You’re talking about primaries and I’m talking about presidential generals

      So, what you meant was Biden loves democracy when the only other option is a fascist?

      That’s not democracy, which is why the biggest reason people gave in last election or upcoming for voting Biden is “he’s not trump”.

      If the only options for ruler of the planet was me or hitler, and I was a complete fucking psychopath, I’d also call that democracy and say I loved it. But what I would be really saying is I love it when the only other choice besides myself was someone even worse.

      That’s not democracy, that’s nowhere close to it.

      Especially factoring in the electoral college and only a handful of states are ever in play.

      In the majority of states we already know who gets all their electoral college votes.

      This is not a democracy.

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        6 months ago

        Alright, you’re just arguing for the sake of it at this point and putting words in my mouth lol. While we’re technically in a capitalistic oligarchy, we do have some democratic processes at play. I don’t like it, and you don’t either. Which is weird because you’re seemingly arguing against the only candidate that is actively trying to maintain that semblance of democracy. Trump has actively tried to undermine this semblance of democracy in each of the recent elections, even in the election he won.

        Let’s circle back for you. Biden is the lesser evil of the two. When these are your only realistic choices in our current system, there’s only one that’s obvious. Campaign for structural reform and for politicians that want to reform and improve the system we have.

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          6 months ago

          we do have some democratic processes at play.

          Russia just held an election…

          They have some democratic processes…

          Do you call them a democracy too?

          Or is your line for what’s a democracy whatever America is currently doing?

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            6 months ago

            Do you live to argue? Did you even read what I wrote, or do you only cherry pick? You’re resorting to whataboutism. And for the record no, because Russia is a full-blown oligarchy that holds farce “presidential” elections. The fact Trump, the leader at the time, lost shows we’re doing better than Russia is.

            We both support progressive candidates and ideologies. I hate Biden, but I live in a state where I’ll have to vote for him. But since you don’t want to have an actual conversation, we’re done here. Talk like this is why Republicans are doing so well despite over half of the US hating their guts.

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              6 months ago

              Did you even read what I wrote,

              I stop when I find something that’s clearly wrong and needs corrected, same with everyone else.

              If you say 20 wrong things in each comment, I’m not going to take an hour addressing them all in one comment.

              You’re resorting to whataboutism.

              No, an example of whataboutism is when people criticize Biden, someone says “but what about trump? He’s worse.”