Boasting about this shit is no different than just ignoring it and continuing relations as usual or condemning it publicly and continuing relations as usual. What was the dollar value in arms that Obama sold to SA even after their human rights atrocities were exposed in Yemen? How many bombs did we sell them that they dropped on civilians in Yemen?
why would you only care about two issues and literally nothing else?
I wouldn't ignore it, and Obama isn't running for election, Biden is.
Biden is BY FAR the lesser of two evils in this scenario, and your argument against lesser of two evils voting just seems to be "I don't care", which isn't an argument at all.
It's fine if you want to hold that position but openly mocking me for believing otherwise is just stupid, that's your personal opinion, it doesn't magically make allllllllll the other issues not matter (COVID, climate change, LGBT rights, women's rights, spreading misinformation)
Because those are the two issues that materially structure the world.
When was the last Dem that actually fucked with SA? Biden won't change anything wrt our relations with SA
- COVID: sure
- CC: maybe. Let's see how hard he pushes his GND coming up to the election
- LGBT Rights: yes, what has Biden done to materially improve the rights of those in the LGBT community? What are his plans to do so?
- Women's rights: see above. Tell me, do you remember when Biden voted to let states overturn Roe?
- Spreading misinformation: not sure what you mean here? Everyone does this, including the politicians I like. Propaganda is inextricable from politics
And honestly, aside from CC, none of those issues do matter when shadowed by imperialism and capitalism. The policy proposals can never fundamentally change those issues, because the issues are structured by the forces of imperialism/colonialism and capitalism
I don't know he hasn't been the president yet lmao what is this
He was VP he had no power
The argument revolves around what Trump/Republicans would do instead which would inarguably be worse
Dude are you really gonna argue that the Trump admin would spew the same amount of mininformation as the Biden admin in the next 4 years if elected? Based on everything that he's been saying and doing the last four years including PUBLICLY CALLING COVID A HOAX WHEN HE KNEW OTHERWISE?
Come the fuck on
This is like the equivalent of telling me to prove that the moon isn't made of cheese
I can't prove what the Biden admin would or wouldn't do if elected but we can assess the facts and reasonably deduce that he's the far LESSER OF TWO EVILS, which is the whole goddamn point
But climate change is the most important issue of all
And if you care so much about people in the third world not dying which it seems like you do, climate change should be an extremely important issue to you, it could easily displace and ruin the lives of just as many people as wars have been doing over the next 50 years
You’re both talking past each other
And Acting like any dem presidential candidate would have operated how trump did re covid is bullshit
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He doesn't seem to care about COVID, or deem it an issue worth placing significance on in the election at all which is a very strange attitude
is it because the 200,000 dead number seems insignificant? because the amount of people with permanent health issues from post viral syndrome is going to be waaaaaaaay higher than that
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we'll need ot have voting reform or all the old reps to die out or some kinda miracle like dismantling bipartisanship or idk some kinda like tipping point scenario (say, public prosecution of Trumps and some other treasonous members) to give way to a scenario where we dont have to pivot right just to win elections
You know he was a senator for 36 years, right?
No, just saying they all spread misinformation. I'd argue the misinformation that Dems have spewed is just as harmful, e.g. "we're doing something about the environment" creating complacency when it's all a lie
This is the word I dispute
And I'm not convinced it's actually a priority for Biden. We'll see. And the structural conditions that have made it a problem stem from imperialism/colonialism/capitalism. If the underlying problems aren't fixed, we just end up with serial policy failure
No, he's talking past me. I stated a position. He keeps saying "but COVID!" which is completely irrelevant to the point I made.
Hint: I never said the Dems would've had the same response or wouldn't have responded much more effectively. That's the point: COVID is not a refutation of my position
Nah. Pivoting right doesn't win elections. Look at Obama 08. Look at Clinton 16. Pivoting left would win elections, the DNC just won't do it
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