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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Most progressive” is not a high bar to clear

  Yet Biden managed to fail anyway.

  It’s a reasonably fair claim that Biden has been more progressive than Obama

  Nope. Neither fair nor accurate. Obama picked Biden to assuage the fears of white conservative Democrats and Biden is the exact same guy that he’s always been. His age isn’t much of a problem in itself, but his outdated policy positions and opinions are.

  He entered politics before the invention of the walkman and he hasn’t changed or acknowledged any of his mistakes since then.

  definitely isn’t outrageous enough to justify ranting about crack smoking and traumatic brain damage.

  For the reasons stated above, I beg to differ.

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  • maniclucky@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You haven’t actually commented on anything recent, just vague references to his non-presidency years (people are allowed to change). Nor have you shown that any of the listed presidents were more progressive. Your argument is “nuh uh”. You claim he failed. How? You didn’t even take the low hanging fruit of “Isreal” or “continued border bullshit”.

    Here, I’ll start: nominated the first black woman to the supreme court. More low hanging fruit, but you’ve set the bar rather low. He’s been doing quite a lot for the LGBT community, which is a pretty big reversal from his past.

    See. Two sentences, one source, and now there’s substance. Now. Refute me.

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    • nomous@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And… fucking crickets.

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      • maniclucky@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Shocking. What’s the over/under on that person being a Russian troll?

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    • blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Here let me help.

      lemmy.world/comment/10592121

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      • maniclucky@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        When I was doing my 2 second google search, I spotted the whitehouse.gov link (and it’s what reminded me about Ketanji Brown Jackson), but figured the person I was responding to would mark that as biased.

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  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yet Biden managed to fail anyway.

    Oh good, I’m not the only one to say it.

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• EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Most progressive” is not a high bar to clear.

  and Biden still limbos way under it.

  Biden forced the railroad workers to go back to work, violating their right to protest. That’s ACTUALLY fascism. The government forcing people to work at a company for shitty pay so the shitty company can get more money

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  • Thunderbird4@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And Obama broke the legal Occupy Wall Street and killed civilians in Yemen with drone strikes. So he takes the title instead? “Most progressive” is a comparative qualification, and he does not need to BE a progressive to take the title.

    While I agree that the strike shouldn’t have been broken and that the rail workers should have the right to stop as much work as they control in order to make their demands heard, Biden also became the first president to walk a picket line during that strike and ultimately got the rail workers a deal that their unions all were reportedly happy with. He may not be everything you want, but he IS the most pro-union president of my lifetime. Again, not a high bar to clear. Recognize progress when it happens, even if it’s not your dream come true.

    Furthermore, with all the terrifying examples of actual rising fascism that surround us right now, don’t muddy the waters with BS like that. It just makes you look like a troll.

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  • Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The biden administration got the railworker what they were asking for.

    Its not his fault you cant read.

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