I am a tankie and voting for Biden lmao. The Prolitariat must be protected till enough class conciousness is achieved for Socialism to succeed.
Stay Mad
Submitted 2 days ago by UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Grayox@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 2 days ago
THANK YOU. It’s that fkin simple.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 days ago
So simple, yet so hard for so many to understand.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You sound like a rational tankie, which by the definitions that lemmies have explained to me, would make you not a tankie.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“Anyone who thinks themselves a tankie is too self aware to be one” sounds like a fallacy. (What is a tankie, btw? I’ve been too scared to ask…)
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And I’d vote for a corpse before I vote for 34 time Convicted Felon Donald Trump. Eat the rich. Pack the courts. Seize the assets of felonious companies.
Invertedouroboros@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Mother fucker could be Dracula for all I care. Still voting for him.
uis@lemm.ee 2 days ago
There is russian meme “voting for stool just to vote against UR”.
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You get it! We can’t fuck over vulnerable people. We can’t abandon minorities and LGBT people. Even if we let things get worse to the point of a societal collapse, a lot of people will die because of it – and societal collapse has not historically led to better societies down the road.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s such an important point. Anyone who thinks a win by Trump will somehow speed up the advent of socialism is just deluded.
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My trans friends are what keeps me committed to voting Biden no matter how disappointed I am in him. Things are already really scary for them right now and I can’t be complicit in making them worse, even through inaction.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Right? Imagine it’s a fucking Saw Trap, and there’s an easy way out without sacrificing anyone… and an equally easy way out sacrificing everyone. Make the less selfish choice.
Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Biden is literally arming a genocide. He was even adamant about his continued support for that. Meanwhile Dems led cities have brutally beaten up peaceful colelge protests and invited fascist MAGA mobs to attack minority students there.
The DNC and Biden do not protect minorities. They are white supremacists with just a bit more moderation to the means they employ, but they will absolutely resort to authoritarian crackdowns if they feel the minorities to step out of line by demanding justice and rights.
goldenlocks@lemmy.world 2 days ago
We can’t fuck over vulnerable people.
That’s what you’re doing when voting for Dems.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I can’t even imagine how awful the people who fill that vacuum would be.
null@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Most based .ml user
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Based and practicalpilled
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Thank you for being a sane human 🙏
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
On one hand I’d like it if the Democrats put upsomeone more certain to beat Trump. On the other Joe has shown he supports labor and things are moving in the right direction. I’d hate it to get a neoliberal Democrat that halts this progress.
goldenlocks@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The Prolitariat must be protected
By consenting to corruption and a path to WWIII. That is not protecting them, in fact it is ensuring them a terrible future. If you cared about them, you would vote, volunteer, donate, and support the PSL, CPUSA, or Green party instead.
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lmao the green party isn’t going to do jack shit. They’re completely unserious about politics. They aren’t even trying to build up an infrastructure in all 50 states that lets them get suffused into local and state politics. They aren’t even aiming for Congressional seats, which would be necessary for an actual Green president to get anything done.
They’re just anti science grifters who think wifi causes cancer, entertain vaccine skepticism, and demonize nuclear energy – the latter of which could be a major asset to stopping global warming. Newer designs are even able to consume nuclear waste, meaning an anti nuclear position results in more waste than we would otherwise.
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 days ago
None of those parties have a ghost of a chance of winning, and with as razor thin as the win margins were in 2016 and 2020, I’m not confident Biden won’t win if we don’t vote for him. I sincerely hope I do not have to explain why Trump would be worse on literally every issue (especially Gaza) than Biden is.
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is the way.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Oh my god! A tankie who’s not fucking stupid. I never thought I’d see the day.
Makeitstop@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’d vote for ToS era Pike over Trump. I’d vote for a candidate who only communicates via ouija board over Trump. I’d vote to not have a president for 4 years before I’d vote for Trump.
It’s crazy that Trump can get convicted of fraud, be found liable for sexual assault, promise to abuse presidential power to get revenge against those who cross him, actively undermine both national and global security, promise to round up millions and put them into camps, attempt to overthrow the election and refuse to not try it again, and so on, and his side is still so loyal they’ll wear solidarity diapers for him.
taiyang@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m so down for ouija board prez.
Ouija board prez ‘channeling’ FDR: T-A-X-T-H-E-R-I-C-H-Goodbye
casmael@lemm.ee 2 days ago
lol
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 2 days ago
He is like a cult’s leader, they can do no wrong. People’s belief in him is unflappable.
Andrzej@lemmy.myserv.one 2 days ago
I’d vote for a candidate who only communicates via ouija board over Trump.
Give it a few months
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Maybe they can settle for one of those wheelchair computers that tracks your eyes looking at the letters.
radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
I’d rather have an empty chair than Trump.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I’d vote to not have a president for 4 years before I’d vote for Trump.
And now I’m curious how many things depend on having a president at all, and what his role is, by design, in the US and other countries.
Atom@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Cabinet and federal appointments are the big thing. That’s why I’ll take Biden over Trump. I’m not just voting for him, I’m voting for the 4000 jobs in energy, health, labor, transportation, etc. to be run by Democrats, liberals, and qualified people.
Trump, and project 2025 plan to fill all those roles with right wing nutjobs who will do anything to please the right. On top of those 4000, they’d expand the presidential appointment power to fire up to 45% of the federal workforce. Meteorologist who said the hurricane won’t hit Alabama? GONE! Doctor who said injecting bleach was a bad idea? FIRED!
I’ll take anyone who won’t put Project 2025 in motion.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Didn’t we have a ouija board as a president back when Nancy’s psychic was running the show?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 days ago
No, you fools, the divine spirits of the stars are different than ghosts!
vga@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Might be a cool meme campaign, listing all the things that are better than Trump one by one. You could have a new one every hour until the election day easily.
InternetUser2012@midwest.social 2 days ago
You realistically could name 100 per day and still not run out of ammo.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Considering that Biden’s main competitor is an actual neonazi and the USA have an undemocratic election system that disadvantages all but two parties, there’s pretty much no choice but the senile grandpa who’s not a neonazi.
olutukko@lemmy.world 1 day ago
yeah like people keep saying that there is need for someone better than biden, but at the moment he’s the only option thst is valid. it’s about damage control not about making everything utopia.
they complain that biden is not good enough, while completely ignoring that trump is literal neonazi. how in the fuck it is even question wheter you should vote for trump or biden because the fact is that either of them is going to the office. not some third candinate who would be actually good
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As far as I can tell, his administration isn’t so bad overall (granted, compared to children in cages this is a low bar to cross). It’s not like he does every single job personally.
Pinklink@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Can we elect Bernie before it’s too late please?
YeetPics@mander.xyz 1 day ago
How dare you
/s
abracaDavid@lemmy.today 2 days ago
This is some weird ass propaganda.
The best thing that Biden ever did was just to not be Trump.
Why are these memes so weirdly die-hard in the support of a man that is visibly unfit for the 4 years of presidency?
No one is actually excited about old Joe. It’s just that he’s simply not Trump.
It would be best if he steps down so that we can get a person in office that actually excites people for more than just not being the other guy.
ynthrepic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The best thing that Biden ever did was just to not be Trump.
The economy is booming.
It’s just that he’s simply not Trump.
I’m not sure you realize just how big of a single issue this is.
Trump is a psychopathic cult leader running a campaign of lies, defamation, and retribution. He aspires to be the US’s first authoritarian leader, and wants to turn the nation into a nuclear Switzerland. He wants to keep inflation high so that corporate America so continue to enrich the few at the expense of the many. He is literally telling business prices will continue to rise, while simultaneously promising the public that he will bring Biden’s high prices down. It’s utter madness.
Because he is “not Trump” could not be a deeper reason to vote for Biden. Especially when not voting or voting for a third party candidate effectively empowers Trump’s campaign and the many more on the right who will always vote for their team no matter what.
KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The economy is booming
For who? The American people are struggling. Meanwhile the wealth gap is wider than it’s literally ever been and Biden is too busy bombing brown children to give a shit
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Why don’t they seal the deal with anyone younger ? Surely there’s one better young person in the USA ?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Surely there’s one better young person in the USA ?
None of them ran. Biden’s admin and his fund raising base held enormous sway over the party at-large. As soon as he corralled the support of this tiny monied elite, everyone else had to either get in line or get marked as party pariahs and ousted for their disloyalty.
ynthrepic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The US political system has some issues. That’s why. Ask the DNC.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 2 days ago
I’m sure that herding behind a senile will give the Democratic Party the incentive to reconsider their corporate-oriented outlook /s
Stern@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Really, if the Dems brought in someone who was like… 50 (and probably not Newsom owing to prolonged hateboner for Cali) they’d gain 10 points in the polls immediately. Whether true or not, the narrative that Biden is old and doddering is there and that debate performance did nothing to dissuade it.
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
He had a cold, okay. /s
YeetPics@mander.xyz 1 day ago
“I just don’t get why people would like ‘not’ being set on fire. Like, it’s just a little fire, what are you, combustible fats wrapped in flammable organic fabrics? I guess it’s simply that it’s not being set on fire that they like. It’s so weird and frustrating.”
mlg@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Biden loses
OP blames the 5 tankies actually living in the USA for voting 3rd party
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I was planning to blame Russian Internet robots
Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Or you could except that that the D party sometimes runs shit tir candidates.
archomrade@midwest.social 1 day ago
eran_morad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m voting Brandon but let’s not pretend he didn’t shit the bed. It was fucking awful. Brandon should fuck off, but I’d vote for a corpse over any republican, and that will probably be true for the rest of my life.
Holyginz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What I’ve seen so many people not understand with the situation we are in right now, is that we can’t fix our current situation in one election. Everything is far to tucked up for that, so the best that can be done is vote for the least fucked up option and work to improve things. People refusing to participate or vote for the candidate who is unfortunately our best option currently (biden) are doing more damage than the people voting for the fascist party. The perfect candidate/option does not exist and never will (obviously not saying everything biden has done has been good).
Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
In their moral justification, the argument of the lesser evil has played a prominent role. If you are confronted with two evils, the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. Its weakness has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil.
-Hannah Arendt, German-American philosopher and political theorist, in fuckin 1964 lmao. some things never change!
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Technically I’m voting for Biden, in reality I’m voting against Trump. I really wish I had a better option…
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 day ago
Man I love love love not being from the US.
bender223@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Yeah, some ppl don’t get that you don’t have to like Biden, to vote against trump. 🤷♂️
paddirn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Still voting Biden, but this feels an awful lot like many past elections where people are holding their nose and voting for a candidate they don’t necessarily like just because they don’t like the other candidate. Those elections never seem to turn out good.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I am voting against trump. Biden and establishment Dems suck. But there is literally no other option. If you don’t vote and trump wins you would be at fault every bit as his voters will be
Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world 2 days ago
fuck off Yanks, stop making every post about you
UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Íf he wore a clown suit and only spoke Pig-Latin during the debate… considering the alternative
He would STILL be the only viable candidate worth voting for
Delusional@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well when the only other vote is fascism, hate, and bullying… Yeah we’re gonna vote for the not ridiculous choice.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Just because you are still voting Biden, doesn’t mean you don’t care.
It just means you still don’t want the raving malignant narcissist Trump.
Any somewhat normal person would be the obvious choice over Trump. Any person who is not clearly a traitor to USA and Democracy would be preferable to Trump.RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
No one minds you voting for Biden believe it or not. We do mind being demonized and straw-personed for not voting for him.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m voting against Trump. Not thrilled to have a president who might have to have his Oval Office relocated to a nursing home.
anticurrent@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I see the coping, Biden is cooked and the election is Lost.
Liberals are self-infecting a loss, and are blindingly running against a wall, the smack will be heard from outer space.
Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I’m not sure if OP understands what a Tanky is.
febra@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah… sure. Not a tankie, I’m European and don’t care about influencing you to vote for one or another. But after seeing Biden “debate” Trump I know the dems are fucked. I mean sure, still go out and vote, but I honestly don’t see many people doing so.
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Biden supporters on the Internet are the worst thing that could happen to Biden… and they say Tankies are doing Trump’s work for him
problematicPanther@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ll vote for biden unless he drops out and a more progressive candidate presents itself, in which case I won’t vote biden.
demizerone@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m voting for the man with one foot in the coffin that is not trump, but it doesn’t matter because I don’t live in a swing state.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Maybe we don’t associate Biden with fascism frog
pubquiz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This is what Germany in 1929 was - without social media.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 2 days ago
But NOOOOO both sides both sides lalalaa can’t hear you both sides lalalaa /s
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I think the real upsetting thing isn’t Biden’s performance, or havong Biden as president four more years. He achieved quite a bit after all. The real upsetting thing is the DNC being such cunts that they even pushed for this debate, hoping that Biden could win, only to deny and ignore Biden’s abhorrent performance immediately after. That Bernie got shafted twice by them, that is the really upsetting part.
whocares314@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It seems pretty obvious to me at this point that the DNC would rather lose than have an actual progressive win. None of the shitty things that Trump wants to do will hurt them, (stupid take if they cared at all about their descendants but they’re either too arrogant or too ignorant to worry about that) but actual progressive policies that helped average people WOULD hurt their way of life. Marginally. Like, the tiniest little amount. Like, your yacht can only have one master bedroom instead of four. But why give that up when you don’t have to?
“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it”
I’m voting for Biden though, and I’ll keep voting as progressively as possible in the down ballot elections. If a progressive movement from the bottom up can start by doing things like getting rid of FPTP, we still have a chance. And to anyone thinking about not voting, please do. The president is one person. They are the single most powerful person individually, (taking aside impact on the judicial system) but the collective impact on your day to day life is far more influenced by down ballot positions. Research your down ballot candidates and vote. Many of those races are decided by only a handful of votes. Yours matters.
crusa187@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
This was made perfectly clear in 2016 when Hillary stole the nom by colluding with Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.
If people haven’t caught on by now, they haven’t been paying attention. Or are just willfully ignorant.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s not in their interests to let a progressive win. Just like their counterpart, the DNC takes a shit ton of
briberydonations fromcorporationslobbyists. Bringing in a progressive who would reform the system or push back against pro-corporate policies is biting the hands that feed them.TheBat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
DNC should’ve started promoting someone else as Presidential candidate since the last 4 years and let Biden work quietly in the background.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They could be rotten from the inside as well, knowing full well how it would go
riodoro1@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I wouldn’t be surprised
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
youtu.be/aDfp-QsH51w?t=2018
Sorry, Piped and other frontends isn’t working right now, so you’ll have to use normal YouTube or go through VLC.
Pandantic@midwest.social 2 days ago
The title of this video is “An Anarchistic Watches West Wing” or something similar. I only watched 20mins but it was good so far. It’s a criticism of the American Capitalist system, American Democracy (power of the president, presidential hero worship), etc. via the way it’s portrayed in the West Wing.
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Or simply have YouTube links redirected to NewPipe.
tostiman@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Democratic Nation of Congo?
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Democratic National Committee.