• Pentacat [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    Outside of presiding over massive inflation, the loss of women’s right to choose, genocide of the Palestinians, the arming of Nazis in a proxy war, increasing terror at the US border, increasing warrantless surveillance on Americans who aren’t in Congress, increasing police budgets everywhere, killing free speech, and making criticism of Israel a hate crime, what mistakes can you point to that Biden has made? We’re actually lucky if you think of all the bad stuff throughout history that he hasn’t presided over.

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      6 months ago

      don’t forget abandoning covid guidelines and caving to the rightwing’s policies and stiffing us on our promised stimulus checks and debt forgiveness.

      Oh yeah, and betraying the BLM bloc you just coopted by saying “defund the police is a rightwing idea”

    • TrashGoblin [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Good comment. Even if you argue, as Democratic partisans will, that few of these were things that Biden had any control over (e.g. inflation and Dobbs), the fact is that he was the sitting president while they happened. That will make him unpopular, even if that’s “not fair”. And people will vote against him (or not vote) because he’s unpopular, even if “the alternative is worse”. If you specifically argue that he didn’t have any control over these things, he looks weak, and that makes the problem worse. And no amount of lecturing people about how they’re wrong to react in natural, perfectly predictable ways is going to change that.