Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, a sign of the president’s strength in uniting his party to have the backing of one of its most liberal members
stop with the prophecy, and stop with the doomer shit. sure, lets say voting biden is “voting for team color”. tell me, would the other team be better? fuck no, we’d be getting even more fucked than we already are. there would be a federal abortion ban. the federal government would be pursuing an actively genocidal agenda towards queer people across the country. millions of real human lives would be negatively affected. there would be less than no action on climate change, instead of the “meager” biggest investment in renewables in US history.
it just makes me so mad. if the red team wins, MORE PEOPLE WILL DIE. is that not meaningful? it is to me. it should be to you. vote blue. it isn’t enough, but not everybody has the privilege of ideological purity. we have to survive in order to thrive.
This thread is the first time I’ve been embarrassed to be a part of the fediverse. This thread shows a lot of nihilistic people who don’t actually follow politics well enough to have views based in reality. People reference the railroad situation without understanding the resolution and reference student debt and other areas as if Biden had full control of the house/senate.
It really is the left’s version of Trump supporters in that they revel in their ignorance, wear it as a badge and then encourage others to follow the same path. At least Trump supporters have the decency to encourage their contemporaries to vote in elections smh.
i don’t think its necessarily intentional. apocalyptic narratives play well online, the cold war made a generation paranoid about nuclear annihilation, and the US is steeped in evangelical culture. if you listen to right wing media, there’s so much stuff talking about the end times its crazy. the reason the right likes Israel? they think it fulfills end times prophecy. everybody they don’t like is the anti-christ. so many people in this country have been primed to accept the apocalypse as an inevitability, it isn’t that surprising that the sentiment has spread to other parts of our culture, and into our political discourse. at least, that’s my pet theory on why it pops up so often. could just be a human thing, honestly.
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stop with the prophecy, and stop with the doomer shit. sure, lets say voting biden is “voting for team color”. tell me, would the other team be better? fuck no, we’d be getting even more fucked than we already are. there would be a federal abortion ban. the federal government would be pursuing an actively genocidal agenda towards queer people across the country. millions of real human lives would be negatively affected. there would be less than no action on climate change, instead of the “meager” biggest investment in renewables in US history.
it just makes me so mad. if the red team wins, MORE PEOPLE WILL DIE. is that not meaningful? it is to me. it should be to you. vote blue. it isn’t enough, but not everybody has the privilege of ideological purity. we have to survive in order to thrive.
I agree.
This thread is the first time I’ve been embarrassed to be a part of the fediverse. This thread shows a lot of nihilistic people who don’t actually follow politics well enough to have views based in reality. People reference the railroad situation without understanding the resolution and reference student debt and other areas as if Biden had full control of the house/senate.
It really is the left’s version of Trump supporters in that they revel in their ignorance, wear it as a badge and then encourage others to follow the same path. At least Trump supporters have the decency to encourage their contemporaries to vote in elections smh.
sometimes I wonder if the “both sides” leftists are privileged accelerationists
i don’t think its necessarily intentional. apocalyptic narratives play well online, the cold war made a generation paranoid about nuclear annihilation, and the US is steeped in evangelical culture. if you listen to right wing media, there’s so much stuff talking about the end times its crazy. the reason the right likes Israel? they think it fulfills end times prophecy. everybody they don’t like is the anti-christ. so many people in this country have been primed to accept the apocalypse as an inevitability, it isn’t that surprising that the sentiment has spread to other parts of our culture, and into our political discourse. at least, that’s my pet theory on why it pops up so often. could just be a human thing, honestly.