#do not act like a biden

[simply-ivanka]

Respect that Trump is not a quitter.

#trump #president trump #trump 2024 #never quit #never give up #never cave in #do not act like a democrat #do not act like a biden #respect yourself #america first #repost

[nientedal]

Usually I just save stuff like this to my drafts until I calm down but you know what, fuck it, I'm done.

Any so-called leftist who refuses to recognize that our options right now are "genocide abroad, progress at home" and "genocide abroad AND genocide at home" and that there is a significant difference between those two options is cordially invited to eat shit and die. We do not have time to entertain your anti-voting hopeless nonsense. A future in which we are able to move towards less death will always be preferable to the one in which we can't, and if you smug, sneering little clowns sacrifice that future on the altar of your own self-righteousness because you're too high on your own farts to realize how far up your own ass you are, I genuinely hope you fucking drown. Specifically, I hope you drown in the blood of the people who will die all over the world as a result of your bizarre refusal to work towards a future that doesn't include ethnic cleansing.

This is the United States. We sell war, here. I don't know how so many of you are only just now figuring that out, but you better get over your shock like yesterday because we are out of fucking time. We ran out of time when Reagan took office if not long before. You think not voting will improve any of this?

Keep calling, keep writing, keep screaming. Governments everywhere are (slowly) beginning to listen. Democrats are (slowly) beginning to listen. But Republicans never will, and if they seize power again next year (which they will absolutely do their damned to attempt), everything will be so, so much worse for everyone, everywhere. The work is slow and painful and imperfect but it will only get done if we show up and do the work, so keep calling, keep writing, keep screaming-- and when the time comes, you show up and vote for the future that lets us build a better tomorrow instead of just choking to death in the steaming shitpile of today.

#''i can't have No Genocide tomorrow!!! so i don't want No Genocide at all!!! WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH'' that's you. that's how you sound #''if i can't have perfect then don't even fucking bother with better!! just give me worse instead!!'' are you for fucking real #you don't care about Palestine you don't care about anything other than being able to go ''Well. at least I didn't choose this.'' #not choosing is still a choice! you stupid motherfucker! #choosing to stand at the lever and do nothing and watch the trolley crush five people is still a choice!! #how DARE you act like that blood is not on your hands! #again: THIS IS THE UNITED STATES. WE SELL WAR HERE. #not voting for Biden is not going to help Palestine! #in fact it will absolutely measurably make the situation WORSE! #for them AND everyone else! #this is the reality we are working with and if you want it to change then you HAVE to play the long game! #leftists heard ''don't let perfect be the enemy of good'' and went ''WHAT THE *FUCK* DO YOU MEAN I CAN'T HAVE PERFECT??! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA'' #and i have fucking had it! #all i can do is try to keep working towards a day when the current left is the farthest right we have #but we are never gonna get there if y'all don't wake the fuck up and get moving #us politics #vent post #so help me god if this turns into a game of Spot the Tankie in the notes i'm gonna start knifing people

[suncaptor]

people sanctimoniously trying to explain US politics looking down or spreading vitriol towards anti-Biden people like you're not going to convince people upset about a genocide during an election year of a sitting president that they're just too stupid or evil to partake in harm reduction the way you want them to and advocate for the president arming Israel actively lmao.

#do you really see it as greater harm reduction of declaring unconditional support towards a president currently supporting a genocide. #like do you think it's some great coincidence that the primaries full of people voting uncommitted is impacting his (albeit slight and not #enough) changes made. like yeah the Democrat party is eating itself alive yeah Trump would be even more supportive to Israel #but don't you think even any slight impact on the very real CURRENT situation is the like. correct focus. does it just not matter or. #this isn't about fucking disillusionment and it's not about not being pragmatic for fuck's sake do you think I wanted to vote for Biden in #2020. I was fucking devastated to. and while I do think it was perhaps better give how I'm sure Trump would have acted I mean he also is #kind of a laughing stock of the world lmao. #Personally I hope that they both drop dead ASAP but can't bank on that :/ #i mean i am also fucking upset about the fact the option's are between Biden and someone else who's running claiming Biden didn't defend #Israel enough or whatever lmao. but that I can't change. send repeated emails about what will make me vote for people who represent me? #while they ignore me and refuse to change at all ? yeah well i can do that. #incoherents #us politics

[chiarrara]

I don't know I just feel like....

We just watched a man self-immolate in his military uniform. And I don't want to sound like an idiot, because it's much more than this but, couldn't you say that was a very extreme form of conscientious objection?

He could not be complicit anymore, but there is literally no way out of being complicit in this genocide if you live in America. For him especially, being trapped in military service. But for all of us. All of us are trapped in complicity in some way, and we can try to counteract that sin with as much meaningful direct action as we can possibly do, but all of that action comes with some proportional level of risk.

So, a man burned himself alive in an extreme form of conscientious objection (the only form available to him - one of great violence)

And people are still on here telling people to suck it up and vote for Biden.

I just... maybe I'm really stupid and I just can't see the logic y'all are putting forward. Because the way you lay it out it all seems to make so much sense to you. I understand we're trapped in a two party system. I understand the Republicans don't have the same consciences we do and are gonna vote en masse for Trump. I understand Trump is a danger globally and domestically. I understand all that, and I don't want his second term to come to pass. I'm not ignorant of how dangerous he is.

But a man self-immolated to object to the system of complicity he's trapped in, and the most logical response y'all have to a bunch of people wanting to opt out of complicity in this election, and the next four years of horrors that will be done in their name is to tell them, you just have to suck it up and be complicit. Your only tool is to make a phone call. You can try to protest, but there's a non-zero chance you'll be beaten and arrested and have your life ruined, by the way. You can donate to try and put a bandaid on the horrors you're seeing through your phone screen everyday (and you should, but God it's sure not stopping anything). But you're not allowed to object to being complicit in the selection of the Genocider-In-Chief.

It's not going to stop the genocide. We know this. It's not going to stop the election. We know this. It's not going to change anything directly, and Trump is going to get elected (which he will either way. most people who would vote against him are doing it anyway, y'all are fighting a very very small online minority).

But a man self-immolated in his military uniform. He didn't think that act was going to directly stop aid from going to Israel, or stop the genocide, or destroy the US military industrial complex. He didn't think his one small (but extremely brave and impactful) act was going to solve everything. Everything that was going to happen is still going to happen just with one less man in uniform.

But it wasn't nothing. It didn't do nothing. It's not his fault that the military will keep on chugging. It's not his fault that things are getting worse in Gaza every day. But he's not complicit anymore and he sent a message. And he had to die to achieve that.

And y'all are telling us we can't even do the very small act of not being complicit in the presidency. It's a less effective act of protest, but I also don't have to die for it.

It's not a boycott (I've seen this strawman, i don't know why you think we think that). It's not going to "send a message to the government" (obviously, we're not ignorant). It's to the Party that runs these candidates, and makes money off of "pick us because we're not the other guy" then commits crimes against humanity. I don't want to roll over and be fucking complicit in that.

Parties and candidates look at those numbers. they see how many people voted for them last time and how many people this time.

They don't care about our voices, and our protests, and our emails. They care about donations, and they care about votes. That's it. That's all they look at. If the emails and the phone calls and the protests don't result in a drop in one of those two things, they don't fucking care.

I don't know. This is a long ass ramble, but I'm trying to work out my feelings about this. Because we can't opt out of paying taxes, we can't really opt out of the benefits of living and being born in the Global North, we can't opt out of work, we can't opt out of the military, we can't opt out of following the law without extreme violence being brought against us. We can't do a whole fucking lot besides call, email, donate, and protest in a way that doesn't get us beaten and arrested, and if you do get beaten and arrested, you'll be dealing with the legal consequences for years or potentially the rest of your life.

And a man burned himself to death to object but I can't withhold my vote???

#just saw a long ass post that asked the question “what is your objective” #and concluded if you don't have any leverage you should just do nothing #and i really really thought about it because it was very well thought out #but i just can't agree with the conclusion #yes find your leverage and use it #yes tailor your tactics to your objectives #but I'm not wrong to object to the system in the very limited ways that are available to me #i feel like I'm crazy #but I've spent this whole last term regretting breaking down and voting for biden last time when my morals told me not to #i don't think i can do it again #and it's not a baseless moral stance or a self-centered “i don't want to feel bad” one #it just doesn't make sense to me #maybe I'll feel guilty when trump wins and wish I'd chosen differently #but i think #I'll feel like this system didn't give me a choice #and I'd rather not let my voice be used to prop up genocide #than roll over and act like no choice is a choice #“people fought for your right to vote” then they fought for my right to opt out of that as well #I'm not good at outlining my logic but i hope if anyone actually sees this #you understand where I'm coming from

[cityofduluthmn]

Gonna be really honest here, I'm genuinely worried about a Trump victory in November specifically because of Michigan.

My hometown was extremely pro-Biden in 2020. Aside from a few crazy neighbors, it was very safely leaning Biden and had a historically high voter turnout that year. Nowadays, Biden is viewed and discussed with vitriol, and rightly so given his disastrous policies and complicity in the ongoing Palestinian genocide. Nowadays, all you see around town are some Trump signs and flags, when four years ago it was absolutely plastered with Biden/Harris ads. Our mayor made national headlines for refusing to host the president on a visit.

Biden won Michigan by just over 100,000 votes in 2020. My hometown, now leaning towards Trump by virtue of a huge segment of our population ostensibly abstaining, has about 106,000 people.

Trump could very feasibly take the state of Michigan and 14 electoral votes with it in November because of one single suburb.

I understand that we're fucking pissed at Biden right now, and we absolutely should be because what he's done is abhorrent. But an election isn't a business where boycotts/targeted abstentions are going to hurt the government directly. Even if only five people vote in the election, the person who wins still gets to be the president for four years. Especially if you live in a swing state, you need to consider the entirety of what's at stake with this election.

We need to consider whether we want the president to be a person who's maintained the status quo and participated in genocide, or someone who is going to actively make the ongoing genocide worse and initiate more. Palestine isn't the only thing at stake here (and it's not even necessarily at stake. Trump has been very open and unambiguous about his support for Israel in the past. Biden is not great but trump is going to be so much worse just in that regard) and even though our system sucks actual garbage and doesn't represent the interests of anyone, we can't jeapordize the tenuous little progress we have made over a principle that isn't going to matter in the end anyway unless we have a viable alternative ready.

#US Politics #american politics #To be frank if you legitimately think abstaining is a good choice you can't claim to care about Palestinians #Boycott the companies supporting Israel and boycott the fuck out of Israeli media and support Palestine any way you can #But when you don't do the bare minimum from keeping a genocidal ethnomaniacal theocrat wannabe away from largest nuke arsenal #Then you absolutely cannot say you did it to support the first people he's going to aim it towards #And also because I know somebody's going to come at me for it #I'm not saying victims of the IOF genocide have to support one of the key players in it #I'm asking people who just want to feel like they're taking a righteous stand to actually look at the real world consequences of their acts #Palestine #Israel #2024 election #Biden #Trump #Michigan

[enberlight]

I am *begging* anyone who thinks that Biden/the Democrats "haven't done anything" in the last two years to actually look up all the policies and relief they've pushed through.

The media is doing next to nothing in publicizing positive accomplishments. It's a constant cycle of what they Haven't Done (some of which they have tried but been blocked by Republican votes, like the two attempts earlier this year to codify Roe). Not to mention the actual bad choices and takes that get tons of press and groaning.

I have two positive accomplishment posts going around, one on student debt relief and the other on the internet price cap and discount program. On both I keep getting tags that these are the ONLY good things people have seen.

Please break your news bubble. You've been misled by the focus on the negative and the spin.

They're not flawless but when NONE of the positive things are being talked about, only the negative or lack of progress, you gotta wonder who's benefitting from that spin. Especially when certain parties are actively blocking progress.

#whoops politics #enber rambles #i do not have the spoons to compile the good stuff #just google what the dems and biden have passed #everyone is acting like they do nothing at all and that is a dangerous take right now #into the void #into the tags

[archiephd]

man if you're voting for biden just to vote against trump, just say that. we have got to get over this harm reduction shit when what we really mean is harm reduced for us, me, mr american and literally nobody else on this bitch of an earth. if the only and most emphasized thing we do to reduce the harm our president and their platform does to the living is vote, we are reducing nothing. for anyone or ourselves, because voting alone doesn't challenge the trajectory of anything. it buys 4 more years before we have to do it all again, if that. thinking this way is what promises having to think this way again, and again, and again and again. in 2024, who american leftists vote for 1 day of the year matters little compared to what we do the other 364.

#j.txt #once again talking to me here there is a constant wailing alarm in my head like 24/7 #we aren't taught the other ways we can facilitate change on purpose #there is power in the polls but unfortunately in america it is very little compared to the power in. the union..... lol #i'm not hardcore judging scared minorities in america if they wanna vote for biden out of fear for trump this election cycle #but i am hardcore judging if it's proclaimed as the morally superior thing to do when it's just not #like at all #which is also by design! #would you like blue poison or red poison don't you love living in a country that lets you choose! #i also just hate the narrative that this is our only way out of trump's america #like if he wins it's over like people who've been organizing and agitating and fighting and being arrested won't be doing the same shit #before and after #we gotta stop seeing voting as activism let alone a meaningful challenge to facism #not that i know everything either #just. even the few history books i've opened don't hold instances of voting being the way out of a tide of facism man #we can multitask guys vote for who we think we need to but if that's all we're doing to change things um. #we will be stopping nothing and we will be here forever #these shitheads have power here in and outside of office and they will do whatever they can wherever they can do it regardless #like they tried storming the capital literally last election. like #and that's just. here in our own country #why should we expect them to act any different this go around. genuinely. i would like to be able to expect different #all that said i feel like i am going crazy every day 👍 #2024 elections

[besnouted]

also can i say something that is unsettling me about discussions of zionism in america is like, how much of an afterthought evangelical support for zionism is? because i think uhhh there is kind of a visibility problem happening here

like the largest lobbying org for zionism is an evangelical one that is over 3 times as large as the largest jewish org. so i need everyone to understand that fearmongering about like the idf training our cops or whatever is weird and bizarre when israel exists as an arm of US AMERICAN INTEREST, not the other way around. and i don't know if part of this is being done purposely by the tumblr leftist funnyman atheist crowd who are absolutely aware of just how big of an influence evangelicals have on us policy but are conveniently leaving that out or how much of it is just. not common knowledge. but uh i think it's a problem either way :)

#yes sorry acting like israel is influencing us policy is conspiratorial like i do not think it's splitting hairs #they are the testing grounds FOR OUR WEAPONS #AND OUR GOALS IN THE MIDDLE EAST #when biden has said with his own nasty decrepit mouth 'if israel did not exist we would create an israel' #i do kind of think people going OOUHF ISRAEL IS GONNA CONTROL THE US look like clowns #sorry! #like israel is the wheels and the us government IS THE CAR #the call is coming from inside the house etc etc

[bibleofficial]

i’m sorry this is so fucking funny 😭😭 like impeachment …. over what ? 😭😭😭

#stream #like he’s not buffering like mcconnell he’s just falling 😭😭😭😭 #but also this #wouldn’t do anything #bc the dems can just pull a vote of no confidence remove biden & keep kammy as acting president like #do they think … kamala would be … better ? for republicans ? 😭😭😭 #I MEAN SHED BE FUN ALSKALSKALKSLAKSLAKSALMS #MS VENN DIAGRAM HERAELF

[purgeturbia]

sorry to be usamerican on main but given the fact that trump actually didn’t alter us domestic policy in any irreversible way (besides the supreme court which has now stagnated again anyway in terms of membership so even if he were reelected he likely wouldn’t be able to change it further) and the democrats have barely done anything to change the course of domestic policy in terms of the environment and immigration and police brutality and all those other things that people hate republicans for doing nothing about i am allowed to be angry with biden actually. for being a genocidal old man who talks about progress but does nothing for it, for his hypocrisy and his spinelessness and his hiding behind his party’s small victories to shelter himself from the backlash of the war crimes he is actively funding. i am allowed to not want to vote for biden. i am allowed to be repulsed by the idea of it. does that mean i will vote for trump? absolutely not because he repulses me too. I haven’t yet decided whether i will go against all of my morals and vote biden or vote third party and risk throwing my vote away, but the point i am trying to make is that you can’t use “oh but trump is worse” as a shield when functionally they are the same. you can’t say “trump would be worse for palestine” when if nothing changes everyone in palestine could be fucking nuked by the time trump would even be elected. you cannot be so blindly devoted to your party loyalties that you cannot see the world outside the us and think for one fucking second about how your vote really truly affects that. you are not morally superior for supporting democrats above all else — not above all other parties, but above everything, as ive seen people do. you are a coward if you can’t see that your choices have the potential to be just as harmful as the choices of those you have labeled as “bad” and “inferior.” maybe your vote for biden ends up being the best path forward, but you have no right to act like the path is a righteous one.

#inspired by all those posts that are like ‘good things biden and the democrats have done this week’ #like do you not understand that none of that fucking matters right now #you are not the most important person in the world how domestic policy affects you is so much less important than how foreign policy #is murdering other people #acting like you’re so morally superior for never doubting biden is such a coward’s mindset and it genuinely infuriates me #im not tagging this for anything specific or allowing reblogs because this is really just for me to get my thoughts out #but if you’re one of those people that blindly supports the idea of another biden term just because he isn’t trump #i urge you to reconsider your political views #one last thing i want to make clear in case you missed it in the post is i do not like trump. i find him abhorrent and always have #there is no world in which i would vote for him. but there is a world in which i don’t vote for biden and as of right now we are in it #purge talks uspol

[jvzebel-x]

🦋

#the paragraph long rants by cunts who dont want to admit their vote is fucking useless #bc it makes them feel better than other ppl to check a little BLUE box instead of a little RED one are going to drive me insane #&we arent even to voting season. #bidens term isnt even OVER yet&bitches are STILL determined to rewrite history like hes some saviour w bound hands #instead of a loser who lost his blue majority that no one screaming about voting ever fucking wants to admit happened. #YOU WERE ALL WRONG. VOTING BLUE DID FUCKING NOTHING. WE ARE LIVING IN HELL TIMES. #but w whole lives literally burning to the ground around you its STILL more important to defend your stupid fucking blue vote. #i hope y'all get pulled into a protest while walking past the wrong part of town one day so you can see what ACTUAL fight looks like. #'you dont wanna vote? great. go do *insert actual real tangible effort here* but dont act like voting is useless >:(' #BITCH IT IS. what does the world around you look like currently? do you REALLY think we're headed to literal fascism #bc the dems are 'comprimising'? does any of this look like 'compromise'? #just admit you were fucking wrong.

[stroebe2]

that horrible failed alt right SoundCloud rapper mass shooter saying shit like he’s a fed and putting MK Ultra references in his shitty rap videos You will burn in Hell my dude 😀

#bro got minecraft YouTubers Biden tweets and crypto shit in his twitter account likes #various social media accounts linking to weird shit like cults #pics of him w trump flag and fake streams on his Spotify account #he was curating this shit acting like a troll or some shit like all this shit is a meme to him #hello FBI agent etc etc and now this motherfucker has actually gone for it and killed 6 people #and people are digging up his socials finding all that insane shit #what the fuck went wrong where you’ve got now conspiracy aware mass shooters almost doing this shit ironically #so fucking twisted and evil i honestly have no words #especially when you know the feds sus history with mass shooters in the us

[pourpled]

Fucking hate Ron desantis go fucking die!!! And I feel like he’s gonna be the president I fucking hate this country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#my parents both are desantis ppl and it’s like . either trump or desantis cos nobody likes Biden cos he fucking sucks #I hate the way fascism is the norm!!!!!! #I hate how republicans act like everyone else is crazy but like for real they are fucking insane!!!!!!!! #WHY DO U CARE ABOUT A CHILDS GENITALS SO MUCH?????????????? #transphobes go DIE!!!!!

[bmoharrisbankofficial]

genuinely what steps can be taken at this point to get anyone other than biden on the ballot? i don’t think he stands a chance against trump and people are forgetting how insane the american right is. biden’s shot himself in the foot repeatedly with his shirt policies and enabling genocide, and the third party alternatives i’ve looked into have not mobilized enough at all in the ways they need to to get a substantial number of votes. would a general strike work? the response i’ve gotten from my local reps have been ‘nothing’ or ‘seethe, basically’.

#i keep seeing so much evangelical shit from leftists on here who seem to genuinely think activism will thrive when we’re all getting killed #revenge isn’t a viable strategy for making sure we don’t die #‘you’re just focused on saving yourself’ well. yeah. i would in fact like people to survive the next few years. #one of my best friends has gotten threatened with lynchings here. since trump there have been Bold nazis and even merch for hanging and #attacking anyone that is not a white christian. #people are not going to be focused on saving other people when they are terrified for the lives of themselves and their loved ones. #i despise biden but i think a lot of y’all are acting like trump wouldn’t be doing the same shit or worse rn. #this entire system is hell man. but we are Not in a spot where there will be a magical revolution that will fix everything in the #next ten months.

[coyoxxtl]

if you’re someone who wants to vote blue in the next presidential election and you’re Not fighting like all hell to reject Biden and demand a different candidate then, please tell me, what are you voting for then

#this isn’t about voting being pointless or whatever. to me thats besides the point. #if youre using your time to participate in the selection of the people who run this country #and the one that you voted for previous term is committing fucking genocide across the planet #and you Dont act outraged. you Dont withhold your vote. you Dont fight like hell to make sure he doesn’t get reelected….what are you doing? #you Cannot call him the lesser evil anymore. he helped murder thousands of children i dont Care if trump is an easier to hate man biden is- #NOT a lesser evil anymore #dont go off spewing WHAT IF TRUMP scenarios because theyre not fucking real. biden is here Now and hes comitting genocide NOW #biden is not a safer choice. to call him a Safe Choice amidst this genocide is just disgusting. even to us as citizens he isn’t safe #but whatever yall have the weakest critical thinking skills if you vote and think you shouldn’t challenge the political parties we vote for #txt

[cinematicbookworm]

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#you know what I don’t get all these people saying they don’t wanna vote cause it supports an admin that supports genocide like what do they #think not voting is gonna do it’s also going to support genocide like unfortunately those of us who live in America live under a two party #system not all not voting this cycle is gonna do or even voting third party at the presidential level is gonna do is gonna place the #balance in favor of the republicans that’s how this works the only way it doesn’t is if you were somehow able to get a different voting #system in place by next year and that’s not happening obviously no genocide is better than any genocide but the argument that somehow there #will be less genocide if you don’t vote is baffling to me like you realize the republicans are literally running on a platform of genocide #like they want to genocide people here as well as people over there and all I’m seeing is people complaining that Biden supports genocide #like you think the other option doesn’t why would you actively advocate for making it harder to stop the genocide over there by allowing #the party who wants to take your right away to even protest the genocide an easier time getting into office #it makes no sense to me like did you not have any form of gov class in your states and if you went to college did you not take any gov #or political science classes or is your only learning on the political system made up entirely of tweets and tumblr posts by angry people #cause if it’s the second option please I beg of you to actually educate your self on how things work and then maybe go and try to actually #make a change realize that you have to grit and bear the untasteful shit in the short term I order to make changes in the long term learn #like you want a revolution learn about the consequences don’t assume it’s gonna be a cake walk get out in your community and make a change #actively go and put the effort in cause if your not doing that and you don’t vote this upcoming cycle then I have news for you you do not #the moral high ground in this argument you just don’t instead your just an appothetic idiot who doesn’t actually care #not voting is what republicans want you to do it makes it easy for them not voting is not a protest in this country it’s conceding the #fight it’s giving up all of you who say you want to punch those of us who want to actually be able to make a change slowly instead of #violently rising up you are either ignorant or malicious you and the people you claim to care about would likely not survive that act there #y’all are angry I get that I’m angry too but impotently calling for people to abandon the process makes no sense like do you want the more #genocide genuinely do you cause that’s what is going to happen not less why must the answer be all or none unfortunately none is not #currently a reality that we can get with a single election but it is something this election can move towards I am begging y’all to #actually study history and loom at what has happened pretty much every time a country has had people protest by not voting every time the #people who were the worse option got voted in the world is not black and white sometimes you have to make a decision that you don’t like so #that you can position yourself to make the actions for the greater good it’s sucks I wish it wasn’t like that but it is and y’all need to #wake the fuck up put on your adult pants and do the fucking work to change instead of fucking giving up and doing nothing