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You're going to explode the fediverse with a take this grounded in reality

His weakest point is Israel, but looking back I'm not sure what he could have done to stop the war.

Are you kidding?

He could have not used his veto power to prevent the United Nations from intervening in the war, and he could have not given Israel munitions and billions of dollars of war funding.

It's not at all unreasonable to hope for it, but you need to see sufficiently low support for the party in question. That does not look even slightly plausible in the upcoming US election. It might happen in the upcoming UK one, and you can see clearly the difference in polling and reporting

No, but it is foolish to think that it begins at the Presidency. Historically, new parties have emerged from grassroots movements, beginning with local offices like school boards and city councils. Otherwise, they have been splintered from existing parties.

So do those things down-ballot instead.

Wrong? No. But I would warn, as a fellow Canadian myself, that it didn't totally fix the problem.

Pierre Polievre (current right wing leader who walked with the Trucker convoy) is probably going to win at least a minority, and the more right wing parts of my family can't hide their hope he "finally helps the majority, rather then all these minorities getting help."

It has before. We no longer see the Whig Party on the ballot. I'm also hoping we can do it again.

Agreed, but I"m not looking to name/shame here (that may also violate the community or LW rules).

The point is we all know who at least a good portion of the "usual suspects" are.

First person I blocked, but wasnt/won't be the last I'm sure

You could just say you don't understand how federal laws are passed in the United States and I'm sure someone would you the ELI5.

This video is a pretty great introduction to how laws are passed.

Once you understand that hopefully you'll understand why Joe Biden can't just do all the things he'd like to.

Grow up.

I'd vote for a plank of wood before Trump, and it's not because I believe the plank of wood is doing the right thing in Gaza. Someone is going to become president of the United States, and unfortunately for now that's either a Republican or a Democrat. Trump will be worse in Gaza, in addition to being much worse on a whole bunch of other issues.

Ultimately I'd like to see many parties, no more electoral college and ranked choice voting. But I live here and now, so I'm going to vote for the option that's least harmful.

I, too, am a very left leftie. So I, too, will be doing checks notes exactly what the most fascist people want me to do. A corrupt Christofascist regime taking control will help us do a socialism. I am very smart.

Just admit you have no fucks to give to those that live here in America and instead, will side with people in a country you probably couldn’t have pointed to on a map a year ago and save us all the suffering of having to constantly explain how things work to you.

I’ll submit a blank ballot before I vote for any of those pieces of shit

Yep, and that’s about as much weight anyone should give to your comments. That sums you up perfectly.. “a blank”

Better this than planting sunflower eh?

If all we can expect is genocide, we have to consider other interests. I don't think Biden wants dead Palestinians, he just isn't willing to toss Israel out in the cold and that is better than cheerleading the bombs.

Honestly, neither do most of the people using “GeNoCiDe JoE”

He's literally negotiating prisoner exchanges and secured their natural resource access, plus reopened the path to Gaza being able to reopen its international airport by striking similar agreements over other ports of entry.

Signed, a Palestinian American who's done with fauxgressives Kiffyeh washing abdicating their duty to avert fascist takeover.

Edit: on further consideration, I think either Olive Washing or Melon Washing would be a better term for it, Olives because they're a staple in Palestinian agriculture, and Melons because it's apparently become trendy to reference water melons as an innuendo for Palestine because censor algorithms no likada flag or more overt shows of support.

In my experience, any criticism of Biden is immediately met with "but Trump is worse!!!" Rather than any current argument as to why Biden isn't actually that bad.

If the responses WERE generally any Biden I'd still dislike Biden but I wouldn't bitch so much about him. Every once in a while you find someone making an effort to defend Biden in good faith and, great. We can disagree on the dude, that's fine. But if I can't criticize Biden without immediately being redirected to talking about Trump, I'm going to keep talking about Biden. If the best case scenario is we're stick with this guy for another 4 years I would appreciate some pressure to do better.