abraxas

@abraxas@sh.itjust.works

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abraxas , to White People Twitter in Does anything truly get better than moving soldiers around on a little map?

Yeah, I've noticed there's this weird cross-section of people who ask "do you believe everything you heard on the internet?" about some pretty established facts, and blindly believing Fox News.

abraxas , to MeanwhileOnGrad in I am genuinely confused by hexbear's opinion on the Ukraine war

Oh god yeah, all the freaking time. I feel my brain turn to Jello when someone goes all-in on the "massacre was fake" bullshit, often insisting that no pictures exist, pretending it's just the Tank Guy pic. Someone references the notorious bike pic, they pretend you're talking about a similar bike pic that's a LITTLE less clear about tank treads crushing human bodies. You link them the actual bike pic, they either pretend they don't see the slaughter (best I heard was "they're not dead or run over, they're just taking a nap") or they start saying "well those were the violent people and China saved the peaceful protestors from them"

It makes me want to vomit

abraxas , to politics in Fifty-nine percent of Americans think Biden and Trump too old for another term

Pretty much. I'm a progressive. Specifically, a socdem. I fully acknwledge that most people don't want what I want. The fact that one side is giving me a seat at the table and offering me some progress and concessions means the world to me.

and when Trump eventually dies, I might be more sympathetic to a discussion about the progressive bloc holding out for a platform shift to the left

I won't hold my breath, though. The Left is what... 13% of Democrats? If the Republicans fully died and the Democrats split, we Progressives would have to find allies to even win an election. Changing hearts takes time, and we've backpedaled a long way since the early 90's.

abraxas , to politics in Fifty-nine percent of Americans think Biden and Trump too old for another term

Interesting. I haved lived in and out of Purple areas in a deep-Blue state, so perhaps the Republicans here are a little less insane than the typical ones. Not surprised, really, just didn't realize

abraxas , to politics in Fifty-nine percent of Americans think Biden and Trump too old for another term

You mean more than "she's a Democratic VP"? I wasn't aware of that. She seemed the most conservative-friendly candidate to me in 2020 except Bloomberg. Guess I wasn't aware of the particular hatred. I wonder why that could be. Surely not because she's both a minority and a woman.

abraxas , to politics in Fifty-nine percent of Americans think Biden and Trump too old for another term

Are you really bragging about your support of fascism now? Oh look, found the block button.

abraxas , to politics in Fifty-nine percent of Americans think Biden and Trump too old for another term

She was specifically asked if she had a conversation with Bernie where he said a very specific sentence. Nobody knows where the media got that information, but she answered truthfully and moved on. Then Bernie denied it up and down and turned it political.

How do we know who told the truth? Because they hot-micced her at the end trying to talk to him, shocked at how he accused her of lying on national TV.

If one had anything bad to say about Warren it's that she didn't know how to fight dirty anymore than Mcain did in his campaign. I'd buy that.

abraxas , to politics in Fifty-nine percent of Americans think Biden and Trump too old for another term

Yes. Despite your Trump vote, we will elect Biden and preserve this country.

abraxas , to politics in Fifty-nine percent of Americans think Biden and Trump too old for another term

Kamala was a tough-on-crime prosecutor. She might even be able to rally some of the right to vote for her.

Not sure that's saying something good about her, though.

abraxas , to politics in Fifty-nine percent of Americans think Biden and Trump too old for another term

In fairness, if 2020 had fallen differently Warren could've done it. If Bernie had backed her as a VP candidate instead of running, there was a solid shot they could've beaten Biden. She actually was leading the betting odds for "president" when the 2024 campaign began.

Warren had the opposite of what the Clintons had. She was a constantly progressive voter who could rally the moderate vote of a Harvard-trained law professor with a no-nonsense mindset.

She was also Obama-level known (unknown to common voters, but known to people who paid attention) so there wasn't years of hate-news on her. The worst they could get was a true story about her having Native American ancestors that was intentionally blown out of proportion. That's some Tan Suit shit there.

abraxas , to politics in Fifty-nine percent of Americans think Biden and Trump too old for another term

The moderate Democrats are probably the single largest voting bloc in the country. They don't get to be "the problem" in a Democracy. They're the base.

abraxas , to politics in Fifty-nine percent of Americans think Biden and Trump too old for another term

In 2020, I'd have said Warren. She was able to bring in almost every demographic, if she didn't lose progressive votes to the infighting with Bernie.

In 2024, nobody has a better shot than Biden.

abraxas , to politics in Fifty-nine percent of Americans think Biden and Trump too old for another term

Just because he has convinced himself that he is the only one that can beat Trump doesn’t make it true.

An unpopular president typically does better than a popular candidate. That's just how encumbancy works.

In fact I would argue that him running again is somewhat selfish.

Screw stats and precedent? Would you feel the same way if your favorite candidate ran and Trump crushed them by historic margins?

Why have we let ourselves get into the position we are in.

Because we're a party of compromise, and the other side is a party fo extremism. Our compromise involved someone with a lot of bullet points in his favor for our older voters while still appealing to enough of our younger voters.

abraxas , (edited ) to politics in Fifty-nine percent of Americans think Biden and Trump too old for another term

He did better than he promised at basically everything. I really wanted someone who would push the envelope to the Left, but he never promised that and a lot of Democratic voters didn't want that anyway. He did recover us from COVID and dramatically improve the economy. He attempted some things that were more progressive than I expected of him, with various levels of success.

EDIT: he also compromised more with the Left than any president since Carter. Not much, but something

abraxas , to politics in Fifty-nine percent of Americans think Biden and Trump too old for another term

I mean....no. Her campaign was arguably the polar opposite of that to her detriment. She said she wanted to do something. Then she wrote up a detailed plan for it and published it, letting the other candidates find something in the details they didn't like and tear it apart.

She's a policy wonk who is a law professor first and a politician second.

I never saw anyone call her a secret Republican

There were a lot of "grassroots" youtube videos that came out and took lines of hers out of context. They would softball questions like "Warren is just as good as Bernie because they vote the same a lot, right? WRONG! Warren is a capitalist pretending to be progressive to steal your vote". And those grassroot video efforts started to trace back to Sanders campaign leadership. Nobody ever quite confirmed if Bernie directly knew his campaign was doing it, but the rule is usually that the campaign's action sare the candidate's responsibility.

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