A recent spate of polling paints a bad picture of declining support for the president from voters of color. But just how worrisome is it?

A recent spate of polling paints a bad picture of declining support for the president from voters of color. But just how worrisome is it?

  • Black AOC
    2619·
    10 months ago

    Well, for one, Biden’s the guy who penned the crime bill that pipelines our communities to carceral slavery. For two, Biden’s the guy who picked a fucking cop-- and not just any cop, California’s “Top Cop” to be his VP. For three, he’s a strike-breaker-- some ‘pro-union’ president we have. I wholly expect him to torpedo the UAW strike too, within the month; regardless of whatever mealymouthed ‘backing’ he’s given the UAW for the cameras.

    All in all, I still haven’t been given good reason to vote for the walking cadaver. And no, your personal boogeyman is not good enough.

    • 30mag@lemmy.world
      57·
      10 months ago

      I still haven’t been given good reason to vote for the walking cadaver

      Biden didn’t reach you when he said, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black”?

      • Black AOC
        116·
        10 months ago

        Not one bit, since everyone who’s ever had the gall to try and tell me what I was and wasn’t has been white themselves. Y’all literally do not move me anywhere but fuckin contempt anymore, and he’s just another relic of the Jim Crow era to me after that. “Strom and I shared a life for 30 years”, he said, eulogizing a goddamn klansman, and you want to justify him quantifying someone’s Blackness by whether or not they were “for him”, fuck outta here you absolute plantation boss.

        You and everyone who thinks like you; who think that they can quantify the essential identities of the colonized, and demand its energy without recompense or exchange, would’ve been measuring out the ropes a hundred years ago.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      913·
      10 months ago

      Uh… The railway union got their demands in the end. Biden just did it without paralyzing the economy. Quick reminder that strikes are a means (and not one you wanna use, at that), not an end.

      • Black AOC
        115·
        10 months ago

        (and not one you wanna use, at that)

        If the execs won’t give labor what they’re due, labor is within their rights to take them by the short hairs for as long as it takes. Beyond that, they didn’t get the paid sick leave that was on the demands, and they have to burn their own leave time for sick days. You know, half the fucking reason they struck in the first place that isn’t the ATROCIOUSLY dilapidated state of our nation’s rails, and lack of proper safety inspections that will lead to more catastrophic derailings. One fucking extra day, wooo. Some victory.

        But y’know, you get your freight on time so I guess that’s a victory for you, huh? And honestly, fuck your conciliatory figureheads. You want me to take you serious, show me what the actual rank-and-file are saying.