• I think even the “(he/him) ♥️🌈” connotations are pretty charitable. Biden himself does not seem very LGBT friendly. The Dems on the whole on the other hand just let the Republicans do the witch hunts rather than participating themselves.

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      He gaffed the Obama admin into supporting gay marriage, I will grant him a rainbow emoji

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          The Obama admin was neutral/non-committal to gay marriage (afaik Obama refused to say “gay marriage” or “marriage equality”). Joe went onto some morning show and when asked said he thought gay marriage was inevitable, the Obama admin immediately tried to walk his comment back but they saw it was actually popular with their voting base so they shifted and ran with it.

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      Good point, he didn’t.

      Biden used it to structure the new ‘migrant bill’ he’s going to sign.

      On the topic of Muslims though, he’s also actively facilitating a genocide of a majority Muslim nation, even circumventing Congress to do so.

      If your litmus test for what candidate to support is ‘which one might be the least terrible’, and that test leads you to actively support the one running guns and giving diplomatic cover to a nation engaging in ethnic cleansing, I think you need to re-evaluate things. And you are actively supporting him because you’re in here defending him. The president who is enabling mass murder.

      “Oh but Trump would do it too” that isn’t a defense for why Biden is doing it.

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          Difference was that when trump was in charge, there was wall to wall coverage of the atrocities US was committing. Then when genocide joe got in charge, crickets.

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            Funny BC I see a lot of news about biden, isreal, and Palestine.

            Now your argument that the media hyperfocused on trump for ratings is accurate. He is a lightning rod for views BC you either love or hate him.

            If you have a better polical system to replace this one then the floor is yours.

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              If you have a better polical system to replace this one then the floor is yours.

              I do, it’s called communism and it’s what lifted over 800 million people out of poverty in China in just the past few decades. One has to be laughably ignorant to even ask such an absurd question.

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                China is a capitalism. China also has camps for Muslims and a 1 child policy that murdered a lot of kids. They have a system that watches their people and rates them.

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                  Awesome, yeah, you’re so right! I’m going to go vote in an American socialist to be president. Oh, you’re telling me that the entire American political establishment has made this course of action impossible by setting all manner of social institutions, from the press to the criminal justice system, in direct opposition to socialism? You’re telling me every single attempt to establish socialism by democratic means has been subverted and squashed by military operations backed by the US government and the US intelligence apparatus? And that these blatant affronts against democracy are still celebrated by reactionaries in Guatemala and Chile who spent decades murdering leftists for their brief time as the dominant political group, for the horrible crime of putting the means of production in the hands of peasants and workers?

                  You’re telling me that the only successful attempts at establishing a proletarian state had to “anti-democratically” suppress bourgeois political parties to maintain stability in the face of American imperialists? And that all avenues of peaceful revolution have been tried and inevitably lead to the forceful encounter and resolution of the historical dialectic between classes through violent revolution, just as much as this was the case in every major change of mode of production in history?

                  Dear golly me then, looks like those Marxists in Palestine, Cuba, the Philippines, Laos, Vietnam, the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Angola, and countless other countries that fought off colonizers aren’t just savages who weren’t capable of understanding the noble ways of the Western Left, and liberal democracy isn’t the way for workers to achieve political power. You’re not going to dismantle the master’s house with the master’s tools.

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                  Buddy you are not doing democratic socialism any favors by being a racist piece of shit condemning immigration and then labeling yourself as a democratic socialist.

                  The people here already have a very very poor view of democratic socialism and you could not have just done a better job of reinforcing their point.

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              Funny BC I see a lot of news about biden, isreal, and Palestine.

              So there’s wall to wall anti-Israel coverage of the genocide from the mainstream media? There’s no media support for Biden and Israel, and all the outlets are reporting the atrocities accurately and with the appropriate language? So basically there’s no pro-genocide media anywhere to be seen in the west, is that your claim?

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                You know news is global now in days. We have the internet. Yes, there is coverage of what isreal is doing and how the US is supporting the genocide in the Gaza. Also how other countries are also supporting isreal.

                Now does the US have a media monopoly problem that is supported by certain groups? Absolutely. Your point is both do it but one gets a pass which is not true.

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                  There’s only like 3 major news outlet that are covering the conflict without just taking the IDF at their word: Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, and sometimes Reuters. Al Jazeera has been the best but Israel has banned them from reporting in Israel. The US State Media has continued to report lies about the genocide like Hamas being the aggressor here, Oct 7th being unprovoked, etc. They fail to report on major events like Israel’s strikes on aid convoys, schools, and hospitals, yet when they do report on these conflicts they get their lines from the IDF who claim these civilian targets are Hamas, or that Hamas is using them as shields.

                  Acting like the media has been fair or free with regards to this genocide is pretty unhinged, you have to admit that they’re 100% complicit and that it’s very difficult for people who aren’t already clued in to left Tik Tok or other sources of news from a left wing perspective to get an accurate view of what’s happening.

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              You only have to look around anywhere else in the world to see that better systems have been tried, and the better systems work. They don’t work for all of the people, though, and those people are very loud, very violent, and have very big wallets. Whenever we try these better systems here or abroad, people get disappeared. Russia hasn’t been communist for decades and we still don’t shut the fuck up about them. We are terrified of them. Only about 15 years ago Obama was speaking favorably of China- no matter where that motivation came from. But we’re terrified of them now, too, and they’ve become public enemy number one. China, the place people made fun of for making cheap knockoffs or whatever! Now they’re the big bad, all of a sudden. I wonder why that is. Don’t you? It’s not hard to use your noggin, fella. The answer is and always has been that a better world is possible, but its opponents exist in the highest places, ruthless and without mercy, and they will prevent a better world from happening for anybody else by any means necessary.

            • Cmon man. Mainstream press has been nonstop talking about how Biden is upset at Netanyahu, how he gave him a stern talking to, how Rafah invasion would have been a red line, how he is trying to broker a peace deal (that Hamas put forth and Israel outright rejected), etc. etc. while Biden is giving Israel god knows how many tonnes of bombs per day. If you think Biden is getting the heat he deserves for perpetrating a genocide then you are off your rockers. If it wasn’t for the multitude brave protestors the media would have probably even cheered for Biden’s role in this brutal ethnic cleansing.

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          Awesome, I thought again, and the genocide is still happening. Looks like failing to think beyond electoral politics is useless as always.

          If all the choices you’ve been offered lead to countless children getting slaughtered to make Lockheed Martin and Boeing more money, you have a human duty to reject that system and wield political power outside of it you spineless lib.

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      So when Biden expands the border policies that just 4 years ago a lot of libs could get together to agree were genocidal, it’s perfectly fine because it’s done on the basis of general racist assertions that immigrants are criminals instead of specific Islamophobic tropes? There’s nothing wrong with border patrol officers deciding to send people to starve, deporting them into conflict stricken regions, and separating families, just as long as these things are done to all brown people, not just Muslims? We wouldn’t want to discriminate, would we?