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[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 100 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Don't forget, Sanders is the only person Trump has ever admitted he's afraid of.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 83 points 1 year ago (31 children)

Dems really underestimate what life is like for normal Americans. trump doesn't get it either obviously, but at least he acknowledges shit is bad for them.

If Biden tries to run in the economy it's going to hurt him because all the money is going to the wealthy.

Bernie acknowledges and actually has a plan to fix shit. And unlike trump points the finger at whose fault it is.

trump can't compete with that.

But neoliberals don't want to really address wealth inequality either.

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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 89 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Is there a real plan to shore up our "democracy" if the Democrats win this election? What is Biden going to do next term that he didn't do this term?

I feel like people are so fixated on Trump that they can't see past him. Trump is a giant, clown-shaped piece of shit-- absolutely. How does the opposing party fail at politics so hard that someone like Trump ever even had a shot?

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (30 children)

I feel like people are so fixated on Trump that they can't see past him.

Well yeah, because if he wins there won't be anything past him for much of the country.

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[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I agree that it's frustrating that Democrats use shitty Republicans as an excuse to be just a tiny bit less shitty. However, it's getting really annoying that you can't criticize Trump without someone chiming in with "whadabout Biden?!" and you can't criticize Biden without getting a "whadabout Trump?!"

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[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

MUST WATCH: Bernie Sanders - Why People Vote For Trump

https://youtu.be/FSuaxqZLNwE

He's 100% right on this.

[–] Blackbeard@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (14 children)
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[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

If trump wins and America can't defeat his senile version of fascism, then it's already on the death bed waiting for the next republican to take power...

trump is the best authoritarian we're going to get, he's easy mode, the republicans will get someone worse, someone who has the ability to think beyond his next shit.

It's not going to get better only worse...

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[–] jobby@lemmy.today 40 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Citizens United needs to be removed.

The massive polarisation in the media needs to be addressed and the outright blatant lies told by the Rightwing goons needs to be legally stopped. ‘Free Speech’ my ass. They need to be labelled ‘opinion’ or ‘entertainment’ or something other than pretending to be ‘fair’ or ‘news’.

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[–] chetradley@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I was proud to vote for Bernie in the 2016 and 2020 primaries, but I bit the bullet and phone banked for Biden even though he was far from my first choice. There's way too much at stake here.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Yes. Better Biden than Trump but Bernie would have been better.

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[–] RoosterBoy@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sanders is one of the only politicians unworthy of the guillotine.

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[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (10 children)

We don't have much of a democracy as things stand considering the average person doesn't influence policy lol. If all hope is on Biden clutching it out then we better brace for the end. Dems had 4 years to plan ahead.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Funny how many comments just went poof! Gone! So this place is basically /r/politics now? Mods smoking out every opinion they don't like?

Funny thing is, the deleted comments were from liberals, not raging conservatives spewing bile and lies. Must not have passed the purity test.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Funny how many comments just went poof!

Are they in the mod log? The link is at the bottom of each page.

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lmao, I gave it a quick glance and saw the most recent person I blocked for being an angry asshole get unblocked and then reblocked from an instance within a minute

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[–] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or maybe the mods are actually moderating by cutting out the off-topic arguments and BS threads that don't contribute anything to the overall discourse of the discussion.

[–] Jode@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago

I can imagine most of the comments were 14yo's and trolls saying GeNoCiDe JoE hUrRrR

[–] endhits@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

So this place is basically /r/politics now?

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