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  • jake [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Sucks seeing close friends that were all for Bernie talk endlessly about how excited they are to vote Biden and how important it is. All for measly, worthless NY votes too.

    • sydnerella11 [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      You have my sympathies. I have friends who are voting for Biden but none that are fucking happy about it. That’s rough

      • nanoplague [she/her,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Same. My partner and I have basically told our family of staunch Warrenites that neither of us were gonna vote for Biden (which, mind you, isn't a surprise, I told hem this last freaking year when he announced). They flipped out and we told them to make their case for Biden and even with that easy af assignment, they cannot come up with anything that isn't 'He's not Trump.' It came up again last week with Biden's anarchist statements and they were all like 'Welllll, we don't think he'll actually jail you so it's actually still all okay."

          • nanoplague [she/her,comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah, the fact that it's basically gotten no play is extremely frustrating. Partner's fam are largely academic-type libs who don't necessarily go beyond nyt for news, so the fact that it didn't come to them from there means it's non-news (with a low-key vibe of 'you're larping at anarchism, honey' thrown in).

          • jabrd [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Honestly I've felt so out of the loop on this shit since chapo got banned. I'm not on twitter and absolutely no one except us ever talks about this shit

          • nanoplague [she/her,comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            I know, right? Same convo my MiL told my partner that Chomsky couldn't be an anarchist because he was a linguist. Like, wut

            • luka467 [they/them,he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Linguistics have rules, anarchists don't like rules, therefore you can't be an anarchist and a linguist at the same time!

              Checkmate lefties!

        • sydnerella11 [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Also WTF about Biden’s comments regarding anarchists? Maybe I’ve been too offline but what is going on with that? I saw it mentioned briefly on some majority report video but he wants to jail anarchists????

          • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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            4 years ago

            yeah his full statement was blah blah peaceful protesters good but arsonists and anarchists should be prosecuted. He used them in the same phrasing literally comparing a political ideology to criminals. That's straight up fascism

            • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Eh, fascism involves a strongman leader and a militant street presence. Who the fuck is fighting in the streets for Biden 😂

            • Amorphous [any]
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              4 years ago

              Nah, not really. Joe Biden doesn't think of anarchism as a political ideology. It was not scary and precise language. It was terribly imprecise, as is everything Biden has said during this entire presidential campaign.

          • nanoplague [she/her,comrade/them]
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            4 years ago

            He's a raging POS. shrug I'm less shocked that he said it and more that everybody else is like 'Yeah, that sounds okay.'

            • CoralMarks [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              I think only a very small minority of the population even know what anarchism actually means(pretty sure Biden doesn't know either), most just seem to equal the word to absolute chaos, so they think he just wants to be tough on the rioters and people who create chaos.

            • sydnerella11 [she/her]
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              4 years ago

              Wow I have to look into this because I literally don’t know much about this. But yes I agree, I’m not surprised he said it. Lol @ anyone who tells me a vote for this dick is a vote for harm reduction

        • sydnerella11 [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Ugh yeah it’s just gross with family. That’s a whole other thing with me. I do have enthusiastic Biden supporters in my family but idk they just kind of observe my social media and don’t interact much. It’s just on their stuff.

          Luckily no one in my immediate family is trying to scold me over anything but I have a large extended family who probably would if I chose to engage them one on one.

          It’s also very funny to try and get Biden folks to give just one reason that isn’t “he’s not trump” to vote for that cretin.

    • Moosegender [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      If you weren’t living in a fucking cave the last several weeks starting with George Floyd’s death, then I don’t see how voting Biden isn’t the most important act of harm reduction?