• MartianRecon@lemmus.org
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    6 months ago

    If you’re a progressive, Biden has been the most progressive president since Kennedy. Lol.

    If you’re not. Are you willing to have American democracy end, because you personally weren’t courted by the president?

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      6 months ago

      Knowing EC, it’s very much the latter. In fact I suspect you should expect to be called a genocide supporter by them. Since you have dared not say something horrible about Biden.

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            6 months ago

            Ahhh gotcha. Yeah I’m new to the site as a reddit exile and still figuring out everything here.

            Yeah, those people are just tiresome, and they have no idea how geopolitics works. It’s annoying, and one of the effects of republicans cutting funding for schools and not teaching civics anymore.

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              6 months ago

              I agree. And welcome to Lemmy 🙂 yesterday was my first anniversary of joining. It’s a very different place from Reddit. But it still has a lot of similar problems unfortunately. However quite a bit more can be done about it. So it’s definitely worth sticking with

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                That’s good to hear. I had my 7 year reddit account permanently suspended for sarcastically making fun of the bot infestation, so fuck them.

                Yeah, it’s different but it feels like an ‘older’ forum which is definitely nice!

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                  6 months ago

                  As someone who was on Reddit before the Dig migration. Lemmy definitely has a similar feel to old old Reddit. We’ll see if it changes. It’s still definitely a culture shock though. Reddit being so heavily right-wing aligned. And lemmy being the opposite.

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                    6 months ago

                    The sheer amount of dismissiveness towards the propaganda brigades and the moderators with an agenda was pathetic. I messaged admins numerous times and the universal response was shrugging their shoulders. It’s so dumb.

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            6 months ago

            Purported positions?

            Fuck, tell me what my positions are, wise and ancient omniscient one.

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                You pretend to want to stop the killing in gaza.

                I do want to stop the genocide you support by refusing to call it a genocide.

                All while agitating against the best solutions for it.

                The best solution involves Biden ceasing his support for the genocide that you also support by refusing to call it a genocide.

                The most hilarious part was that I said pointing out your Youth and experience was not an insult.

                You baselessly insulted me by calling me a child. And then lied and said it wasn’t an insult.

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                  I call it genocide all the time sweetheart. Care to try again?

                  Biden could stop his support tomorrow that’s not going to change congress. Who is the actual problem here. And that’s exactly my point. Thank you for proving it for me again. Oh and go check my post history I call genocide all the time. The fact that you thought this was some big dunk that you had finally gotten. Pretty hilarious. Also pretty immature but expected :-)

                  I said you were behaving like a juvenile / adolescent. Not a child. Which you are even here. If you aren’t actually that young and just behaving like you are. That’s a you problem kiddo.

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                    I call it genocide all the time [demeaning pet name omitted].

                    Then call it a genocide right now. Say that the actions of Netanyahu that Biden supports are a genocide.

                    Biden could stop his support tomorrow that’s not going to change congress.

                    Congress didn’t force Biden to sell Netanyahu weapons for genocide. Congress didn’t force him to claim there was no genocide. Congress didn’t force him to go to bat for Netanyahu at the UN for so long.

                    Oh and go check my post history I call genocide all the time.

                    I checked. Three whole times in the past month, and two of those were denying that Biden supports Netanyahu’s genocide. We have different metrics for “all the time.”

                    I said you were behaving like a juvenile / adolescent. Not a child. Which you are even here. If you aren’t actually that young and just behaving like you are. That’s a you problem kiddo.

                    Condescension is what centrists use as their replacement for defensible positions.

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                  I do want to stop the genocide

                  And yet your only suggestion it seems is to yell at people to not vote, accuse anyone that IS voting of being a “gEnOciDe sUppOrTeR!” And generally just spread what appears to be mostly misinformation.

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                    And yet your only suggestion it seems is to yell at people to not vote

                    I have never done this and will never do this. You are lying about my position because you can’t defend your own.

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      If you’re a progressive, Biden has been the most progressive president since Kennedy. Lol.

      Not the flex you think it is

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      Biden has been the most progressive president since Kennedy.

      LBJ was more progressive than Biden, and he took office after whom?

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        That’s up for debate. For me, he’s the most liberal since Kennedy but if you think it’s LBJ instead, that’s fine too!

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          Oh, he’s certainly the most liberal since Kennedy. But he’s not progressive except in the slogans of centrists.

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            I think that’s a no true Scotsman kind of thing. Biden has done plenty of progressive policies. He’s forgiven billions in student loan debt (and wanted to forgive more but R courts are political), he’s passed infrastructure, and he’s also passed some bills to keep the cost of medicine down.

            Could he do more? Sure. If voters showed up at the midterms and gave him a D house, he could have done more. But they didn’t.

            Way too often, people let perfect be the enemy of good. Biden is good, not perfect.

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              He’s forgiven billions in student loan debt

              Using a program signed into law by George W Bush. Does that mean Bush was also a progressive?

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                Biden passed comprehensive student loan forgiveness, and it was struck down by the supreme court for bullshit reasons. He’s using the mechanisms of government that he can control.

                Or did you forget that part?

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                  Or did you forget that part?

                  No I didn’t forget. But that’s not what you were talking about. You were talking about the student loans forgiven during Biden’s term. That’s being done under the PSLF program signed into law by G.W. Bush in 2007.

                  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Service_Loan_Forgiveness

                  If forgiving loans under this program is one reason to call Biden a progressive then the same would apply to Bush.

                  So I’ll ask you again, was Bush also a progressive?

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                    And you ignored my part of the conversation. He DID pass comprehensive student loan debt relief. Republicans used lawfare to halt the program.

                    Does that not count?

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              Sure. If voters showed up at the midterms and gave him a D house, he could have done more. But they didn’t.

              If Democrats had used the majorities we gave them during his first two years instead of getting in their own way, this would be a convincing argument.