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[–] 25 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Y'all going to be real pissed off again.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    I'm gonna be pissed off having to vote for Biden. I hate the two party system.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    As an European can you explain what's so wrong about him? So many laws have been blocked by the opposition.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    With Biden? He's a capitalist with the wrong priorities. He's approved more new oil drilling than anyone else in recent memory, for example. If you're European, you would probably consider him center-right, and I don't believe that's the right direction for America. We need stronger social safety nets, better education, and really need to invest in Americans again.

    Don't get me wrong, he's done a lot of good. He really has. But if we had ranked choice voting in this country, he absolutely would not have won. He does not represent most of us. But he represents most of us better than the other guy.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Center-right is what's currently governing my country, so an absolutely cannot place him there.

    I should have probably specified better, don't know why I just said European. I am from Italy, we have "the protector of the traditional family values" in power and two days ago she slashed welfare and a month ago invalidated some birth certificates of children from same-sex parents.

    Oil rigs are definitely something you don't hear about unless you live there, I understand. Wasn't clean energy an objective of him?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    It is a matter of perspective but center-right generally means some forms of welfare and capitalist regulations are still encouraged for very obvious cases, like anti-monopoly laws and basic healthcare.

    What you're describing sounds more like plain right-wing. no welfare programs of any kind, invalidating progressive policies instead of maintaining status quo.

    Biden made his whole career about cutting welfare programs and helping big corpos. He has shifted center in his former years, in part because the Democratic party now basically emcompass 75% of the political spectrum, since the GOP is now far-right, and everything left of that has to be absorbed by the democrats.

    Biden is making decent compromise, thanks to his legacy with Obama and members of the party like Bernie and AOC, but he is way too moderate to enact the solutions that the country needs, imo.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    It's been a talking point since I was a fresh face high schooler over 30 years ago. It's been acted on only in very minor ways in that time. Nothing approaching what actually needed to be done.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Dutchie here. Not a fan of the multiparty system either. Anyone who hits the news (be it positive or negative) can start their own party if they get the number of party members required.

    Result: we had to enlarge our voting billets.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's certainly a way to look at it. Not wrong either.

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    The main problem with that analogy is that juries hear all the evidence before making their decision.

    But MAGA voters will never hear the facts on these cases, because they live exclusively in a media bubble that feeds them lies and truly moronic conspiracy theories.

    This country is not okay.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The main problem with that analogy is that juries hear all the evidence before making their decision.

    No. They are SUPPOSED to hear all the evidence. Reality and expectation are different things.

    Voters are supposed to hear all of the facts. But reality and expectation are different things.

    The analogy works great.

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    [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Article is paywalled after two paragraphs

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