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When absolutely 0 of Biden’s accomplishments have made any kind of news, and we’ve been fed a steady diet of fear and panic for 3 years, no one gets to be shocked when he loses the next election to Donald 2.0.

Posting anything positive about the president here will get you called a capitalist bootlicker.

What do we expect to happen?

Anger sells better. Anger feels better, it feels righteous.

It’s easier to protest against a president you don’t like then to actually remain in charge and keep pushing ahead, even if small, consistent accomplishments are all you receive.

I know I’ll never be missing an election in my life again (barring some kind of major medical event).

I just wish it weren’t so damn frustrating, feeling like you’re screaming into the void constantly, fighting against apathy.

CMS just announced that the government will start taking high-cost drugs that were developed with taxpayer dollars and start pulling patents to force competition and low cost generics. That’s fucking momentous.

I saw 1 news article on it. I wouldn’t have known it happened if I didn’t read the news every day. This should have caused the kind of celebration that erupted when companies started announcing $35 insulin caps. Why didn’t it?

Low cost hearing aids, lower and $0 student loans, concrete investments in green architecture…there was an announcement like 2 days ago to replace all leaded pipes out of US cities over the next 10 years, which will be an absolute boon in jobs for construction workers and can make our homes safer for kids. I’m sure I’ll see a headline in a year, “Biden’s lead pipe program causes drivers traffic headaches.”

Republicans want 20 foot concrete barriers topped with barbed wire across the entire southern border, and Democrats want amnesty and ease to citizenship for just about anyone who crosses, and it really seems like until a compromise is made somewhere in there, Republicans will continue to turn out in massive numbers to elections because God told them to, and Democrats will continue to stay home because the last president didn’t accomplish 100% of their goals and voting for an imperfect president is a personal and ethical failing.

Now take that mentality and spread it over every single social and economic issue.

I remember how utterly scared and angry we were sone years ago when Trump was trying to bankrupt the USPS. People were talking about it left right and sideways, asking people to buy from the USPS gift shop, start a stamp collection, anything. Then, Biden got elected and put a huge stop to that by getting rid of the unfair laws that only the USPS had to abide by. Overnight, the USPS was saved, and how did everyone react?

They didn't. It was hardly mentioned. Not a blip.

Same exact thing when it came to net neutrality!! It was DEVASTATING when it was killed. People died in wildfires because Internet providers throttled data of firefighters. Xfinity actually stole identities in order to make it happen.

About a month ago, BAM, it was restored because Biden appointed a Democratic leader to the FFC. Did anyone talk about it? Nope. I saw ONE post.

Anyone who tries to "both sides are the same" is either lying or trying to get you to give up and not vote.

Don't let them win.

Vote.

Anyone who refuses to vote blue JUST because of what's going on re Biden and Palestine doesn't understand it not going to be better if Trump gets elected instead. Your moral purity over abstaining or throwing away your vote for a third party that stands NO chance of actually winning isn't going to stop it, it's going to directly lead to more people dying, and it's going to happen over there and start happening here as well again.

What you're going to get is people here turning attention away from that cause because they're going to be fighting for their own lives here. Because that's what happened last time, and Trump is going to be worse this time.

There's a phrase we have in English that I think applies: Do not cut off your nose to spite your face.

Hate it all you want, but start coming to terms now with voting for the lesser of two evils, because in a few months that's going to be the ONLY way you can help Palestine- by keeping Trump away from them, and from yourselves so you can continue to fight for others.

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can’t trust anyone who criticises the mamma mia movie. like wtf are you even criticising. the plot?? the characterisation?? my brother in christ they put meryl streep, colin firth and amanda seyfried on an island, got them drunk and asked them to sing abba songs in the campest way possible that’s LITERALLY. IT. by this point you have to just assume that you’re the problem.

cancelling procedures to mitigate the effects of chronic illness/cancer treatment/disability management appointments for the q*een’s funeral when chronically ill and disabled people have already had to fight for the Bare. Fucking. Minimum. in access to healthcare and specialist referrals for two years due to the pandemic is genuinely the most callous display of antipathy I’ve witnessed to date.

Passenger car on a train, Sweden, 1955