it is absolutely wild to see people on this website repeatedly insist that joe biden is personally responsible for local administrative and law enforcement behavior on college campuses while donald trump is specifically promising to deport them for protesting.
i mean, i get it, i don't want to argue about how "just saying biden would be better isn't an argument", but like, look, trump is telling you, in black and white, what he thinks about everything and everyone and what he would do about it if he got the WH back, and we would be wise to believe him
One thing I think about sometimes is: social media websites are places to Talk About Stuff, and the presidential election is a huge Thing to Talk About; but we already deeply know who both candidates are, so the Talk is all unusually, profoundly pointless. Non-assholes all gonna vote for Joe Biden
that's a big part of it, there's also a tendency on social media sites for people to make their own antisocial personality traits seem more acceptable/less odious if they can frame them in a political context
come on, it's just as common in the flesh world, it's just the people you are talking about would never actually say any of the shit in a venue where they might face consequences beyond a block
I wish I could be comforted by that. Dems who vote their Purity Principles are not "non-assholes." One of the reasons the Rs win more than they should, they aren't stupid that way.
Probably not. You may console yourself that such people have fashioned elaborate moral justifications for not voting, thus loudly disempowering themselves.
Honestly it’s not so much the four (more) years of Trump I worry about. It’s the Federalist Society getting to choose replacements for Thomas and Alito
They fail to grasp that Trump and fascism really have a constituency, that there isn't some fragile ruling class responsible for all ills that can be defeated by breaking the false consciousness of the workers. That you vote against Trump and against *the fascist mob* with the same ballot.
Perhaps it's because in this context, the police 'want' to do that stuff, whereas they 'do not want' to stop.
think of you doing something that's bad for you like eating junk food, versus stopping eating junk food. which one is easier to do?
That's exactly it. They believe that by abdicating choice they also absolve themselves of responsibility. If Trump is elected and bad things happen, they'll be angry, but won't feel responsible. And they get to look down on anyone who chose a lesser evil. They can't lose, but everyone else can.
Bingo. Even if they don’t consciously acknowledge it, deep down they believe "the bad stuff" won’t happen to their privileged ass, so they’re okay with letting it happen to other people.
Counterpoint: tons of these same people will talk about how "they didn't teach us about x terrible part of America's history in school!" and then be immediately followed by people in a similar geographic and demographic cohort pointing out that yes, they did
Not to pick on you, cause I’m sure you didn’t mean this, but this is a core problem. People have lost faith in Biden/Democrats/the electoral process because they do not believe that anyone has their best interests at heart regardless of who wins. This sort of comment only reinforces that.
We need to be reassuring people that we will fight for them regardless of who wins, but that it will be a damn sight easier if Trump isn’t at the wheel (and ramming us all straight into a building at top speed). Not dismissing them as collateral.
Okay, but nobody here's a Democratic campaign agent and we shouldn't live our lives like we are. We are people, not mortal vessels for a political tendency, ideology, or broader ethnic group.
