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Don't forget the pansexual space lizard (who's just a simple tailor, that's it I swear haha) and the capitalist goblins.

RIP Deus Ex. What a rotten way to die.

lol

So you're saying I can drink weedkiller as a contraceptive

Which is misleading if you aren't measuring per capita. Yes, China produces more carbon emissions as a whole, but that's to be expected when their population is over 4x higher than the US's. The per capita numbers tell a different story: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-ghg-emissions

Also, China is taking climate change seriously and actually trying to do something about it: China added more solar panels in 2023 than US did in its entire history

To contrast to the US: United States produces more crude oil than any country, ever

Climate change is going to scrub Florida from Earth's land area so uhhh good luck with that I guess.

We keep being right about these things and it is melting your brains.

So a few things I'm curious about... how would Biden have changed the SCOTUS ruling on Roe? He can't just unilaterally overrule them, and any bills for women's rights that you try to push through congress will get nuked by the conservatives. What's left?

If he's so powerless to do anything why should I vote for him? Literally what have the Dems ever done with regards to abortion rights, other than using it for fundraising? Why do conservatives have all the power to do whatever ghoulish shit they want yet Dems are entirely powerless to do anything about it? Why didn't the Democrats try to enshrine abortions rights into law during one of the three times they had control of the House, Senate, and presidency during the nearly 50 years Roe was in effect (once each during Carter, Clinton, and Obama)? I want them to do fucking anything about it, because despite all the lip service, as far as I can tell they don't actually give a shit. "The GOP would block it" is not an excuse for not even trying.

Regarding the minimum wage... Yes there are still some sectors that are exempted, but Biden did push through an increase to $15/hr that covered a lot of workers. Big surprise, the only ones to challenge this increase were the GOP.

Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema were both Democrats and they blocked minimum wage from passing. If the Democratic Party can't even get their own people in line to pass the most basic things why should I vote for them? The $15 minimum wage Biden enacted only covered federal workers, which is 370,000 / 164.5 million = 0.22% of the entire US work force. And raising the minimum wage was a campaign promise, which he immediately dropped after one attempt and hasn't tried again. Why should anyone believe any promise he makes in the next six months if all he can manage is one (1) half-assed attempt at raising the minimum wage to one that was barely enough to live on a decade ago, let alone now after massive inflation?

What else can anyone do about COVID?

Literally anything???? They did a whole bunch of shit in 2020. More stimulus checks, protections for workers, mandatory paid time off for anyone who tests positive, literally just not ending the things they were already doing. COVID never went away, it's still killing people. Yet they just decided "whelp the pandemic is over, everyone back to work" and COVID was going to be a thing that kills people from now on. He's the president of the united states, it's literally his job to figure this shit out.

I just meant that yeah this is a big blunder and I have no objection to holding him partially responsible for this

You should be holding him entirely responsible for this. He's fully aware of what he's doing and what the weapons are being used for. There's no excuse for genocide.

It's worth noting though that nearly all of Congress is also introducing and voting for bills to provide aid to Israel's genocide.

Fuck all of them too tbh.

Look at recent history of the other 3rd party runs, they spoiled the election for Gore and Hillary

Shaming the voters because your candidate lost has historically worked very well, very good idea, keep doing that.

Criticism of Biden is not an endorsement of Trump. No one here is advocating for Trump. No one here is voting for Trump.

Yeah Biden is a fairly typical politician, but what has he done wrong other than Israel?

"other than Israel" like his lifelong, unwavering support for a genocidal apartheid state is just a little whoopsie-doodle and he isn't knowingly and willingly arming an entire fucking genocide. Fuck you.

But besides that: He has failed to protect trans rights, has failed to protect women's rights (Roe was overturned under Biden, remember), has failed to raise the minimum wage, has drilled for more oil than any other president in history, has made no meaningful actions towards climate change, has expanded Trump's racist border policies, he's warmongering with China and Iran, refuses to cancel student loans, sent uniformed thugs after people peacefully protesting his awful decisions, busted a rail strike, has done nothing about COVID (which is still happening), and he still owes me $1400. To say nothing of all the racist policies and warmongering he supported during his decades as a politician before becoming president.

But the administration stopped short of a definitive assessment, saying that due to the chaos of the war in Gaza it could not verify specific instances where use of those weapons might have been involved in alleged breaches.

Just throw a dart at a map

This is what the media always does whenever anyone dares to protest the status quo. Wait for the piggies to show up and start shit, then when the protestors fight back they turn on the cameras and say "look how violent this protest is." Every single goddamn time.