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Cake day: December 24th, 2023

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  • Yup. People who don’t see the difference between the two are not effected by the difference between the two. I also understand this is for both the negative and positive attributes of each administration.

    For Palestinians, I can absolutely sympathize that they see Biden supplying weapons to Israel as much as a Trump doing so. That shouldn’t be ignored.

    But on domestic policy, there is a stark contrast in the messaging and vision for LGBTQ folks, women, and black communities.

    I hope many in my circle see this, but I have had conversations with self described communists who don’t care at all about minorities. My takeaway was they became communist when they learned they could guillotine people.







  • I remember the way I felt when the railroad strike first ended- it was a smack in the face to the railroad union. He sided against the protesters and ended the protest without giving them what they wanted- sick time off. I thought “dang, Biden is just another in a long line of anti-labor presidents”.

    That was big news posted loud and everywhere.

    And then only a few months later, and with little fanfare, The Biden administration pressured rail companies to give that sick leave.

    Biden (actually Pete Buttigeig) prioritized preventing an immediate logistics crisis over workering conditions, but he didn’t just let it slide off his table. Now we don’t have a logistics crisis and the railroad union has more sick leave. Absolute win.


  • Also from my interactions on here:

    On one side I have an old catholic bum who is committing genocide (by allowing companies to sell to a man who is committing genocide), and in the other side I have a convicted felon who would absolutely continue the genocide while removing my human rights and wants to turn the country into a dictatorship.

    As a leftist, these two are exactly the same and I’m not voting.


  • What I find so interesting about painting people you disagree with as a monolith is that it naturally makes the argument you are against contradictory.

    One group of people cheers Uber and you disagree with that.

    Then another group of people (granted there will be some overlap) decry Uber later on.

    These are two different people, but when you treat them as one, you’re bound to see your opposition as being contradictory at best and contrarian at worst.