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say it louder for the people in the back: THE PURPOSE OF A SYSTEM IS WHAT IT DOES (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net to c/notvoting@slrpnk.net

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Every day I am forced to confront that the the Democratic Party won the White House and Congress in 2020 and instead of doing the smart thing and ending the filibuster, packing the court, and going scorched Earth on the GOP which, mind you, had just tried to overthrow the election, they kicked back and proceeded to do absolutely nothing of note except cut a blank check for the most televised genocide of the last 30 years.

A disciplined party could have un-fucked everything trump did in the span of a few month, but they chose not to. They chose not to, and now we're all paying for it.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Gotta pull it out again. Biden was the best president of my life and I was bowled over with what was accomplished in one term given what he had to contend with.

[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The best president of your life? What are you, five? Biden didn't accomplish shit.

[–] nixus@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

HubertManne is a Democrat. Remember: For Democrats, mass deportation, bombing innocent people, torture, and wars are "Accomplishments". I saw them support it with Obama, I saw them support it with Clinton, and I saw them support it with Biden.

So according to Democratic logic, Biden did indeed to a great job. But civilized people know that Biden was a monster.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ten times that. just name the one you think did a better job in one term. I mean obama was cool but he wasted a lot of time in his first term.

[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

In my lifetime: Clinton and Obama both did a better job than Biden in their first terms. And Reagan and the Bushes all had a far greater impact on the world in their first terms - for good or (mostly) ill - than Biden did. Even Carter, arguably, did a better job than Biden as President, and certainly did far more for the world as a former President than Biden ever will. I have to go back to Ford and the fall of Saigon to find a President I can compare Biden favorably to.

Biden accomplished nothing.

His big signature bill was a greenwashing giveaway to developers - and even though it was passed in 2021, almost none of that money was spent on development before Trump took power and clawed it back, and how fucking incompetent does a President have to be to fail to spend money?

His two main foreign policy "achievements" were giving Afghanistan back to the Taliban and writing Israel a blank check for Gaza.

His immigration policy was morally correct but so badly managed it convinced half of America the Great Replacement was real.

His policy on COVID was to pretend vaccines fixed everything and the economy was fine. (Spoiler: it fucking wasn't.)

Biden has no legacy. He's accomplished nothing. At best, he's going to be remembered as a footnote in history - the first incumbent President to withdraw from his own re-election campaign. At worst, he'll be remembered as our Paul von Hindenberg - the last President of the Weimar Republic, whose weakness and incompetence brought an end to democracy in Germany.

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