• @SquishyPandaDev
    link
    fedilink
    321 year ago

    Bro, just because Trump is worse than Biden doesn’t make Biden immune to criticism

    • BraveSirZaphod
      link
      fedilink
      89
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Sure, criticize away, and you absolutely should. It’s just important to not get so carried away that you wind up contributing to an outcome that you openly know to be objectively worse at the ballot box.

      • themeatbridge
        link
        fedilink
        -211 year ago

        It’s also important to not get carried away in support because you’re too afraid of losing to even try to improve the outcome. We could do better than Biden, and Biden could do better.

          • themeatbridge
            link
            fedilink
            21 year ago

            In hindsight, sure. But we’re talking about the next president. Biden will be the nominee, and that’s one of the biggest advantages Trump’s got.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          151 year ago

          I’m not voting for Biden in the primaries. But I will absolutely vote for him in the general if he’s the not-Republican nominee.

          Do not vote for a third party in the general election. In the context of how our electoral system works, third party votes are literally throwing away your vote. It genuinely does nothing, other than sap support from the less-bad candidate.

          I agree that it’s shitty, and I hate it, but one must reconcile their political desires with how to represent those desires in the context of the electoral system one participate in. Picking a hill to die on because you have strong feelings isn’t going to do shit. Understand the rules of the system, and translating your beliefs into maximally-effective voting action is literally the most efficacious way to use your vote. In the US, that often means voting for people you don’t love. I hope that changes someday, but that day is not today.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          131 year ago

          That’s ok–I’ll lend my support to Biden for now. What’s the worst that’ll happen? He’ll claim the elections are rigged? He’ll give awful advice on dealing with a deadly pandemic? Cozy up with a bunch of fascists around the world? I mean, i guess he could do better…

          Tell you right now: He starts pulling any of that shit, then fine–my support will be relinquished!

          • themeatbridge
            link
            fedilink
            01 year ago

            That’s the problem, though. He doesn’t have to do any of that shit. He could just lose.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        -51 year ago

        Sometimes though, you even do so much as lightly criticize Biden and you get called a Trumper. It’s like there’s only two extremes and if you’re not one, you’re the other.

        • SatansMaggotyCumFart
          link
          fedilink
          91 year ago

          Everyone criticizes Biden and calling him extreme is ridiculously out of touch.

          That’s probably why you get called a Trumper.

        • Sparking
          link
          fedilink
          English
          01 year ago

          Poster is pretty much saying that there is no difference between him and trump. Just super incorrect and arrogant.