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botaniqueer · 8 months ago

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It’s a good development that more and more people are getting disillusioned with Biden because it means people aren’t supporting politicians uncritically despite having voted for them.

The next step to make the most of this is to also realize that Biden isn’t even an outstandingly bad or good president and is average in terms of human rights abuses. What is different about Biden is that COVID, an overly gung-ho US imperialist ally (Netanyahu), and following Trump have made it much harder to control the optics and veneer that the US normally maintains.

He isn’t any more or less genocidal than any of his predecessors or anyone else we’ve personally voted for in the past, but he’s having trouble maintaining the illusion that there is such a thing as a just United States. The curtain that is usually there has been torn by a confluence of events and the machinery that has always been here is easier to see.

#Palestine #the image in my head is metal fatigue when you bend a piece of wire too much and it breaks #too much happened at once and it gave him trouble doing what other presidents are usually able to do in less eventful times #all cops are bad and the presidency is like a cop position #but several orders of magnitude worse #folks can vote but they have to do so with the mentality of ‘this person is still my foe’#the DNC also gets mad at leftists for doing this instead of immediately prostrating outselves

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