CNN's Dana Bash barely suppressed a stunned laugh as she pressed Ramaswamy to explain his claim that the Trump-incited Jan. 6 riot was actually "an inside job."
That is unfortunately less of a social phenomenon and more of a logical result of our combination two-party/first past the post system. After years of having to strategically vote against the worst option instead of for the best, we are only left with a “lesser of two evils” decision.
I still write him at times to encourage some types of things or express disagreement with others. Trump’s existence matters almost nothing in that calculus.
Same would apply to Biden. We can hold people accountable and disagree with decisions while still voting for them.
We need not become unquestioning sheep. And polls matter.
Of course. The comment was probably directed to the bots telling us we are genocidal if we don’t vote third party (thereby allowing Trump to take over and oh by the way nuke Gaza or whatever)
Lemmy needs to stop confusing those two ideas. The strong reactionary misunderstandings that ensue are unhelpful and honestly… Kind of intellectually bankrupt.
Moving the baseline to “nukes” doesn’t invalidate legitimate concerns around Biden’s handling of events.
Nobody said it did. The point is that Trump’s handling would certainly be worse.
I agree.
So anything done that is better than the worst President in victory should go unchallenged?
We are Lemmings, aren’t we (in the debunked mythological running of a cliff sense)?
There was a ceasefire, that was good. After instructing people not to call for one, it was helpful to see that.
Biden would get my vote in a general. But we have to stop making the worst decision maker the baseline.
That is unfortunately less of a social phenomenon and more of a logical result of our combination two-party/first past the post system. After years of having to strategically vote against the worst option instead of for the best, we are only left with a “lesser of two evils” decision.
I vote for Swalwell, happily. That’s my district.
I still write him at times to encourage some types of things or express disagreement with others. Trump’s existence matters almost nothing in that calculus.
Same would apply to Biden. We can hold people accountable and disagree with decisions while still voting for them.
We need not become unquestioning sheep. And polls matter.
The worst decision maker is literally the other option.
For voting, yes. But for accountability or assessing competence?
No. We have other ways of assessing competence. And those need not lead to lost votes.
Of course. The comment was probably directed to the bots telling us we are genocidal if we don’t vote third party (thereby allowing Trump to take over and oh by the way nuke Gaza or whatever)
Disagreeing with Biden <> vote third party.
Lemmy needs to stop confusing those two ideas. The strong reactionary misunderstandings that ensue are unhelpful and honestly… Kind of intellectually bankrupt.