The US primaries and the general election are two different things. Voting uncommitted in the primary expresses support for the Palestinian plight and does not give Republicans any ground.
The uncommitted movement presents a safe and effective avenue for voters to voice dissatisfaction with President Biden’s policies, particularly with the Israel-Hamas conflict. By doing so in the primary, voters can signal discontent without risking a Republican victory in the general election. The purpose is to send a wake-up call to the Biden administration that it is failing to address issues and effectively engage with the party, vis a vis that Biden is enabling a genocide.
That being said, anyone who calls for an uncommitted or third-party vote in the general election i will personally kick in the gender neutral balls (in Minecraft).
Bias is a concept that applies to entities who would possibly be neutral, such as judiciary or journalists. I’m neither and my opinion isn’t about bias: It’s my opinion. Yes, I do believe Republicans would be worse than Democrats on every single issue possible, and a Democratic administration might actually do some helpful things.
Which literally has nothing to do with also holding Democrats feet to the fire and expecting them to do better.
Bias is a thing that applies to everyone, it’s also a social thing, not just a legal thing. If your bias makes it so you don’t actually listen to what other people are saying, then that is impacting you and others socially.
I have very much listened to what people are saying and I’ve discussed in in detail with dozens of people recently. Saying I have an anti-Trump bias is incorrect as it’s based on clear logic, experience and very good reasons. I don’t have any particular love for Biden or Democrats.
Yes, hold Democrats feet to the fire and expect them to do better. Asking for election reform and supporting better primary candidates would be a great idea. Giving Biden a bunch of one-sided unfair criticism and calling him braindead shit like ‘genocide joe’ or “both parties are fascism!!” is not how to do it right now.
The effect may be to change the Democrats’ behavior, but it’;s too late in the race. What do you expect them to do, find a different candidate? The main effect would be to discourage otherwise Biden voters from voting at all, campaigning for him, saying positive things about him online, or to vote for third parties. Guess who that helps? I have a really hard time believing that everyone saying these things doesn’t understand that, especially when the same people somehow have very little criticism for the actual fascist in the race. If you want to think my saying “I really don’t want that lecherous, dishonest, incoherent, greedy, soulless criminal imbecile and his pack of nazis and looters back in the White House” is the result of bias, then okay.
I don’t expect them to do anything other than maybe be honest with themselves that Netanyahu isn’t operating good faith, and hasn’t been for thirty years. He’s a known quantity. He moaned about Obama’s peace deal with Iran and loved it when Trump nuked it. He has been claiming Iran is “three years away” from a nuclear weapon for literally fucking thirty years. He was instrumental in arguing that the US should invade Iraq and the lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was somehow tangentially related to 9/11. Why are we trusting Netanyahu of all people? To me it almost feels orchestrated by Netanyahu to fuck Biden in the general because he knew Biden would kowtow. They had warning about October 7th a year in fucking advance, including warning from US intelligence. Fucking convenient, huh? Netanyahu is and has been a genocidal maniac, so a chance to help his buddy Trump and also help himself to US weaponry probably seemed like a fucking No Brainer.
I’m going to vote for fucking Biden in the general because I’m not an idiot. I don’t spend a whole shitload of time critiquing Trump of all people because dude I’m old I’ve hated that worthless obese piece of shit since the 1980’s when he was the butt of jokes in fucking Bloom County.[1] If you don’t already know why that dude is a dangerous maladjusted loser, you’re not getting sold otherwise by now. Why would I rant on and on about it when I’m fucking furious that Merrick fucking Garland has been slow walking this shit, literally waiting until Trump became so belligerent with protected secrets that he had to start an investigation. If I talk about that shit too much, it’ll give me a fucking heart attack because he’s a walking talking abomination that is proof in the pudding of a two tiered justice system that is too pussy and incapable of fucking jailing the fucker. And no offense, Democrat decisions like not prosecuting Bush for fucking war crimes when they had the chance plays into why they feel like they can’t touch Trump. We wouldn’t even step up for fucking war crimes. Further, Merrick Garland himself was another example trying to “work with” Republicans and all it has done is fuck us in the ass. We need an AG with balls, not this fucking pussy.
“Donald Trump is accidentally and fatally injured by the anchor of his own yacht. Incredibly, surgeons turn to Bill the Cat as a donor body in which to insert Trump’s still-living brain. Trapped in Bill’s body, Trump finds himself disinherited from his financial empire and estranged from his wife Ivana. With nowhere else to turn, he takes Bill’s place in the Bloom County boarding house, making unsuccessful attempts to start from scratch and occasionally being given equally unsuccessful lessons on the value of life by Opus. This eventually culminates in Trump regaining power and using it to buy out Bloom County, firing the entire staff of characters in the process.” ↩︎
That all sounds pretty reasonable to me. I think I remember that Bloom County sequence too! I didn’t really think about Trump when I was young. I think I thought he was a member of Duran Duran or something. We read about him dumping his wife for Marla Maples and I thought she was hot, but that’s about it. Then he disappeared and came back as a game show host for some weird reason, and with the WWE, which was odd. When he really clearly distinguished himself as a horrible person was when he started the Obama ‘birth certificate’ thing around 2012.
It was literally how he ended the daily strip Bloom County and transitioned to the much weirder and artsy weekly Sunday-only strip Outland. The strip ends with Trump buying Bloom County, firing all the characters, and paving the dandelion fields. Even as a kid I read it as a strong indictment on what people like Trump stood for, and it made me think badly of him.
Anyway yeah, thanks for hearing and listening. I’m really sorry the rest of your conversations haven’t gone as well.
Ah ha, I remember Outland a little and it was definitely strange.
Oh well, you know, I don’t expect people to say “you know, you’re right Horsey! I’ve repented!”. But I enjoy talking to people and I do learn from other peoples’ differing viewpoints.