I’m not going to tolerate this type of derailment here. Ironically, by making statements like this, you will actually deter leftists and progressives from voting.

If you care about the election, then take our concerns seriously and pressure Biden to change course on committing genocide and imprisoning refugees. Don’t come in here with this gross neoliberal attitude, gloating about how we don’t have a choice. We know this already. This is NOT a democracy.

I’m removing this comment. Don’t let it happen again. There are plenty communities on lemmy.world where you can be toxic to leftists and post-leftists. We don’t need that here.

The problem I’ve seen and what this post is referring to is every time we criticize Biden for his active role in committing genocide, a gaggle of establishment Democrats pop out of wells to tell us to vote for him, thus totally derailing the conversation, a conversation which desperately needs to happen and keep happening until he ceases his support of a genocidal regime.

It’s fucking tacky, it’s fucking cold and heartless, and I genuinely have zero respect for these people. If you want to talk about the election, then do so all you want, but not when we are trying to have dialogue about the Palestinian genocide.

So no, no deal. I’m not interested in a deal. I’m interested in stopping a genocide.

And if you read the sidebar, popping in here specifically to defend Biden is against community rules. That’s by design. This is a place to talk without status quo warriors shouting over us.

…but I’d also welcome you to talk about the election in this thread where it is actually on topic, or create a post of your own. Other people are welcome to post here besides me, and it’s fine to encourage people to vote for Biden if it’s on topic.