I’m sick of posts complaining about Biden’s debate performance, or his age, or his response to Gaza. Comments saying he should step aside or “we coulda had Bernie.”

Shut the fuck up.

Biden is the nominee. He is the person Americans need to vote for to prevent another Trump presidency. Simple as that. There is no other option. The DNC isn’t going to change their nominee in July of an election year. You’re an idiot if you genuinely think otherwise.

It’s fine to criticize a president. Even one you support. But we are four months from the next election and all posts and comments attacking Biden right now are fuel for Trump. I don’t care if you’re a Russian troll or a well-meaning progressive. Criticizing Biden right now helps Trump win. Full stop.

Get your heads out of your asses and realize what is at stake.

  • terraborra@lemmy.nzEnglish
    336·
    5 months ago

    Not American, but am anti-fascist so anyone is better than Trump. However it’s wrong to say that there is no other option.

    The New Zealand Labour Party (centrist-left) won the election in 2017 by switching leaders much closer to election day:

    On 1 August 2017, just seven weeks before the 2017 general election, Ardern assumed the position of leader of the Labour Party, and consequently became leader of the Opposition, following the resignation of Andrew Little. Little stood down due to the party’s historically low polling.

    Jacinda Ardern Wiki

    • voracitude@lemmy.worldEnglish
      127·
      5 months ago

      And if America had ranked-choice voting you might be right that there’s another option; unfortunately though things don’t work like that here so there is indeed no other option.

      • terraborra@lemmy.nzEnglish
        141·
        5 months ago

        We don’t have ranked choice voting either and don’t directly vote for prime minister. It’s a proportional system. If anything this should reduce the effect that a leader has on the popularity of the party compared with first past the post jurisdictions.

        Given that the US does directly vote for President, personality and popularity have much more weight, and therefore a more popular candidate could turn it around. How likely that is I’m not sure, as I don’t know a huge amount about the alternatives other than AOC and Sanders, but Jacinda did show that it’s possible.

        • Zachariah@lemmy.worldEnglish
          102·
          5 months ago

          Given that the US does directly vote for President…

          The U.S. president is not directly elected.

          • terraborra@lemmy.nzEnglish
            32·
            5 months ago

            That’s splitting hairs. Notice I said “vote” rather than “elect”. I’m well aware of how the electoral college functions and that you can lose the “popular vote” but still become president (e.g. Bush Jnr and Trump).

            The fact remains that on ballot you directly cast a vote for the president.

            • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
              41·
              5 months ago

              Hey, you got any openings there in the New Zealand? Heck - Old Zealand, whatever, something with less heavily armed, grossly unhealthy authoritarian fetishists? Looking to start, say, in about five months?

              • terraborra@lemmy.nzEnglish
                2·
                5 months ago

                Unfortunately we’re no socialist utopia and we recently swung to the right in the election last year. The deputy prime minister is a noted xenophobe, pay-to-play corruption is on the rise, and most of the social policies of the last 6 years are being rolled back and then some.

                These changes aren’t necessarily popular, lots of people voted against the incumbents rather than for the new government, but the next election is 2 years away and the electorate has a short memory.

                It’s also worth knowing that much of our international reputation is a smokescreen. We’re not clean and green despite what our tourism marketing says. Almost every party in our parliament subscribes to neoliberalism to varying degrees and thinks deregulation will solve our productivity problems. We have one of the worst housing markets on the planet which is more like a Ponzi scheme thanks to a lack of capital gains tax and incentives for speculators. Finally the cost of living is extreme due to a lack of competition in the food, banking, petrol, electricity and water markets.

                We have been falling in the OECD rankings on most metrics since the late 80s when we embraced Thatcherism/Reaganomics.

        • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          5 months ago

          B-but terminally online Redditors Lemmy users (Lemmists?) tell me that every single country in the world has a perfectly functioning election system and that the US is the only one with problems??

          • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            The preferred demonym (preferred by me) is “Lemmunists,” or “Lemmunistas” if you’re nasty.

      • terraborra@lemmy.nzEnglish
        93·
        5 months ago

        The premise of OP’s post is that it is not possible to win an election by changing the party’s candidate close to an election. I provided evidence that it is possible.

        Whether the DNC has someone capable of doing so is another question.

  • workerONE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    268·
    5 months ago

    “I’m sick of posts complaining about Biden’s debate performance, or his age, or his response to Gaza. … Shut the fuck up.”

    US provided weapons were used to kill tens of thousands of innocent people, many of whom were children. You’re tired of people “complaining” about it?

  • Sami@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2712·
    5 months ago

    Nobody is owed the peoples’ vote. You can stick your head in the sand and pretend that everything is fine but don’t be surprised if it doesn’t pan out come election time in the US given past and current polling. Also, the whole Russian troll/useful idiot accusation that gets leveled at everyone who feels differently about anything from Biden’s chances at winning to his responsibility for what’s happening in Gaza is very condescending and shows a complete lack of flexibility in thought other towing the official party line. I wonder what you would say if Biden willingly chose to resign tomorrow.

      • Sami@lemmy.zipEnglish
        165·
        5 months ago

        No, but I am Middle Eastern and Canadian and am impacted by US policy whether I like it or not.

        • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
          37·
          5 months ago

          Okay. Well, I think what’s going on there is horrible, and that Israel’s authoritarian government is utterly criminal, so for what ever part we’re playing in that, i disagree with it, and if we make it out of here alive, I’m going to jump on that train with both feet.

          To do that, I need Biden to win. We can’t make it better any other way, for a hundred different reasons, and that’s probably counter-intuitive and maybe it seems like there must be some other way there but there really, really isn’t. It’s an all-or-nothing situation, and every thread where anti-Biden people are complaining it doesn’t help.

          I wish it could be as simple as directing them to make the decisions and agreements the majority want, but it just isn’t. Trump is doom for so many things that I, and a bunch of other people think it’s bizarre anyone would fight the effort to take him down. And that’s how we see these absolutely valid and important criticisms of Biden and the current situation.

          The fact that it’s divisive is exactly why russia also does it. They want trump to win for - well, many reasons, all of them bad. So I don’t think you’re saying anything you don’t believe, and I don’t think the people complaining about Biden criticisms are wrong either. It’s probably really hard to see how we could want the same thing. But, we do. We both want to prevent things from getting worse.

          Because of that, as a matter of course, the most important thing is to defeat trump. Because everything is going to be in a kind of stasis until then. Yes it’s stupid, we agree, yes it’s wasteful and wrong and we should have a better system - we agree.

      • audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        137·
        5 months ago

        Hey there! Thank you for this super informative and well-documented and cited response. While I am always open to recommendations on how to improve my life, I usually reserve taking those recommendations from people who actually care about my well-being. Maybe reserve your recommendations for people with whom you have more in common with, namely people who have placed their rectum firmly around their neck.

  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    125·
    5 months ago

    Hey, here’s a thought: spend a couple minutes thinking about why people are upset. Until you’ve done that, take your own advice and shut the fuck up.

    Plenty of democrats are concerned about his capacity and are saying there should be another nominee. Not random people, members of congress. If they’re not settled on Biden maybe you should be the one shutting the fuck up.

    Also, dude could easily keel over any day between now and November. If he was a healthy 60-something year old people might be less concerned. But a candidate who has a decent chance of dying before the election is a bad candidate.

  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
    136·
    5 months ago

    How democratic. Don’t criticize candidate because alternative is worse.

  • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    5 months ago

    Nah, fucking do better. We have 330m people and this is the best you got? Get fucked. Throw the whole fucking system in the trash. I’m talking about that system that lets Trump get away with shit and puts me in jail and convicts me for trying to escape a guy who attacked me on the road. There ain’t shit any of you “good guys” have going on that fucking matters.

  • Steal Wool@lemm.eeEnglish
    1510·
    5 months ago

    So what you’re saying is you love Trump and want him to win. Ok, got it. Yeah I don’t remeber 2016 either 🤦‍♀️

  • jas0n@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    5 months ago

    I’m sick of hearing that Biden is the only person who has beat Trump as an equivalence to the only person who can. Out of 2 people who tried? Trump is a super weak candidate. Weaker than he was in 2016 and 2020. Anyone could beat him. But, here we are.

  • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    5 months ago

    Bernie’s publicly endorsed Biden so anyone arguing for Bernie this point is basically arguing against Bernie

    • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      5 months ago

      Bernie should shut the fuck up and once again ask for our financial support.