Poll comes as the Biden campaign has ramped up its rhetoric in attacking Trump directly in recent weeks
  • Ballistic_86@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I thought this was an Onion article at first. Of course most people voting Biden are only doing so because the only other option is convicted felon Donald Trump.

    Biden is a loser president in a loser system. But if the option is him or Insurrectionist/Felon/Rapist Donald Trump, it is the option people will vote for.

  • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “People voting for watching paint dry instead of poking sticks in their eyes appear to be mostly motivated by avoiding sticks…in their eyes.”

  • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    While reading this headline I began thinking to myself “Duh, of course they did. -Why even bother publishing a story like this. It doesn’t even serve any valuab… ohhhh, right.”

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I have never whole heartedly supported the Democratic candidate (because I’m far more left than any of them have ever been), but I’ve always voted for them, because they’re far better than the other option. This time they’re just so far better than the other option, not because they are any better, but because the other option is so astoundingly worse. So, I guess, welcome to the club.

    But I will say, Biden has been more progressive than any other candidate in my lifetime. Again, that’s not saying much, but hey, it’s better than nothing. He’s just killing himself by supporting Israel.

    • btaf45@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      But I will say, Biden has been more progressive than any other candidate in my lifetime.

      I agree and I can remember every president since Nixon. Not one single president in the past 50 years has been better than Biden.

    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I supported them wholeheartedly for like a day when I moved from libertarianish something in my teens and early twenties to slightly progressive. I feel exactly the same.

    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think they’s probably sincere. They talks with enough nuance that they’s clearly putting in effort, and I don’t think they’re a tankie either though I could be wrong on that point. They do have a bad position on this one issue, though, so I understand the animosity.

  • exanime@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t this the general sad state of democracy? Specially in America and it’s 2 party system?

    Rarely people get to vote for whom they want, they vote against the one they dislike/fear the most

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see…"

    “You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?”

    “No,” said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, “nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.”

    “Odd,” said Arthur, “I thought you said it was a democracy.”

    “I did,” said Ford. “It is.”

    “So,” said Arthur, hoping he wasn’t sounding ridiculously obtuse, “why don’t people get rid of the lizards?”

    “It honestly doesn’t occur to them,” said Ford. “They’ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they’ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.”

    “You mean they actually vote for the lizards?”

    “Oh yes,” said Ford with a shrug, “of course.”

    “But,” said Arthur, going for the big one again, “why?”

    “Because if they didn’t vote for a lizard,” said Ford, “the wrong lizard might get in.”