The entire premise is BS because Biden has a list of accomplishments from infrastructure to debt forgiveness, progressive drug guidance, progress in gender/race equality, departments like the ftc and irs being competently run again with actual resources, to judge appointments. Hmm I wonder to who's benefit it is to ignore all that and label him "not Trump"?
Stop thinking that you vote "for" someone in a FPTP system. You don't. You vote against the guy you don't like.
It sucks, and I hate it, but don't delude yourself into thinking otherwise. We're playing a badly-designed game with a shitty controller and we're only allowed to press a button once a year at best.
Think Twitch Plays Pokemon, but with a lot more trolls and no moderation. There will be a constant stream of people voting to do something stupid and destructive, so you spend all of your time voting against them.
Oh, and their votes count for more, so they can win even if there's fewer of them. All we can ever hope to do is try to stop them and hope they don't fuck everything up and give themselves even more power before the next time we're allowed to pick a move.
Yay America. Greatest democracy in the world right there.
I think it's interesting folks take this as talking about Biden.
Biden has a platform, Biden and the Democrats have accomplishments ... what does Trump and the last decade of Republican congressional dominance have?
"DEMOCRATS ARE DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY!!" "HEALTHCARE IS A MESS!! I'VE GOT A BRILLIANT PLAN I DIDN'T PASS OR EVEN PROPOSE IN CONGRESS LAST TIME. WE'RE GOING TO GET IT DONE THIS TIME. IT WILL BE SO MUCH BETTER THAN WHAT THE DEMOCRATS CAME UP WITH. NO I'M NOT SHARING IT NOW, YOU MUST BE SURPRISED." "I MADE MY RICH FRIENDS MONEY!!"
Well, when you make your name into a brand, then mark your followers with the same, and your brand is a plague on the world... yeah, that kinda is enough. I'd vote for an off-cut of shit-smeared shag carpet if it meant I could rest easy knowing that the next wave of vomit being spewed on Twitter wasn't directed at some of the most vulnerable and under represented peoples on the planet. And if you are wondering if I'm purposefully being ambiguous about to whom I refer, let me sate your curiosity and call former President Trump the cunt he is. Trump is a cunt.
When the opponent is Trump, isn’t that exactly the right thing to do?
FYI: Most of those braindead “am I not allowed to criticize Biden???” comments and posts on social media are a concerted effort by right-wingers from /pol and other such sewers, trying to get people to not vote against Trump. Don’t fall for it. These aren’t “lefties” or “tankies”. Just downvote, report, and ignore.
This year, that is exactly enough for me to vote for “not his opponent.”
I mean... I usually agree with the sentiment the comic is trying to convey, but OTOH the "My Opponent" in this case is Trump.
Add a smarmy attitude and this is an exact representation of Pierre Polievre, opposition leader in Canada and likely to become the next PM
20+ years in politics (has never had another job outside of politics) and has only 1 bill under this name to show for (it was a bill to make voting harder)... and in over 2 years as opposition leader, he has yet to utter a single concrete idea other than "I'm not Trudeau"
Depending on the opponent that's all I need to hear.
We are seeing this in full effect from the opposition party in Canada. They don't have a platform or anything except they aren't Justin Trudeau. That's all they have but it's working as in Canada we vote out governments of power, and not into power.
The current government has been in office for 8 years now and much like Biden is at fault for so many things in the world, our guy is too. At times I lose the thread on which one is a fault though... But yes I'm assured he's to blame for everything wrong in their lives...
lazy to find a link to the south park clip:
"Everyone, I would be a terrible president, vote for Hillary, she has experience"
~ "My opponent is a liar and cannot be trusted"
And this is how that fucker won.
This cartoon might reflect my local council election where everyone running is an NPR liberal but it definitely doesn't reflect the US presidential election, where there are very big and clear differences between the candidates.
Anyone who says otherwise is pushing an agenda.
I don't not support this candidate
Gotta admit, not being a convicted felon and a public sex offender is kinda tight as an election campaign
Seriously though, istg, deontologists are about to singlehandedly give Trump his victory
This is what got milei elected, the other candidate only argument was that he's not milei
This is the whole point of the general election. You pick the two candidates you want to run in the primaries, then decide which one sucks less in the general.
If you don’t want to vote for Biden but still want to vote, vote third party.
I’m voting party for socialism and liberation this November and you can too! They have a platform of Palestinian statehood and an end to weapon shipments to israel.
Voting third party makes it clear to both major parties what platform they need to adopt in order to get your support.
Woah
It's almost like there is a shitload of political conversations lately. I have no idea why lmao
The biggest cause for Israel's overreaction and the continuing genocide of palestinians was the actions of Hamas on October 7th. Blame folks on the other side of the planet all you want, but actions cause reactions. It's always been this way.
I blame the IDF and Hamas for escalating. Religious fuckwits pulling us back a century or two should carry the blame for their blind hatred leading the world into this conflict.
not sure why everybody's butt is hurting over this comic
Biden has ran on this platform his entire four years
if his wrinkled catholic ass and his prosecutor wanted to do a better campaign and presidency they could but as it stands him and her just look like outdated, police loving, religious, zealots standing in the way of progress just like republicans
both parties are actively saying "I am not that other guy." and "We failed to get shit done because of that other guy and his guys"
also both parties say you are wasting your vote voting third party
at this point it is running like a cheesy ad with a company who says buy our product because the competitor's offering sucks never bringing up actual pros and cons
