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While rebutting another post here on Lemmy, I ran into this. This says exactly what I want to say.

I am not a friend of Biden's Administration. I think they drug their feet over a variety of things ranging from holding Trump and his goons accountable for January 6th through rulemaking on issues like OTC Birth Control and abortion rights, and yes, I think he's too quick to please big business. But then I remember what the alternative is, and ... well, disappointed in Biden or not, I'm voting for him. Because my wife is a Black bisexual goth woman, four strikes under Team Pepe's tent. And I have my own strikes for marrying her as a White dude, and respecting her right to not have kids since she doesn't want them is another strike against me. And I care about my Non-Christian, Gay, Transgender, and Minority friends, and will never willingly subject them to Team Pepe.

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[–] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

The browbeating will continue until morale improves!

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't really see the Dems as "not being together" when you compare it to the other side of the isle and they are throwing shit at the walls and talking about a fictional reality.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think the 100k that voted 'uncommitted' in the Michigan primary shows that there is a level of discontent with the current administration. Now I would hope that those who made that protest vote, which in my primary here I also made that same type of vote, would still vote for Biden and not vote for a Nazi or sit the vote out but let's be real, Democrats aren't like Republicans where they will almost always vote for the hard 'R'.

So I'm my opinion, it's a valid concern, maybe not a huge one but given how stupid our electoral system is, it's still a valid concern.

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"No no, enabling fascism will definitely cause a swing to the left this time. After Trump, our turn!"

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[–] anticurrent@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There is a struggle to understand that not everyone who isn't a partisan of your rival party, systematically a member of your own party

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