• Rojo27 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    105·
    11 months ago

    $15 national minimum wage- No

    Robust Medicare system- Lol, lmao even

    Actual climate change plan-football-lucy

    He did give us funding for neo-Nazis in Ukraine and for genocide in Palestine, so celebrate the small victories, I guess?biden-troll

      • shuzukoEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Thanks, I hate it. That fucking cutesy thumbs down infuriates me every time I think about it and now it’ll be in my brain looking like this forever.

  • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    78·
    11 months ago

    I have pressed libs on these things and they say that Biden has made “serious progress towards these goals” and “he’ll surely accomplish them in his second term.”

    Liberals are beyond the pale, truly

  • Rom [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    62·
    11 months ago

    Minimum wage: One (1) half-assed attempt at raising it followed by a collective shrug-outta-hecks from the entire Democratic party

    Medicare: Costs slightly lowered from “ludicrously expensive” to “outrageously expensive.” Apparently raised the Medicare tax rate on incomes over $400,000 by a whole 1.2%. Maybe not nothing, but still tiny ass changes that don’t fundamentally fix a broken system, and still aren’t single player, universal healthcare. You know, the kind of system that everybody else has that has been proven to work, is cheaper, and doesn’t plunge people into six figures of debt for the rest of their (and their next of kin’s) lives.

    Climate change: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/biden-administration-resume-leasing-oil-gas-drilling-federal-lands-rcna24646

    In other words nothing fundamentally changed amerikkka-clap

    • Goferking0@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      39·
      11 months ago

      Can’t forget student loans.

      All he’s done is forgive those who actually got scammed and for everyone else just redid the payment plan based on income.

      I tried but court said no so I won’t try anything else

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      32·
      11 months ago

      Maybe not nothing

      Nah, I’m sick of trying to be overly reasonable about this garbage schtick liberal politicians enable and engage in

      Liberal politicians always do this, instead of enacting something that would be massively popular and genuinely good, they do the most pathetically small thing they can think of to modify the existing structure, like increasing the existing tax on the top .1% by 1.2%. Then you get smug bootlickers who quote the White House website press release that it increased revenues by 50 million (for a program with a 500 billion dollar budget), while also explaining at you that it was actually massively helpful and wonderful for everyone, and if you don’t understand that you’re a moron and a conservative parasite. Or they try and explain that you don’t understand the government, as if they were the only genius who had a grade school civics class.

      It is nothing but piss in the wind and I refuse to consider it otherwise

  • chungusamonugs [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    61·
    11 months ago

    It’s depressing to see people fall for the same carrot-stick nonsense year after year. An administration could arguably accomplish one major reform during a single term, even if it tanked their career. There are empowerments the president can use to do this (libs will often use you personally not being able to detail each legal subversion necessary as proof the acting president actually cannot do what they campaigned on, however this is a coping mechanism, as they refuse to believe that the person they voted for can be ideologically bad).

    If Biden actually cared about anything he campaigned on, even if it were just one thing he was the most passionate about, he could have worked over the past three years to execute a plan to make it happen, even if it led to his impeachment. But he hasn’t, because he doesn’t, because the system he dedicated his career to uphold is working as intended.

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      40·
      11 months ago

      It really was the tipping point for me, solidified that yes, there really is only one party in the West (the capitalist party) and also that even a pandemic that threatens to kill and/or cripple most of the population will be met with the same half-assed non-solution as climate change. There is nothing that will make them admit that capitalism is a suicide deal. No end to their delusion. They’re a cult. There is no reasoning with a beast like that, so it solidified for me that the only way out is revolution.

      I really feel like the left should have made a bigger deal about the shadow app shit in the 2020 primaries, I feel like the whole “we won’t make a scene if Bernie loses” might have been exactly what the Dems wanted.

      It didn’t make me lose faith in humanity, though, it just confirmed without a doubt that, yes, the tankies were right after all.

  • oktherebuddy@hexbear.netEnglish
    40·
    11 months ago

    it’s so easy, I can just go back and watch the section of the contrapoints vooooooooting video from 2020 where she makes a giant list of good things Biden would do and laugh as literally none of them actually happened

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      25·
      11 months ago

      Friends I lost for posting a “being happy Trump lost, being cautious Biden won” meme in November 2020 have been oddly quiet recently. I keep telling them, dialectical materialism is a science, and yet they still keep voting Labor and calling out leftists for splitting the vote (which is not a thing in Australia, and I hate yanks for teaching them that term)

  • mayo_cider [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    11 months ago

    I’ve got this website where I wrote that I’m going to marry your dad (I’m actually just going to string him along with empty promises and break his heart)