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He was allowed to talk freely for like 5 minutes a few days ago and he told a story about dropping off a dead dog at a voter’s doorstep or something.
based anti-Karen praxis https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/16/joe-biden-dead-dog-republican-young-politician
Well there isn’t much to discuss. US politics is completely apolitical for the average voter because you just get the same policies, the difference is in the entertainment value. We’re really just voting for our favorite senile old man American Idol style
Whenever Joe Biden’s senility is not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, “Where’s Joe Biden’s senility?”
I think as far as people on the left are concerned, it doesn’t reveal anything surprising. The President was always a figurehead and Capital was always running the show. Seeing the empire administered by the bureaucracies, lobbies, think tanks, and corporations instead of on the direct orders of some guy in a suit might be shocking to some liberals (and therefor, might have some rhetorical use), but it is about the least shocking thing in the world from our perspective.
As far as the people on the right go, Biden can’t be portrayed as the personification of evil if it’s clear he doesn’t even know what day of the week it is. Every failure of the administration needs to be a deliberate act of malice aimed at god-fearing white conservatives in particular. The “Biden’s asleep at the wheel” narrative isn’t particularly useful for them because once you remove the “great man” from the picture, all you’re left with are the underlying systems to analyze. I’m sure it comes up a lot in memes and stuff, but it isn’t a thread that any reactionaries with institutional power are particularly interested in unraveling.
Like, if the man at the top doesn’t actually matter, what has changed about the justice department or the armed forces between Trump and Biden’s administration? Neither Liberals or Conservatives are interested in opening this can of worms because doing so undermines the perceived power of the elected office, and by extension, the perceived power of the electoral process and the perception that we live in a democracy at all. The President must have agency, because if he doesn’t, what the hell are we even voting for?
So from the Liberals, we hear the narrative of a cool and collected Biden staring Putin in the eye and winning in a battle of wits when in actuality the Pentagon and NATO are just acting on their own initiative doing whatever the hell they want, and doing it very sloppily. From the Conservatives, we hear that Biden is an evil Globalist mastermind trying to start World War Three while deliberately tying the hands of any patriots who want to prevent the coming White Genocide / Sharia Law / Stalinist Totalitarianism.
We’re just left sitting here like, :yea:
What are you asking for? Do you want us to have a minimum amount of “draw a clock” memes on the site at all times? Do you want us to call a meeting of all leftists and put out some propaganda?
Is everything that’s discussed just a temporary meme?
Yes. Welcome to the Spectacle.
Literally this. We all have fish bowl memories. Remember how big of a deal the Israel-Palestine conflict was again for like, a week? We just are being moved on to and off of whatever the big spectacle is for the current time period
People joke about “oh things are getting contrived this season” or whatever as a joke comparing real life to a Netflix show or whatever but it honestly does feel like we’re just reacting to the medias packaging of real world events as episodic experiences, we take part in “the discourse” and then nothing fundamentally is addressed and everyone forgets when the next thing comes down the pipeline
Yeah I think thats pretty much the point or at least part of it, it’s just keep shit moving, keep constantly throwing shit out there so we can’t address anything, lose steam and revolutionary energy and they keep getting to do what they want
Biden is seen in the eyes of non-engaged liberals as some kind of friendly grandpa. At least that’s what I’ve heard whenever he’s even mentioned. His senility gets brought up by the right-wing a lot and so liberals will hear that and immediately think you’re a part of the right-wing when you say it. I see more leftists talking about how Biden is basically carrying out Trump policies, but that never seems to work. Similar things were said with Obama carrying out Bush policies and people refused to believe it because they loved Obama so much.
Tribalism. You’re either one of us or you’re a fascist right-winger.
You can see the attraction of this to the liberal mind. It’s very satisfying to tell people off like this. They really do believe they’re better people than everyone else, and that this enables - nay, obligates - them to make decisions for us. Because we’re all too dumb to make the decisions that they would make in our place.
