• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    People always mad at others for having standards…

    You can spend your time convincing them to hold their nose, or convincing politicians to be better.

    There’s still 6 months to the election, plenty of time for Biden to pull his head far enough out of his ass to still manage to beat trump. It legitimately wouldn’t be hard.

    But that’s where time is best spent. Being loud and demanding more from the people who need votes to win.

    Lots of people agree with Cardi on this, she’s just got a microphone.

    “I feel like people got betrayed,” Cardi said of Biden. “It’s just like, damn, y’all not caring about nobody. Then, it really gets me upset that there is solutions to it. There is a solution. I know there’s a solution because you’re spending billions of dollars on any f-----g thing.”

    She also said she was concerned about artists of color getting “blackballed” for talking about Israel’s assault on Gaza.

    “[America] don’t pay for endless wars for countries that have been going through s— for a very long time,” she said. “There’s countries [where] kids are getting killed every single day, but because the [U.S.] won’t benefit from that country, they won’t help. I don’t like that America has this superhero cape on. We never did things to be superheroes. We did things for our own convenience.”

    Americans have needed shit like a functional healthcare system for generations, 80 fucking years now republicans and moderate Dems have said we don’t have the money for it. Even tho it would literally be cheaper than the current system.

    But we just got billions laying around to fund a genocide?

    If Dems want people to vote, they need to actually be a left wing party and help people. Not just be the absence of more damage. That is undeniably better than more damage, it just doesn’t motivate voters.