2026-04-17 03:54 UTC
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@sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2026-04-17 04:10
My problem is not with the individual my issue is with the deomcratic party. You are correct that there wasn't anything Biden could actually do on his own. It would take a collective effort and likely military cooperation. It would cause political mayhem and be detrimental to the country as a whole and possibly destroyed the democratic party. It could prevent fascism though. I'm not saying any of this is easy or legal but it could have prevented fascism. Instead they did nothing of consequence. I am personally of the opinion that fascism is incapable of being prevented through official means under capitalist liberal democracy so everything I say here is effectively meaningless. I'm sort of arguing that people in a system incapable of stopping fascism should have just done it anyway. Point is, you either have to accept that the democrats did nothing to stop fascism or that capitalist liberal democracy is incapable of stopping it and should be abandoned. Assuming you agree that the Trump administration is fascist. You would probably refer to me as an authoritarian yeah but I think the term is meaningless. As far as I'm concerned all states are authoritarian and my endgoal is the dissolution of all states. Edit: Roe v Wade should have been codified far before they had the chance to dismantle it but the democrats used it like a carrot on a stick.
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@FunkyStuff@lemmy.ml 2026-04-17 08:41
> Did Biden win the senate? It seems that now that Trump is president, what congress says doesn't matter at all and the President can do whatever. > Did he appoint the judges for the supreme court? He could've expanded it, like FDR threatened to do and forced the court to let him do some of the New Deal reforms they were previously opposed to. Biden never lifted a finger with regards to that. This also could've maintained Roe v Wade. > I agree that he mishandled the conflict in Israel, 1. it's a genocide 2. "mishandled" is a really egregious weasel word for "gave unconditional support to the government even as approval ratings slid down the drain"
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@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2026-04-17 08:43
Yes, they had both chambers of the house for the first part of his presidency. Also, yes he appointed a scotus judge and a few others, but he didn’t pack the courts like he could have, and dems in both houses did fuck all to stop Trump or even solidify the voting rights act (which is now in the shadow docket chopping block.) Jan 6 was basically our version of the beer hall putsch. And fuck everyone who said I was wrong about that.
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@WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2026-04-18 00:30
>I agree that he mishandled the conflict in Israel, but I not sure what Biden could have done to stop the abolishment of Roe v Wade as an example. You're just not thinking as creatively as a Republican. That's the main problem with shit libs like Biden. They're not willing to be creative and use the actual authority they do have. They demand more power while not responsibly using the power they do have. They just do nothing and *removed* that they don't have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. People floated all sorts of options for Biden to protect abortion rights after Roe fell, using just the power of the presidency, no action required by Congress. Because he's a shit lib, he decided to do nothing instead. Among those things proposed were: * Offering abortion services on US military bases in states were abortion is illegal. Either by military doctors or by private groups hosted on military bases. * Put protection in place on federal data sharing with local and state police to restrict its use for enforcing anti-abortion laws. * Put in vending machines in post offices selling abortion pills OTC. * Restricting funding to states that restrict abortion. * Come up with many tactics like these. If SCOTUS rules against it, adjust the tactic slightly and try it again with something different. SCOTUS can only move so quickly, and it would take years for them to strike down any particular scheme. These are the kinds of things Republicans do when they control the White House. Democrats don't show this level of creativity. Instead they just *removed* about not having a 60 vote majority in the Senate.