• Ashyr@sh.itjust.works
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    I can’t tell if you’re a disgruntled progressive or provacateur conservative. Assuming the former and you’re actually complaining in good faith, what do you expect of Biden?

    As near as I can tell, Biden has picked up the pieces of the most ravaged American economy in a century while dealing with divided and useless legislature and an immoral, activist supreme court.

    I agree Biden hasn’t handle corporate greed and abuse as much as I’d like, but that really is congress’s job.

    Is it the rail worker strike? Congress made it illegal for them to strike with a veto proof majority. Interestingly, they now have the sick days they were prepared to strike over and the unions publicly thanked the Biden administration for working behind the scenes to make it happen.

    Honestly, he’s the most progressive president since LBJ, or even FDR, and is working with far more combative branches of government and far more dire circumstances.

    Biden was near the bottom of my list in the primaries, but I was absolutely wrong. He may not be as progressive as I’d like, but he’s the leader we need right now. He’s a consummate politian who believes in the process and is open to being persuaded to still more progressive outlooks.

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      Assuming a position of good faith is starting your response on a flawed premise. Notice how there is never any evidence or even claims of evidence, merely a assertion that [insert current democratic president here] is “the worst president evarr!!!1!” When Obama was in office he was also “the worst president evarr!!!1!” The next Democrat president we have will also be “the worst president evarr!!!1!”

      I appreciate your attempt here, because I do think it’s important to have level headed discussion surrounding these sorts of statements. It’s a benefit to the rest of the bystanders that will come in here later and not see that sitting unopposed. But as far as engaging an actual conversation, you are surely wasting your time. You’ll notice that the hour old comment has 13 replies on its chain but only crickets from the original commenter. I’ll be very surprised if we hear from them again on this thread but if we do you can be assured that it will contain more of the same bizarro clown shit with no identifiable basis in reality.

      I am really, seriously reaching the end of my rope here with the willful ignorance and purposeful misinformation. This is the sort of thing that has taught me I should not ever be allowed to be in charge of anything, because if I were, this is the sort of person I’d have imprisoned on the basis that they are a danger to society. But fortunately for them our constitution enshrines their right to be an idiot and to talk about it.

      • TehWorld@lemmy.world
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        I believe this is generally “Sea-lioning”. They pop up and toss out some argument that doesn’t even have to make sense just to suck up the time of somebody so that they can’t engage in honest discourse with someone arguing in good faith. IMO, ignoring the trolls is for the best.

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      who believes in the process

      This is a really important thing. Many of us I suspect have had moments where we wished he’d just tell the court to fuck off and not follow a ruling, or try an untested legal maneuver to work around Republicans.

      To heal a democracy however, you have to work through the system. Working outside of it just weakens the government more. People need to see our rules and traditions triumph to have faith in them.