Le Pen is an ignorant bigot but she isn’t acting like Trump so I actually do think NR is figuring out its next electoral strategy/how to capitalize on its seats vs. plotting to overthrow a legitimate election and install a dictator.

Make no mistake, the rise of right wing groups is a major problem in Western Europe and people need to be careful. But France is not on the brink like the US is. Le Pen is not Trump.

Pixelated AF but we got it dammit!

Yes it matters, as a protest about Israel-Palestine, which I explicitly addressed. Surely you can understand that that is not the same as voting for another candidate? It’s a protest vote, not a vote for or against a candidate. They used the primary as a way to signal their feelings on an issue.

Beyond that: Saying “I just want someone else” is meaningless. Everybody says that across both parties year after year. The moment you put a name forward, then the responses actually matter.

Then I misread it, my mistake.

Either way, nobody ran against him except one small timer who had no shot. If you had given me an alternative then id have taken it. The people who voted against him didn’t vote for another candidate. It was signaling displeasure/disagreement/anger over Israel-Palestine, and the discussion around that was far more nuanced than you are implying. Plenty of people said “it’s the primary, this is the time to make your real opinion heard” when folks got upset. Unless you think CNN or whatever represents everyone?

There was never and there continues not to be a challenger. At some point you can’t ask people to vote for an alternative when there is no alternative being offered.

I can’t believe it, I found it.

Dammit I’ve got another “high brow” meta analysis of this meme/using this meme buried somewhere…

So you are worried that Biden is going to lose and want to run a candidate that will win… And your first suggestion is AOC ~4mo before the general?

Who announced their intention to run against Biden and got screamed at by the entire party that was actually a serious contender? We had one no-chance tepid foot put forward. That’s it. I bet you can’t even name them without looking it up.

You’re just making shit up now.

“I am unhappy with _____.”

“Hi, I’m popular right wing person. Are you unhappy? Whatever it is, it’s their fault. And if you elect me, they won’t ever hurt you again.”

It’s amazing how hard it is to combat this.

Then neither is Trump, are we seriously doing this dance? Are you going to keep acting like they aren’t functionally the matchup already?

Last I checked Biden was the presumptive nominee. If somebody else is the nominee, I will probably vote for them. I don’t understand the issue here.

As of today those are the options. If it changes then great. But whining on lemmy and calling it a “critique” isn’t going to make that happen.

THEN OFFER A SOLUTION. GIVE AN ALTERNATIVE.

FFS I am so tired of this. It’s a critique with no idea what to do instead.

Here are the 4 options

• Vote Trump

• Vote Biden

• Vote 3rd party/independent/write-in

• Don’t vote

What do any of these critiques do to change this? Are they saying to not vote Biden and do one of the alternative 3 options? What’s the end goal here?

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So any time I see a rant/comic like this (which is functionally a rant), all I can think is “a lot of your problems would be solved if you just communicated with your friends.“ I see this a lot with D&D and TTRPG’s in general.

If they are your friends, then they will understand that things feel hostile and playing board games is not fun with them as a result. If they don’t, then maybe you need to consider your taste in friends because most people can handle “hey I can’t keep up can we slow down,” and it would be pretty wild for someone to get upset at that request. I imagine that is not how it happens for most folks but I could be wrong and just have exceptional friends and unrealistic expectations of social interaction lol

Also: you don’t need to have a full grasp of the game to start playing. Most games you can understand like half of it then just jump in and play a round or two to get your sea legs where people are just talking through the best moves and options because that is a great way to learn how the game plays, and then once everyone is comfortable then you go for “a real one.”

Damn I got got

How is it gatekeeping to say “you used it wrong“? If you put your car in reverse when you want to drive forward and I correct you, am I gatekeeping driving?

Saying “this is incorrect” when there is a clear right/wrong usage is not gatekeeping

Like the idea, but this isn’t remotely how this meme is used lol

Thanks!

I don’t know why you felt the need to send this when like 20 comments have repeated it and this happened days ago but ok lol