• Bibliotectress@lemmy.world
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    Normally, I don’t respond to “bOtH sIdEs” comments, but I was worried that other people might listen to you and won’t show up to vote, or will throw it away on a 3rd party candidate when our country unfortunately isn’t set up for that to work. We’d have to reform how voting works and campaign finance laws to even possibly make what you’re suggesting a tiny bit workable.

    Things Biden has gotten done that are important to me in no particular order:

    • Ukraine response
    • Bipartisan (barely - 13 Rs in House, 19 Rs in Senate) Infrastructure Law (spending on fixing bridges, roads, etc.)
    • CHIPS and Science Act (semiconductor chip manufacturing)
    • Inflation Reduction Act (capped Medicare drug costs at $2k out of pocket, capped insulin prices for Medicare to $35 per month, increased funding for IRS to modernize and audit the wealthy, increased corporate taxes, investment in green energy)
    • Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (strengthened background checks on guns, incentives red flag laws)
    • Paused federal executions after Trump undid the previous freeze
    • Repealed Trump’s ban on trans troops in the military
    • Attempting student loan debt relief
    • Released oil from the National Reserve to make gas prices less painful
    • Signed bill for veteran burn pit care
    • Postal Service Reform Act (modernize and fix the USPS)
    • Respect for Marriage Act (forces ALL states to recognize same-sex marriage and interracial marriage rights)
    • Renewed Violence Against Women Act after Trump let it expire
    • Declared Juneteenth a holiday
    • Pardoned federal convictions of marijuana possession
    • Spent over $10.7 billion on federal, state, local, and tribal land conservation and has protected over 12 million acres of national public land (some of which had their protections removed by Trump)

    (edited to fix a bullet point)

      • Djtecha@lemm.ee
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        This is just word salad. You want to blame him for shit only a dictator could do. He has appointed a lot of federal judges bro, but he can just remake SCOTUS. Get off your unrealistic podium. At best you’re an idiot and at worst you’re just a republican trying to spew propaganda.

        • TheUniqueOne@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          I’m an anarcho-communist so no not a republican. It’s not word salad its refuting the word salad above praising biden for minor performative things or blatantly bad things. I’m not for the united states or supreme court existing but if he wanted to he could try to expand it but no he won’t do that, he could pardon all non violent drug offenders, all political prisoners, he could do many things and every second he isn’t he is guilty of unimaginable suffering.

      • dartos@reddthat.com
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        1 year ago

        If you’re saying someone you don’t like should be killed…. You probably need to re-examine your values.