Biden's approval rating is in the dumps? Must be those god damn tankies brainwashing everyone

This thread doesn't seem so ba-
We can be liberals in the same way the National Socialists were socialists.
- They just admit it!

The Biden admin needs to launch a massive propaganda campaign against communism and fascism online. They are currently playing with their hands tied behind their backs. Spend half of their re-election budget on online trolls on twitter, reddit, tiktok to absolutely destroy anyone that pushes communism and fascism. Hit social media company owners who allow anti-western extremism to fester. Release hit pieces in the media not just against the white supremacy right, but also against the commie left. Make deals with CEOs and wallstreet to stamp out any of that shit from their corporate culture like they did with ESG. The GOP essentially kicked the corporate and military wings out of their party, use that to your fucking advantage. Hit college campuses too. Communism and fascism should be painted in the same light as racism and homophobia basically. Western Lives Matter should be the new BLM. I want to see protests where kids are burning the hammer and sickle flags along swastika flags. I want to see Greta fucking Thunberg wear a NATO shirt to the Met Gala. No tactic should be left off the table.
what the fuck is wrong with these people
- Do they not realize that anticommunism is already hegemonic in the state and business spheres?
  
  This unhinged screed is basically just a caricature of what already exists right now
  
  The CIA is just a myth. You need to chill
  
  They got dunked on by some twitter account with a stalin profile picture and 5 followers and now they're traumatized by communism
- The Biden admin needs to launch a massive propaganda campaign against communism
  Please, I can only see that going well for us.
- Western Lives Matter should be the new BLM
  /
  No tactic should be left off the table
  Somethig tells me he doesn't actually want to see burning swastikas
  
  Something tells me if I did burn the Swastika, I'll get a lecture on how I look like an SJW snowflake, and this will only alienate the working class.
  
  Burning crosses are almost the same thing, right?
- Spend half of their re-election budget on online trolls on twitter, reddit, tiktok to absolutely destroy anyone that pushes communism and fascism
  Oh my god this person is 14 years old, has to be. The idea that Reddit and Twitter reflect at all the voting populace is so detached from reality.
- Or a lazy fed
- The Biden admin needs to launch a massive propaganda campaign against communism and fascism online. They are currently playing with their hands tied behind their backs. Spend half of their re-election budget on online trolls on twitter, reddit, tiktok to absolutely destroy anyone that pushes communism and fascism. Hit social media company owners who allow anti-western extremism to fester. Release hit pieces in the media not just against the white supremacy right, but also against the commie left.
  Why would Democrats attack the far right?
  
  That's one of the (many) problems with these clowns, they don't realize that the ideology they're espousing is already a variation of fascism
  
  Pied piper strategy won the biggest midterm in a hundred years, but go off cause hillary lost 8 years ago or whatever
- No please, do it. Expose more people to the idea that communism is a thing that a) exists and b) opposes the democratic party. Especially using those heavy handed tactics and the influence of the wealthy and powerful. Like, nothing give communism more credibility imo than a CEO opposing it.
  I can't think of a better winning position.
  These are people who are winning the 'ideology' war and are still upset about it because they can't gloat. Pathetic.
  
  A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
  Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
  Two things result from this fact:
  I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power.
  II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.
- redditor for 22 days, also active in /r/conservative.
- The GOP essentially kicked the corporate and military wings out of their party, use that to your fucking advantage.
  
  ...and this is where they went instead
- if only there was some kind of third way
  what commie left? what fucking hit pieces that aren't already printed any time a progressive cause gets even a little bit of attention? where are the CEOs going to find communism in their corporate culture?? you can't do mccarthyism anymore there aren't any communists left you raving fucking lunatic!
  western lives matter
  oh, okay, they're actually a nazi
- I choose whatever the equivalent of the cop side is against WLM
- Something happens westernly west in the west
  Western liberals: "What are we a bunch of Asians!?!?!"
- Honestly, I hope the anticommunism campaign happens lol
  You won’t get far trying to paint the people who want affordable housing and decent wages as evil and that would be the best press we’ve gotten in a long time
  
  Except they don’t paint us as wanting that. They say that communism goes against human nature and ends up instantly murdering trillions of people.

It sucks arguably the best and most effective president of my lifetime might lose reelection to a career criminal because he is 3 years older.
What planet are these people inhabiting - they're both career criminals for one, it's not the age it's the collapsing your economy supporting Ukraine and pretending COVID isn't happening that's the problem.
- The economic claims all just reveal that these people are making over $100k and living in a bubble. Even people doing reasonably well are noticing shit just keeps getting worse.
  
  Fr, ranting about how shit the economy is and everything becoming more expensive is a pretty common conversation piece. Really gives away how out of touch these idiots are.
  
  Not like 80% of people under 35 will ever own a house anyway, but mortgage rates are at 8% right now. Even people making good cash would be paying 50+% of their income towards housing right now. What fucking planet are they from that that sounds like a healthy economy?
- a career criminal
  I love it when liberals accidentally stumble close to the point and then miss it entirely
  Yes Trump is a career criminal, but that's because he's a capitalist. These dorks think he's some evil mastermind criminal who's plotting the destruction of America or some shit. They're so close to getting it but then stumble right at the end.
  
  Biden giving the decapitated, post-neoliberal market reforms remains of Ukraine for his worthless son to exploit isn't a criminal career!
- Unironically he might be the best president in my lifetime. He pulled out of a war, that's something. It says more about the state of the competition than his own competence though.
  
  he started a war with russia. Trump also initiated the afghanistan withdrawal, Biden merely followed through on Trump's plan

Just neoliberal stuff
- calling yourself a neoliberal is so fuckin funny honestly. i think it's underrated how it just wasn't a self-identification until these redditors read a few wikipedia articles and said "hm, liberalism sounds cool, but what's all this stuff about the welfare state and the public good? no thank you, i just like rooting for institutional power."
- Oooooo that's the stuff that made Stalin put you in a blender
- Full throated /r/neoliberal posters are insane to me. Like how do you even get that way
  
  grow up with money and be comfortable your whole life. at least, that's how the people i know with that specific type of dogshit politics are.
- No suprise there. Nazi economic policy was basically identical to neoliberalism. They'll eventually end up looking more similar in every other way too.

The better he does, the more voters hate him.
“Could it possibly be that our chosen candidate is failing to deliver adequately to voters? No, they must be dumb-dumb heads living in opposite land.”
[Biden] Cons: protectionism, but it’s not like we have much of a choice.
It’s okay when Team Blue does it!
I’m honestly at a loss for what people want out of Biden
The six hundred bucks he owes me? A strategy for getting control of the courts that doesn’t involve waiting thirty years for the ghouls currently on it to die? Considering Palestinians to be human beings? Forcing the rail owners to eat the union’s demands instead of the other way around?
China and Russia overextended and on their back foot

Has defeated COVID
Yes, that’s right, no one is catching COVID anymore!
- China and Russia overextended and on their back foot
  This one is especially unhinged. Like, okay, Russia I could buy. But CHINA?! They're just going from win to win.
  
  They're on the "China real estate collapse" run again.
  
  Also, if it were true, leaving the people of Russia and China in a position to be pillaged by the richest Americans is far from a good thing.
  
  This one is especially unhinged
  That's fuckin hilarious, I was gonna say almost the exact same words, lmao. Like even if that were true, why should I be happy about that? I do not think it's a good thing to make enemies out of nearly a quarter of the world's population, and US neoliberals are addicted to making enemies.
- The better he does, the more voters hate him.
  Biden could sit as his desk and fondle his balls for 4 years continuously, and he would easily be better and more likeable than he is now.
  I’m honestly at a loss for what people want out of Biden
  Must be sooo comfortable living in their heads...and their material posture.
- They literally just declared victory stopped tracking covid.
  
  Mission Accomplished
- Has defeated COVID
  Joe Biden beat the crap out of John COVID and now no one ever catches COVID any more.

I’m honestly at a loss for what people want out of Biden 🤷🏻‍♀️ Alternatively I don’t know who people want instead. Wouldn’t this mythical candidate have won the primary and presidency in 2020 if they existed?
the fact you need to ask this is why you're losing. how do you smugly call yourselves smart analytical adults in the room and you can't even read the room?
- Umm nobody turned 35 in the past 3 years, sweaty
  
  Oh, thank goodness
  
  All millenials are still baby

Okay, seeing that guy with John Brown flair comment "I don't know what more people could want from Biden" made me an accelerationist
God damn that subreddit is a hellhole
- People like this are the strongest propaganda tools for Marxism in the US, and they don't even know it.
  When radlibs try to tell people who like the aesthetics of anarchy that the Democratic party is anything but the lesser of two evils, it signals that their radical aesthetic has now been coopted by the lamestream, and that to maintain that radical aesthetic, they must deviate further from the overton window.
  The State Department's favorite radlibs are the ones that act as an escape valve on Marxist pressure, not pump more air into it.
- If Brown existed today the liberals would cheer when he gets airstriked by DeSantis

Social media completely changed the way opinions disseminate. It would take a miracle to see any President above 50% again. Trump social media machine was very, very effective, a lot better than Biden's, and he was only 0.7% above.
"widespread dissatisfaction with power has nothing to do with any actual decline in the political system's ability to respond to the public's needs and everything to do with mass media technologies. nothing can fundamentally change, all we can do is better manage perceptions."

- I hate this snobbish, anti-democratic bullshit. It appears here too. We need some sort of education for the site on Mass Line principles.
- Neither Anerican party likes democracy. Dems want a full technocracy run by The Adults In The Room(tm) and Republicans want a Christo-fascist ethnostate. The compromise is a plutocracy with a mostly non functioning government and a massive military to facilitate imperialism

I hate voters
I thought these were supposed to be the "democracy over all" dorks
- lol no, they're out-and-proud technocrats. They're self-described anti-populists who think the unwashed masses are too stupid to know what's good for them and need to be ruled by their betters (read: people whose parents had the money and connections to get them into Ivy League schools)
  
  "Democracy" is the bludgeon they use to beat the masses into submission when they need to clear room for bourgeois interests.
  Whenever democracy is put into practice, they'll bend over backwards to call it any other name like "mob rule," "cult of personality," or "authoritarianism"
  Notice how Ukraine went from "corrupt kleptocracy" to "European democracy" when it was necessary to whip up support for US interests in the region.
- This is one of the funniest things about their ideology. Democracy is supposedly one of the pillars of neoliberalism, but voters absolutely hate neoliberals and will only vote for them to keep a worse option out of power (see Macron and Trudeau for example)
  
  They love elections so long as nothing of importance or value is allowed to be on the ballot

- it's kind of amazing isn't it? person with zero political education: shit sucks and hasn't gotten much better.
  people who've been completely bamboozled by bourgeois economics: well you see the quarterly annualized gdp growth and the fed's interest policy in fact mean we are already living in heaven, why can't anyone else see this?
  people who've studied actual economics: shit sucks and hasn't gotten much better
  in that thread these
  s are actually circle jerking each other around unironically acting like poverty is not a concern for "average voters". they're such well-read "wonks" yet they so confidently exclude poor people completely from political consideration because they are "on average" less likely to vote. when anyone suggests anything to get non-voters on board (not genociding palestine, actually helping poor people), that's extremism that will turn the important swing voters against the democrats.
- as much as i hate to say it, it is just the dunning kruger effect in action
  people who have read a couple of economics blogs thinking they are experts

I bless you all with this comment:
Pros: Best foreign policy president of my lifetime. Best jobs president of my lifetime. Most progressive president since FDR. Understands humanity and the plight of both Israelis and Palestinians. Gets high marks on the economy from anybody with a tiny bit of macroeconomic literacy.
Cons: three years older than opponent.
Result: Clap, you stupid bastards.
- This is a terrible day to have eyes and be able to read
- Much as I hate chuds, there's something about the smug, pretentious, condescending, obnoxious tone and content that these bourgeois liberals all seem to have that makes me understand why a bunch of white working class people just get driven into the arms of cultural nationalists like the Republicans who refuse to abide by the same absurd language and standards. Like my instinctive repulsion and contempt is stronger in a way when I see a pretentious lib talk than a ridiculous Republican. The latter I still fear and would like to see merked in minecraft, but there's something more especially intuitively infuriating about liberals.
  
  They take so long to say nothing, and they take such pride in it. They talk like they're about to blow your mind, but then 5 confusing and aggravating minutes later you realize that you're just hearing a baroque retelling of the same two cows, civic religion horseshit we were all taught as children, and you kind of get mad at yourself for thinking that maybe this time they would have something insightful to say.
  Everything they say feels masturbatory, thats's the word I wanted
  
  smug, pretentious, condescending, obnoxious tone and content that these bourgeois liberals all seem to have
  :amber:
- BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES
  SIDES BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES BOTH SIDES BOTH
- Best jobs president of my lifetime
  DID HE OR DID HE NOT GIVE YOU A JOB MOTHERFUCKER
  
  He's so good he gave some of us 2 or even 3!

4.9% annualized GDP growth as other developed nations stagnate, inflation under control to the most reasonable possible level given the stimulus and 2 wars
Line go up. The more up the line go, the gooder the president.
- most reasonable possible level given the stimulus
  They can fuck all the way off with that shit

Biden Cast Doubt On Gaza’s Death Statistics — But Officials Cite Them Internally
- Just like the neoliberal covid denial

Pros: Best foreign policy president of my lifetime. Best jobs president of my lifetime. Most progressive president since FDR. Understands humanity and the plight of both Israelis and Palestinians. Gets high marks on the economy from anybody with a tiny bit of macroeconomic literacy.
Cons: three years older than opponent.
Result: Clap, you stupid bastards.
Jesus fuck are these real people?
- Most progressive president since FDR
  
  Words have lost all meaning. All communication henceforth will be conveyed by vibes expressed by Democratic party officials and their comms directors.
- r/neoliberal was created by and is astroturfed by a fossil fuel think tank called the Progressive Policy Institute, as part of their "Neoliberal Project"
  PPI has been around since 1989 and views itself as Bill Clinton's "idea mill" aka think tank. Why I call them a fossil fuel think tank is detailed here. They oppose climate action, defend fracking, and receive donations from Exxon Mobil.
  it's safe to say that their upvotes are farmed, and their organic support is mostly bourgeois economists and political science majors and interns who hope to work for PPI or a similar think tank one day. It's basically a Neera Tanden farm.
  The creator of r/neoliberal, Colin Mortimer, is the Director of the Center for New Liberalism at PPI, which seeks to "develop a salient identity around the center-left values that have increasingly come under fire in this age of populism."
  Never be surprised when an r/neoliberal poster seems "out of touch" as that is likely part of their job description.
- Best foreign policy president...?

All talking about how Biden is bad at PR. If only team Biden was better at making TikToks, the world would be a happy place!
- We're like one presidential campaign away from libs saying "Voting isn't enough. Take direct action- you need to make posts on social media too"
  Edit: To clarify I meant the campaign itself saying this
  
  I'm once again asking for your financial support, otherwise you support Stalinmir Putler and Donald Trump

when the Quinnipiac poll came out showing Biden at 25% favorability with voters under 35, I saw so many excuses from liberals:
young people are ageist
young people believe whatever they see on Tiktok
young people have a hard time discerning nuance (no really someone literally said this 😂)
and a few days ago I saw a post from George Takei like, "young people need to learn that sometimes we vote for someone even if we don't like everything about them" as if he were telling a toddler to eat their peas. why are they so condescending?? and anyway, I did vote for Biden without liking everything about him, but now his issues have become too serious for me to turn a blind eye anymore
- The only way to support Biden and the status quo is to be condescending. There's literally no other way to do it.
- tHeIr BrAiNs ArEn'T fUlLy DeVeLoPeD

It sucks arguably the best and most effective president of my lifetime might lose reelection to a career criminal because he is 3 years older.
70k votes and we could have skipped COVID

His current drop in approval is mostly from infighting among leftists over Israel.
- Unusually, I've not seen much leftist infighting over Israel. You're pretty much either against settler-colonial genocide or you're not a leftist.
  
  I assume it's Schrödinger's leftists. We are an insignificant number of delusional people who have no power yet we also have mighty and unexplained abilities. We can somehow poison polling to make Biden look much worse than he actually is. Is there a Leftist Mind Control Ray that we operate from space or something?
  I think the redditor uses the word "leftists" as a catchall excuse for all problems. "Leftists" can be like an n-word for neoliberals.
  
  Only place this isn’t true is Israel and Germany, where both of their “lefts” are rabid Zionists

Not me casually stealing your comments and replying with them on the posts you're quoting while disabling replies on reddit so they can scream at a brick wall about jerking off to line graphs or whatever it is they do there <3

why would John Tankie do this
- The question at the heart of Atlas Posted, "Who is John Tankie?".

I remember someone from that sub telling a Jamaican that the US fucking over their country was bad but the US as a whole was still a net positive to their country. One of those moments where I wished I could reach my fist through the screen and squeeze his pencil neck like a tube of toothpaste.

But rich people are the richest they've ever been!

I wish we had as much power as these people think we do

Social media completely changed the way opinions disseminate. It would take a miracle to see any President above 50% again. Trump social media machine was very, very effective, a lot better than Biden's, and he was only 0.7% above.
It would take a far greater miracle to have a president that activates the government for anyone except the top 1% of the 1%.
- Trump social media machine was very, very effective,
  "Talk about material conditions of workers" challenge level: impossible at this current level of liberal idealism