Sorry this is kinda political. Is there an asklemmypolitics group this would be better for? I’m hoping not to get into the libs vs progressives political debate we see everywhere on here… Just want to know what people are actually looking for.
Stopping genocide would be fantastic, for starters.
Pushing for workplace reform like workplace democracy, mandatory unionization, nationalizing industries like Healthcare, and so forth would be incredible, so getting started and getting the ball rolling on those would be much appreciated.
The two main things would be completely ending support for Israel and taking at least some meaningful steps toward ending border fascism and at the very least stop using the myth of a “border crisis” to pander to the ignorance of constituents.
If he’d do at least these two things, I’d at least feel hopeful that he’d do some more good going forward, but instead he’s only thrown more and more fuel on these racist dumpster fires.
He’s already got my vote. He’s by zero means perfect, but I live in a swing state and cannot throw out “meh it’s terrible, but good enough considering” because it’s not perfect.
Here’s some things he could do to make “meh, it’s terrible but” into just “good”:
- Put any kind of pressure on Israel.
- Expand the Supreme Court.
- Executive order giving the NLRB Sectorial Bargaining at the Federal Level.
- Force the FCC to regulate data collection.
- Go back in time and allow the railroad workers to strike and threaten nationalization if the hedge funds that own the railroads don’t play ball.
Spot on!
I hate him, but him losing is an existential threat to many people I care about (many who are already suffering under republican state legislatures). It will do nothing for Gaza either.
I am bitter that this is the state of things.
Combine all the great lakes and rename it Optimus Lake Prime.
A total ban on life vests. Learn to swim nerd.
Invade England to continue what we started and dumping their tea in their ocean for a change.
Abolish the 3rd amendment.
Mandate all cruze ships must be equipped with cannons.
Stop making the secret service a secret (we all know).
Come out as a closet juggalo. Whoop whoop biden in the house.
Give Nicolas Cage the Declaration of Independence (not the bees)
You should probably also ask this in politics@lemmy.world.
It’s an interesting case because studies have found that there are certain core issues where if a candidate doesn’t match their stance on it, voters are unwilling to engage with that candidate’s other policies.
Stuff like abortion, gun control. Genocide looks like one of those issues.
He’s not earned my vote, he just hasn’t lost it because of the potential loss we may suffer at the hands of the current GOP. I believe that Biden has done quite a bit. He also seems oddly stubborn regarding Gaza, which is obviously a pretty big mistake. However, I foresee an entire world negatively impacted by Trump becoming President once again. Yeah, I heavily dislike feeling forced to vote for Biden over someone else. Yet I have seen Biden roll over on many issues and take many positive steps. At least with him there seems to be a way forward where we will still be able to voice our concerns and where the people within our borders who are not white and others who are not straight don’t have to fear for their lives or their freedom.
With Biden in for a second term we will have something we desperately need now that we seem to have finally begun coming together to some degree: Time. With Trump there is a real possibility that Gaza will become lower on everyone’s list as people we consider friends, family, and neighbors are targeted. It isn’t that the terrible situation in Gaza isn’t important. I just recognize it’s being used to divide us and risks us falling into the trap of dictatorship.
Stop sending money to Israel, or forgive student debt, or vehemently support RCV and reformation of the electoral college and restricting stock trading by members of the government.
He kind of already earned my vote by subsidizing my clean energy HVAC (which I reinvested in a TV, lol) but I also look at places like Japan and am glad our inflation isn’t as bad as it could have been. The yen lost so much purchasing power, in particular cause of not raising interest. We support family there, so our money goes a longer way. It’s nice.
From now to November, though? Harder to say given he’s hamstrung by Congress. There’s dozens of things any administration could do to make the U.S. a better place, with public transportation, environment and education being some of my concerns. Education in particular isn’t nearly addressed enough, and early childhood education policies in particular impact me personally. I’d be so down for a free program for my 2 year old!
But that ain’t gonna happen, lol.
So, depressingly, he already has it. He’s the only candidate running so I have to vote for him if I’m going to vote at all.
Of course… But imagining a world where he actually had to earn it… What could he do to actually earn your vote?
Imagine voting for someone who didn’t earn it. Partisans are stupid people.
Universal basic income and free Healthcare. Or 100% tax on anyone with more than 1 million dollars and any corporation with profits of more than 1 million dollars.
If any of those options were on the docket I’d Jan6 the election to make sure it happens.
How did you decide on $1,000,000? That seems very low.
How would you set up the UBI? Safety net, living wage, thriving wage?
UBI means everyone gets a set amount of money every month, no matter what, from what I understand
That’s my understanding too… I meant OP personally. What level of UBI do you support?
While I have my opinions on it conceptually, I’ll be the first to state I don’t have the know how to build it. I do know that $1k a month would give me a life without stress or burden and $4k a month is more than I could spend responsibility. So ideally between those. Maybe calculate the cost of living in an area annually and just give that.
dude has had years to fix what trump broke. biden is, ultimately, a conservative and his actions show it.
drug war. overblown military budget. lack of healthcare. letting dejoy just sit there destroying the post office. not pushing for expanding/changing the supreme court.
any movement on any of these things.
Aren’t they rescheduling cannabis soon? Too little too late?
I can’t believe dejoy is still in the post office! That’s ridiculous
Reading up on him, he has implemented initiatives for employee safety during delivery, improved sorting machines, and implementing a 2 cent increase in the price of forever stamps to try to make the usps service lose less money, all of which I like.
But I do think the USPS not adopting a fleet of electric vehicles a few years back was a mistake.
Anyways, I think he’s a net positive. And Biden can’t remove him directly, he would have to be voted out by a committee board.
Apparently decoy is actually doing a damn good job now
How so? I haven’t paid any attention to this
I don’t recall the details, I just remember readers by something about how he was shitty under trump, but rise to the position now
yeah, for me the rescheduling is very too little. it should be removed entirely and left to the states.
to put it in some perspective, alcohol… one of the most dangerous things we do en masse, is not ‘scheduled’.
Thy already said rescheduling isn’t going to change any federal to state inconsistencies of MJ still being illegal so dispensarys will still be unable to use banks and things like CDLs will still ban you for life from them if you get caught with weed in your system.
Way too little too late. Credit where it’s due, great to have it rescheduled. But it should’ve been federally legalized or at a bear minimum decriminalized. I’m still going to vote Biden, but not because of anything he’s done. Pretty much just because Trump would be worse on every issue I care about.
Nothing. I don’t vote for people who fund genocide.
Right, you instead let the other candidate who is just as likely to fund genocide win and pretend to be superior somehow for “not encouraging it”. I’m sure everyone who suffers as a result of project 2025 will appreciate your stance.
Trump is not just “likely” to fund more genocide, he will fully endorse it. Hell, one of his favorite lapdogs just suggested that Israel should nuke Gaza.
Respectfully, I understand the idea of voting for a liberal candidate as harm reduction, and have done so in the past. But every time I have done so, such as with the last election, the government causing harm has continued, to an insane extent. Voting is one political action you can take, but it is not everything you should be doing, and I believe in having standards for candidates I’m willing to give my vote. Biden is not one of them.
Then if he stops funding genocide and takes real measures to try to halt the Gaza genocide, he would then earn your vote?
Literally just has to stop funding to Israel wherever he’s able, whether it’s using his veto or directing the State Department to delay aid or makile disbursement more difficult. He needs to publically condem the genocide like every sane person with two eyes has been able to do for months. No more blocking UN resolutions, no more calling student protestors antisemitic, veto the The Antisemitism Awareness Act etc.
He needs to do what people gave been demanding since the very start of the genocide. Do what people were saying when they voted Uncommitted, what students are saying when they protest; stop giving Israel a blank check, stop pretending to criticize them"behind closed doors", stop funding genocide and carrying water for a fascist right-wing government.
He needs to do it now, the longer he delays the more people die, the less likely he is to get people to vote for him.
Bingo.
Strip
do a little actual marketing/advertising on the things he actually has accomplished.
and he has done stuff.
So he already has done enough to earn your vote. In that case what was it he did that earned your support? (Besides not being Trump)
I’m not American but The Inflation Reduction Act is the biggest climate bill that’s been passed ever. It has plenty of flaws, but it also has a lot of long term positive consequences, that can’t be easily undone when the administration changes.
Other than stopping the support for Israel (for reference, besides the obvious humanitarian issues, the US government is throwing a massive amount of our tax money in weapons they are effectively giving to a foreign country that doesn’t really seem to like the US a ton), stop the stupid tariffs on solar panels and other renewables. Yes, the CCP is obviously flooding the market with cheap renewables, and they probably aren’t the most ethically made, but we’ve had decades to throw money at renewables and frankly, it seems we haven’t really bothered much. If you really want to fuel the domestic renewable market so much, give out insanely huge subsidies to them (like the CCP has been doing for years) and invest in the next gen tech related to them. I get we are currently in a trade war, but we also need to meet climate goals and without China it doesn’t really look like we will even get close. Not trying to be a China shill or anything, just facing the issue that it mostly seems like this is just going to be a net negative for the climate.
I would also say he’d need to make sure those subsidies actually went to innovation and growth and not just in fat cat’s pockets.
Honestly, just make them large enough to attach a lot of attention and eventually audit with actual punishments for gross misuse. If they could actually attach those punishments, some other stuff he’s passed (like the electrify America charging stations) would be far more effective. Not gonna lie, he kinda sadly still has my vote as he isn’t Trump. That being said, if Trump were to croak tomorrow, I think it would be a pretty safe bet that Biden would lose a lot of his polling power and some other crazy might actually have a chance to win. Actually publicly doling out punishment for those massively mismanaging funds and generally making life easier for the public would probably make him pretty popular though (at least for a bit).
