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By being the least worst candidate. Thank you FPTP voting
It's not about LOSING the young vote. Not voting is the default position for young people... Always has been (although each generation has gotten better about this)... The question is "how can I keep supporting genocide and still get young people to actually show up and vote?" And of course the answer is bully them relentlessly and never give them anything they ask for /s
Let's make a list!
https://lemmy.world/post/15689024
https://lemmy.world/post/15625030
https://lemmy.world/post/15687050
https://lemmy.world/post/15649169
This is a waste of energy, here:
I'm happy you bookmarked those, smart
I'm voting for Biden because I'm not dumb enough to think forfeiting my vote will help end the genocide, but if goldfish man wins and we become fascist, I will blame Joe Biden for throwing away our democracy in support of Israel.
Same. The Republicans have been insulting anyone who doesn't stand with them on everything. They claim to be able to criticize Biden, but holy shit am I tired of being insulted for not agreeing with him on genocide. They just continue to push everyone away. So while I am also voting, a part of me doesn't blame those who are done and not bothering. They want everyone sit down, shut up, never expect to get anything we want, but then to also vote? Kind of fucked.
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I am a career memesmith, just like my father, and his father before him. In fact, I still have one of grandpappys hand-carved memes from when he was a young shitposter. Back in thise days, you used to have to place your memes in store front windows if you wanted anyone to see them.
If they got somebody clever, it could help mitigate damage (e.g. pointing out Trump's own worse record, the fact that the GoP basically plans to erase democracy if they win, how some things people wanted are constantly being blocked by the GoP)
Sure as hell won't help regain lost votes, though
To do that, Biden needs to stop supporting the genocide, or if unable to, make it clear exactly why he is unable to
I mean it worked in 2020. Biden started the campaign with effectively a Republican slate of policy positions. Until the ratfucking on Sunday before super Tuesday, Bernie was running away with it.
To get Bernie's voters, Biden basically did a lift and shift of Bernie's entire policy platform. This got him the support of Bernie's massive grassroots movement, and is what won the election (and why we've seen such a progressive slate of domestic policies from Biden). At that time, Biden learned from the lesson that Hillary didn't: You can't shame voters into supporting you; you have to prioritize their issues.
Biden can do the same now. Its actually pretty easy to do so. He can come out strongly and say something like "While we still support our ally Israel, this genocide is wrong, and the extermination of a people is never an acceptable answer. Never again means never again, for any community"
And like you said, he can also just explain exactly why he is unable to do certain things. He can can just send some very strong signals.
Biden won in 2020 because Trump absolutely botched the national pandemic response. Now Biden is dealing with a recession on all but name, meteoric inflation, a war in Europe, and a genocide in Gaza. He obviously can't do much for the economy, but he has the deck stacked against him and is going to need the youth and muslim votes if he hopes to win in November. All he has really done for young voters is a few waves of student loan forgiveness. Nothing he does will win over "moderate" Republicans, so he needs to rally support from young voters.
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ratfucking on Sunday before super Tuesday
Ummm, what is this referring to?
I believe this is referring to the famous Sunday meeting with all of the centrist candidates and former president Obama. This happened right after Bernie won the South Carolina primary.
As a result of that meeting, buttigieg dropped out and endorsed biden (He got Secretary of Transportation)
Klobuchar also dropped out and endorsed Biden. (She got Chairman of the Rules Committee)
Warren, also at the meeting, stayed in the race to split the left-leaning vote.
This backroom meeting was the turning point for the primaries. Previous to this meeting, Bernie had a solid lead. Afterwards, it was all Biden.
This happened right after Bernie won the South Carolina primary.
Right after Bernie won the Nevada primary and shortly before he swept California. Biden won South Carolina in a landslide, thanks to a coalition of Atlantic Coast conservative democrats throwing their corporate lobbyist fueled and Pentagon endorsed support to the most reactionary candidate in the race.
Warren, also at the meeting, stayed in the race to split the left-leaning vote.
This gets overstated. Warren got her knife into Bernie's back when she accused him of psychically tanking the Hillary campaign. But she had next to no impact on the Midwestern primaries, where Biden trounced Bernie. That was much more about COVID depressing turnout and all the other midwestern candidates dropping out.
Previous to this meeting, Bernie had a solid lead.
He had a few break out states on the West Coast, but he wasn't yet polling above the 50% line. The Obama endorsement combined with the Klobacher/Buttigieg dropouts consolidated support behind Biden in the Rust Belt. It likely would have been a horse-race into the convention, but it wasn't a sure thing.
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Biden isn't going to win by converting Trump voters. Anybody who still thinks Trump is the best choice for America is not going to change their mind at this point. They are lost causes.
Biden is going to win by breaking apathy and making people realize that he is incredibly limited (by the Republican-led House) on what he can do in Israel. The genocide is popular with both leading parties. It sucks. Get over it.
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It's really weird that this octogenarian president is having trouble connecting with young voters 🤕
This but unironically
Hello fellow youths... Don't you just love totally not out of touch boomers?
How do you do fellow kids?
I need you to picture the meme, please. Errr... I still don't know how to put pics in the comments. Sooo..
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How does one become a "meme manager" for the president of the United States?
By making memes that old people would think young people liked.
Ethnic cleansing is a meme, right?
Wendys social media person got goosebumps
Meh, seems to be working for the Trump trolls. Lemmy went from being anti Trump to pro Trump practically overnight and around the time the tankie memes started spamming in. Maybe the opposition should try this strategy.
I haven't seen any pro-Trump content making a big dent here (maybe that's just my experience).
Are you simply classifying any criticism of the sitting president as being automatically pro-trump?
Given your use of "tankie" I'm willing to bet that's what's really going on.
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Hey, unpaid intern who is going to run Biden's meme campaign, here's a picture if you want to sneak a meme about our grandmas being squirters.!
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Memeger?
Never heard of that profession before.
If the US president needs one, must be pretty important lol
Pretty much saying they need a new marketing manager while disrespecting said target demographic because "they only read memes."
BuT hE dOeSnT eVen KnoW abOUt tHe gEnOcIde.
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