I sorta had a feeling you wouldn’t make even the slightest effort to defend that bullshit you had said.

politicians are not your friends

No, politicians are not at all your friends. What you mean when you say “support” for Biden or that Biden betrayed us, or that thing shills sometimes say about “falling in line behind” the Democrats and how they don’t want to do it, is very weird to me.

Nobody in politics is your friend. The government is just a big, corrupt, very dangerous machine. It runs on money and propaganda and defense contractors, and sometimes good things come out of it and sometimes bad things, and Biden is one little cog in that machine. That’s why I’m comfortable saying good things that Biden did, or that he’s doing a very bad thing by enabling a genocide – I’m not viewing either of those as a statement of my “allegiance.” It’s just, like, hey I am a free person and here is how I am viewing the world and what the truth is.

Ralph Nader did an excellent interview talking about productive ways to push the Democrats to the left, and how upset he was at Democratic voters who were throwing away an opportunity to get some concessions from the Biden administration in exchange for their vote. His viewpoint makes a ton of sense to me.

Your viewpoint – sort of based on emotion, this sort of teenager mentality like “YOU’RE DEAD TO ME NOW I’LL CALL UNCLE TRUMP TO COME OVER AND BURN THE HOUSE DOWN BECAUSE WHO CARES YOU BROKE MY HEART” coupled with a lot of the sins you’re accusing him of actually being things he didn’t do, is just weird. Like, if you want to push Biden left, fuckin go for it man. Sounds great. But if you’ve decided that if Trump comes to power and nukes Iran and makes being gay illegal and puts all the Hispanics in camps and cancels the next election, that’s just the price the country will pay because Biden said this wrong thing about racism and it was so hurtful to you and he’s definitely a bad person and that good person / bad person is even relevant to how to vote, then okay sure. I won’t tell you not to. But I don’t think you should pretend that I’m the one treating my politicians in a strange parasocial non sensible way.

I know that if I was a Palestine protestor, and President Biden was going to speak, and the college said that they would immediately just end the ceremony if things got too out of hand, I would immediately think “Well that definitely wouldn’t be a good outcome. I better quiet down; I was going to have this big protest, but if it’ll end the commencement ceremony entirely, then I won’t, because that would attract some attention to the cause I’m trying to promote. It might make the news or something. I’m scared of that outcome and wouldn’t want it to happen; that threat is effective.”

Your conclusion makes perfect sense that the crowd was mostly filled with people who were seething with contempt for Joe Biden, but cowed into obedient sitting-facing-towards-him by the threat that if they made too much ruckus, it would successfully disrupt the event.

This doesn’t at all say they had to do this “or else,” it only talks about disruptions, not protests, and no one was compelled to be there. You literally started this thread with an article about some students who protested without causing a disruption, dufus