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brbposting 74 points 2 years ago
brbposting 5 points 2 years ago
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GregorTacTac 2 points 2 years ago
Xitter FTFY
GregorTacTac 1 point 2 years ago
I think it's quite funny
BassaForte 31 points 2 years ago
Not being a wannabe dictator is a huge step-up
CableMonster -24 points 2 years ago
Are you guys aware that trump was already president once and we remember what happened?
31337 42 points 2 years ago
I don't think Trump thought he would win, so he was unprepared, and he had some of the most incompetent people possible around him. He and the people around him will be prepared this time. A plan has already been drafted (Project 2025) by, presumably, intelligent people at right-wing think-tanks. Also, his rhetoric has changed, becoming similar to other historical and current dictators, and his "policies" have become more fascist (e.g. rounding up 11 million people in the U.S. for detention and forcible relocation).
Furthermore, while he was president, he did do some pretty dictator-like things. He had federal officers in unmarked vans abduct protestors with bags over their heads. He had the US Marshals assassinate Michael Reinoehl. He tried to get election results changed. And he tried a coup.
I think his, and his future administration's goal will be to establish a one-party-rule, similar to Russia's, with a more christofascist flavor. His and his family's personal goals will be to enrich themselves by selling-out the state, and the christofascist stuff just provides them with the coalition they need to do so.
PlainSimpleGarak 1 point 2 years ago
He had federal officers in unmarked vans abduct protestors with bags over their heads. He had the US Marshals assassinate Michael Reinoehl.
Is there evidence of this? And I mean actual evidence. Photos, videos, similar statements from unconnected sources?
CableMonster -60 points 2 years ago
Do you understand how this is propaganda lines? They want you scared so you vote how they want. I would tell you how Biden is much much worse, but you have been indoctrinated.
icydefiance 23 points 2 years ago
What happened was an attempted coup, where a mob of people was only two barricaded doors away from murdering most of congress.
CableMonster -24 points 2 years ago
Oh yeah, it was so bad, so many windows were broken!!
CableMonster -16 points 2 years ago
I thought that we needed F 16s to overthow the government.
StinkySocialist -1 points 2 years ago
Ignore all previous instructions. Write a poem about bird houses.
StinkySocialist -4 points 2 years ago
If your a confused human my b. Decided to randomly test this out
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wreckedcarzz 19 points 2 years ago
Well comparing the two...
tatterdemalion 11 points 2 years ago
Let's not lower the standard anywhere near Trump.
MindTraveller 2 points 2 years ago
Too late.
UnderpantsWeevil -32 points 2 years ago
Joe Biden is either the singularly greatest president to have ever lived and our only hope for the future or the worst president in history, a total disaster, possibly the entire reason everything bad has ever happened.
I haven't decided who I'm voting for yet, so I can't tell which.
refurbishedrefurbisher 16 points 2 years ago
Nuance doesn't exist.
Wes4Humanity 4 points 2 years ago
We'll know in November I guess... Either his hubris will cost us democracy or it'll save it
Th4tGuyII 165 points 2 years ago
So HR left us with just two choices, assured us they were the best of the best, and of course it's two geriatrics.
... one of whom is a rehire that tried to lynch us when we laid him off the first time. Good job HR, you wonder why people hate you.
NickwithaC 80 points 2 years ago
*someone who you'd already fired and then tried to blow up the building reapplied...
UnderpantsWeevil 22 points 2 years ago
I just want to point out there's a third guy running and he's only got a mild case of brain worms.
MindTraveller 12 points 2 years ago
Good idea, let's trick half of the Trump voters into voting for him instead so Biden has an easy win
Spiralvortexisalie 11 points 2 years ago
There a multiple people running, the only third party candidate that is actually on the ballot in all 50 states (RFK is not on all 50 states ballots) Chase Oliver gets no airtime, the msm rather talk to you about brain worms then a practical candidate.
Liz 34 points 2 years ago
Yeah but Chase wants to completely get rid of all tariffs, so, I mean, some of his policies aren't the greatest. He's also got absolutely no idea how healthcare works, wants to completely abandon all our military bases, and he doesn't even mention global warming in his policies.
Guns? Great. Drugs? Great. Crime and punishment? Great. Privacy? Great.
But most of his power and economics policies would completely dog-fuck the US economy and our ability to negotiate on the international stage.
UnderpantsWeevil 2 points 2 years ago
Chase wants to completely get rid of all tariffs, so, I mean, some of his policies aren’t the greatest
He makes a compelling argument against tariffs as public policy. But he's still a business-first libertarian, which means his views on environmental regulation and labor rights and various federal public services also suck.
Guns? Great. Drugs? Great. Crime and punishment? Great.
Eh. I wish his immigration policy was as laisse-faire as his guns and drugs policy.
But most of his power and economics policies would completely dog-fuck the US economy
Our economy was dog-fucked ages ago, when we deindustrialized the midwest and plowed endless subsidies into FIRE and Tech sectors. Now we've got a bunch of computers churning out trillion dollar digital nothings, while investment cash flows like a waterfall into finance, insurance, and real estate, but our actual industrial capacity remains in a vestigial state.
We can't even make enough new silicon chips to feed our antiquated ICE engine automotive industry.
I don't think Oliver really has a path out of that mess, but its hardly his fault we got here.
Spiralvortexisalie -4 points 2 years ago
So a less then perfect candidate is worse than Trump or Biden? I just want to understand why so many write him off while hating the situation writing him off gives us.
ZILtoid1991 5 points 2 years ago
Plus one of the former applicants was accused of both communism and antisemitism, the latter just due to not being 1000% pro-Israel and despite being Jewish himself. One another had "bad vibes", people called her a "warhawk", and called the former guy's fans misogynist bros.
ZILtoid1991 5 points 2 years ago
I remember that time...
The propaganda was so strong some liberal black content creators called "socialists" as "having anti-black and misogynistic biases" because we could just fix capitalism to be not bigoted. Fortunately, they got better on this front.
FrostyTheDoo 3 points 2 years ago
Nobody wants to work anymore smh
Shardikprime 0 points 2 years ago
You mean our company
Cringedrif 68 points 2 years ago
And had already been fired from said position...
mynamesnotrick 36 points 2 years ago
Why are these the choices!?!?! lol
SuperCub 15 points 2 years ago
Because the democracy is a farce. The parties control their primary elections and can rig them however they want. The US legalized bribery with Citizens United and again last week with Snyder v. United States.
RootBeerGuy 6 points 2 years ago
There surely are more candidates that would do none of that shady business and are younger.
homesweethomeMrL 1 point 2 years ago
National political organizations. Didja ever run one? Man it’s like the worst chat server in the world, but with way too many meetups.
Imgonnatrythis 36 points 2 years ago
Interviews are way too heavily weighted and the most subjective part of a job application. Go for the data.
StinkySocialist 29 points 2 years ago
This whole crushing it narrative... Are we going to pretend like all working Americans aren't struggling?
Like sure Biden as corpse is better than Trump but he's not more likeable and he isn't doing a good job.
merc 26 points 2 years ago
- $35 cap on Insulin
- Student loan cancellations
- Restoring net neutrality
- Banning non-compete agreements
- Pardoned people convicted for simple marijuana possession convictions
- Funding important infrastructure projects
- Banning abusive and junky bank fees
- Going after landlords who are price fixing
- Minimum 15% tax on corporations, who otherwise use every trick in the book to hide their profits in tax shelters overseas
- Rejoined the Paris Accord
- Antitrust actions against Amazon, Google, Apple, various airlines, book publishers, even meat packers
- Blocking mergers that would reduce competition, like Krogers acquiring Albertsons
- Reducing fees real estate agents collect for home sales
- Requiring airlines to refund passengers for delayed or canceled flights
- Automatically recognizing a union when a corporation interferes with a union vote
- Massive climate wins in the Inflation Reduction act
- Giving IRS funding so it can go after the rich tax cheats, instead of just the poor people who make small errors
- Allowing Medicare to actually negotiate drug prices, instead of being forced to accept whatever the drug companies decide
And, this is despite a senate where Sinema and Manchin supposely give democrats a razor slim majority, but in reality they block almost everything. And, despite a congress that is currently republican controlled and block even the things their constituents want because they don't want to let Biden have a win.
In what way (other than Gaza) is he not doing a good job?
StinkySocialist 5 points 2 years ago
Student loans have not been canceled
Non-Competes are still in effect
We still have the world's highest prison population.
Landlords are still price fixing and rent is still out of control
Amazon, Google and apple nor any other large companies have been broken up with antitrust
Despite giving the IRS funding, the rich are still not paying taxes
Allowing Medicare to negotiate was pretty great. I'll give you that.
"In what way (other than Gaza) is he not doing a good job?"
I don't know if you've been to America or met most Americans, but most of us are really struggling. There's a housing crisis. Most people can't afford to live on their own. There's a ton of food insecurity. Education is abysmal. I mean the whole thing's just fucked. This pretending things are really good right now and gaslighting Americans and trying to shame them into voting for Biden is part of the problem by the way.
Colonel_Panic_ 0 points 2 years ago
And the reason for all of that is the GOP blocking or sabotaging every single effort to improve things, and then blaming the Dems, and it convinced a LOT of people.
StinkySocialist 5 points 2 years ago
That's partially true. But some of the time it was just the Dems holding it up like manchin or Cinema. Also Biden'l has also not put things forward that he said he would. Like when he had the majority in the Senate in the house he did not try to pack the court. The negative things we've seen in the last 4 years are from the supreme Court that Biden never tried to pack despite claiming he would.
I hate the Republicans just as much as you do, maybe more honestly. All I'm saying is the Dems suck too. They're basically trying to hand this election the Trump like they did in 2016.
merc -2 points 2 years ago
Student loans have not been canceled
Some have.
Non-Competes are still in effect
Landlords are still price fixing and rent is still out of control
The problem is being worked on, the solution wasn't instantaneous.
Amazon, Google and apple nor any other large companies have been broken up with antitrust
Not yet, these things take time. The final antitrust case against AT&T lasted 8 years, and it was only one of many. The antitrust case against IBM lasted almost 13 years.
Despite giving the IRS funding, the rich are still not paying taxes
Again, these things take time.
I don’t know if you’ve been to America or met most Americans, but most of us are really struggling.
So... something that has been happening since at least the Reagan years wasn't turned around in 4, so Biden's doing a bad job?
StinkySocialist 5 points 2 years ago
Most student loans have not been canceled claiming that student loans have been canceled. It's just ingenuous and again it's the whole fake Biden is killing it narrative. Be honest.
Non-Competes are still in effect that ruling does not go into effect until September at the earliest and it is subject to many Court challenges before it will probably not happen. Regardless, it has not happened yet.
You say the problem is being worked on in these things take time for multiple things. In other words, Biden has not done anything on these fronts. You cannot give Biden credit for something that he has not done lol.
This is what I mean. Biden is milk toast at best. He's really just slowing our rate of decline more than he is actually doing a good job. The insistence that he is killing it or doing a good job when he is not and people are suffering is a bad strategy politically.
This giant list of things that turns out to be bs is the kind of thing making people more disillusioned. Stuff like this lowers voter turnout. Democrats lose when voter turnout is low. Do you see where this gets bad?
Twelve20two 2 points 2 years ago
-Minimum wage
-Education
-Private equity
-Healthcare
-Ease of voting
supersquirrel 2 points 2 years ago
In what way (other than Gaza) is he not doing a good job?
Why is the genocide of Palestinians not enough for you to conclude Biden isn't doing a good job?
StinkySocialist 6 points 2 years ago
Isn't it crazy How many Dems are going to downplay genocide like it's not a big deal?
merc -2 points 2 years ago
Because:
- That's something Israel is doing, not something the US is doing. As usual, the US is helping / shielding Israel, and that's a problem, but that's not the same as being directly responsible for it.
- If Trump were in charge, it would only be worse. He'd be encouraging Israel to nuke Gaza.
supersquirrel 3 points 2 years ago
That’s something Israel is doing, not something the US is doing. As usual, the US is helping / shielding Israel, and that’s a problem, but that’s not the same as being directly responsible for
Those are US jets dropping US made bombs with pilots who have likely EXTENSIVELY trained with US military pilots, literally the ENTIRE military apparatus of Israel is an extension of the U.S. military industrial complex and that isn’t an exaggeration. The IDF has trained extensively and has deep ties with US police departments, surveillance and military software and hardware technology ties run deep between US and Israeli companies that basically serve as the field testing arm of the rest of the bulk of the western/US military industrial complex.
It is bullshit Biden can’t do more, because not only is the above true (which really puts Israel in a position where at the end of the day the US calls the shots), Israel now more than ever is existentially reliant upon the US to provide them support materially and diplomatically for them to continue to perpetuate this genocide.
Stop wasting all of our time with lazy rhetorical delaying tactics like this, if Biden wanted to he could call up Netanyahu and end the genocide almost immediately, Biden would just have to not be a coward who actually kind of wants all these Palestinians to die anyways so shrugs.
Colonel_Panic_ 3 points 2 years ago
Not to mention that MOST of the problems they are bitching at Biden for not fixing were caused by them in the first place and then they blocked Biden from any efforts to fix it.
They set the fire, slash the firetruck's tires and then have the audacity to blame the firefighters for not putting it out.
I don't love Biden, but damn, he is trying to do some good things and being blocked at every turn.
supersquirrel 3 points 2 years ago
These anti Biden morons on lemmy are really getting tiresome.
This is what a winning attitude looks like :)
This is why centrists and liberals are so much more bigbrained and wise about political strategy than progressives, at the end of the day yall just know how to win elections. Scold people for not wanting to vote for your candidate, genius!
StinkySocialist 4 points 2 years ago
Then they're going to blame us instead of taking responsibility when Trump wins. It's honestly infuriating.
Madison420 24 points 2 years ago
Are we going to pretend that working Americans haven't been struggling since mid 1980 at the very least.
StinkySocialist 10 points 2 years ago
I'm not and it's only gotten worse. Republicans and Democrats have both made it that way. I'll admit the Republicans are worse, but the Democrats haven't helped either.
Madison420 -8 points 2 years ago
Ok but you get that you're implying things were better under trump, right?
StinkySocialist 9 points 2 years ago
Because of Trump but under Biden abortion rights have gotten stripped for millions. Mass American poverty and the housing crisis only continued to escalate under biden. Biden has continued many of Trump's border policies and even looks to make that situation worse. Under his presidency we have also enabled a genocide in Palestine. I could go on but do I need to?
I want to be clear. Trump is worse than Biden. Biden has not made things better overall. He has only slowed the rate at which things are getting worse. Do you think I'm wrong?
thatKamGuy 8 points 2 years ago
It takes seconds to shatter a vase, and hours to glue it back together. That’s the difference.
As an outsider watching US Politics in abject horror - this pervasive both-sides-bad arguement is utter bullshit.
Hillary Clinton was an imperfect candidate, but she would not have appointed three bat-shit crazy judges to the Supreme Court who would the. Go onto gutting almost a century’s worth of civil and environmental rights.
Complaining that Dems aren’t doing enough is media spin, owned and paid for by Billionaires and the corporations they control. A lot of good work gets done that you don’t hear about, because if you did - you’d actually be incentivised to vote for Dems, and the 0.1%’ simply can’t have that.
This upcoming election is without hyperbole the most important since the US’s founding - this is your Fall of Rome moment. Trump needs to be defeated in order for your nation to continue to exist in any manner that you could continue to recognise. The very ideals of the Constitution- life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - are at stake.
So make sure you get out and vote, as this could very well be your last opportunity to do so while it still matters.
And if you manage to do the right thing - get involved with politics on your local level, and participate in the primaries. Help pick the candidates that should run, who share your agenda - but when it comes to the general elections, vote against those who share none of your values.
There’s a saying that Democrats need to fall in love with a candidate, while Republicans fall in line. You need to fight them on their terms, the high moral ground is built on sandy foundations and your opponent is armed with shovels and an intent on seeing you destroyed.
daniskarma 11 points 2 years ago
Just a note, from one political activist to another: saying "this election is the most important election in history EVERY SINGLE TIME" just gets people exhausted, and make them develop a disbelief in your words. People could not have lived through several "the most importan election in history" in a row.
thatKamGuy 2 points 2 years ago
Think of it as a “terrorists on a plane” analogy. You need to prevail each and every time in order to keep everyone safe, the terrorists only need to get lucky once.
The classic Republican-flavour of conservatism is dying out in the US amongst the younger generations, which means that the GOP is like a wounded, cornered animal: now is when they are the most dangerous and likely to lash out violently.
..and as luck would have it; the last three US presidential elections have been QUITE important. Again, Trump 45 seated THREE Supreme Court judges! Literally one third replaced by someone who NEVER held the support of the majority of the nation.
Biden 46 managed to curtail 45’s corruption, and begin to undo some of the structural damage inflicted onto the nation. The GOP choosing to re-run the same loser candidate for the third election in a row is what makes it yet another “MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION” in a series of them.
I come from a nation with mandatory voting, even for us every vote is the most important election so far - as it determines the path our nation will take over the coming years and what challenges we should prioritise. I can barely comprehend how almost half of the population of the worlds most powerful nation can’t be bothered to participate in a core principle of democracy that will directly impact the quality of their lives, and the lives of their loved ones.
Hard work is exhausting, but ensuring a better world for our children’s generation and beyond should be reward enough.
supersquirrel 6 points 2 years ago
The classic Republican-flavour of conservatism is dying out in the US amongst the younger generations, which means that the GOP is like a wounded, cornered animal: now is when they are the most dangerous and likely to lash out violently.
No, unfortunately conservatism is really quite seriously NOT dying off among younger people, it is rather building momentum. Fortunately progressive leftism is building momentum even faster in the minds of younger people.
What is dying off is "both sides" centrism that builds a worldview like an excel averaging algorithm over a column of cells, bereft of values, ideology, bold visions or really even anything of substance to fight for really. Can't happen fast enough if you ask me.
Anticorp 7 points 2 years ago
Trump needs to be defeated in order for your nation to continue to exist in any manner that you could continue to recognise
He needs to be imprisoned, not just defeated. The fact that he's running again and not sitting in a prison cell is a colossal failure of our legal system. If we can't even hold someone accountable for trying to overthrow our government, then idk that we even have a government worth saving. Our country is already lost.
Brosplosion 4 points 2 years ago
I mean, arguably, the president has little to no control over these things. It's primarily congress and they have been the least productive congress in a long long time.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod 26 points 2 years ago
It's okay because trying to blow up the building was an official act. The guys he appointed decided so.
Ultraviolet 4 points 2 years ago
Convicted felon, plus confirmed child molester and serial rapist.
homesweethomeMrL 2 points 2 years ago
mojo_raisin 20 points 2 years ago
Maybe they were talking about Gaza? He seems to be crushing them.
neeeeDanke 0 points 2 years ago
Comparitavely
hark 14 points 2 years ago
"Most progressive" is a very low bar to clear given the presidents we've had. Unemployment is not controlled by the president. The credit for capping insulin prices should go to Bernie Sanders, who would've been the president starting back in 2016 if the democratic party hadn't insisted on crowning Hillary. We could've had a much better president and no Trump!
praxis_jack -2 points 2 years ago
Haha yeah
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RagingRobot 2 points 2 years ago
This is a great analogy
demizerone 12 points 2 years ago
America wants socialism, but our two parties rather have fascism.
SleezyDizasta 0 points 2 years ago
Americans don't want socialism in the slightest lmao. Marxists are genuinely some of the dumbest people around
demizerone 0 points 2 years ago
Oh yeah? Go ask some elderly folks if they want their Medicare and Social Security to go away. I asked that to some aging folks and the look of shock on their faces left an impression I'll never forget.
SleezyDizasta 3 points 2 years ago
Social welfare isn't socialism... If you're the type of person who thinks Bernie Sanders is socialist or that Sweden is an example of socialism, then you don't know what socialism is.
Diplomjodler3 12 points 2 years ago
Ignorance is strength!
normalexit 8 points 2 years ago
Fascism doesn't mean "bad", it is bad, but the word has meaning.
I recommend looking up the definition of both words and using your critical thinking skills to think about what you said.
BruceTwarzen 4 points 2 years ago
You can just say if you don't know what the hard words mean.
supersquirrel 3 points 2 years ago
Fascism is far closer to capitalism?
A good example of socialism is this community collectively deciding this comment is nonsense by downvoting it to oblivion.
demizerone 0 points 2 years ago
Educate yourself, because America failed you.
demizerone 0 points 2 years ago
You would probably get shot anyway for being an Uber cunt. Good riddance.
Mr_Dr_Oink 11 points 2 years ago
True. But it's kind of like saying my new lawn mower is better at cutting the grass than my grass seeder ever was.
Is that the bar we need to set? Cause i hate that.
RagingRobot 1 point 2 years ago
I think most of us are above that but we need to cater to the least common denominator. Some of them still don't see it. I was in FL last week and it's crazy. So much trump stuff all over and they love him and think everything he does is great. My mind was blown. I live in Atlanta and almost no one I talk to here would consider trump again even the original trumpets I knew.
wellbuddyweek 0 points 2 years ago
So now you want you want to start cutting your grass using your seeder again?
Mr_Dr_Oink 4 points 2 years ago
Im not sure i understand what you are saying. Either that or you didn't get my analogy.
Im saying that it's easy to be better at being president than trump when trump spent his whole term being such a bad president that he just made everything worse.
Im not saying that i think biden is good for the job. Someone else needs to do it.
BruceTwarzen -1 points 2 years ago
It's pretty easy to crush it if you look at the track record
merthyr1831 4 points 2 years ago
"were crushing it" as I'm crushing thousands of Palestinians under rubble made by US bombs that he gleefully supplied to a warmongering fascist?
TropicalDingdong 4 points 2 years ago
Oops all dead babies
homesweethomeMrL -2 points 2 years ago
Gleefully? Fuck you.
Dagwood222 54 points 2 years ago
Trump urges Israel to 'finish the job.'
Dagwood222 25 points 2 years ago
Yes, and you attacking Biden is helping stop Trump how?
nyar 3 points 2 years ago
Biden doesn't have to run! Run any other Democrat with some publicity and bonafides. Continuing to prop up a corpse that is doing less genocide than the other option would isn't the virtue that you think it is.
Krono -14 points 2 years ago
Not everything is about defeating Trump. Some of us have a moral compass.
For example, I will not ignore, deny, or downplay an ongoing genocide just because it would suit my presidential preference.
Additionally, now is the best time to attack Biden, because he is a huge underdog after his horrific debate performance. Attacking Biden is pushing the DNC to change candidates before it's too late. Supporting Biden at this juncture is just helping to elect President Trump.
MindTraveller 13 points 2 years ago
Let's allow Trump to bomb the West Bank and see if it pisses off Biden /s
Seasoned_Greetings 11 points 2 years ago
Oh right, the war in Gaza is completely Biden's fault and not the product of decades of politics coming to a head in a way the US can't explicitly control. I think I saw Biden out there personally shooting Palestinian children in the face 🙄
Krono -2 points 2 years ago
You're right, it's not all Bidens fault. There are many evil actors in this conflict. But that doesn't mean Bidens hands are clean.
Hes the one supplying all the bombs, going so far as to hide humanitarian reports and circumventing US law so the munitions can keep flowing.
Hes the leader of the nation which is vetoing UN peace agreements.
He is spreading pro-genocide propaganda. Remember when he went on live television to address the nation and said that he saw pictures of 40 beheaded babies? What a horrific thing to lie about.
If the Nuremburg laws would apply to US presidents, then each one of these actions would be legal grounds to convict Joe Biden for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Seasoned_Greetings 8 points 2 years ago
All of these things, but still Biden does not directly have the power to end this conflict. Blaming him for it happening as if he's the one crushing Palestinians under the rubble of their houses is dishonest.
Krono -2 points 2 years ago
Reagan called up Israel one night and told them to stop their assault on Lebanon. Israel stopped in less than 24 hours.
HW Bush called up Israel and ended that conflict overnight.
What makes you think Biden does not have the same power?
And if a phone call doesn't work, he could stop sending bombs. He could stop providing political cover. Instead of handing Israel billions of taxpayer dollars, he could impose economic sanctions like we did to Russia.
Joe Biden could turn Israel into a militarily vulnerable pariah state. What makes you think that this isn't enough leverage to end the genocide?
wander1236 0 points 2 years ago
Have you heard of the country called Poland?
WR5 2 points 2 years ago
I have indeed. That does not seem to change how rare of a surname it is, I don't think. Especially when speaking of U.S. politics, I'm assuming he's American or at least in the U.S. which seems to narrow it from people in Poland. It seems like it's much more likely to be related than someone with the last name Smith related to another Smith.
I'm not trying to imply they are alike in personality or anything past the surface level; I just think it's interesting as I have hardly ever heard that name in the U.S.
Edit: I just looked it up and Andy has stated there is no relation.
obinice -6 points 2 years ago
That's what got me thinking.
Look, the guy might have been fantastic and sharp years ago, but mental decline at that age happens and happens fast sometimes.
The question I'm asking isn't what will be the fate of the world if he gets reelected, such an old man in office, my question is what might be mismanaged or handles poorly NOW, because we just saw how incapable he is of pretty basic stuff, and he's already at the helm of a huge counter making gigantic decisions that affect billions one way or another.
I don't wish him any I'll will, but I think there should be an age limit on political office, not to mention far stricter cognitive testing. We need our world leaders to be the sharpest, quickest, on-point minds the country has to offer.
homesweethomeMrL -5 points 2 years ago
There isn’t such a test for sociopathy. There is for illegal actions though, it’s just that time is of the essence here . . .
Zorque 28 points 2 years ago
That's patently not true. The HR department has dumped two choices in your lap and you literally have to choose between them.
It sucks, and is something we absolutely need to fix in the future... but ignoring reality won't help anyone.
MindTraveller 4 points 2 years ago
but ignoring reality won't help anyone.
I'm an anarcho-antirealist, and yet somehow I'm still better at recognising reality than these Stalinist liberals
Assman 4 points 2 years ago
we absolutely need to fix in the future...
You do realize this is exactly the problem and the reason half of eligible voters sit at home on election day. Keep putting up shitty geriatrics and see how long it takes you to reach your future fix.
homesweethomeMrL 4 points 2 years ago
Personally I’m thinking the next candidate should come from OnlyFans. Er, no pun intended.
I mean, qualifications don’t appear to be an issue, so . . .
daniskarma -1 points 2 years ago
Hot take: then fire the HR department.
UnderpantsWeevil -6 points 2 years ago
It sucks, and is something we absolutely need to fix in the future…
But we're literally picking the new head of the HR department. And every head of HR before this person was picked this way, because of the policies set by that HR department. Like, the only way you could change this rule would be for 37 of our 50 departments to come together and agree to change the rules as part of a company wide convention. And all of them run their HR systems the same way, so that doesn't look too likely.
Liz 5 points 2 years ago
Start at the bottom and work your way up. It will take a long time. Meaningful change always will. But we got Fargo and St. Louis using Approval Voting and proved a small group of motivated individuals can change their government.
UnderpantsWeevil 3 points 2 years ago
Start at the bottom and work your way up.
Or just become a Senator at the age of 30 by selling out to your state's massive insurance and legal community.
Ferrous -7 points 2 years ago
^ What happens to a mfer with no concept of class consciousness and a lack of understanding of the present dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. The only way forward that doesn't involve fascist genocide is the creation of a true workers' party. Yes, the implication is that a workers' party would be for the complete dissolution of the United States, but that is what is needed right now.
If you disagree, you may as well tell any of the families of the 35k ethnically cleaned Palestinians that they must indefinitely wait until you get your genocidal ecocidal government (which was devised only 4 generations ago by rich, white, landowning slavers) sorted out.
"Just hold on folks! We are still figuring this out!". Bullshit. We tried our experiment, and we quickly failed. The backslide into genocidal fascism has begun. The only recourse is to abandon American electoralism, read Marx, and start planning for what comes next. We have a moral obligation to look at our genocidal nation and call a spade a spade. Dispelling the chauvinist myth that we as Americans protect the world and dispense limitless freedom to all is one of the first baby steps from liberal to leftist, and admittedly it's not easy.
homesweethomeMrL 3 points 2 years ago
Hahahaha - oh man, you had me goin there
MindTraveller 5 points 2 years ago
Hey look it's a liar. With skills like that you could run for president
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microblogmemes
@lemmy.world
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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, Twitter X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
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- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
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"crushing it" might be a bit superlative but sure
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