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Team Biden Roasts 'Feeble, Confused, Tired' Trump After Unhinged Presser
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Nah, you say it to sap unity and make people stay home from voting.
Your vibe is the same as the girls who say they bluntly "tell it as they see it" in their dating profile, but anyone with any relationship experience knows that means they're completely willing to make things toxic as fuck because they'll just vomit their selfish so called truth anywhere without caring about consequences or how it destroys, because it serves some sort of other motivation for them.
Using words to encourage people to embrace hopelessness and not vote is a propaganda technique to put Trump back in the Whitehouse, and him being there weakens the nation so immensely and catastrophically that it's extremely attractive to cash and weapons poor enemies to plop someone in front of a cheap computer to spread propaganda to attempt to destroy a nation from within. People who can't fight the US with military might will use words instead.
In short, your words are not neutral. You're either what is called a useful idiot, an ordinary person who swallowed outside propaganda whole and does the work of other interests here, or you're a knowing perpetrator.
I hope people here use whatever skills they picked up in English class however many years ago to think about not just the exact words of the poster I'm responding to, but why they posted this thing at this moment, their motivations beyond what they claim they are, and the effects of an appeal to truth on a reader and how that can influence perception even when the thing said isn't actually necessarily true or contains such a small flake of some truth that it is effectively turns into a lie when put beside the bigger and more vast and complicated truths.
People shouldn't stay home on election day just because Biden is a terrible piece of shit. People should go at the very least to vote down ballot, if not to vote against Trump. Nor should people feel hopeless. There are so many avenues to pursue outside of simple electoral politics (again, do vote). But I'm not going to cave to this loyalty test bullshit. Also the money is good, praise Mother Russia.
Yes. That is literally what I said.
Look, I agree that "telling it like it is" can be a toxic trait (although as long as we're discussing the subtext, it's interesting that you used the example of "girls". I'm sure you didn't mean to, I'm not leveling accusations at you, we all do this to some degree or another, but that is definitely an appeal to misogyny. You could have compared me to Bill Maher, which frankly would have pissed me off a whole lot more). But the truth does matter, and appeals to nuance/arguing procedural or rhetorical points while ignoring the realities is also toxic. Children in Gaza are dying, and Biden has actively helped with that. Call it propaganda, call it whatever you want, but innocent people are dead, as a result of a genocidal campaign helped by Biden.
Yeah! Everyone rally around genocide Joe! It's not like he's been paid more than any other US politician by pro Israel groups!
Helps you understand why he's so enthusiastic about delivering the weapons though.
Those stats go back 35 years. He's maybe the only person that's been in office that long, of course he's going to accumulate the most.
That’s not really a knock against his statement. That he has gotten a lot from Israel for a long time, and so may feel beholden to them.
I am also getting absolute sick of all of the people who are jumping down the throats of people who express weariness at Joe Biden being the democratic nominee. Like ffs, he is in no way representing my interests and is another step tword the right. It may be slower then the full on sprint of the Republican Party, but my ONLY input into this process is my vote. In the primaries i sure as shit did not vote for joe, and anyone refusing to vote because of the bull shit he’s pulled is justified.
Instead of blaming the disenfranchised you and the Democrats should find a better politician and better politics
LOL. Straight up apologism, nice.
LOL. Straight up misrepresentation of facts, nice.
Support colonial genocide more, I'm sure it will age like fine wine!
What's our other choice? More genocide and Ukraine falling as well.
You don't get a choice. I'm sorry if that was unclear.
Anyone not actively against it, is complicit, unfortunately.
Is that your conclusion? Not that supporting a candidate aiding in a genocide in the middle east, is supporting genocide?
Lol.
Most people here are voting for Biden, who is currently aiding a genocide, and structured arms deals to Israel in such a way to avoid congressional oversight, so why would I care about their conclusions?
This just in, disapproving of others distorting facts means you support a genocide.
You guys will really shoehorn that in anywhere, huh?
Genocide Joe thanks you for your support, Corn Pop.
Trump thanks you for yours.
Trump should have been hanged for treason, but you can buy your way to the presidency instead LOL.
I guess keep supporting treason then
Maybe if I lived in your country, you'd almost have a point. Keep supporting that genocide though, I'm sure showing unwavering support for a political party that's rapidly shifting right will have no long term consequences. No siree, smooth sailing after this 1 genocide.
You might just!
Keep supporting treason. I'm sure showing unwavering support for a political party that's already shifted far to the right will have no long term consequences.
Wut
What part are you having trouble with?
Oh you think I'm lying about not being in the US?
I'm Canadian. I live in Canada. I think we should sanction Biden.
No, I don't think you're lying about not being in the US.
You said you don't live in my country. How do you know that?
My apologies, I assumed your rabid support for a genocidal geriatric was because you were American.
Why do you have rabid support for a genocidal geriatric if you don't live there?
Why do you have rabid support for treason if you don't live there?
If me saying trump should have been hanged for treason is support, then you're too far gone to be reached.
If me calling out misrepresentation of information means I support genocide, then you're too far gone to be reached.
i think it's spelled "canadia"
Lol
It came from him aiding a genocide.
there is no proof for this. it doesn't even make sense. trump loves the Israel genocide
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_stopped_clock_is_right_twice_a_day#English
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/actions-speak-louder-than-words
LOL Trump is telling Israel to hurry up (aka genocide harder). The nickname isn’t really appropriate for Biden given the global context.
I was about to say - Biden is at least saying "you need to fucking chill", Trump literally just said he'd be calling for Israel to "finish the job".
That being said, am I tired of having to make this sort of shitty-ass choice every four years? Yes. However, ESPECIALLY this election cycle, we don't have anyone better on the ticket.
RFK? He's basically a mouthpiece for the conspiracy-right, just not quite as loud as Trump. He's got some decent ideas buried deep under the midden-heap that is his anti-vaccine rambling, but anyone who says that Texas' whole "we're gonna fucking kill every immigrant who steps foot on our soil" idea was justified the way he has doesn't deserve the office, as well as his want to take the US back to what is effectively isolationism.
Stein is way too comfortable with anti-science positions, almost total opposition to war and military aid, and her opposition to nuclear power is maddening paired with her statements about how every nuclear plant is a bomb waiting to explode.
Well it is appropriate, because Biden is enthusiastically aiding a genocide, right this second