• -☆-@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    I disagree with Biden’s handling of the transition, but it’s definitely internally consistent with his beliefs. He really, really wanted the global rule of law to work.

    I would not be surprised if part of the intention here was to maintain legitimacy during the initial transfer, so that when the monsters refuse to do the same, it will lend legitimacy to a global response to assist the people in reclaiming their democracy.

    Now, you could also call that ‘passing the buck’ and… Well, yes. He did seem to do too much of that, imo. Or not enough, depending on how you look at it.

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      14 hours ago

      He really, really wanted the global rule of law to work.

      Hence backing Al Qaeda in Syria, fleecing Afghanistan of it’s currency reserves to kick off a famine, propping up a military dictatorship in The Philippines, all while continuing a 70 year old illegal blockade of Cuba? Never even mind the Holocaust in Gaza.

      Come on, dude. The US has always been playing Calvinball with Rule of Law. If Biden made noises about it, that’s just him delivering the company line one last time to the liberal rubes.

      when the monsters refuse to do the same, it will lend legitimacy to a global response to assist the people in reclaiming their democracy.

      That’s pure cope.

      Biden bent over backwards for the Silicon Valley mega-donors practically from day one, and they took full advantage until he was used up and disposed of.

      He wasn’t secretly plotting a resistance movement, he was carving up the country in advance so that Trump could sell it off easier.

      • -☆-@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 hours ago

        To clarify, I am not a Biden supporter by any means. In fact, I place a lot of the blame for the fucked state of the world right now squarely on his shoulders. It would not be a stretch to say that I harbor a deep resentment for the man’s work.

        However, I do think there’s a lot to learn from his career. Because as far as I can tell, the man genuinely seemed to be trying to improve the world for the average person. Thus, he clearly fucked up catastrophically, and there’s a lot to learn from how and why.

        The US disregard of the Rule of Law historically seemed to be one of his personal bugbears. At least from what I’ve seen of his accounts and those around them. I won’t judge you if you want to discard him as a bumbling hypocrite, but we can learn the most from failure.

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      15 hours ago

      He really, really wanted the global rule of law to work.

      No, Biden did not. He actively broke it by financing Israel’s genocide against international and domestic law.

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        5 hours ago

        You’re right, that was awful and idealogically-rooted behavior justified in the name of liberal statecraft.

        US support of Israel is a huge problem, and needs to stop. I am with you, and he should be held accountable for the part he played in that.

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        14 hours ago

        Sorry US law, that’s where the US can do whatever it wants in the rest of the world but at home there is a rule book (allegedly)

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          9 hours ago

          I do find it strange that the people down voting are more upset about someone pointing out how Biden broke International and Domestic (Leahy) Law to finance a genocide than the actual genocide itself