• esc27@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I really wonder how much of this “Biden old” talk is just GOP propaganda.

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      9 months ago

      It might be a “broken clock is right twice a day” situation.

      Jon Stewart’s glorious return to The Daily Show covered this very topic.

      Liberals have the right to question our leadership. It’s okay for us to wonder if the president has the ability to make good decisions.

      The problem is that conservatives won’t hear the same questions for their candidate.

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        9 months ago

        Liberals have the right to question our leadership.

        And those of us to the left of liberals have the right to question the leadership liberals have stuck us with.

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          9 months ago

          Exactly. You don’t get to have orthodoxy when your party is made up of a massive coalition because of our shitty voting system.

          I don’t want to vote for Biden, but I’m gonna. And I reserve the right to be unhappy about it and express this.

          But if the Democratic Party wants to be jackboots like the Rs then democracy is already dead here.

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      9 months ago

      Is it propaganda if it’s true? 80 is old as fuck.

      Name one other industry or company who would hire an 80 year old. Not saying he can’t do the job, just saying 80 is fucking old to still be working and it’s a valid concern.

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        9 months ago

        Is it propaganda if it’s true?

        Yes. Propaganda is just promoting a certain ideology over another. That classification has nothing to do with truthfulness or even the virtues of the ideology it is used to promote.

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      9 months ago

      I had literally never seen this dumbass RBG comparison until a day or so ago. Suddenly, in the past few days, I’ve seen multiple people use RBG as an argument against Biden.

      This is absolutely astroturfing.

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        9 months ago

        I’ve been thinking it since he started hinting that he’d run again, as have most of my left-to-left-leaning friends

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          9 months ago

          You and most of your left leaning friends have been making a specific comparison between Biden and RBG for weeks? Can you articulate why?

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            9 months ago

            Yes, but it isn’t necessarily complicated. We don’t want people wielding power longer than they should. RBG, whom I admire immensely, was a fool to not step down. Biden represents a political return to form that inadequately services vast swaths of Americans. They aren’t specifically related, true. But I think Biden, while certainly effective at certain objectives, is incapable of navigating the pulse of many younger Americans.