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Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23130161

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If he cared about the country, he would've

... worked to ensure WE HAVE A DEMOCRACY by not switching horses mid-race, and schedule every next step after DEMOCRACY IS SECURED .

Sorry to shout, but it's hard to be heard over the bleating of the Russian bots.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Please don't assume that it's all Russian bot bullshit. Thursday night's "debate" performance was a catastrophe that affirmed a lot of people's worst fears, my own included. I just don't know how he wins after that, and if he can't win, then I'm sorry but it's time for an open convention.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've noticed most of the time on Lemmy/Reddit, every time someone says something that doesn't fit the narrative they just say it's a Russian bot. Everything gets tied back to Russia somehow

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Accusing criticism of Biden and his viability as a presidential candidate on "Russian bots" is purely a silencing tactic: a way of dismissing criticism rather than engaging with it by asserting a specific intent behind that criticism that reduces it to a tool of a foreign adversary as opposed to a genuine set of concerns by members of the electorate.