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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

For the sake of DEMOCRACY, like it or not, Biden is the man that has to win

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Doom and gloom on full blast today. I don't know if yall know but I lived through a Trump presidency. Nothing scares me anymore. All that fear has been replaced with annoyance.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I lived through the presidency as well. Quite well, in fact, because the stock market did well, so my investments gained a lot in value, I'm also a cis-white male, so I never felt really directly threatened by his rhetoric.

My issue isn't with my own immediate preservation. I saw what he did: stack the court with far-right justices who immediately rolled back individual rights (most notably abortion). I've also seen his (and their) opinion on climate change, and with him controlling the oval office there is no hope anything will be done in the following 4 years. I also watched as he tried to dismantle the state because it didn't allow him to basically do whatever he wanted unopposed. Now he has 4 years of experience, and people thinking for another 4 years, on how to more effectively dismantle the whole thing. I also watched his blatant corruption and lies on full display. And, most importantly, I watched as he tried to overturn an election he lost in order to illegally hold onto power.

I'm not being doom and gloom, I honestly think that our country would survive another Trump presidency and at the end he would step down, either on his own or by force, but I'm not willing to take the risk as there is far too much at stake.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

But can you live through a Trump presidency where he can't run for a third term?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh he won't run for a 3rd term. He'll be president for life. And then the reign of the Trump dynasty will begin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Finnis, fetch me musket.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't want to find out but if we're going to rip the bandaid off let's rip the bandaid off.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

cant be having flawed humans now, can we?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Flawed now means being a genocide enabler? What happened to the good ol days when flawed meant something benign, like cheating on a test, or your wife.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Funding and arming a genocide and actively vetoing the rest of the world calling for an end to the genocide = flawed?

Flawed is all you would describe that as?

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