• Zephorah@discuss.online
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      Interesting thing about the addicted who have recovered. They generally keep the tool set that let them read people like none other, to navigate both hiding their addiction(s) and talking people into, or out of, things relating to said addiction(s). Middle of the bell curve stuff, of course exceptions/outliers exist.

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      I’m gonna give him a pass for being on twitter; he’s a constant fixation of the american fash, and being able to post absolute bangers like this on a platform where they’ll actually see it is pretty valuable…

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    the pedo ring is successful in pointing at the straw man. can’t we just all allign in that pedos are bad and should go to jail?

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    You can criticize bad people without propping up other bad people. For example Hunter goes to bat for his genocidal father nonstop.

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      You are the person standing in the middle of a cul de sac on fire and yelling at firefighters and families escaping their homes, “Sure, the houses are on fire, but NONE of you care about all the jaywalking that was happening here years ago!!!”

      Proportionality my frightened little friend… Focus first on solving the main problem here and now and earn the calm and stability it takes to focus on past problems of the person who was probably overall (sadly) the most progressive president the US has ever had to date, judging by action/policy. Flaws like any candidate, but your misplaced focus in this moment is you screaming to the world that you’re an unserious person.

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        the most progressive president

        Can I go off on Statesian political science for a bit? We like to say (and I have neither examined nor cared enough about the bluster, bluster can be fun when you’re waiting for Jazz 4 to drop) that POTUS is the most powerful person in the world (because 0000 0000 I guess, and that individual office has more authority and responsibility vested into it by the Statesian public than any other Statesian individual except maybe Regent Emperor of These States United (nice to meet you)

        )

        Whatever their political beliefs, the scope of the actions of a Statesian president are dependent on how cooperative the courts and legislative are. If you elected Bernard Democracy Sanders, his nonunion burn down-divest-sell equivalent candidate, and they had the congress and courts we’ve had the last 10 years, I don’t think much would have changed except Krasnov would be worse as a reaction to it. Krasnov has a cooperative judicial and legislative. I think the closest the [Statesia left] has had to a cooperative legislative was in 2009, and the courts were captured [don’t remember. Let’s pretend it’s Scalia’s fault. He deserves more blame for everything]

        So like, we’re calling Biden the most progressive modern US president but like, how much of that was his senate?

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          IMO it’s a bit of semantics. The term “president” in discussed context is pretty universally understood as “administration”, with the individual person elected as figurehead of a larger movement of many people and systems. But that person does have the mandate, the bully pulpit in the moment and the legacy after. So it was Biden’s decision to make certain political appointments (regardless of potential approvals) and to vocally and physically support Union efforts, in start contrast of past presidential norms. So I stand by my statement, with the understanding that it’s more of an indictment of America’s past than an enthusiastic endorsement of Biden as an individual

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        Didn’t MTG do that on the house floor already? Or was that just showing his penis?

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          I’m gonna be real I don’t pay much attention to what MTG does except my brain distilling everything into “the loud annoying trumpette said something stupid/bad again”.