• merc@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      What I wonder is if there will ever be a Gen X president.

      So far it’s been:

      Name Generation
      Nixon “Greatest”
      Ford “Greatest”
      Carter “Greatest”
      Reagan “Greatest”
      HW Bush “Greatest”
      Clinton Boomer
      Dubya Boomer
      Obama Boomer
      Trump Boomer
      Biden Silent

      If it hadn’t been for Biden, the Silent Generation (1925 - 1945) would have been skipped too. The clustering of birth years is interesting too. Both Nixon and Ford were born in 1913. Both Carter and HW Bush were born in 1924. Clinton, Bush Jr. and Trump were all born in 1946.

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        8 months ago

        Yes.

        When you vote for someone you are also voting for the advisors and their other support staff. I much prefer Bidens support staff.

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        8 months ago

        Why wouldn’t we?

        They don’t even need to. Retirement age exists because we acknowledge that passed some point people are to old to function properly on the job. So what the fuck are they doing in politics?

        When offered 2 bad choices i’ll stick with the lesser evil though, which is the one not literally quoting Hitler and campaign promising a dictatorship.

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            Do you honestly believe that trump wouldn’t also support that genocide? Netanyahu is a longtime friend and supporter of trump’s.

            Sadly we are stuck with a “lesser of two evils” situation - and Biden, while supporting evil, is still less evil (by far) than trump.

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              8 months ago

              What Trump might do is irrelevant, instead of focusing on what ifs, people should be focusing on right now.

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                8 months ago

                What an enormously stupid thing to say! What a candidate might do while in office is literally how you decide your vote…

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            The alternative is the same genocide, plus even more of it in more places, most likely. Including right here on American soil.

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              8 months ago

              If a dog pisses on the floor and you give them a treat they are gonna think it’s ok to piss on the floor.

              Biden could come out and say I could kill 30k Palestinians and my supporters will say the other guy is more dangerous…

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            8 months ago

            Rebuilding the US into a dictatorship seems like something, that should be avoided. But then I am not a US citizen.

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            8 months ago

            Because genocide plus fascism is worse than genocide alone. Is this even a real question or are you just trolling?