• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    If they can’t solve the problem in the last seven years, what makes you think they’ll solve it in the next five?

    This is a bed of the DNC’s own making and just further evidence that they’re too out of touch to actually effectively govern.

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      6 months ago

      How is that relevant to the argument we were having? We were discussing Biden’s electability and whether incumbency and name recognition are linked to his running for president, not whether the DNC can govern, or what problem(?) wasn’t solved in the past 7 years.

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        6 months ago

        the problem of not having groomed new talent.

        They haven’t had new talent in more than 7 years. that’s why they went with the “compromise” candidate, while promising to groom that talent so that it won’t happen again.

        yet another of Biden’s broken campaign promises. like “restricting superpacks” and bringing “transparency if campaign financing”… because he really needs those AIPAC donations, right? and speaking of AIPAC donations, what about that promise to end the wars in the middle east? Dropping bombs on Houthi’s because you gotta back up the genocidial maniac (see superpac funding).

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          6 months ago

          the problem of not having groomed new talent.

          Again, that’s not what we were discussing.

          Dropping bombs on Houthi’s because you gotta back up the genocidial maniac (see superpac funding).

          Dropping bombs on Houthis because they’re attacking civilian ships in one of the most used commercial routes in the world.

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            6 months ago

            Dropping bombs on Houthis because they’re attacking civilian ships in one of the most used commercial routes in the world.

            Because his best friend is going all genocidal. Biden is actively escalating tensions with a slapped on veneer of legitimacy

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              6 months ago

              And do you think if the US wasn’t in support of Israel, the Houthis would just… what, stop?

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                6 months ago

                I think everyone who has the power to stop the madness wants this war.

                Hamas and the Houthis included. Though they’re bottom feeders being used by Iran and maybe Russia in a proxy war. Israel and US are included in that. Unless you think Israelis would be so openly brazen if the US wasn’t simping so hard?

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                  6 months ago

                  I honestly think the Israelis would be just as brazen. Which is why it’s all the more important that we withdraw aid. There’s no positive influence we can wield in this, no heroic moment where the US saves the day. We need to just… stop. Rejoin the rest of the international community and try to minimize the damage of the genocide as a collective.