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    • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Dude I watched Biden’s speech earlier in the vain hope he would have another brain shart. Literally 0 policy agenda, just vague wokery. He used the “light” about fifty times, as in, “we have to return America to the light”. This isn’t lord of the rings for fucks sake

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I wish it was Lord of the Rings, though I suspect we might get cast as the orcs.

      • Dear_Occupant [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Now I'm wondering what Orb Mom has to say about all of this. Biden the habitual plagiarist cribbed from her notes this time.

    • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The thing about America is that everything is politicized but not any of the things that actually matter. Healthcare isn't, housing isn't, your job isn't, so people just have no concept of politics past aesthetic.

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    How is someone with a couple of relatively good opinions on the editorial board of the NYT??

    • Barabas [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I think that some of the NYT higher ups saw the writing on the wall fairly recently. The reason that they're still on life support is that Donald Trump picked a fight with them, and moderate republicanism isn't going to keep them afloat once he leaves.

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        I think it's just those diversity quota's cut both ways. He's literally the only person on the board that's somewhat based.

    • Vattier [he/him]
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      This is the "You worked for a company that fixed bread prices" guy too. A good lib :thinkin-lenin: No, it cant be :stalin-shining:

      • Dear_Occupant [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        That one was from Bush. The Democrats have never done that because they're still reeling from that time Walter Mondale got called a tax-and-spend liberal.

        • steely_its_a_dildo [any]
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          lol, all i could find were right wing rags talking about how a bunch of ssi checks were sent to deceased people. probably because there was a 250 check for ssi recipients.

          • Dear_Occupant [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            I assumed you were talking about the tax rebate in I think it was 2006, if there's something else that would be around 200-300 than it's news to me.

  • a_maoist_quetzal [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Yes Binyamin, a much more fortunate moment would have been whenever you sat down with this demented old man to interview him about his presidential run.

  • ass [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    US presidential races are sieves that filter out non-sociopaths. You spend like an entire year telling the public you'll help them while reassuring your donors in private that you'll do nothing of the sort, and the less this troubles you the more convincing you are in your public appearances.

  • cracksmoke2020 [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    This guy and Liz Bruenig are the only remotely redeemable things about the NYTimes editorial section. Well, them and the fact that they fired their old heada of editorials after he published Cottons fascist manifesto.

  • Perplexiglass [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Ah yes, the ol' GOP talking point that the 2007 recession was Obama's responsibility, despite taking office in 2009. (This doesn't negate all his shit policies, however.)

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      The recession wasn’t Obama’s “responsibility,” in that he’s not personally responsible for the fact that capitalism goes into crisis periodically, but the Obama administration absolutely did take out the crisis on the working class while bailing out the ruling class.

    • purgegf [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      That's not even a lib take tbh. Obama didn't solve the crisis well, attacked the working class for it, and gave me money to the ruling class. But it is a revisionist GOP talking point to say that Obama was responsible for it.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      his response to the crisis is absolutely his responsibility.

    • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      and here it is, the congressional equivalent to the age old Libertarian debate about who owned the land first