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

Both houses of which are under Republican control. So you're only going to argue details instead of actually responding to the content?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of the 261 million adults in the US, about 73.5 million of them voted for Trump. That's about 28%. When factoring in non-adults, that number goes to just under 22%. That's not anywhere close to a majority.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

For point 2: What about people who voted for Harris and who will definitely be persecuted under republican domestic policy? What about people in other countries who will suffer and die from republican foreign policy? What about everyone on the planet who will suffer even more from climate change due to republican environmental policy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

First: The commander-in-chief doesn't control the military?

Second: Even if he didn't, how would that matter for Ukraine? Removing both their support and the sanctions on Russia would still hurt them a lot.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wasn't Fox News started specifically to ensure that wouldn't happen again?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The damage to the environment will never be undone. The US will double-down on emissions and most other countries in the world will stop trying because they won't think there's any point anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The country with the biggest military of the world, who they have received a lot of support from, just elected a president that supports the dictatorship committing crimes against humanity in their country. Do you not see how that is problematic?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think Biden still believes that things can swing back in the midterms or next presidential election. I don't think he realizes that this might have been the last election that was possible to win.

If he does something drastic, he'd probably hand even more popular support to the Republicans in general and to Trump in particular who would play victims as much as they could.

If he does nothing, it might be the end of democracy, not just in the US but in most of the world. But he will have "accepted defeat gracefully" and considering he won't live to see the worst of it, I imagine that's all that matters.

Edit: Just watched his speech. Nope, he thinks this is business as usual.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, great fun watching the planet we all share start boiling and ruining the future not just for our own species but for millions of others.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can add that if you ever say something that you yourself think was stupid, it's often better to just own up to it than to play it off (within limits). Something like "That was a stupid thing for me to say, I'm sorry, you're just very beautiful and I'm a bit nervous" as an example.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Implying that the only two options are supporting Israel committing genocide or Hamas committing terrorism is like straight out of of the Israeli regime's playbook.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair, had it been possible to control hurricanes, I have no doubt that Blackrock would try to use it to extract profit but they're hardly alone in that.

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