Wonka Struggle Session

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In my 3rd Period McDavid Era

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K. Chen

Oh yeah for sure. It’s not really something you can measure, because, well, the measuring stick has sort of discredited itself.

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Evangelionista

Yeah, the whole thing has been a become a huge bad faith motte and baily where we skip from "We have concerns about his mental acuity" to "Well his mental acuity is fine, but how can he come back from the media firestorm" and then back to "The firestorm is itself proof of his decline."

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Wonka Struggle Session

This isn't true on its own terms -- Biden has held multiple campaign events and attacked Trump -- but it's also a slight of hand where Biden trying to steer questions towards policy is evidence he wants to avoid the age question and addressing them is just more evidence that it's a concern.

Biden appears to have mostly given up on campaigning against Trump, and his campaign is focused mostly around denying the obvious about his age. That only is more evidence he's not up to what he needs to do.

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K. Chen

It’s just factually correct that polls have been lying in favour of Republicans and Trump specifically for about 2 years though

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Hillary Clinton's plan to make the election not about her emails going poorly, says The But Her Emails Times.

Reid Epstein doesn't bother to mention Project 2025, which other outlets have been reporting on all weekend and which NYT had once led on. Because Epstein is the one choosing to ignore fascism. Not Biden and not even NYT's competitors.

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The claim that Project 2025 is "fearmongering" pairs nicely with the Project 2025 people saying they will kill anyone who gets in their way

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drow zelensky

What exactly did he do to save the day? I’ve seen a few people giving him the credit

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utopia deferred

you ever think about how almost every social scene in this country is a walking zombie because the rent is too high to actually sustain organic culture, that all we have are preserved mummies and simulacra of the real thing

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Who's actually pushing violence? It's Trump, writes @maggieastor.bsky.social in this great NYT takedown of Kevin Roberts' "second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”" www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/u...

Heritage Foundation Head Refers to ‘Second American Revolution’www.nytimes.com Kevin Roberts, president of the group that has coordinated the Project 2025 policy plan, said it could be “bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى

How many adults are missing? I keep trying to find numbers and can only come up with ones for minors

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ellie lockhart (she/they)

The fundamental problem is that we simply didn’t evolve to be able to communicate with each other on this scale.

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Yohannanx

Hot take: Klingon empire that’s both

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Wonka Struggle Session

I think this article nails what is wrong with the press (starting with the NYT specifically) and why it won’t matter. presswatchers.org/2024/03/why-...

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Sweet Jesus tap dancing Christ.

What the actual fuck, NYT?

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the sotomayor dissent is not very inspiring to me. i’d rather she said “biden you can kill the guy and it would be fine. go now go go go do it now he isn’t gonna read this”

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The Supreme Court just overthrew the country and I’m still seeing headlines that are like “did you know Joe Biden is like, months older than his opponent?”

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It's hard to even imagine the limits of the power that SCOTUS has just handed the president. If you can keep 34 senators and the military on your side, you can do anything.

The really bitter irony here is that SCOTUS is making the president a king while a Democrat is president. They aren't worried about it because they know Democrats won't accept Biden actually acting the way they are saying he can.

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I've seen tomorrow's NYT front page (international edition), and it's time to update the kitten meme again.

With new reporting out today saying that New York Times publisher AG Sulzberger is encouraging his writers to attack Biden over his age until Biden gives a long interview to his newspaper, it's time to update the kitten meme.

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Meanwhile, NYT has NEVER reported on the suspected Egyptian payment to Trump in 2016, much less the new news that there's a Chinese link.

Full court press - the Times can make a story last when they want it too, similar to how every conservative - even the "moderates" start rowing in the same direction when theres a supreme court confirmation fight.

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One of my favorite memes is the “woman yelling at cat” one, so when I saw this I almost choked on my drink

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☀️ Starshine

Brb emptying my savings to pay a 19 year old blonde with 90 million followers on tiktok to do a video on problematic height gaps

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Wonka Struggle Session

I’m particularly unfond of hearing the phrase “they’re forcing biden on us”. like, who’s the they here pal

i have to admit that the every four year tradition of white progressives explaining to black progressives that no one actually likes the politicians black progressives have voted for is wearing thinner and thinner with me every time

I knew a poster on from a forum who got snapped out of this kind of thinking because he was heavily involved in the Bernie campaign and so knew exactly what it meant when he got wiped out on Super Tuesday

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE

A lot of white progressives think there's a control panel for black voters hidden in the DNC HQ somewhere & if they could just crash through the doors they'd definitely find the button that makes black people like them.

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YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY

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anyway I can’t think of any way that unceremoniously ejecting the incumbent Dem president from the ticket, four months before the election, with no agreement on a successor, no process to pick one, and most people pushing the idea assuming it WON’T be the vice presidents, could possibly backfire

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b-boy bouiebaisse

Wouldst thou like to live hydratedly

A 20% shift among independents and a 5% shift among Republicans is pretty catastrophic if you ask me

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The thing about gerontocracy is that to be quite blunt people only think it is bad when their geriatric is not the one crat-ing.

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Holy American Empire territory does strike me as a likely outcome

I think we’re going to see true chaos. The states will now diverge even more wildly on a host of matters. The supremes will start invoking the interstate commerce clause with wild abandon. That will encourage yet more balkanization. Someone said we’re heading towards Holy Roman Empire territory. Yup