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Well it seems a bit unfair since no one answered my questions, but I'll bite.

Kamala Harris has lower poll numbers because she has not been campaigning for herself. Being at the bottom of the ticket is not the same.

Once she is nominee, she will have hundreds of millions of dollars to sell herself to the American people. She will be front and center in campaign rallies, press briefings, high profile interviews, and (hopefully) the debate stage against Trump.

What can Kamala do that Biden can't? She can speak without showing obvious signs of dementia.

It's been 8 years of Trump vs. Biden, most voters know where they stand in that race. But Harris vs. Trump means voters can reevaluate their position and get a fresh view. Democrats are being destroyed in the polls, they desperately need a refresh.

I think most people don't care about their primary votes- remember it was mostly Biden vs. Uncommitted. People understand it was not a real primary when theres only 1 viable option on the ballot. I think the overwhelming majority of the party will gladly adopt Harris now that Biden has shown how bad his dementia is progressing.

Kamala is not charismatic, her politics suck, but at least her brain works well enough so that she would have a shot at beating Trump.

And he's the best chance we have at defeating Trump

Have you seen the polls lately? You're riding a dead horse.

Biden is polling 10-15% below of where he was 4 years ago, back when he barely defeated Trump.

How do you propose Biden will make up that ground? Do you think he has a strategy to pull off the biggest electoral comeback in our lifetime?

You can make a futile attempt at policing anti-Biden comments, but it's not going to stem the bleeding. Normal Americans can see the dementia written all over Biden's confused face. They can hear it everytime he struggles through another incomplete, mumbled sentence.

I hate Kamala too, but I hope the DNC pushes her forward- at least she has a shot at stopping Trump.

Hiding and denying the anti-Biden news is what got us to this point.

Compare the polls now to 4 years ago: Biden is 10-15% behind where he was when he (barely) won. To win now, Biden needs a miracle.

Our only hope of stopping Trump is to replace Biden ASAP.

Of course Israel denies that it intends to commit genocide. If you're looking for genocidal intent, just look at the words of Smotrich, Ben Gvir, and Netanyahu. Or the words of thousands of rabid Israelis on Jerusalem Day as they publically call for ethnic cleansing.

The IDF stopped the knocking-before-bombing system very early on in this conflict. And when you're bombing refugee tent cities, no warning is possible.

Your genocide denial is disgusting.

Saying "maybe people are the problem" is reductive and unhelpful. But I agree with you broadly, religion is just a system or a tool, it can be used for good or evil.

To judge if religion is a good system or a bad one, we can use a cost benefit analysis. This is what we have been attempting to do in this thread.

But when it comes to sensitive subjects like religion, many people have a tendency to avoid, overlook, and deny the associated costs.

And the leader who preceded Hitler, and whose blunders helped Hitler gain power, was Paul von Hindenburg.

Von Hindenburg, running for his second term at 84, was widely regarded as being too old and incompetent. For the centrists and center-left parties, he was their only hope in defeating Hitler.

After Von Hindenburg's defeat, Hitler passed the Enabling Act to assume full power.

History may not repeat, but it rhymes.

Anti-science, misogyny, etc may be bad independently of religion, but they aren't independent of religion. Religion is a source of these problems.

You can imagine a hypothetical religion that is simply a "social club" or whatever, but here in the real world religion comes with baggage.

Religion is why my cousin's children have never seen a doctor in their life. Religion is why my gay friend in high school tried to kill himself. Religious indoctrination has led to lifelong shame and trauma in many of my friends.

And this was just from a "moderate" sect of Christianity- the millions living under fundamentalist religion have it even worse.

What you said is all true, but you are ignoring the negative aspects of religion.

Religious influence, both on their followers and on government, is anti-science, misogynistic, and anti-LGBT.

Religions are funded like pyramid schemes, with the most desperate and vulnerable as their victims.

Religious indoctrination is child abuse.

Corruption has been legal since 2010 when the Supreme Court ruled on Citizens United vs. FEC

Someone please bribe the Supreme Court with a free ocean submersible ride

Yes the problem with "whataboutism" is that it can be used to dismiss any claims of double standards without further examination.

For example, here in the US we punish black murderers more harshly and more often than we do white murderers. If a black murderer tries to point out this double standard, their claims would accurately be dismissed as "whataboutism". But when you view the system as a whole, then you can see that systemic racism is undeniable.

I'm on the fence if this type of lawsuit is actually in the interest of justice.

But one thing definitely irks me, this is the type of justice that is only doled out to enemies of the US.

Let me know when Palestinian Americans win a lawsuit against the US and Israel after an American-made, Israeli-fired bomb kills their entire family.

Simple terms... like "SJW"?

To clarify, that case was thrown out becuase plaintiffs lacked standing.

To further clarify, the court threw out 2 of the claims due to lack of standing. The other 4 claims were dismissed on the merits.

The court held that the plaintiffs' claims of fraud, negligent misrepresentation, consumer law violations, and unjust enrichment failed on the merits and directed those claims to be dismissed with prejudice. The court held that plaintiffs' claims of negligence and breach of fiduciary duty failed for lack of standing,

They may be referring to the Wilding v. DNC Services Corp case. DNC lawyers argued that they could overturn the democratic results of the primary if they so choose.

The DNC won that case.

I guess "vote blue no matter who" only applies when you're punching left...

In an ideal world, Hitchen's Razor would be applied whenever a politician speaks and whenever an advertisement plays.

Unfortunately for us, human psychology makes us all vulnerable.

The problem is that the Trump and Biden camps set the rules at this debate.

The moderators were not allowed to live fact check, nor could they cut the candidate's mic during their allotted time.

This means that the responsibility of countering Trump's lies fell completely on Biden. There are so many lies, it would be a difficult task for any person.

But Biden signed up for this, and he failed spectacularly. None of Trump's bullshit was effectively countered.

I think its only a RBG situation if Biden dies soon.

It's more of a Diane Feinstein situation, where everyone can see the dementia progressing, but everyone around them has a vested interest in keeping the status quo.

Literal genocide denial.

May these 269 monsters get the fate they deserve.