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  • Nothing of what you posted was even a claim one way or the other. Yes, Clinton's campaign did try and prop up Trump over the other Republican candidates because they thought he would be an easier opponent because of how insane he is. They were wrong on how insane the general public is as well.

    Those are just known facts.

  • I mean, if we're going to pivot to conspiracies from the 2016 vote, we can bring up the coin toss thing. Brought up repeatedly as a conspiracy by Bernie supporters, they always seemed to leave out that there were multiple coin tosses across counties in that state and...Bernie won more of them than Hillary did. He just lost the vote so badly in total in that state that that didn't give him enough delegates to win the state as a whole.

    But, for some reason, Bernie and his supporters only talk about a single one of those coin tosses.

  • Now, for my speculation: the Party sabotaged the Iowa caucus to stop an outsider from getting momentum in Iowa.

    That is, at least, a conspiracy. Not one that stands up to scrutiny though. Shadow Inc did screw up. Unfortunately, if you look at state level things in many, many prior elections, that's not uncommon. State level voting systems are tacked together, poorly funded crapshoots.

    And your claims about Obama doesn't have anything to do with the voters. If the people who supported those candidates supported Bernie as a replacement, then that's how they would have voted. But they didn't. He in fact lost worse than in the previous election.

    The fact that the earliest states in the primary have long been those that don't represent the general Democrat voting public has been a complaint for years, if not decades. So changing what states are at the beginning has been something pushed for for years as well.

  • What even is the conspiracy there? Buttigieg won. Narrowly, but he won. And both he and Sanders demanded recounts for several of the counties, which was done. Incompetent county level people, often because they have no experience and are even volunteers for much of the vote counting, is fairly common. The complicatedness of Iowa's procedure, where non-viable candidate voters get to re-vote for the viable ones makes errors even more likely.

    And errors were made in favor of both Buttigieg and Sanders, which were later corrected.

  • I'm really hoping someone runs against him in the primary. I would say anyone, but then I remember anti-vaxxer extraordinaire RFK Jr is planning on running and also orb lady is still out there. So maybe not anyone, but there's plenty of actually good candidates that could run against Biden.

  • Not the best comparative argument, since the voting public was quite clear in that regard and the conspiracies claimed were debunked pretty easily.

    I, for example, was someone who voted against him because of his long-standing anti-science stances and his promotion of pseudoscience (such as him personally using his Senate position to host an "alternative medicine" conference).

  • I feel like I once again have to ask why? Why does Israel need these weapons so badly that you have to bypass even Congressional approval? Republicans wouldn't exactly oppose such an approval, they haven't shown any lack of support for supporting Israel, just Ukraine. And Israel certainly doesn't need the weapons for defense, as claimed by the State Department in the article.

    Israel is very handedly and with minimal resistance killing thousands of Palestinians. They don't really need any additional arsenals.

    Unless this is in preparation for Netanyahu's claimed invasion of Lebanon and beyond? Is Biden openly supporting the expansion of the conflict?

  • I feel like I once again have to ask why? Why does Israel need these weapons so badly that you have to bypass even Congressional approval? Republicans wouldn't exactly oppose such an approval, they haven't shown any lack of support for supporting Israel, just Ukraine. And Israel certainly doesn't need the weapons for defense, as claimed by the State Department in the article.

    Israel is very handedly and with minimal resistance killing thousands of Palestinians. They don't really need any additional arsenals.

    Unless this is in preparation for Netanyahu's claimed invasion of Lebanon and beyond? Is Biden openly supporting the expansion of the conflict?

  • Convenience is paramount. It's why the in-app purchases that are most likely to be bought in games by the most people (not counting whales) are ones that make the game experience more convenient, rather than just giving special currency.

  • Uh, aren't the two of them really shitty grifters that were also really abusive toward other leftists just because they disagreed with them on some things?

    They both also cultivate extremely toxic fanbases they use to harass others.

  • It's also really obvious when they're all from the same news source or very closely related ones.

    I only post a couple a day at most, but I also try to vary the news sources I'm using, so I'm not just promoting one news organization's stance.