SuddenDownpour @ SuddenDownpour @sh.itjust.works

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American exceptionalism was already cringe enough, but now they're trying to extrapolate their own politics to everywhere else in the world? Holy shit they're hopeless.

And that's happened after East Germany was consistently fucked over ever since the reunification, leaving a chunk of the country extremely skeptical of mainstream political parties. Would there be people who would still be racist if East Germany had been treated fairly? Some would be, but it wouldn't define the vote of most of them.

At some point I'm going to assume that half of Lemmy users are solipsists.

I'm not saying "Don't vote Democrat if their candidate is Biden", I'm saying "there's a fuckton of low-information voters who are unlikely to vote for a guy who clearly displays Biden's health issues".

It's not "either Biden or Trump", just have the Democrats present Kamala or Buttigieg or whoever. Polls already point as alternatives to Biden as more likely to beat Trump, and chances are that Biden keeps screwing it up during the following months.

Ok, I'll open another thread, then.

REMOVED, DUPLICATE.

Why isn't the left as cool as the right pretends we are!?

Doms stay winning 😎

The fact that we keep seeing these kinds of news (including the report that "he's at his best from 10AM to 4PM") means it's highly likely that there's people with high positions in the Democratic hierarchy who think they should switch their candidate (in opposition to whoever is calling the shots), and they're trying to rock the boat earlier rather than latter by leaking these headlines so that the second option actually has a chance to build their candidacy.

If you think they shouldn't, I ask you: do you prefer this to be published now, in a controlled demolition by people who want someone other than Biden, or weeks before the election, by people trying to make Trump win?

So you're now posting images of people being mocked for having mental illnesses. Yeah, sure dude, you're an exemplary pillar of morality. Perhaps hold on from having these discussions until you grow up.

The ruling party in Spain is socially progressive, so they're shooting themselves on the foot with this one.

No one wants to tell the government they’re watching porn, especially in a Catholic country like Spain.

Spain is majority Catholic, but in terms of people having mostly secular lives, it's very similar to France. If anything, religion has more weight in institutions in relation to its social significance than it should as a leftover from our fascist dictatorship from 50 years ago.

A donkey will keep on banging its head against the wall no matter how may warnings you give it, huh?

My whole argument is: "We have been doing surgeries on kids without their consent just because society wanted them to conform. If you're against trans teens receiving surgery after they ask for it after ignoring non consensual surgeries on intersex babies, you probably don't actually care about the well-being of children, but rather, have a bias against what you don't consider to be normal". Instead, you failed to understand what kind of argument I was even making and assumed you had a fight to pick. Again: work on your reading comprehension.

We may be talking about someone who handled logistics, or cooking, or maintenance; they might have been punished by life enough in the 30 years have followed; they may be someone who didn't know what they were getting into, but once they were on the ground, tried to minimize the harm they brought upon others; they may be someone who realized what the army was doing was wrong too late, and was branded a traitor for refusing orders or revealing evil shit that was going on behind the curtains.

All in all, you're either defending that once a person does one bad thing, regardless of their context, they have become essentially tarnished forever, and no matter their growth or already suffered punishment they should continue to suffer forever; or else you're just rationalizing the fact that you want to throw fireworks no matter the harm you bring upon others. Think about this all for two minutes before you say something stupid.

If you join the army because you're fucking stupid in your 20s, and by your 50s you've become a wise, anti-war person who still has PTSD, you don't deserve to get your PTSD triggered because you were dumb 30 years ago.

If you have any kind of anxiety disorder, sensory hypersensitivity or heart issues, the sudden noise of fireworks will at least startle you. The constant barrage of noise that takes place in some places through some celebrations or through the year provoke people to develop even more serious health issues. Ah, but don't you dare to suggest that the health of vulnerable people should take priority over some brief dumbfuck fun, or that there exist less harmful ways to celebrate, or that constant fireworks in places with certain population density means annoying a lot of people for the sake of very few, because then it turns out that you just "hate freedom".

Project 2025 already involved implicit violence even if people didn't challenge it. So thanks for taking the mask even further off, I guess?

Please work on your reading comprehension.

and is doing it likely as someone who is horribly misguided, or intentionally to try and sway our elections by a foreign entity

And once again we come back to the liberal conspiracy theory of "We're the only adults in the room, and anyone who disagrees with us is co-opted by foreign powers". The worst part of it all is the shamelessness of pulling this bullshit when so much people knows you're talking out of your ass. Fuck off.

My condolences.

Any bets on how long until he makes it to Qatar?