• @dhork
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    5 months ago

    Aw shit, they’re bringing out the big guns now. Has anyone asked Noah Wylie yet? Do 8 out of 10 TV Doctors agree?

    Maybe we can see what Val Kilmer thinks, also. To the Batcave!

    • @PugJesus
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      235 months ago

      Clooney is a non-marginal figure in politics. He’s very involved for an actor.

      • @dhork
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        05 months ago

        I know, but if it turns out that George Clooney was the tipping point, then the Democratic Party might be the caricature that the Right says it is.

        • @PugJesus
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          205 months ago

          Clooney, of all people, is one of the least objectionable actors to have a major voice amongst Democrats. The man is on foreign policy think tanks and is a longtime fundraiser and organizer for the Democratic Party. And in any case, this is on the heels of several members of the House and a Senator dissenting. It’s not like this is the first or the last drop of the deluge.

          • @Cosmonauticus
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            He’s still an actor. I rather listen to presidential historians, and political scientist. Just because he shells out money in a system that shouldn’t allow it in the first place doesn’t mean we should take serious anything he has to say

            • @TropicalDingdong
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              15 months ago

              A smarter person would listen to people who have real experience moving the political levers. Historians and “political scientists” arent those people.

              You know who one of those people is? George Clooney. He has gotten democrats elected to office. He’s done the job of picking winners and losers. You are kind-of an idiot to ignore first-order people involved-in-the process people and to weight third-order armchair opinions more heavily.

              Clooney will actually move people to support or not support a candidate. Physically. He will go knock on their doors and ask them to run. He’ll give them the funds they need to do so.

              (If political scientists are actual fucking scientists show me how they use falsifiability for hypothesis testing and then tell me which of their hypothesis have withstood the rigor of reproducibility)

    • @givesomefucks
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      145 months ago

      Clooney has known Biden for decades and just a few months ago organized a huge event for him…

      “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010,” Clooney wrote. “He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.”