• @Rapidcreek
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    History will paint Biden very kindly. This speech will be the example of a humble, good man.

        • @Linkerbaan
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          Must be difficult now Genocide Joe is stepping down to decide who to root for.

          • @TrickDacy
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            Not for you. Always has been trump and always will be. I noticed you immediately started criticizing Harris the moment things changed, no matter how many straws you needed to grasp at

            • @Linkerbaan
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              The comment means you can’t root for Biden anymore since he’s stepping down.

              Reading must be hard before advocating for israel committing Genocide.

    • @givesomefucks
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      -1424 months ago

      This is like calling a school bus driver a hero because at the last possible second he hit the brakes instead of intentionally driving the bus off a cliff.

      It’s good he stepped aside, but he waited till pretty much the last second and clearly didn’t want to hit the brakes.

      In that analogy, the heroes are all the people that got him to hit the brakes.

      • @Rapidcreek
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        I didn’t call him a hero, though, I called him humble and good. In your zeal to urinate on corn flakes, you forgot basic reading skills.

        • @Linkerbaan
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          Good for being complicit in the Genocide of Palestinians?

          • @[email protected]
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            Good for stepping down for the sake of his country. Not good enough for certain internet pundits, but I think he’ll get over that.

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          If he’s “humble and good” he’d have stepped down a year ago so voters could have a real primary and not a coronation.

          • @Rapidcreek
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            Before doubling down, it might be wise to know what you are doubling down on. Aggressive foolishness is still foolishness.

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              i remember when my debate strategy was yelling and stomping my feet. then i stopped being a toddler

              • @[email protected]
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                And that’s a good thing. It’s better to figure it out before you Clinton yourself into the history books.

            • @givesomefucks
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              -364 months ago

              What does that even mean?

              It sounds like you’re just trying to make an insult that won’t get removed for being an insult…

              I’m not here to slap fight, find someone else.

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            Lmao, since when the fuck was there a coronation?

      • @[email protected]
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        That’s an interesting analogy because objectively the bus driver is a hero for stopping a bus full of kids hurtling off a cliff.

        • @TexasDrunk
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          It’s a poor analogy because there’s no one on the bus trying to grab the wheel and hit the gas by force.

        • @givesomefucks
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          -294 months ago

          If he wasn’t the one flooring it headed right to the cliff…

          And if he didn’t take months of people telling him to hit the brakes while he screamed back only “Lord God” can stop the bus

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        Absolutely nothing was stopping him from remaining in the race until the convention and becoming the official nominee. That was a viable path forward, if he had wanted to choose it. That he did not, deserves acknowledgement and respect.

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          I agree in principle with what you’re saying.

          However, a sitting president is not entitled to the nomination. It’s happened before where a sitting president is denied a nomination for a second term, and it’s been given to someone else in the party instead.

          If it had gone that way with Biden though, I think the optics would have been so bad that there would be no hopes of salvaging the election though, so it’s still praiseworthy that he dropped.

          • @Carrolade
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            He was not going to be the nominee due to being the sitting president. He was going to be the nominee due to defeating his main rival “uncommitted” in the primaries, along with Rep. Dean Philips and Marianne Williamson.

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              34 months ago

              while technically true, had uncommited gotten more than 2 weeks to campaign and made it onto every ballot, the dems might not have had to modify the ticket this late.

              • @Carrolade
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                14 months ago

                Yeah, I think there’s not nearly enough single-issue Palestine voters to make that happen. Also, it was a write-in campaign, it was never “on” a ballot anywhere.

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                  34 months ago

                  “uncommitted” / “no preference” were explicitly on some state ballots and palestine is a bigger culminating issue than people give credit for. “none of the above” running a distant, but meaningful, second is not encouraging.

                  regardless of your thoughts on biden in 2020, a diminished biden was a disaster for the Democrats and (potentially) the country in 2024.

                  • @Carrolade
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                    44 months ago

                    No, not really. Single issue voters are fairly unusual in the dem party. There are always some, no question, but the very small size of the peace protests compared to those during, say, the Vietnam War era demonstrates a fairly niche issue imo. While most dems believe in peace for Palestine, relatively few would rank it among their top issues.

                    Regarding Biden’s diminishment, delegation is the most important skill a leader can possess. It is not a leaders responsibility to make all the decisions, but to organize and provide vision for a group of people that can accomplish far more than any individual. Many people past their youth understand this, due to direct life experience in the broader world. Biden’s diminishment would have had minimal impact on his actual presidency. At the polls, however, yes it definitely was a concern, eventually leading to him dropping out after all. The idea he actually could not win was very, very overblown though. He was still in the running. I think the broader concern was his impact on down-ballot races.

                    Regarding uncommitted actually being on some ballots, it seems you’re right. Thank you for the correction, that’s actually sort of funny. lol

            • @Windex007
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              Delegates are bound to support in all good conscience the person for whom their primaries results reflect.

              This bizzare turn of phrase has been largely been untested in the courts… But if, in good conscience, the delegates believe that the results of the primary were for the candidate who was best poised to defeat Trump (as in, they’re not supporting Biden specifically as much as they are against Trump, for example) then they could argue that based on events that have occured since the primaries that they are in good conscience representing those wishes.

              So, I dunno. I’m very glad Biden took the high road here, but I am unconvinced that this was truely set in stone. This is the exact justification for having delegates choose the nominee in the first place; that in certain critical conditions they can act in good faith.

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                24 months ago

                I think that would be an extremely minority opinion far outside of the moderate dem mainstream. Since the electors get specifically chosen by the winning campaign, expecting some kind of broad revolt out of them is very wishful thinking.

                Additionally, Biden was polling very close to Trump during a time when dems have been outperforming polls in our recent elections. Someone would have to be fairly ignorant of the actual voting results of recent races to actually think Biden genuinely had no chance. I do not think very many chosen delegates are ignorant of these election results, unlike more casually-engaged citizens online.

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        He could have shrugged it off like RBG did and fuck everyone for generations. Better late than never.

        • @givesomefucks
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          Better late than never.

          Obviously.

          But if a guy has a gun next to your head and ends up not pulling the trigger, are you gonna talk about how good your kidnapper was?

          You still got kidnapped, and you still had a gun to your head.

          Why thank the person who caused the problem and not the hostage negotiaters who got you released?

        • @givesomefucks
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          -234 months ago

          So you think Biden and the DNC colluded and he always meant to stand down?

          He just waited until there wasn’t enough time for a primary so Kamala could get it?

          Don’t get me wrong, she’s got a better shot than Joe. But if you legitimately think they planned this timing…

          That’s not a good look.

          Especially for voters in NH who had their primary delegates stolen.

          • @PRUSSIA_x86
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            Or he waited until the Trump campaign sunk millions of dollars into a strategy that has now been completely subverted and which they have no real way out of without a massive pivot like dropping Trump which isn’t going to happen. If that’s the case, I’d call it a pretty savvy move.

            • @givesomefucks
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              -54 months ago

              But that still took the decision of who the nominee should be out of the hands of voters.

              • @PRUSSIA_x86
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                34 months ago

                If by that you mean “they followed the same standard procedure that’s been in place for the entire history of the United States” then yes, exactly.

          • Natanael
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            I don’t think the timing was planned in advance.

            But I think he was getting tired, probably had enough commitments for support to Kamala (he probably gave everybody who demanded he steps down an ultimatum, support her or he stays), and decided there wasn’t going to be a better time to do it. Seems like he was right

            https://slrpnk.net/comment/10036679