• RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    I wouldn’t be as infuriated if the democrats would just fucking choose someone else to be their candidate. Like yes, materially things won’t change. But holy shit. These lanyard removed pay like $200k to get a degree in propaganda and cannot fucking put on optics for the life of them. WHY does it HAVE to be Biden? No one fucking likes him. Are you telling me out of the tens of millions of democrats, there’s not a single 50 year old guy who can speak coherently and put on convincing lies? It HAS to be Biden? He’s the only person qualified for this job? Fucking Christ.

    • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]@hexbear.net
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      Are you telling me out of the tens of millions of democrats, there’s not a single 50 year old guy who can speak coherently and put on convincing lies? It HAS to be Biden? He’s the only person qualified for this job? Fucking Christ.

      leadership development is a threat to sitting power, so they don’t do it.

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        In Soviet China, the supreme leader purges everyone who is a potential threat to his position and when he dies, there is a massive power struggle between the senior elites and ambitious outsiders

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      They’re so bound by the almighty norms that they can’t even keep themselves from walking into a woodchipper if the norms deem it so… unless a slightly more left social democrat gets momentum. Then everyone is fucking Machiavelli.

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      Name recognition is all Biden had in 2020 and it’s all he has now. Obama was an incredibly popular candidate and activated a lot of non voters (I don’t have data on this). Biden got crowned because he had that Obama sheen still. Now he has the “beat Trump” clout.

      They tried to prop up several new Obamas in 2020 and it didn’t work