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People blamed covid to much for the global economic turmoil. But we don't have covid this time. We do have the same guy in the White House again though...

water9 1y ago
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- lawlessone 1y ago
  >Biden was president for all but nine months of Covid but don’t let facts get in your way Yeah and? It's easier to turn a bike than a containership.
  - water9 1y ago
    The global economy was never a bike
  - tomhow 1y ago
    Someone has emailed us to point out the inflammatory, politically-charged commenting you've been engaging in lately, and I agree that it's not what we want to see on HN. Comments like the ones you've been posting in the past few days that are low-effort but highly reaction-inducing for people across the political spectrum are the very kind of thing we're trying to avoid here. A particularly bad one was this one [1], five days ago: > You don't like being reminded of the results of your decision? > Not generalizing, i mean you specifically. It attacks someone for doing something without any evidence that they did that or agreed with people who did it. You're a long-time user here and you've posted plenty of good things too, and we don't want to push you away from HN. But we need you to make an effort to use HN in the spirit that's intended, which means taking care to observe the guidelines and respect other community members. We know we can't be a politics-free zone and it would be futile and counter-productive to try, but we can all make an effort to hold ourselves to a higher standard and make political discussions here higher-quality than what is found elsewhere, if we choose to. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44729698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44729698
- UltraSane 1y ago
  Biden is competent and chooses competent people. Trump is NOT competent and hire incompetent people and fires competent people.
  - sciencesama 1y ago
    We as a society have systems and checks for the democracy to work
  - readthenotes1 1y ago
    The debate performance says otherwise
    - LadyCailin 1y ago
      I think it’s fair to compare the “administrations”, not necessarily the individual. Biden’s administration is relatively far more competent than the Trump administration, in large part because Trump doesn’t care what the rest of his administration thinks, so long as it benefits him personally. Biden, with all his flaws, was not egotistical.
    - UltraSane 1y ago
      Trump and Biden are BOTH way WAY too old and senile to be president. I really don't understand how Trump supporters can complain that Biden is senile when Trump doesn't remember major things he did during his first term. 60 should be the max age to run for President considering how important and stressful it is.
    - myvoiceismypass 1y ago
      Trump's debate performance against Kamala was awful too ("concepts of a plan", etc), but he will forever get judged with a different set of criteria by his fans.
      - readthenotes1 1y ago
        Whataboutism is pervasive and pernicious
- rco8786 1y ago
  The first Covid vaccines were approved for humans before Biden ever took office.
  - paulryanrogers 1y ago
    One president talked down vaccines, despite some bragging about fast tracking them. The other talked vaccines up, and managed to stop rising inflation without crashing the economy.
- kleiba 1y ago
  Right! Like Trump himself said about his handling of COVID: "The only thing we haven’t done well is get good press."
- phillipcarter 1y ago
  Yeah, and a lot of turmoil can be unleashed in 9 months. When you have one of the most unstable leaders in history in charge of a country during a once-in-a-century global pandemic, a lot of things get broken.
ethbr1 1y ago
> But we don't have covid this time. RFK Jr: ‘Hold my unpasteurized beer...’
chasing0entropy 1y ago
I'm assuming you believe COVID shutdown was 2019-2020?
- gilbetron 1y ago
  Covid shutdown was 2020, do you remember who was president?
  - chasing0entropy 1y ago
    What about the other three years?

water9 1y ago

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lawlessone 1y ago
>Biden was president for all but nine months of Covid but don’t let facts get in your way Yeah and? It's easier to turn a bike than a containership.
- water9 1y ago
  The global economy was never a bike
- tomhow 1y ago
  Someone has emailed us to point out the inflammatory, politically-charged commenting you've been engaging in lately, and I agree that it's not what we want to see on HN. Comments like the ones you've been posting in the past few days that are low-effort but highly reaction-inducing for people across the political spectrum are the very kind of thing we're trying to avoid here. A particularly bad one was this one [1], five days ago: > You don't like being reminded of the results of your decision? > Not generalizing, i mean you specifically. It attacks someone for doing something without any evidence that they did that or agreed with people who did it. You're a long-time user here and you've posted plenty of good things too, and we don't want to push you away from HN. But we need you to make an effort to use HN in the spirit that's intended, which means taking care to observe the guidelines and respect other community members. We know we can't be a politics-free zone and it would be futile and counter-productive to try, but we can all make an effort to hold ourselves to a higher standard and make political discussions here higher-quality than what is found elsewhere, if we choose to. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44729698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44729698
UltraSane 1y ago
Biden is competent and chooses competent people. Trump is NOT competent and hire incompetent people and fires competent people.
- sciencesama 1y ago
  We as a society have systems and checks for the democracy to work
- readthenotes1 1y ago
  The debate performance says otherwise
  - LadyCailin 1y ago
    I think it’s fair to compare the “administrations”, not necessarily the individual. Biden’s administration is relatively far more competent than the Trump administration, in large part because Trump doesn’t care what the rest of his administration thinks, so long as it benefits him personally. Biden, with all his flaws, was not egotistical.
  - UltraSane 1y ago
    Trump and Biden are BOTH way WAY too old and senile to be president. I really don't understand how Trump supporters can complain that Biden is senile when Trump doesn't remember major things he did during his first term. 60 should be the max age to run for President considering how important and stressful it is.
  - myvoiceismypass 1y ago
    Trump's debate performance against Kamala was awful too ("concepts of a plan", etc), but he will forever get judged with a different set of criteria by his fans.
    - readthenotes1 1y ago
      Whataboutism is pervasive and pernicious
rco8786 1y ago
The first Covid vaccines were approved for humans before Biden ever took office.
- paulryanrogers 1y ago
  One president talked down vaccines, despite some bragging about fast tracking them. The other talked vaccines up, and managed to stop rising inflation without crashing the economy.
kleiba 1y ago
Right! Like Trump himself said about his handling of COVID: "The only thing we haven’t done well is get good press."
phillipcarter 1y ago
Yeah, and a lot of turmoil can be unleashed in 9 months. When you have one of the most unstable leaders in history in charge of a country during a once-in-a-century global pandemic, a lot of things get broken.

ethbr1 1y ago

> But we don't have covid this time. RFK Jr: ‘Hold my unpasteurized beer...’

chasing0entropy 1y ago

I'm assuming you believe COVID shutdown was 2019-2020?

gilbetron 1y ago
Covid shutdown was 2020, do you remember who was president?
- chasing0entropy 1y ago
  What about the other three years?