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I once had someone argue that a point against Biden was that he wasn't omnipresent in daily life. It wasn't the 24/7 Joe Biden show. They somehow thought that t

by estearum 10mo ago

I once had someone argue that a point against Biden was that he wasn't omnipresent in daily life. It wasn't the 24/7 Joe Biden show. They somehow thought that the correct form of American politics is just truly nonstop antics from the White House. It's like these people think they're watching WWE.

alexilliamson 10mo ago
The current guy is nothing if not a documented professional wrestling fan
Nursie 10mo ago
As someone not in the US, but who listens to a lot of UK and Australian news here in Australia, it is noticeable how often the words "Donald Trump" are the first things spoken in any given bulletin. Can't imagine what it must be like on the inside, I am looking forward to that no longer being the case, one day.
SanjayMehta 10mo ago
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- cosmicgadget 10mo ago
  208 weeks of that? Really? And that's on par with this insanity?
  - SanjayMehta 10mo ago
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    - cosmicgadget 10mo ago
      He really isn't. Unless you are speaking specifically of neurological decline.
      - SanjayMehta 10mo ago
        Biden was clearly just a dementia patient. He was only coherent while the meds were working. Trump is a highly functional dementia patient. From the comedic value, I prefer Trump. He blurts out whatever nonsense is in his head, it's hilarious. I also appreciate his straightforward criminality, he's not playing the usual "rules based order" games, just a real estate thug in power. It's so refreshing to watch.
        estearum 10mo ago
        > The process at work here is not that particular human capacities, for instance, the intellect, suddenly atrophy or fail. Instead, it seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence, and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances. > The term [stupidity], he said, wasn’t a description of intellectual acuity, but of social responsibility. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person, or to a group of persons, while deriving no gain for himself, and possibly incurring losses. https://www.onthewing.org/user/Bonhoeffer%20-%20Theory%20of%20Stupidity.pdf https://www.onthewing.org/user/Bonhoeffer%20-%20Theory%20of%...
- pupppet 10mo ago
  Yeah man, remember when Biden called people retards and piggy, used his position to make millions off memecoins, draped his mug and name over government institutions, bulldozed half the White House, wanted to take over multiple countries, sicced masked idiots on the poor, pulled out of the WHO, the list goes on.
  - SanjayMehta 10mo ago
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    - estearum 10mo ago
      "I have clear evidence of wrongdoing in one case, and admittedly not very good evidence of wrongdoing in the other... I prefer the former." Epistemologically insane, and that's not to mention the plainly obvious fact that even if the corruption were equal (which you openly admit actually doesn't comport with visible evidence), doing it visibly is clearly much more harmful to our society. Taken to the extreme, someone can be the most rotten, corrupt soul on the planet, and so long as they truly keep it to themselves, none of us would even know about it, much less be affected by it.
      - SanjayMehta 10mo ago
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        estearum 10mo ago
        A tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it is in fact of far less nuisance and risk than a tree that falls on top of a house. A more important question: How would someone look if they walked around insisting that a tree had recently fallen, but they can't tell you when/where/how because no one was around to hear it? "But trust me, it was just as big as the one that fell on Bob's house, so I don't even see what anyone is upset about."
jonway 10mo ago
Actually, Donald Trump was inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hall_of_Fame#2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hall_of_Fame#2013 So Yes, in effect, these people are literally watching WWE.

alexilliamson 10mo ago

The current guy is nothing if not a documented professional wrestling fan

Nursie 10mo ago

As someone not in the US, but who listens to a lot of UK and Australian news here in Australia, it is noticeable how often the words "Donald Trump" are the first things spoken in any given bulletin. Can't imagine what it must be like on the inside, I am looking forward to that no longer being the case, one day.

SanjayMehta 10mo ago

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cosmicgadget 10mo ago
208 weeks of that? Really? And that's on par with this insanity?
- SanjayMehta 10mo ago
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  - cosmicgadget 10mo ago
    He really isn't. Unless you are speaking specifically of neurological decline.
    - SanjayMehta 10mo ago
      Biden was clearly just a dementia patient. He was only coherent while the meds were working. Trump is a highly functional dementia patient. From the comedic value, I prefer Trump. He blurts out whatever nonsense is in his head, it's hilarious. I also appreciate his straightforward criminality, he's not playing the usual "rules based order" games, just a real estate thug in power. It's so refreshing to watch.
      - estearum 10mo ago
        > The process at work here is not that particular human capacities, for instance, the intellect, suddenly atrophy or fail. Instead, it seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence, and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances. > The term [stupidity], he said, wasn’t a description of intellectual acuity, but of social responsibility. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person, or to a group of persons, while deriving no gain for himself, and possibly incurring losses. https://www.onthewing.org/user/Bonhoeffer%20-%20Theory%20of%20Stupidity.pdf https://www.onthewing.org/user/Bonhoeffer%20-%20Theory%20of%...
pupppet 10mo ago
Yeah man, remember when Biden called people retards and piggy, used his position to make millions off memecoins, draped his mug and name over government institutions, bulldozed half the White House, wanted to take over multiple countries, sicced masked idiots on the poor, pulled out of the WHO, the list goes on.
- SanjayMehta 10mo ago
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  - estearum 10mo ago
    "I have clear evidence of wrongdoing in one case, and admittedly not very good evidence of wrongdoing in the other... I prefer the former." Epistemologically insane, and that's not to mention the plainly obvious fact that even if the corruption were equal (which you openly admit actually doesn't comport with visible evidence), doing it visibly is clearly much more harmful to our society. Taken to the extreme, someone can be the most rotten, corrupt soul on the planet, and so long as they truly keep it to themselves, none of us would even know about it, much less be affected by it.
    - SanjayMehta 10mo ago
      [flagged]
      - estearum 10mo ago
        A tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it is in fact of far less nuisance and risk than a tree that falls on top of a house. A more important question: How would someone look if they walked around insisting that a tree had recently fallen, but they can't tell you when/where/how because no one was around to hear it? "But trust me, it was just as big as the one that fell on Bob's house, so I don't even see what anyone is upset about."

jonway 10mo ago

Actually, Donald Trump was inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hall_of_Fame#2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hall_of_Fame#2013 So Yes, in effect, these people are literally watching WWE.