Biden was doing quite a commendable job until he went all in funding torture and genocide, and calling himself a Zionist, thereby destroying any good will he had built.
In fact, the reason so many people voted for Trump is BECAUSE Biden didn't do much for the American people (and Trump will be even worse). In Biden's term, inflation rose, inequality grew, police brutalization continued unabated, billionaires increased their wealth by trillions (https://inequality.org/article/billionaire-wealth-up-88-percent-over-four-years/), and more.
There is NO, I repeat ZERO argument to be made that "Biden was doing quite a commendable job" before Oct 7th.
What this thread illustrates for me, Chang, is that Americans have an incredibly large
-- capacity for denial
--addiction to duopoly explanations
It's D then R then D again then R, and not a goddamned thing ever evolves. But to see that the entire enterprise is corrupt, top to bottom, requires the removal of blinders that are apparently glued in place with a high-bond adhesive that no one has yet devised a solvent to remove.
Many of us can see the entire enterprise as corrupt, though not nearly enough. We can also see some large differences between the two parties as currently being displayed now. I voted for Stein since I live in California and it didn't matter, but domestically the current situation is far more disastrous than it would have been if Harris had won. (No change for the hideous plight of the Palestinians of course.) To deny that fact is absurd.
Sorry, I opine that what's absurd is the fact that you tend to
A. downplay the extent to which Democrat politicians are, almost as thoroughly as the other side, bought by (other than pro-Israel) pro-weapons, –Wall Street, and -Pharma, -etc.
I also voted for Jill in NM. Trump is a scumbag. I would gladly run over Elon with a road paver.
B. the extent to which Democrats in power abrogate actual mechanisms of change, mostly floating campaign promises and half-baked fluff. Then re- introducing bills of no hope when Rs take over. Please, this is theater.
And I feel your terror at the descent into Authoritarianism, Fascism if you like. But in my mind, I look at America through the lens of Dallas, November 1963 and personally in Spring 1968 at Columbia University. And it has been a Fascist fucking country for quite some time. But I look at Obama and Biden administrations and I see no reason to hope that a Harris or any status quo politics is going to be "better".
I do get it and agree, except that this is seriously bad in so many ways: cutting food, healthcare, research, the EPA, wanting to drill everywhere, not to mention how much worse it would get. And it's not like voting for Stein or not voting was going to make any difference. Instead of cursing the duo poly, we need to find real ways to change it, if there are any. Personally, I think the whole fabulous planet is doomed by greed and ignorance.
Luckily, as a biologist and worshiper of the Complex Adaptive System that is the Biosphere, I can assure you that some bacteria and fungi will make it through whatever holocaust we idiots devise. And it'll require eons of course. But life will re-evolve. And if the fungi in their Millennia of plant root mutualistic symbioses have managed to actually have pseudo intercourse and taken up some plant genes, it could go faster (personal hypothesis). I share this because it is how I stay sane.
You wanna burn out their eyes, Jenny? Blind leading the blind? I think we already have that here in Murica. Hopeless situation -- too many layers of un-seeing, perception of numerous phantom realities, but rarely anything approaching veritas.
Biden hates ALL Americans. Supported by a gutless Congress, this slimeball glorified murder and mayhem. No sewage plant would want anything to do with this dreg of humanity. He's ugliness personified, the wretched refuse of a nation now showing it's going down, down, down. He's not the only president we've had that detested Americans. Bye, Joe, we'll do our best to remember you as the most hated President in our history.
Yes, he definitely did have some accomplishments and did some good. Biden also made progress on cancelling some student debt, and many other things.
And that's what people need to understand - politics is RARELY a black-and-white issue - there are some positive developments and some negative developments. Though with Trump, for the life of me I can see NO positive accomplishments/developments (unless you are talking about the benefits for the oligarchy, corporations, and tech-bros, and monopolists).
There MAY be unintended consequences (both positive and negative) arising from an administration's policies, but I'm unwilling to give ANY Administration ANY credit for such effects.
Putin is very similar to Trump - another strongman - fascist, authoritarian, dictatorial. Like you said in your comment - not many people (on this substack) understand or have enough knowledge about Russia and its history, hence the over-representation of Russo-philes here.
We also don't know who on here is a plant. I'm reading Careless People about Facebook and Zuckerberg. Facebook worked closely with the first drumpf campaign and engineered his win.
Do you seriously consider suspending civil rights, enforcing illegal mandates and forced injection with experimental technology that is completely ineffective against a theoretical threat to be “doing quite a commendable job”?
Have been a far-left, ultra-liberal, democratic socialist since the 1980s. Odd that both wings of the american political party bird accuse me of aligning with the other when my disgust for political affiliation is completely non-partisan. How are you not embarrassed by or at least concerned about posting support for genocide funding politicians on a public social media platform where your support for genocide will remain as evidence to be used against you when war crimes trials begin?
Are you denying that the biden administration enforced ineffective “mandates” and restrictions that violated civil rights and suspended liberties like congregating in public parks and libraries and churches?
Are you denying that an experimental technology was forced on the population through requiring injections that violated bodily autonomy? Injections that although promoted with ceaseless propaganda as a sure-fire termination of the theoretical phantom proved to do nothing to prevent “infection” and in fact increased risk of sickness and are correlated with serious adverse reactions?
Do you not consider restricting congregation in public spaces like restaurants, parks and churches/libraries/community centers, forced masking and mandatory injection with experimental technology to be suspension of civil liberties or do you just deny that they happened? Or are you just one of those delusional, obsessive compliance disorder sufferers who actually still beLIEve there was/is a “covid” “virus”.
you think that a theoretical phantom more than 109 million Americans “recovered” from somehow killed 1 million Americans? Less than 1% of the “infected”.
But I am the insane conspiracy nut?
When, where, how and by who was the “sars-cov2” “virus” obtained from a patient suffering distinct illness with no other known or suspected cause, reduced to a purified isolate required to establish Gold Standard for diagnostic testing and demonstrated to cause identical illness when “infecting” a new host?
How else is disease causation demonstrated and proven?
Without purified isolate to establish Gold Standard for diagnostic testing what exactly are tests testing for other than non-specific biological markers considered synonymous with infection by the phantom theoretical “virus” but that have NEVER been demonstrated to cause disease?
Clearly you are the crazy one.
Failure of the religion of virology has been the main focus of my life since 1987.
Let me guess…you probably still beLIEve that a theoretical “hiv” “virus” causes sexually transmitted epidemic immune failure disease that although proposed theory of it’s existence predicted “explosion into general heterosexual population” by 1990 is still forty years later primarily restricted to original risk groups obsessively testing and treating/pre-treating for the theoretical phantom, don’t you?
They're so sure of themselves. At first I would think, did I miss some report? I wonder if he belongs to the flat earth cult. This guy doesn't even believe people died of covid. And to think that the godawful orange slime was the one who opened Pandora's Box.
Demonstrate your comprehension of the “science” you claim i am denying. Demonstrate your comprehension of the longstanding, common sense rules for proving disease causation by a particular agent. Demonstrate your comprehension of the PCR technology the entire “covid pandemic” relied on to exist.
Wait!! Are you one of those suffering from Obsessive Compliance Disorder who actually still beLIEves that there was/is a deadly “Covid” “virus”?
Are you unaware that the Warp Speed rushed experimental mRNA injection was/is completely useless at preventing illness and in fact is linked to countless deaths and injuries and serious adverse reactions?
Biden was doing quite a commendable job until he went all in funding torture and genocide, and calling himself a Zionist, thereby destroying any good will he had built.
Did you forget about the Ukraine war? NATO expansion? Anti-China foreign policy? And don't forget that Biden deported more immigrants than Trump (US deportations under Biden surpass Trump's record -> https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36e41dx425o) or (Comparing the Biden and Trump Deportation Records -> https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-deportation-record)
Biden messed up the Afghanistan withdrawal, kept the same increased trade tariffs from the Trump term, knifed labor unions in the back (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/01/joe-biden-rail-strike-labor-unions), and did NOTHING to combat INFLATION.
In fact, the reason so many people voted for Trump is BECAUSE Biden didn't do much for the American people (and Trump will be even worse). In Biden's term, inflation rose, inequality grew, police brutalization continued unabated, billionaires increased their wealth by trillions (https://inequality.org/article/billionaire-wealth-up-88-percent-over-four-years/), and more.
There is NO, I repeat ZERO argument to be made that "Biden was doing quite a commendable job" before Oct 7th.
What this thread illustrates for me, Chang, is that Americans have an incredibly large
-- capacity for denial
--addiction to duopoly explanations
It's D then R then D again then R, and not a goddamned thing ever evolves. But to see that the entire enterprise is corrupt, top to bottom, requires the removal of blinders that are apparently glued in place with a high-bond adhesive that no one has yet devised a solvent to remove.
Many of us can see the entire enterprise as corrupt, though not nearly enough. We can also see some large differences between the two parties as currently being displayed now. I voted for Stein since I live in California and it didn't matter, but domestically the current situation is far more disastrous than it would have been if Harris had won. (No change for the hideous plight of the Palestinians of course.) To deny that fact is absurd.
Sorry, I opine that what's absurd is the fact that you tend to
A. downplay the extent to which Democrat politicians are, almost as thoroughly as the other side, bought by (other than pro-Israel) pro-weapons, –Wall Street, and -Pharma, -etc.
I also voted for Jill in NM. Trump is a scumbag. I would gladly run over Elon with a road paver.
B. the extent to which Democrats in power abrogate actual mechanisms of change, mostly floating campaign promises and half-baked fluff. Then re- introducing bills of no hope when Rs take over. Please, this is theater.
And I feel your terror at the descent into Authoritarianism, Fascism if you like. But in my mind, I look at America through the lens of Dallas, November 1963 and personally in Spring 1968 at Columbia University. And it has been a Fascist fucking country for quite some time. But I look at Obama and Biden administrations and I see no reason to hope that a Harris or any status quo politics is going to be "better".
I would gladly put that paver in reverse for you as Trump is a Zionist Nazi Mass Murdering Sociopath and a Hitler wannabe.
I do get it and agree, except that this is seriously bad in so many ways: cutting food, healthcare, research, the EPA, wanting to drill everywhere, not to mention how much worse it would get. And it's not like voting for Stein or not voting was going to make any difference. Instead of cursing the duo poly, we need to find real ways to change it, if there are any. Personally, I think the whole fabulous planet is doomed by greed and ignorance.
Luckily, as a biologist and worshiper of the Complex Adaptive System that is the Biosphere, I can assure you that some bacteria and fungi will make it through whatever holocaust we idiots devise. And it'll require eons of course. But life will re-evolve. And if the fungi in their Millennia of plant root mutualistic symbioses have managed to actually have pseudo intercourse and taken up some plant genes, it could go faster (personal hypothesis). I share this because it is how I stay sane.
Acid might do the job?
You wanna burn out their eyes, Jenny? Blind leading the blind? I think we already have that here in Murica. Hopeless situation -- too many layers of un-seeing, perception of numerous phantom realities, but rarely anything approaching veritas.
Maybe LSD would help.
Biden hates ALL Americans. Supported by a gutless Congress, this slimeball glorified murder and mayhem. No sewage plant would want anything to do with this dreg of humanity. He's ugliness personified, the wretched refuse of a nation now showing it's going down, down, down. He's not the only president we've had that detested Americans. Bye, Joe, we'll do our best to remember you as the most hated President in our history.
Ok, but he did have some accomplishment.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/395517/joe-biden-food-stamps-snap-legacy
https://navigatorresearch.org/lowering-drug-prices-and-investing-in-infrastructure-are-most-popular-and-known-biden-accomplishments/
Yes, he definitely did have some accomplishments and did some good. Biden also made progress on cancelling some student debt, and many other things.
And that's what people need to understand - politics is RARELY a black-and-white issue - there are some positive developments and some negative developments. Though with Trump, for the life of me I can see NO positive accomplishments/developments (unless you are talking about the benefits for the oligarchy, corporations, and tech-bros, and monopolists).
There MAY be unintended consequences (both positive and negative) arising from an administration's policies, but I'm unwilling to give ANY Administration ANY credit for such effects.
Just like Hitler's Germany?
Well I feel that way about Ukraine. Plenty of blame on both Putin and Biden. I know that's not a popular viewpoint on this substack.
Putin is very similar to Trump - another strongman - fascist, authoritarian, dictatorial. Like you said in your comment - not many people (on this substack) understand or have enough knowledge about Russia and its history, hence the over-representation of Russo-philes here.
We also don't know who on here is a plant. I'm reading Careless People about Facebook and Zuckerberg. Facebook worked closely with the first drumpf campaign and engineered his win.
People love things to be B&W, which is not always the case.
Do you seriously consider suspending civil rights, enforcing illegal mandates and forced injection with experimental technology that is completely ineffective against a theoretical threat to be “doing quite a commendable job”?
All that is crazy right wing conspiracies and disinformation. You must love RFK Jr.
Have been a far-left, ultra-liberal, democratic socialist since the 1980s. Odd that both wings of the american political party bird accuse me of aligning with the other when my disgust for political affiliation is completely non-partisan. How are you not embarrassed by or at least concerned about posting support for genocide funding politicians on a public social media platform where your support for genocide will remain as evidence to be used against you when war crimes trials begin?
Actually no, not fond of rfkJR at all.
Are you denying that the biden administration enforced ineffective “mandates” and restrictions that violated civil rights and suspended liberties like congregating in public parks and libraries and churches?
Are you denying that an experimental technology was forced on the population through requiring injections that violated bodily autonomy? Injections that although promoted with ceaseless propaganda as a sure-fire termination of the theoretical phantom proved to do nothing to prevent “infection” and in fact increased risk of sickness and are correlated with serious adverse reactions?
Do you not consider restricting congregation in public spaces like restaurants, parks and churches/libraries/community centers, forced masking and mandatory injection with experimental technology to be suspension of civil liberties or do you just deny that they happened? Or are you just one of those delusional, obsessive compliance disorder sufferers who actually still beLIEve there was/is a “covid” “virus”.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
What exactly do you think this worldometer link proves?
Wait a moment.
you think that a theoretical phantom more than 109 million Americans “recovered” from somehow killed 1 million Americans? Less than 1% of the “infected”.
But I am the insane conspiracy nut?
When, where, how and by who was the “sars-cov2” “virus” obtained from a patient suffering distinct illness with no other known or suspected cause, reduced to a purified isolate required to establish Gold Standard for diagnostic testing and demonstrated to cause identical illness when “infecting” a new host?
How else is disease causation demonstrated and proven?
Without purified isolate to establish Gold Standard for diagnostic testing what exactly are tests testing for other than non-specific biological markers considered synonymous with infection by the phantom theoretical “virus” but that have NEVER been demonstrated to cause disease?
Clearly you are the crazy one.
Failure of the religion of virology has been the main focus of my life since 1987.
Let me guess…you probably still beLIEve that a theoretical “hiv” “virus” causes sexually transmitted epidemic immune failure disease that although proposed theory of it’s existence predicted “explosion into general heterosexual population” by 1990 is still forty years later primarily restricted to original risk groups obsessively testing and treating/pre-treating for the theoretical phantom, don’t you?
I think you're insane, seriously.
That's one of the problems with Caitlin's substack (and substack in general) - too many anti-vaxxers and science-deniers.
They're so sure of themselves. At first I would think, did I miss some report? I wonder if he belongs to the flat earth cult. This guy doesn't even believe people died of covid. And to think that the godawful orange slime was the one who opened Pandora's Box.
Demonstrate your comprehension of the “science” you claim i am denying. Demonstrate your comprehension of the longstanding, common sense rules for proving disease causation by a particular agent. Demonstrate your comprehension of the PCR technology the entire “covid pandemic” relied on to exist.
What's the take on Timothy Snyder on this substack?
Wait!! Are you one of those suffering from Obsessive Compliance Disorder who actually still beLIEves that there was/is a deadly “Covid” “virus”?
Are you unaware that the Warp Speed rushed experimental mRNA injection was/is completely useless at preventing illness and in fact is linked to countless deaths and injuries and serious adverse reactions?
Clearly you are insane. Certifiably.