Commentary from someone on a podcast was that Biden thinks that he proved wrong everyone who doubted him in the past in 2020 and that he’s sticking with that mindset now. It was a scary idea.
What’s scary is the DNC basically forced Biden out of retirement because he was the only establishment person who could beat Bernie. Biden even said at that point that he only wanted to run for one term…
Meta said it had a responsibility to allow political expression and that Americans should be able to hear from presidential nominees on an equal basis.
I hate to say it, but they’re right. They can’t silence one of the two candidates for the presidency.
The fact you think I support Trump or Facebook tells me all I need to know about the quality of the discourse in this thread. No wonder the left can’t get anything done in your shithole of a country.
Whether you like it or not, Canada is heavily dependent on said shithole of a country. You’re similarly as fucked as the rest of us if Trump wins and decides to stop protecting Canada or importing their natural resources in favor of domestic production.
Meta said it had a responsibility to allow political expression and that Americans should be able to hear from presidential nominees on an equal basis.
Meta said fascists should have their voices heard. Zuck’s a coward, what a fucking surprise.
E: though tbf it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if he’s letting trump back on the platform because he wouldn’t mind him winning. After all, trump is good for billionaires, there’s no question about that…
at this point, the people who STILL support trump are going to vote for him regardless. all this accomplishes is giving him another outlet to spew ridiculous bullshit that demonstrates his idiocy and/or incriminates himself
“Sway the election and change the country” is a ridiculous sensationalist headline as if every Rep/Dem/Ind./activists/political group in the country isn’t trying to do the same thing, regardless of their place on the spectrum.
I’d be much more wary of the RNC and DNC than some rich guys who made their own group with a super-cool name.
Until money is limited in the political game, nothing will ever really change. Hell, we still argue about things that happened a hundred years ago. We still go back and forth over the same issues to which we all could have found compromises.
But being too busy saying “I’m right and you’re wrong” is why America is rapidly falling behind.
I just want people to see that every “side” does the same thing.
I don’t think democracy can thrive, or maybe even survive, when individuals are allowed to accumulate unlimited amounts of wealth. Wealth is power, it always has been and it always will be. The more resources a person owns and controls, the more power they have.
When Dr. Ruth Westheimer was just 9 years old, her father was taken away by the Gestapo. It was a week after Kristallnacht. Her mother was able to get her to safety in Switzerland a year later, but both of her parents were murdered in the Holocaust. Her father died at Auschwitz and there is no record of what happened to her mother.
Also, while you would never have expected this of her, she was trained as a sniper in the Israeli military (she never saw combat).
From Wikipedia:
Of this experience, she said, “I never killed anybody, but I know how to throw hand grenades and shoot.”[28] She became an ace sniper, and learned to assemble a rifle in the dark.[22][12] When she was 90 years old, she demonstrated that she was still able to put together a Sten gun with her eyes closed.[29]
(Sorry, there does not appear to be video of that bit at the end.)
Yes, she was a Zionist, but I can’t really blame her after what she went through and I never heard her advocate for any sort of mistreatment of Palestinians.
More importantly, she helped destigmatize sex in America and gave people a way to ask very frank sexual questions and get professional advice, rather than from Penthouse Forum or whatever. It helped that she didn’t in any way fit into society’s beauty standards for a woman- it showed that any kind of person could have an active and fulfilling sex life. She was also a very early advocate for AIDS research and was a major advocate for legalized abortion.
So she was a complicated person with a tragic past, but I think she left the world in a better place and I am glad she did so.
Absolutely necessary. Body image issues are huge and lots of people think they are too ugly for anyone to want to have sex with them. Unlike Dr. Ruth, most people having this public discussion conform to societal beauty standards and that makes people think that they won’t get to have sex unless they live up to those standards.
Body image issues coupled with social anxiety is a path to inceldom.
If you ever get the chance to see it, Becoming Dr Ruth is a great one person play that details her life story. Our local theater group hosted it this year and we really enjoyed it.
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