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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
This would be unlike any other election how? Putin's effective, but he's hardly an innovator. There has never been an election in history in which politicians were not lying about one another, or interested third parties weren't interfering.
Also, it's generally a wash. I listen to the Left and hear a form of delusional thinking, naivete, considerable idiocy, and lack of concrete plans. Biden's a senile old man whose platform boils down to, "I'm not Trump. I'm going to raise taxes. But I'm also going to cozy up to all the corporations, so on almost any policy, their interests will come first. I will serve my neo-liberal owners."
OK. Fine.
From Trump you hear most of the same shit. He's similarly bought and paid for, and unlike Biden, he'll offer lower taxes. The problem with Trump is he's nuts, and I'm exhausted with the imbecile. The layer of crazy and stupid shit he piles on top of everything he does makes it impossible for me to vote for him. I also get creeped out by Barr. I suspect he may try to restart the war on drugs in earnest.
No good choice.
People on the left believe tons of dumb shit. People here admit that every day. They argue for silly policies that could never really work. They believe delusional things. Too much of the left is simply really fucking stupid.
The right is delusional and possibly psychotic. It lives in reality of its own and is filled with illiterate jackasses. It's almost entirely stupid, and the portion of it that isn't is craven and malevolent.
So you have credulous morons who ought to know better on the left and credulous morons who are pitiably dumb on the right. Either way, you have credulous morons believing a whole lot of seriously idiotic shit. I should be upset that there are so many fools in the voting public? Is that what you're suggesting? I am. But it seems to be Our National Condition. I find it hard to remain truly angry at something so prevalent there's almost no chance of it changing.
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Taibbi hates the US security national security and intelligence apparatus and is likely compromised by the Russians (two things that are likely interrelated). What’s your excuse?
Right now is the absolute dumbest time for this false equivalence nonsense. As just the easiest example, who on the left is doing the equivalent of trying to suppress testing to pretend the pandemic is no big deal?
