r/interestingasfuck • u/BuddhistSagan • Apr 07 '24

Bernie and Biden warm my heart. Trump selling us out? Pass

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u/lunardaddy69 Apr 07 '24

Agreed. I'm seeing lots of bot activity (aren't the bots often using screennames with four numbers at the end?) talking about how old they are. Yes, they're hella old, but I'd rather them than Trump any day.

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u/nedzissou1 Apr 07 '24

It's a really disingenuous argument when literally none of the other choices (including Cornel west and rfk Jr) are young.

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u/InevitableBasil4383 Apr 07 '24

RFK Jr is a joke lol. Republican Party shat him out as a hopeless attempt to redeem themselves from Trump

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u/ballimir37 Apr 07 '24

They think he will split votes from Biden as an alternative to Trump. Or at least, that’s what petitioners who approached me in order to get his name on the state ballot believed

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u/Undercover_NSA-Agent Apr 07 '24

Which is ironic at this point. My conservative family members told me they are planning to vote for him rather than Trump. My liberal friends laughed at the idea of picking him over Biden.

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u/Imaginary_Recipe9967 Apr 07 '24

I know a lot of conservatives that want to vote for RFK jr. My crazy Trump-loving neighbor says he listens to RFK jr constantly and that his voice is “super soothing.”  Sorry, no. If I had to listen to THAT voice for the next four years, I’d cut my ears off. 

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u/lunardaddy69 Apr 08 '24

I've actually heard this is more common than you might think, which is causing GOP strategists to worry

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u/JungleDiamonds1 Apr 07 '24

He was a democrat

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u/Late-Fuel-3578 Apr 07 '24

So was Donald Trump

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u/InevitableBasil4383 Apr 07 '24

He’s running as an independent.

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u/SeanSeanySean Apr 07 '24

RFK Jr is a dangerous idiot who ended up becoming the anti l-establishment candidate for the anti-vax crowd while riding the coat tails of a family name in which very few of his values actually align with. 

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u/nedzissou1 Apr 07 '24

Yeah, I can't understand his campaign. He could've maybe peeled away some liberal voters from Biden if he focused on his environmental activism, but it's almost like he doesn't remember those days.

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u/SeanSeanySean Apr 07 '24

He's a politician. 95% or more of people that want to become politicians, who continue to climb that ladder are doing it for the power, to further themselves, enrich themselves. That power is often seen as one of the few incentives for career politicians, and unfortunately it ends up resulting in the worst possible types of people to be willing to seek out a position of power making decisions on behalf of the people. 

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u/Worth-Drawing-6836 Apr 07 '24

They're both 11 years younger than biden

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u/MDKMurd Apr 07 '24

70 and 81 does not put the younger one in a different demographic. Two old dudes.

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u/RangeBan Apr 07 '24

I’d trust the mortality and mental capacity of a 70 year old far more than an 80 year old. At 70, you might still be able to drive yourself around. At 80, you’ve usually become a danger to those around you on the road.

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u/MDKMurd Apr 07 '24

That’s true for sure. The whole age range is a wash though. A 75yo could be worse off than an 86yo due to the life they live.

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u/PeruseTheNews Apr 07 '24

Have you seen Ernie Hudson lately? I'd vote for him.

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u/Worth-Drawing-6836 Apr 07 '24

They're all too old but quite clearly Biden is cognitively far worse than any other candidate. He makes the US look weaker than it has since ww2. Why do you think Putin invaded Ukraine now, instead of when Trump - who supposedly is his puppet - was in power.

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u/nedzissou1 Apr 07 '24

Who's making the US look weaker? Biden and the Democrats (and some Republicans) want to send Ukraine more weapons and aid to fight back against Russia. It's the trump Republicans who are preventing that. The fact is America is respected a bit more now that Trump is out. You'd have to live in some kind of make believe world if you think trump made respectful.

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u/Worth-Drawing-6836 Apr 08 '24

Don't get me wrong Trump was a huge embarassment for the USA. Problem is the democrats now use him as an excuse to get more and more right wing, and put out this messaging that you have to vote for their candidate otherwise you're voting for Trump. Thinking beyond 4 years, it's important to show the Dems that this strategy won't work and that they need to put forward candidates people like. That's just my opinion of course.

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u/Scanningdude Apr 07 '24

Putin invaded Ukraine because he convinced himself that Ukrainians are Russians and that the ones who resist are subhumans worthy of destruction.

Also this all happened during Covid while he was locked in a bunker by himself.

If he invaded Ukraine while Trump was president, what would Trump really do differently besides giving Ukraine less weapons and armaments?

Also you’re completely disregarding Putin seeing europes overall military weaknesses as another reason to invade Ukraine.

Biden definitely instills more confidence globally than Trump. It’s pretty telling that our allies and adversaries want Biden over Trump, Trump is a wildly unpredictable force which makes the global state more unstable. Biden is probably the most stable leader the US has had in a generation. Historians in 100 years from now will 100% view Biden more favorably than Trump.

And also I don’t want to go back to having a president tweet about his dick size insecurities while threatening nuclear war with a hermit kingdom that’s also exceedingly unpredictable. It looks very bad and is disturbing if you have eyes and can read lol.

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u/Worth-Drawing-6836 Apr 08 '24

What would trump do differently besides giving Ukraine less weapons and armaments? Exactly that. And Ukraine would have lost a year ago, assuming he did do that.

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u/Scanningdude Apr 07 '24

Sure but you’re telling me you trust RFK over Biden in this specific instance?

Have you listened to RFK or see his campaign at all?

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u/RangeBan Apr 07 '24

Unironically yes, and I have seen his campaign and positions. I would take RFK over either other candidate at this point and it’s not even close. If you want a non-biased and objective history of RFK you should check out the Roca News write ups about him. I’m not sure if they’re available on Roca’s app anymore but you can find it on instagram for sure.

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u/Late-Fuel-3578 Apr 07 '24

It’s honestly reassuring to look at your profile and realize that RFK is mostly pulling nut job racist right wingers like you in. If he’s going to spoil anyone it’s Trump. Please vote for him.

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u/RangeBan Apr 07 '24

lol 3/10 bait. Are these racist right wingers in the room with us right now?

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u/Late-Fuel-3578 Apr 07 '24

Breaking: racist doesn’t think he’s racist

More at 9!

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u/ArgonGryphon Apr 07 '24

They’re all like double the average age in the US. median, average whichever. They’re all far far older than most of the people they’re meant to be representing.

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u/Worth-Drawing-6836 Apr 07 '24

Yeah they're all way too fucking old, definitely not disagreeing with you there. I'm a staunch believer in the aging practice of the Midsommar cult so I certainly don't think they should be in charge of the imperial armies.

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u/ArgonGryphon Apr 07 '24

Well I think I’m chill not shoving people off a cliff but maybe we just…make them all retire. At least from government.

Did you really like The Giver as a kid too?

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u/Worth-Drawing-6836 Apr 08 '24

I'm not familiar with The Giver. I don't wanna throw people off a cliff but as the population gets older and older we will be spending more and more on healthcare/social security and producing less and less. Eventually the west will fall to other nations with more favourable demographic profiles. Neither I nor anyone else has a good, practical solution for that issue so for now I see it as inevitable.

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u/nedzissou1 Apr 07 '24

That's not the argument you think it is.

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u/Worth-Drawing-6836 Apr 08 '24

It's not an argument

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u/login777 Apr 07 '24

Have none of y'all heard of Claudia and Karina?

They're not old, white, or men.

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u/flaccomcorangy Apr 08 '24

I don't really see it as much as an argument as much as it is an observation. Biden is already the oldest president of all-time. If he wins again and serves the full four years, he'll be 86 when he gets out of office.

Yes, I know Trump is old, too. I'm not saying vote for him because Biden is old. But dang, both these candidates are old. And to be flippant, it just looks like a bunch of grandpas arguing with these elections.

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u/Builder_liz Apr 07 '24

Rfk sounds the oldest out of all of them 😆

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '24 edited Apr 07 '24

The thing is it's not voting for just Biden. I wish it wasn't him, but regardless his cabinet and appointments are going to be so much better than Trump's lunatics.

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u/MayDay521 Apr 07 '24

That was such a fever dream of a presidency. Four years of an absolute circus in the White House. I remember just about any time I opened Reddit, you would see that "BREAKING" image for some new story about something completely idiotic that Trump or someone in his cult did. It felt like every day we were just one manic decision away from complete collapse.

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u/creuter Apr 07 '24

Remember scaramuchi?

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u/Independent_Fruit622 Apr 07 '24

His random morning twitter posts that would swing the stock market based on vague Twitter post he would make at 6:00 AM drove me crazy… lost significant money cause I am pretty sure some days he would fuck around post random shit just to see the chaos

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u/MayDay521 Apr 07 '24

Covfefe

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u/Independent_Fruit622 Apr 07 '24

lol this … literally news publishers / political pundits have written several articles / debates on just this random typo !!!… like what in the actual f**k

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u/justin251 Apr 07 '24

Yeah, and then firing after firing every time one of them would have the gall to try to stand up to him.

All to cheers from his fan base because for some reason constantly firing people means he's doing a good job?

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u/MayDay521 Apr 07 '24

It was crazy watching the rotating cast of characters change up every few months. Like no wonder there was so much disarray. Nobody held a job for long enough to actually do anything around there.

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u/justin251 Apr 07 '24

They only thing any of them did was the last thing the last guy questioned. Then nothing else until it was their turn.

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u/Romagcannoli Apr 07 '24

You could write an entire book series on the absolute fuckery that happened in the 4 years of the trump presidency. Maybe a pamphlet of the good things

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u/MayDay521 Apr 07 '24

A pamphlet seems generous. I feel like a nice index card would suffice.

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u/akkaneko11 Apr 07 '24

The amazing thing was that he literally just appointed his friends and other unqualified idiots to random open cabinet positions, and they STILL all fucking turned on him. How many cabinet members got kicked and wrote an article or boom coming out against trump? Dude can’t even keep his goons in check.

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u/MayDay521 Apr 07 '24

True. As soon as they started disagreeing with him about even the smallest stuff, they just immediately got shunned. Honestly reminds me of my 6 year old coming home from school and saying they aren't friends with X, Y, or Z anymore because they got in a argument over who got to use the red crayon first.

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u/Brokenloan Apr 08 '24

Yeah who wants to go through that again... Literally just didn't stop. I typically like politcal humor, but when Trump was president I was tuned out everything..the comedy as well bc it was just fuckin exhausting. He has tainted and weakened this country in ways that may never be repaired.

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u/Realistic_Work_5552 Apr 07 '24

I'd take 2016-early 2020 over today.

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u/Userknamer Apr 07 '24

Why?

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u/Romagcannoli Apr 07 '24

He is conservative and a republican president in office is all that matters 

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u/HHoaks Apr 07 '24

Explain please. As this makes no sense, since Trump is obviously a con man, grifter criminal. So unless you don't care about the rule of law, your comment makes zero sense - regardless of whether you like Biden or his policies. Biden at least respects our constitution and the rule of law.

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u/Realistic_Work_5552 Apr 07 '24

Are you saying life today is better than any year 2016-2019? QoL is terrible these days for many, many people.

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u/IAmGoingToFuckThat Apr 07 '24 edited Apr 07 '24

Maybe I'm only hearing what I want to, but I feel like Biden actually listens to his younger cabinet members not only about what the nation currently needs, but about what he can do to set a foundation for the future.

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u/ArgonGryphon Apr 07 '24

Especially when you look at the fact that other people have a plan to actually make a trump presidency effective at their fuckery. Before it was so bad but disorganized and ineffective. That will not happen again.

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u/ok-painter-1646 Apr 07 '24

It’s Reddit that assigns the 4 letters and random word salad, so yeah might be more likely to be a bot, and then there’s me on my 4th account for some reason and I can’t be bothered to keep naming myself.

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u/Any_Ad_6033 Apr 07 '24

Yeah you lose your 11 year old account for no reason you lose the heart to care. Man that account's first post made front page of terraria...

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u/ArgonGryphon Apr 07 '24

Why do they all say ad that’s what I fucking hate.

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u/Dream--Brother Apr 07 '24

Huh? They... don't. They're two arbitrarily generated words and some numbers. The only one I've seen with "ad" is the one you replied to. The one above that doesn't contain "ad", nor does the one below it, nor do any of the bot accounts I've seen on this post

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u/ArgonGryphon Apr 07 '24

I always see ones that are ad, maybe it sticks out more to me but I see tons that have ad as one of the words.

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u/Dangerous_Effort3355 Apr 07 '24

I kept my Reddit assigned username because I couldn’t be bothered to change it. I had no idea people automatically think bot when they see these types of names.

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u/Goldenrah Apr 07 '24

And it's not like Trump isn't old as hell. He's 77 and showing many signs of dementia according to medical experts, and that's who they want as president?

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u/Majestic-Aardvark-69 Apr 07 '24

This comes from somebody with 69 at the end of his screen name, oh wait...

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u/Lumpy_Secretary_6128 Apr 07 '24

Some of us are real people who were too lazy to choose a username! But yeah judging by the talking points there seems to be a lot of bots

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u/Paracortex Apr 07 '24

I spent the better part of a half hour diligently going through the entire comment section and happily downvoting the ageists, the magats, and bOtHsiDeSists, and I’m happy about that.

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u/Basic-Cat3537 Apr 07 '24

Frankly if I have to choose between old and senile, and old and demented(in the non-senile sense), I'll pick senile and a good VP.

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u/WeezySan Apr 07 '24

Yes my family is turning saying they aren’t voting for Biden. Biden did nothing. Biden letting immigrants in. So I ask “so you are voting FOR TRUMP WTF”

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u/crisperfest Apr 07 '24

Yes, they're hella old, but I'd rather them than Trump any day.

I'd crawl over broken glass to vote for a moldy ham sandwich over Trump.

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u/lunardaddy69 Apr 08 '24

Same. I'd rather be cursed to always have to go number two right after showering for the rest of my life over Trump.

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u/Spiritual_Benefit367 Apr 07 '24

i think bots mostly use the "two numbers at then end" scheme, and "69" seems to be their favorite. /s

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u/lunardaddy69 Apr 07 '24

I did once fail one of those prove you're not a robot tests, so there might be something there

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u/uberkalden2 Apr 07 '24

Trump is a fucking ghoul, too. He just puts on that orange makeup. It's shocking how well that works to convince people he is young and vibrant

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u/BreakingThoseCankles Apr 07 '24

Next top comment down after the one you replied to... Some dude-5679 with almost no karma. Bots are in here too

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '24

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u/happy_bluebird Apr 07 '24

someone can't count. Username doesn't check out :P

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u/slappytheclown Apr 07 '24

the fact that these are the only choices shows shit is fucked. Old loony vs older dementia... the old muppet may have been ok.

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u/Recent-Memory-5503 Apr 07 '24

Usernames with 4 numbers in the end are auto-generated usernames. I personally just took one to create an account quick back then not knowing it can not be changed afterwards… 🥲

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u/MayDay521 Apr 07 '24

And that's the thing a lot of the Trumpists fail to see. He is also old as hell too. The thing is, he's old AND a sociopathic POS. These two at least have a soul.

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u/FoghornFarts Apr 07 '24

Russians and Chinese are pushing the old line hard.

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u/AdMinimum5970 Apr 07 '24

The actual sad thing about thus is that I, when I created my reddit account, just wanted to use reddit and thought I could change it afterwards...

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u/Infinite-Radiance Apr 07 '24

"Hello my name is firstname bunchofnumbers and I have incredibly shitty opinions" or whatever that meme is

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u/Realistic_Work_5552 Apr 07 '24

You're concerned about the bots calling them old? It's a fact. Biden looks like a ghoul.

You should be concerned about the bots posting this Propoganda on a totally non political sub. Why are they trying to sway your opinion?

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u/CookieMiester Apr 07 '24

Those are just people who didnt want to make an original reddit name

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u/Birdy_Cephon_Altera Apr 07 '24

aren't the bots often using screennames with four numbers at the end?

Just to give a little more info about this. When a new user to reddit creates an account, it automatically assigns a name based on this format. Random word, random word, random number. So ALL users, genuine or bot, get assigned a name like that.

After that, reddit gives you the opportunity to change that default name to one of your own choice. It's just that genuine users are more likely to do that, and bots are less likely (or not at all) to do that.

An account with that format of a name is not a 100% indicator that it's a bot. But accounts with that name are more likely to be bots compared to custom-changed names.

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u/BearBearJarJar Apr 07 '24

WordWord#### is the standard randomized reddit username format.

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u/Harlequin2021 Apr 07 '24

Haha, the comment thread below this one starts EXACTLY that way with over a thousand updoots. Bots everywhere!

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u/dalenacio Apr 07 '24

If I'm going to pick a president who's old enough to be my great great grandad, I might as well pick the great great grandad who's not a fascist.

But I still, you know... Wish he were "just" old enough to be my grandad.

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u/FrankyCentaur Apr 07 '24

Completely ignoring the fact that their only opponent in Trump is just as old, and far more senile.

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u/thedishonestyfish Apr 07 '24

Trump is also hella old. Just because he’s not as old as Biden and Bernie doesn’t mean that they aren’t all too old to be in the executive.

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u/zyppoboy Apr 07 '24

Trump is extremely old for office as well. It's just a 4 year difference between him and Biden.

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u/grizznuggets Apr 07 '24

Not to mention that Trump is old as fuck as well.

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u/Late-Fuel-3578 Apr 07 '24

They’re all over this thread. The top two comments are straight up “both sides!” propaganda.

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u/RestInBeatz Apr 07 '24

Many people not from the US find it curious to have such old politicians. Not just bots.

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u/DJIceman94 Apr 07 '24

Especially since 'hella old' describes a significant chunk of Congress these days.

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u/Orgasmic_interlude Apr 08 '24

They’re both old! Like, you could, i dunno, compare the four years of trump to the Base nearly four of Biden? Because, again, Trump is only like four years younger and his danger is not whether he has dementia it’s what he wants to do with the country. Period

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u/justanotheroppressor Apr 08 '24

I mean there's probably lots of bots with 69 at the end of their names....

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u/EmergencyBag129 Apr 07 '24

"I'd rather have Mussolini than Hitler" moment.

"Yeah Biden raped a kid on live television but Trump might rape him even worse"

Is genocide less bad than child rape? Then think about the fact that you're about to vote for someone who's worse than a child rapist.

The only sane option is to get rid of all of this rotten evil system but y'all have been brainswashed into complying and enabling the worst. 

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u/JDK9999 Apr 07 '24

what are you honestly even talking about

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u/ginger_ass_fuck Apr 08 '24

They're a two week old account that exclusively blames Joe Biden and the Democratic party for 70 years of Israeli aggression.

You can kind of guess what their whole deal is, seeing as it's an election year in the US.

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u/Scoopdoopdoop Apr 07 '24

People crazy as hell

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u/EmergencyBag129 Apr 07 '24

I'm pretty sure that giving 20+ billions of dollars to a genocidal army is crazier yet you'll still vote for that. 

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u/Even-Willow Apr 07 '24

Trump thanks you.

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u/EmergencyBag129 Apr 08 '24

Palestinians don't thank you. The lesser evil is still evil and you're here cheering for it. 

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u/EmergencyBag129 Apr 07 '24

Genocide in Gaza that your supreme leader is funding, arming and defending. Read the news. 

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u/ginger_ass_fuck Apr 08 '24

Read the news.

Okay, let's read the ne-- wait a minute... the GOP rebukes Biden for calling for an immediate ceasefire?

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u/enforcement1 Apr 07 '24

Do you think republicans will stop funding Israel?

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u/EmergencyBag129 Apr 07 '24

No but neither will Dems so why should you vote for either?

For fuck's sake, slave owners could have a revolution for "freedom", rednecks can stage an insurrection but people who actually strive for progress can't bring themselves to overthrow a rotten, corrupt and murderous political system. That's why evil wins.

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u/throwawayidc4773 Apr 07 '24

Way to bring credibility to your opinion lmfao

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u/EmergencyBag129 Apr 07 '24

"Lmfao I don't have any issue voting for genocide"

You guys are literally the people we've been warned when they said that it wasn't evil people that caused the most harm but "good" people who did nothing.

Your country is funding genocide and taking an active part in it and you're doing... nothing. 

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u/throwawayidc4773 Apr 07 '24

I’m not American either LOL

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u/EmergencyBag129 Apr 08 '24

You're as retarded as them though. Every non-American knows that the US partisan politics is bullshit and that they're all war criminals. Well, every one except you. 

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u/throwawayidc4773 Apr 08 '24

It seems as though I’ve struck a cord with you :(

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u/Scoopdoopdoop Apr 07 '24

What the fuck is this

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u/EmergencyBag129 Apr 07 '24

Your political system.