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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
I am the first to suggest that you can indeed tackle more than one issue at a time. I am also aware that things have priorities and prerequisites, which was the point of my house-on-fire metaphor that you clearly missed. The thing you are complaining about does not matter one iota if Biden loses the election and Trump stays in; the house has burnt down. Putting your energy into that thing right now is a waste when winning the election is also a prerequisite for it bloody mattering at all. Win the election. Put out the fire.
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And I think you're naive if you think putting Biden in puts out the fire. The fire is raging because people such as Biden have been at the controls for 40+ years. Trump is definitely akin to substituting the water in the fire hose with gasoline, but the fire was already raging before he got into power.
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dino7c is likely correct in his assessment of the intent of Biden's statement. Just ask yourself if you think Biden is supportive of having unmarked officers randomly kidnap citizens. I think we all know the answer.
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Words matter and rhetoric often has consequences. This is playing the same "that's not what he meant" card that MAGAs toss out every time Trump says something colossally stupid.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
There's ~90 days left. It's time to swallow pride and play the game, and get to better. There will be four years of accountability after that. Biting your tongue for 90 days isn't going to change that.
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I'm fully in agreement with holding your nose and choosing the best of two bad options. I don't agree with holding your tongue.
This is the same line Democrats have been tossing out every election. "This election is too important to focus on our own issues. Just vote for us and we'll sort it out in the next four years." The first half of that statement is true, but there's zero reason to have any faith in the second half of it. The Democrats have constantly used the fear of moving backwards to justify never moving forward.
There's also zero reason to think Joe Biden, a largely career centre-right politician, is going to make meaningful reform on most of the major issues plaguing American society and politics.