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  • EightBitBlood@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldmale voters
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    Would you prefer Joe Biden and his Ass Cancer had ridden it out until the end instead of handing it off to his VP?

    I would have preffered the DNC dropped Joe with enough time to run a primary that DNC voters could have picked a candidate from. Especially given that he had cancer and likely knew about it during the election.

    Instead, he dropped out way too late.

    Because the DNC thought someone with ass cancer would look strong in a debate against a drugged up Trump.

    Then they panicked when ass cancer grandpa failed the easiest debate in the history of presidential debates and then wasn’t polling as the “strong incumbent” you were made to believe he was.

    The DNC waited too long to realise Biden wouldn’t win against billions of disinformation spending, and all they had to do was hold another primary to elect a new candidate to win.

    Instead they waited too long - switched to Kamala too late - and then completely ran out of time.

    Just like they took too long to persecute Trump. Too long to expand the court. Too long to codify Roe vs Wade. Too long for Democracy to be protected in a meaningful way.

    And certainly too long to realize the young male supporters of Bernie have been going to Trump for decades now because the DNC labeled their very reasonable concerns as just dumb “Bernie Bros” BS instead of “the only voting base that can win American elections.”

    I wasn’t exaggerating in my original post, Bernie would have won against Trump by +10 on average according to every general poll conducted before the DNC primary, even by Fox News.

    Here are all those polls collected, I’ll bet it’s the first time you’ve ever seen them:

    https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2016/trump-vs-sanders

    Instead the DNC thought Hillary would still be good enough. And they still haven’t learned why that was a mistake when they thought Biden would be too.

    Bernie would have unquestionably won against Trump. Period full stop. You should be furious the DNC made you think Hillary was better when she statistically wasn’t, just like you should be mad at the DNC for making someone with cancer debate a criminal.

    You aren’t holding the DNC accountable for shitting the bed ever, so they keep doing it, now to the cost of our Democracy. They literally prefered a Trump president over actual progressive policies, so that’s what we have, and always will with the current DNC.


  • A 6 month old baby who has no control over being born in Israel literally can’t do anything to help the cessation of violence. The elderly, disabled, ill, or abused, literally can’t do anything to help the cessation of violence.

    There are a lot of people that have no ways or means to do anything to stop what Israel is doing. They are just stuck there.

    So I don’t think their deaths should be viewed as a necessity to stop this conflict just because Israel is hiding behind them.


  • EightBitBlood@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldmale voters
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    My dude.

    Kamala wasn’t chosen through a primary. Did you forget that?

    The Dems are already acting as rediculous as you think they shouldn’t be.

    And they have been for a long time. At least since Bernie.

    Everyone in the US memory holed the DNC trial where they went to court and defended their right to pick whoever the fuck they wanted for a candidate over holding primaries.

    https://observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders/

    In June 2016, a class action lawsuit was filed against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz for violating the DNC Charter by rigging the Democratic presidential primaries for Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders.

    DNC attorneys argued that the DNC would be well within their rights to select their own candidate.

    “In evaluating Plaintiffs’ claims at this stage, the Court assumes their allegations are true—that the DNC and Wasserman Schultz held a palpable bias in favor Clinton and sought to propel her ahead of her Democratic opponent,”

    So the DNC has learned nothing and already is as stupid as you think they shouldn’t be.

    Here’s what the DNC should do: Support who their voters think is popular, not their corporate financers.

    All this bullshit could have been avoided if they did that with Bernie the first time. They learned nothing then did it again with Biden/ Kamala a second time. Now they’re doing it again with Mamdani for a third.


  • I’m about to be shit on as a Zionist for defending the death of innocent children, but here goes:

    Isreal is just as full of innocent children. They don’t deserve to die for the genocide their parents are being tricked into ignoring.

    The armor is for those children. Not their parents. AOC is literally saying that defending the lives of innocents matter more than attacking genociders. When they are mixed together, you can’t target one without the other.

    So yeah, the Iron Dome protects genociders, but it also protects their kids and other innocent people. It actually protects civilians and their children far more than it protects the politicians who don’t even live there.






  • Again you confuse cause and effect…

    My friend. I am not confusing anything. However, you are very much confusing reality with fantasy and arguing as if that fantasy is real.

    … term limits could have easily meant justices losing their seats during Bush and Trump bringing about the same effect or worse.

    This is a hypothetical. You are arguing as if it is real. It is not. I could just as easily assume the opposite would be true. That term limits would have completely prevented this current situation of a 6-3 court. Because it unquestionably would have if the terms were short enough. So even if we were talking about theoreticals here, your outcome is much less likely and shouldn’t be assumed as true.

    If we had gotten luckier or smarter with strategic resignation…

    Again. Another hypothetical to explain a clear shortcoming with a lack of term limits. We weren’t lucky. At all.

    Your comment is more an insight into how you are personally coping with what a lack of term limits have done to this country rather than a debate over their necessity.

    I mean honestly, I think you are basically dillusional if you can’t agree that the current Supreme Court has corruption there for life - and the only fix to prevent that happening is term limits.

    we could be talking about lifetime appointments keeping the judiciary independent from the president and protecting democracy.

    Literally this has now been proven to not work with lifetime appointments. Cause and effect has lead us to lifetime appointed judges working towards the interest of themselves rather than the people. We live in an absolutley unquestionable reality where lifetime appointments to the judiciary have directly caused that judiciary to no longer be Independant from the President. They literally ruled for Trump to be King while Biden was still in office ffs.

    If you want to talk about cause and effect, how about we start in reality - do you think term limits would fix the current SC?



  • Your position is like arguing that cigs don’t kill you because your presently already dying of liver cancer right now.

    Nope. My position is quite literally that we should limit the amount of cigarettes we smoke so we don’t develop cancer.

    Maybe a pack a week?

    Or a single 12 year term for each Supreme Court justice?

    As proof I’ve simply pointed to how we have completely failed to limit terms in the Supreme Court and now very much have fascist cancer because of it. (Supreme Court going full MAGA and ignoring due process).

    You are making this much harder to understand than it needs to be.


  • People who are politicians for life have incentives to not be corrupt since it can end their career.

    No offense, this is an incredibly naive take that is easily disproven by the current US president and the decades of documented corruption he’s practiced in the open that did done nothing to falter his career. He has 34 felonies. He was going to trial for the largest breach of US intelligence in the history of our country.

    He was then elected president anyway.

    Social media has made the concept of political accountability into an impossibility. Any “career-ending” behavior can just be lied about on social media, turned into a firehouse of disinfo, then bots & supporters eat it up.

    Without term limits, people just need to be popular enough to get elected once - then they can use their position for personal gain for as long as they can lie about it in some way. (Forever with AI now).

    I could gesture in any direction in the world and end up pointing to a country this is happening to right now.


  • I’m sorry, but there was a court case about top secret documents in a bathroom that never went to trial in 4 fucking years. That would have stopped it.

    If Bidens AG pushed that case with the urgency it deserved, we would not be in this shit show.

    Every single one of Trumps immediate executive actions could have been tested by the Biden admin during his time to get the SC opinion on executive overreach before it was Trump doing the same.

    Specifically, Biden, at any time, could have pushed the DOJ to make the toilet trial happen immediately. But instead, we have Trumps DOJ building concentration camps in 8 days and filling it with people who have no due process.

    All it takes for evil to prevail is good men to stand by and do nothing.

    This trail was 4 years of that.

    It easily could have prevented all this. Instead it sat on a back burner and we were told it wasn’t worth watching as there was no way it would boil over.

    You want to tell me that there’s no way the Dems could have looked at that pot in 4 years to prevent it from boiling over?

    How about not taking years to look at it?

    The Dems are either gullible or stupid for taking so long, neither of which is an excuse for letting that trial never happen considering the consequences would be the supercharged orange Shitler we now have as a leader.


  • I mean, it prevents people pursuing political positions as a permanent job. Which is how corruption happens.

    It’s much easier to pay off a permanant term SC judge with a “gift” of a Bus than it is to approach a newly appointed one with the same idea.

    Term limits unquestionably help in eliminating corruption as it guarantees corruption is not only harder to accomplish the first time, but is flushed away with the end of each term.

    Corruption happens when people have their footing in politics long enough to tear at the seams. They can’t do that if they never find their footing.


  • RIP Xbox.

    Did they bother looking at the history of console launches that were above $600?

    You know, all those household names like 3DO, Jaguar, and CD-I, that prove how historically there is NOT a big audience for expensive consoles.

    Good ol Playstation even learned their lesson with the PS3.

    And now in the middle of a global recession, one where people are even turning on Nintendo for price increases - Xbox is releasing their most expensive console ever with no exclusives, and not a single reason to use this new “Xbox” because game pass is available on everything else.

    I’m sorry. But whoever is left at Xbox needs to pull their head out of their ass and breath real air.

    This move is out of the 90’s with crossbranding that smells of desperation. WHY would you call it so many names? WHY the ROG Xbox Ally? And not the Xbox Ally?

    You really just had to slap the corporate partnership with ROG in the name of the product at the front like that? People smell that bullshit ten miles away now, as it basically the equivalent of putting corporate flowers on a devices grave. Like the Verizon Blackberry Storm, or the ATT Nokia NGage.

    FFS “XBOX ALLY” is a great name! They could have even called it the “Xbox ALLY by ROG”

    Now it’s going to be another “Xbone” situation because Microsoft can’t unincorporated their brain from making terrible decisions.

    The ROG Xbox Ally is an overbranded ununique afterthought of a console designed to milk Xbox nostalgia from people that don’t have the budget or desire for an expensive portable PC.

    I wish Vegas took odds over the potential failure of this console, because it’s almost certain how much of a failure this thing is going to be at launch.

    Just my 2 cents. Haters better tell me how many of these they’re planning to buy at launch to scalp.



  • What incentive does a rich billionaire have for starting a business? Money? They have billions.

    The only business they start are for themselves / the benefit of other businesses they own. Their wealth accumulates, and it is spent only to perpetuate its growth. It does not find its way into new businesses. It does not create new sector growth.

    However, the people that want billions and don’t have it have a hell of an incentive to start a business and run it well.


  • Incredibly well said. And couldn’t agree more!

    Especially after working as a game dev for Apple Arcade. We spent months proving to them their saving architecture was faulty and would lead to people losing their save file for each Apple Arcade game they play.

    We were ignored, and then told it was a dev problem.

    Cut to the launch of Arcade: every single game has several 1 star reviews about players losing their save files.

    This cannot be fixed by devs as it’s an Apple problem, so devs have to figure out novel ways to prevent the issue from happening using their own time and resources.

    1.5 years later, Apple finishes restructuring the entire backend of Arcade, fixing the problem. They tell all their devs to reimplement the saving architecture of their games to be compliant with Apples new backend or get booted from Arcade. This costs devs months of time to complete for literally zero return (Apple Arcade deals are upfront - little to no revenue is seen after launch).

    Apple used their trillions of dollars to ignore a massive backend issue that affected every player and developer on Apple Arcade. They then forced every dev to make an update to their game at their own expense just to keep it listed on Arcade. All while directing user frustration over the issue towards developers instead of taking accountability for launching a faulty product.

    Literally, these companies are run by sociopaths that have egos bigger than their paychecks. Issues like this are ignored as it’s easier to place the blame on someone down the line. People like your manager end up getting promoted to the top of an office heirachy of bullshit, and everything the company makes just gets worse until whatever corpse is left is sold for parts to whatever bigger dumb company hasn’t collapsed yet.

    It’s really painful to watch, and even more painful to work with these idiots.