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He's much more unpopular than any previous president that won reelection, he's literally unqualified for the job, he's in a weaker position than when he BARELY won the first time and he's refusing to change course on the main source of discontent, his active and ongoing participation in a genocide and other war crimes committed daily.
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Next question: Will he be replaced by one of the 50 other Democrats who could beat Donald Trump (by his own estimate) before it's too late?
I hope so, but probably not.
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Well that's a damning indictment of the American people if I ever saw one!
Yeah, it's just the systematic slaughter of mostly defenseless civilians, specifically targeting aid workers, health workers and journalists, and also tens of thousands of children!
Just flagrant daily crimes against humanity, nothing you'd care about if you weren't a chronically online Lemming! /s
You're very much on the wrong side of history if you are indifferent to the many war crimes of Israel as well as the contributions of the US and other Western countries making it possible for them to continue in perpetuity.
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Yeah, it actually DOES bother me that some people don't care about constant atrocities committed on helpless innocents. I'm kooky like that!
I wouldn't think that Donald Trump levels of casual indifference towards the mass murder and systemic torture of fellow human beings would be the norm amongst Democratic voters, but I guess it either is or there's something wrong with the methodology of the statistics you so gleefully present as redemptive of your Dear Leader..
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There's different priorities and then there's a near-total disregard for the lives and well-being of fellow humans.
There's disagreement on whether economic or social issues are more important. Whether foreign policy is important or only domestic issues really matter. Tons of room for legitimate disagreement there.
And then there's being indifferent to some of the worst atrocities humans have ever submitted other humans to being perpetrated in your name using weapons paid for by your tax dollars and political cover by the politicians you have chosen to represent you.
If that doesn't bother you, WHAT fucking does?
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Yeah, I often protest in the streets and on campuses, risking arrest or much worse from cops and Zionist agitators based on "not caring" 🙄
I'm not a statistician, so I'm gonna let someone else locate the smoking gun, but those statistics CANNOT reflect actual reality. Especially since at least the first one suggests that people aren't really That worried about CLIMATE CHANGE either.
I'm thinking maybe sampling bias or asking the questions in Norwegian? 🤔
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Sure, it LOOKS like English, but they didn't write the questions phonetically, so some of them might be asked with a Norwegian accent so impenetrable as to be incomprehensible!
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They don't even care whether or not they understand the questions now?
Sounds like a highly unlikely electorate 🤔
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It seems very important for you to repeat that statistical error again and again. Methinks you're a Zionist Biden apologist and just trying to checks notes make Biden look good by making the population of the United States look horrible.
I'd accuse you of the same, but I'm pretty sure that repeating yourself doesn't count 🤷
1: No, you're obviously not the least bit sorry
2: no matter how many cherry picked pieces of faulty data you pull out of your ass, it's by definition not true that voters that risk their lives for a cause don't care about that cause.
If I'm right about you being a Zionist, you obviously value non-Israeli human lives very little, but the rest of us actually tend to find them precious enough that we generally don't waste them if we can avoid it
3: only thing making me uncomfortable is your seemingly total lack of regard for humans that are inconvenient to your Dear Leader and/or your favorite fascist apartheid regime 🤷
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Fixed it for you.
Nope.
First they didn't care, now they do, just not to the point of obsession? Yay, redemption arc!
Actually, people DO tend to care about rumination and the wrong temperature in the bedroom!
I like it cool, see, and that can be difficult in the summer..
That's what they said about the students protesting the FIRST Apartheid regime, the ones protesting against the Vietnam war, and the ones protesting for civil rights with MLK and Malcolm X.
Funny how the students were on the right side of history and inspired significant change in spite of the resistance of naysayers like you, who will later pretend that they were on the right side of history the whole time.. Just like when your Dear Leader opposed desegregation bussing because he "didn't want his children to grow up in a racial jungle"..
I understand that very simple lie just fine. What's strange is how important it is for you to pretend that Americans don't care about the victims of the genocide in Gaza.
Why IS it so important to you, I wonder.. Are you one of IDF's mass murderers for hire? Maybe even one of the people in charge of the murdering? Both? 🤔
Even for the folks who are outraged by what's happening in Gaza, letting trump win isn't going to make the situation any better, and will likely make it significantly worse.
How big were the win margins in 2020 again?
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The Democrats can't afford to lose even half of that 10%.
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You asked how the electoral margins were relevant to the topic. I just answered your question.
Quibble about which issue is more important all you want, the DNC is already underwater on voter enthusiasm regardless.
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Your disagreement was not one of kind, but of scale. You're choosing to focus on polls of issue priority as if that matters when we both agree that the party can't afford to lose any support regardless of the issue.
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Precisely.
You said this:
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I didn't say it was the main source of discontent. I just think that being able to win the election is the most important thing. It doesn't have to be the "main" source to cause the problem we're all talking about.
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I obviously mistook this as a conversation about the upcoming election and Biden's chances, but I can see now that you are purely interested in correcting someone about this one thing, and not about whether or not that has an important impact on Biden's chances.
Yes wow you're right it isn't the "main" source of the discontent. Congratulations.
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I was talking about the thing the person you responded to was talking about.
Anyway, this was oddly hostile so I'm out.
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I was responding to what you said about what they said. This is generally how conversations go
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Never mind dude, there is a link, but I've already tried to explain it. You were correct in your comment, which I think is all you're bothered about.
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