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This stupid topic again

But sure

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm interested in botany too, but will eagerly vote for a Harris-(anyone) ticket over a Trump-Vance ticket. But for real I want to learn how to keep orchids alive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Oh man, such a chore. You have to make sure they get enough water but not too much water, and then they just sit there doing nothing but suddenly have this brilliant display and you think “yes, all this support was worth it!” And then nothing, for months.

But I’ll still vote Biden in the end, or whoever they offer, even though I’m above the rich people threshold - the social contract must be honored or society falls apart.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

She acts like that's a bad thing. It's the truth, and it's not the "elites," it's most democratic voters, donors, and a sizeable percentage of political elites, i.e. senators and congress people. Don't look now, AOC, but you are one of the elites.

Trading Biden for Harris is just allowing Trump to campaign against the same administration and trading a guy too old to effectively communicate for someone who is just ineffective at communicating.

I don't want Harris only slightly less than I don't want Biden. They're both losers, but not in the vague insulting sense: in the sense that they're both likely to lose to Trump.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (8 children)

GIVE IT A FUCKING REST

The whole fucking front page is already filled up with this stuff

WE ARE AWARE OF THE BIDEN STEPPING DOWN THING

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Dude I felt bad even posting these two

Because if the whole problem is “RED RED RED RED RED RED” overwhelming anything useful then “RED RED NO IT’S BLUE RED RED BLUE RED NO BLUE NO RED” is not really an improvement

But yes I did feel like both of mine were factually relevant and the minority report should be presented, and I anyway couldn’t produce any real percentagewise increase in the tide if I made it into a full time job and hired assistants

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Ignoring issues doesn't make them go away

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