He looks uncanny in that photo.
I’d rather a 6 year old than a genocidal maniac.
So rather Trump than Trump?
Sounds like you’re planning on electing the man who wants to “finish the job”…
I’ve been watching a YouTube series called “the presidents play d&d” it’s fucking hilarious. Everytime I see shit like this I think of Donna the barbarian yelling “wake up sleepy Joe”.
If an 80 year old is the best America can do against growing fascism in their country.
We’re all doomed.
I’m not American but I support the American people, I support the Democrats and the liberal minded people of the country … but the way this election is building up is leading to something terrible. It’s like watching an enormous cargo ship on its way to slowly destroying a popular recreational marina.
please don’t support democrats or liberals, they’re genocide enablers
Please don’t support comments like the above, they’re heads in the sand enablers.
Yeah, Donald “Muslim ban” “Israel should finish the job” Trump will surely stop this conflict. Jared Kushner got how many billions from the Saudis? That was an award for creating peace in the Middle East, right? Great work, Jared. Let’s get him to head this task force. Mike Johnson wants to send in the National Guard to handle the students. Fuck those students, they should write letters to the editor if they don’t like war. Protesting is illegal, I think.
Yeah, let’s enable the government to go even further genociding Muslims at home as well as abroad. Let’s choose the guys who will prevent us from being able to vote ever again, just in case we change our minds later.
as opposed to republicans who are all about stopping genocides 🙄
If you had any morals you’d vote for Jill Stein
No, you would vote for Biden to stop Trump from finishing the job and killing all of the Palestinians. Not to mention Trump wants to round up immigrants and homeless people and put them in camps. Everyone will be worse off with Trump.
IShe said Russia was basically forced to invade Ukraine by NATO, so… She’s making excuses for genocides too. She just doesn’t care if her funders and the oligarchs she dines with are the ones committing genocide.
Oh and she still has to explain her vaccine skepticism, saying that wifi causes cancer, and her nuclear fear mongering.
Especially Trump, who famously pardoned multiple war criminals, he will absolutely be on your side /s
I think a lot of doom and gloom haunts this era and leaves us blind.
We entered the information/disinformation age very recently of course it was going to be global chaos. I think it was necessary and good things are ahead.
Every generation believes the end is nigh, they’ve all been wrong but sometimes felt and saw and swear they were right. I’m sure as Rome burned and the Aztec empire fell and the black plague devoured they thought the end was here.
Yet here we are and how irrelevant their issues are today.
You know that between 50% and 90% of the population died in all three of the examples you listed, right?
Any source on that apart from the plague?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoliztli_epidemics
The Roman Empire one is a harder one, since it was a centuries-long process with plenty of plagues, wars and migrations. It’s not hard to find sources, however, that the city of Rome fell from 1 million to 30.000 ~ 60.000 people.
That’s kind of what triggered my question, there’s a common misunderstanding that the fall of Rome was something brutal and with few causes (that are selected by politicians when they want to scare people). I think Rome losing its population can be explained by emigration rather than people dying.
You know there is a theory that a volcanic eruption reduced the human population down to 1-3,000 individuals?
Yet here we are.
This isn’t the comfort you think it is. If the bombs light up my horizon, I won’t be thinking “well, at least some remote tribe might continue a stone age humanity” while my entire family is consumed in a nuclear fire.
Okay? I’m not offering comfort. It is simply true. We all die one day and worrying about the end of our society isn’t new.
My point is there will be cataclysm. That’s it.
Y’all are so argumentative and sensitive
I’d probably be thinking “Well, fuck. That’s disappointing.”
just shrug at the mushroom cloud and go back to seeing how many upvotes my final meme got
Believe it or not, my criteria for prosperity is more than “literally somebody survives to propogate my species.”
It all depends on your perspective and what position of society you occupy.
If you are even a little bit wealthy and live in a first world country … the decline of the global world will be an inconvenience.
For the rest of the world, it will mean death, destruction, starvation and misery.
Every global societal failure in the historical past were all the same. The rich lost some of their power and got little uncomfortable. The poor died en masse.
If you edit to make that a bridge instead of a marina it would be pretty topical. Perhaps a commentary on how the owner of the ship is trying to dodge any liability whatsoever despite fucking up safety protocols.
Four more years pause!
It’s not exactly complimentary for Joe that almost all of his tribe’s the strategy is “Vote for Joe because the other guy is worse”.
One is left with the idea that “random person of the street” would be a better president than either of these assholes, which then leads to the whole “How exactly does America have Democracy when of all the possible 300 million Americans, the only two ‘choices’ the voters de facto have are worse than the average American?”
It is because the Emancipation Proclamation guy got shot in the head, leaving a dimwit to do reconstruction. Now we have a massive cult of boneheads backing a dude who led an insurrection against the country. All out of spite because a black man dared to get elected to office.
I don’t want to vote for Biden but I don’t have a choice as long as the rest of the Repubs will back whichever corrupt piece of shit the cultists push through their primaries.
Bc Democrats didn’t even bother to hold primaries - tbf, that’s common with a sitting incumbent - and while conservatives tried to hold debates before the Republican primaries, Trump just laughed them off, didn’t bother to attend, and won easily anyway.
Meanwhile, people on both sides are like “how is democracy not working”!?, while choosing to conveniently ignore that this is how democracy always works. i.e. it takes real effort, so this whole solution of waiting for Superman or whoever to save us was doomed from the start.
If we will not put forth effort to maintain something, then someone may come and take it away from us.
I’ve lived in a couple of countries in Europe and always voted when I could (being an EU Citizen, I can vote in Local and European Elections in any EU country).
From my own experience, that is not at all “how democracy always works”.
It’s at best how the American voting system always works.
Merelly “having a vote” is not the same as Democracy - just look at Russia - so the question is “How far away is the American Voting System from the ideal of Democracy and is it even a Democracy or just a Theatre Of Democracy?”. Whilst I have my own belief in that, I think it’s best if each person, looks around and really thinks about and draws their own conclusions.
It’s funny that the least democratic system I lived under - Britain, which was even worse than the US IMHO (they have a King and an unelected second chamber whose membership is lifelong and in some case hereditary) - was a place were, just like in the US, policians kept going on an on about how great a Democracy their country was, whilst in the most democratic one - The Netherlands, who though they do have a powerless Monarch, use Proportional Vote for Parliament which has all the real power - politicians never felt the need to harp about how great a Democracy they had.
Oh yeah - to clarify, I meant “things take effort to maintain” is how democracy always works, not “vote for me bc the other guy is worse”, which is only a feature of those with 2-party systems in place.
The former is also simply stating that systems tend towards entropic decay, without intervention to prop them up. So it is not unique even to just political systems. e.g. Nixon was impeached, but rather than attempt to stop future such attempts, we instead allowed people to lay the groundwork for the next attempt. And then when the January 6 coup attempt failed, once again rather than take steps to prevent such in the future, we again allowed it to fester and the same exact people who tried it before are now stating openly that they would like to try again. So… third time’s a charm, anyone? 🍀
Whereas it seems an open question whether a 2-party system can even be called a “democracy” at all, but even if it can, especially at first, it definitely shifts the field away from what people consider as the foundational principles of democracy. And that too we allowed to fester, for many decades. But surely nothing bad would ever happen, ever, for any reason, right!? Nope, it seems to me that we are all permanently safe, forever… 🍀
Well, ok, that does make a lot of sense and aligns with what I’ve been discovering myself in the last few years - Democracy is a process, not an absolute inalterable state of being.
This dovetails with a lot of things such as how parties who remain too long in power become corrupt over time no matter how honest they started as, an effect that also seems to happen when it’s two parties alternating in power (were both parties become corrupt over time, just slower).
You also see the near constant attempts at undermining the independence of the Press and Judicial Pillars of Democracy and making them subservient to the Political Pillar and/or with that same Pillar becoming subservient to other, non-state unelected powers, typically those whose power comes from Money.
Similarly with religion. e.g. Jesus said: “love one another, especially those you disagree with” - love ofc is a chosen attitude towards patience, gentleness, kindness, peace, etc., and instituted the most widespread and strongest provisions for women’s rights that the world has ever seen.
Fast-forward to today’s religious christofascists taking away women’s health options and taking sexual advantage of children and it’s just… not the same. Everything gets corrupted over time, and takes effort to preserve and persevere.
I would say that Trump is like that 14 year old edgy idealist rebel who thinks the world is better realized under their haphazard of a vision. The one who wants to get all of their unqualified and equally inexperienced friends in positions of power who all think they’re better than officially qualified individuals with the experience.
That is him in a nutshell and we’ve seem him practice exactly that.
Lol nah.
Trump’s only ideal is him making more money.
Nah, he has ideals like standing up to China and kicking out Mexicans. He just abandons them in a blink of an eye if they are inconvenient to his own interests, just like a 14-year old.
One might say he doesn’t actually have ideals then
One might, but what would you call them then? Fancies?
Positions of convenience.
Something he is failing hard to do, unless he grifts people.
I’ve posted this article many times, and I’ll keep posting it.
Donnie was given a golden opportunity to get in good with the real Manhattan elites, the 0.0001% and he ended up making them despise him through his own stupidity, greed, and arrogance.
Trump and idealism. Just wow
Like, honestly, some people just don’t know words good
Honestly, being impressed that someone called someone else “six year old” is really actually embarrassing. There are better takes if this is the high water mark we are fucked.
Your punctuation (lack thereof) is also in the hyperbolic running for causing the End Times, so 🤷🏼♂️
True, but you have to remember swallowing Biden’s cock is a much vaunted activity around these parts.
Is it? Because unless “I don’t like him all that much but he’s better than Trump” is what you consider “swallowing Biden’s cock,” it’s not what I’ve observed here.
Biden is someone you’ll let come over if it’s a large party and ya don’t have to spend a lot of face time with, not someone you have over and let fuck your wife. That’s Obama.
Nobody is calling this the high water mark. It’s a joke flipping the expectation of a comment on him being old to an argument about the lack of maturity of his opponent. Pretty standard politics joke.
I know you’re right …but fuck that standard.
Have you ever watched a single WHC dinner ever?
Thank you for explaining the joke I was so lost
In the context of a stand up routine… Not official speech.
I mean to be fair, it’s a dinner, not an inauguration, and given what the other side was like a few years back. Yeah I’d say he’s earned it
Damn grown man can’t identify a genocide
Both of those fools would fail a CAPTCHA for different reasons
I like that phrase, I’m going to steal it. It’s mine now.
Hell yeah, you tell em Joe
Voting for Trump gives more. PROBLEM SOLVED!
Hmmm, perhaps i’ll simply not vote for a candidate that funds an apartheid ethnostate, no matter what color his tie is :)
Choosing not to vote is choosing to support the candidate you like least. Rationalize it all you want, but we have a 2 party system that you won’t fix by choosing not to participate.
Hell yeah, so if I hate them both the same then they both get my vote? But I was already planning on voting for the PSL, are you saying I get 3 votes? If not voting for biden is a vote for trump, then that also means that not voting for trump is a vote for biden. Do my not-biden and not-trump votes cancel each other out? Does the PSL get all 3 votes??? American democracy is so confusing…
Do you really, honestly believe that Trump and Biden are equivalent? One is imperfect in many ways, while the other is a literal fascist being backed by people who are explicitly planning to run the US as a Christofascist oligarchy.
The goal for one side is for this to be the last election we ever get. Don’t hand them victory because Biden isn’t your ideal candidate.
If trump is truly an existential threat to democracy and our country, biden should order the military to assassinate him. He’d be 100% justified in doing so. You’d shoot hitler to protect democracy, right? that’d be a surefire way to get my vote, tbh. I voted for biden as the “harm reduction” candidate in 2020 and it really seems like that blew up in our collective faces big time, so I’m gonna avoid stepping on that rake again.
Fewer and fewer people are downvoting you as you post more. It means they are ignoring or blocking your comments, so they don’t even see them anymore.
You’re not going to convince anyone of anything like this. Maybe you should think about why that is?
if I hate them both the same
Then you’re a fucking idiot
You may be surprised to know that this message did not change my stance on Joseph Biden. You should be doing more to earn my vote.
Hence the idiot thing I mentioned
If Trump being so blatantly bad isn’t enough, then you’re a moron and a lost cause. It’s not our problem, it’s yours.
so 🤔, was there nobody at the event to stone him with shoes or tables, hopefully put him out of the race
If he was SLAYING he’d just fuckin have him ass… uh, intubated. Yeah, that. (In Minecraft, I mean, ofc!)
Biden is slayin’ even harder in Palestine. Congrats on the grade school level dunk, though.
Why don’t you go over there and help them yourself then
Going to Palestine would do nothing but add more meat to the grinder. Action in the US is far more effective since the US is the one funding israel’s campaign of genocide. I used to think genocide was an absolutely forbidden red line, but it turns out people are actually quite dismissive when it’s actually happening. Even worse, many here are sucking biden’s dick while he supports genocide with full force.
I’m sure it this “ALBUM” is something similar to what was recorded to have happened to Michael Jackson
He wasn’t black
… what am I supposed to be seeing here other than a guy who likes photos of himself and his wife?
Ah yes, photos of Joe Biden and his wife. Definitely proof that he’s a pedophile somehow.
geez, yet again joe biden showing he is too old to run. 6 year olds cannot run for president.
