So you don’t believe in forgiveness or redemption?

Not for elected representatives, no. We’re not talking about someone’s uncle Randy who grew up in poverty and never went to school or met a black person or w/e. This is an educated person from a well-off background, they don’t have an excuse. There are plenty of other smart, motivated people out there who are fit for office and are morally consistent on these uncomplicated issues like racism.

Anyone who takes 80 years to become slightly less racist than their younger days is not someone I want running for office. Forgive them, give them credit for sorting out their personal prejudices, sure, but they need to do that on their own time, we don’t have time for leaders who are still struggling with the basics.

Biden has always been hawkish on immigration, even under Obama, whether this recent attempt was a ploy or not, it wasn’t a ploy during all the other times in his career he advocated for punishing immigration policy.

A person’s view shouldn’t have to change on racial justice and equality, particular someone who’spart of the Democratic party. Sanders is just as old and he’s always been on the right side of history, it has nothing to do with age.

Biden is still racist and even if his far-right border policy was a gambit that’s really irresponsible, given the GOP could’ve easily just accepted the no-strings attached policy win. People need to stop making excuses for shitty politicians, and need to stop allowing the lesser evil be the enrmy of good enough.

Yes, because these debates are not won by whoever is more factual, they’re won by whoever has better rhetoric, which is why it’s such a fool’s errand for Biden to undertake it to begin with.

People who vote based on facts aren’t going to learn anything new watching this debate, this is a circus for low-information voters who decide to vote based on “vibe”.

There doesn’t have to be a strong candidate, just anyone stronger than Biden who’s basically zombie-crawling across the floor.

He absolutely can be replaced at this stage, and by nearly anyone.

Joe’s a racist too. His immigration policy is identical to Trump’s and he’s been outspoken in his seeing palestinians as subhuman.

The guy fought against school integration even before he got this old. He’s always been a racist pos same as any Republican.

Things won’t get better under Biden though. Strongest argument neoliberals might be able to make is that fascism will arrive slightly slower under their guy.

But seeing how Biden is fumbling it’s very likely he’s going to lose this. He needs to step down. If it’s about the party or the administration then he needs to realize that. If he stays in he is responsible for a Trump win.

It’s the blood pumping through your arteries. I used to get this even in my teens after very long walks. You’re literally just feeling your own pulse as your heart works a bit harder to meet your body’s elevated demand for blood/oxygen.

I’m not sure why it seems to be more apparent after milder activity, but maybe something like walking doesn’t dialate your blood vessels so much so there’s a bit more pressure at certain points?

If you want to confirm its your blood vessels and not muscles, check your pulse as it’s happening and see if its the same rythmn.

As far as I know it’s normal, since I was in peak physical condition at that age (a lot of athletics, running etc.) but if it seems unusual for you personally I guess bring it up to a doctor.

No, hate subs aimed at obsessing over the smallest details of some b-lister influencer is toxic. I don’t care who the person is, if you’re zooming in on someone’s eyelids to make some commentary then you’ve lost the plot.

Christ, does lemmy really need this hate community format transferred over from reddit? You guys realize this kind of obsession with anyone is fucking weird, right?

Socialism isn’t in the cards, not sure what you’re on about with that. This is just about throwing a hail mary to try to stop the democratic party from continuing their slide to the right so they can even begin to actually organize to maybe be a force that might oppose fascism.

Like, that’s what I think maybe you’re confused about – Joe Biden is not helping stop the encroachment of fascism, he and politicians like him are literally just slow boiling average democrats into becoming complacent fascists themselves. That’s arguably an even worse scenario than Trump taking another term because when Trump does Trump stuff people actually get outraged, but when Biden does Trump stuff people just kind of shrugg and say “lesser evil”. That complacency and refusal to acknowledge the reality in front 9f them is what will kill our democracy.

You still think it’s this red team blue team thing, but the majority of the blue team are unwilling to actually fight and often help the red team and play grab ass with them, so they need to be opposed in addition to the red team.

What you’re not getting is that we’re past the stage where you can just vote blue and it will magically fix things. Voting for certain democrats is actually harmful and pushses us to the right, not away from it.

Technically Hakeem Jeffries endorsed Bowman and donated a couple thousand dollars, but he certainly didn’t make much noise about it. I think that was more for deniability after the fact, Jeffries himself is on the AIPAC payroll.

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Yeah, as long as upper middle-class Americans are comfortable, absolutely. Saving you from the consequences of your own conservative politics would be a great honor. The rest of the country and world just needs to take a few more for the team am I right?

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Yes. The president could be doing more. No one said he can unilaterally solve the entire issue, only that he’s not doing even the bare minimum. “Stern phones calls” are not enough.

It appears you’ve already downvoted yourself so that saves me a bit of time, ty.

If “their right to exist” weren’t used to mean “their right to take land from Palestinians and create settlements in land they took through violence” it would be a bit simpler to agree with the statement, but the foundation of Israel itself has always been on pretty shakey ground. The only reason Israel has a right to exist is because it’s impractical that they’d leave at this point. They should leave the land they’ve stolen though.

Dang that’s some irony right there. Imagine lecturing soneone on how laws are passed and not even knowing what a veto is. And trying to be condescending on top of that.

The president has powers to veto laws and also, as commander in chief he has power to delay or direct aid even when congress goes around him.

Presidents have witheld munitions and aid in the past, this isn’t a question.

Yeah, if I applied to a job and then they tried to contact me a year later I’d turn them down just based on the principle.

If you reverse it and imagine a prospective hire putting off an interview for months or a year and then calling in expecting to still take the interview it shows how ridiculous it is.

Always have to include the caveat “he’s trying” to make it not a lie lol.

Neoliberals are great at trying real real hard and never getting there. Kind of like how he “tried” to convince Netanyahu to stop committing genocide and then ended up sending him billions in aid.

Nah, I’m done voting for anyone taking AIPAC money. I’ll submit a blank ballot before I vote for any of those pieces of shit.

I haven’t really fallen in love since I was young, but I guess it has multiple stages; after the initial physical attraction it just kind of feels like your entire perspective shifts and this person becomes a central focus of your life, you think about them a lot and are always looking for oportunities to be close to them, talk, share experiences and “catch eachother up” on previous life experiences that have shaped you as a person. You want to understand what makes them who they are and want them to understand how you tick.

The longer you’re in love with someone in often manifests as worry for them, which I think is common for all types of love. You just carry this awareness of them and their well-being with you all the time and worry for them the same way you might worry about your own future and well-being.

You get so familiar with eachother over time that they change who you are and vice versa, kind of like two trees growing together and where they meet it’s difficult to tell who ends where. I think this is kind of that sense of “oneness” people talk about. It’s a comforting feeling, but also is the hardest part to deal with when a relationship ends.

I only had one person that I’d say I was ever really in love with, I’ve had romantic relationships with people I care for deeply but there’s only one person whoever really got stuck in my heart in a permanent way that I’ll for certain just carry them around as part of myself until I die. It’s nice in a way to have that kind of a connection with anyone, but quite painful as well. One way or another I think most of ys end up in a state of longing, that’s just part of the human experience.

What makes you believe you won’t ever experience romantic love?