https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/08/joe-biden-presidency-progressives-donald-trump

It’s easy bait against people like you because it tells who has read up and has specific issues against him, and who doesn’t (you)

So you haven’t actually looked at the policies he pushed through?

This is why Republicans are attacking education, pressuring news companies into only presenting them positively and attacking their opposition (“here’s why Biden’s successes are bad for Biden”), attacking tech companies to pressure them into allowing their disinformation to spread, etc. They’re “playing the refs”.

Have you not looked at what Biden accomplished even without a majority?

Supporting unions and a strong FTC and fighting excess prices, versus free-for-all deregulation?

It wasn’t the policies. It was the insufficient outreach. And of course too many people in leadership not willing to push back, but that’s not the root cause

Just because the employee is federal it doesn’t mean any case involving them automatically becomes federal

Because they heard that from Republicans who lied to them

Support for unions, getting inflation down, etc

Tldr choosing to believe Republicans when they cause problems and blame them on others

“we have a concrete plan for helping you” - crickets

“my plans will hurt you but I’m pretending otherwise” - “what a brilliant businessman!”

Only federal cases, not state cases

Idiocracy

Still relevant. Current plans involve stuff like removing pretty much all social security, defunding research, potentially even banning vaccines (!)

Spaghettification

They do, and based on reported stats it gets them more per viewer. No idea if anybody’s audited those stats though

Not lead-acid?

That’s the secret of NIMH

They simultaneously see COVID19 as a Chinese bioweapon AND as a mild flu, switching based on context

Orwellian doublethink, except every thought is wrong

Do-gooder derogation is a well studied phenomenon

It’s not only stuff like lack of compassion. It’s stuff like feeling that it challenges your worldviews, makes you feel the other person think their better for taking action you’ve chosen not to take, etc.

They’ll react like that even against those who just try to protect themselves with a mask, just seeing it even if they’re not being asked to change feels like a provocation.

It’s like how Trump and Co talked about “the elites” (various experts) while being backed by the actual elites (billionaires). He wanted you to be scared of people who try to help you. Unfortunately the propaganda worked

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