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-58 points

Did you say the same thing when Biden couldn’t remember Obama name?

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Why wouldn’t we?

They don’t even need to. Retirement age exists because we acknowledge that passed some point people are to old to function properly on the job. So what the fuck are they doing in politics?

When offered 2 bad choices i’ll stick with the lesser evil though, which is the one not literally quoting Hitler and campaign promising a dictatorship.

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Retirement age exists because we acknowledge that passed some point people are to old to function properly on the job.

That is…not correct. Retirement age exists because at one time it was expected that people would generally achieve a certain level of wealth and live out the rest of their days doing what they wanted with that wealth and time. Plenty of people >65 are fully capable of certain types of work.

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Retirement age exists because at one time it was expected that people would generally achieve a certain level of wealth and live out the rest of their days doing what they wanted with that wealth and time.

A retirement age exists because it was fought for by the labor movement, and it was set during the creation of Social Security in the US during the New Deal. It was also set at the average age of death IIRC, and because a large part of the homeless problem during the Great Depression was seniors who had not saved enough money to support themselves without a job’s income and were largely unable to obtain new work.

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How is genocide the lesser evil?

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Because genocide plus fascism is worse than genocide alone. Is this even a real question or are you just trolling?

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1x Genocide < (1 x Genocide + fascism)

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The alternative is the same genocide, plus even more of it in more places, most likely. Including right here on American soil.

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Rebuilding the US into a dictatorship seems like something, that should be avoided. But then I am not a US citizen.

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Do you honestly believe that trump wouldn’t also support that genocide? Netanyahu is a longtime friend and supporter of trump’s.

Sadly we are stuck with a “lesser of two evils” situation - and Biden, while supporting evil, is still less evil (by far) than trump.

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Lesser evil is still evil, it really is a testament to how bad things have gotten.

Neither option cares or would actually change much about the atrocities.

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35 points

Yes.

When you vote for someone you are also voting for the advisors and their other support staff. I much prefer Bidens support staff.

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Trump is far too narcissistic to listen to anyone on his support staff tho. I’m sure they’re constantly trying to reign him in. But somehow he remains inexplicably popular.

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Even his CoS that pushed Obama for cuts to SS?

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Oh no, that’s worse than anything Trump has done, you’ve convinced me, switching sides now.

Sorry your guy isn’t doing anything to help sales, tough gig.

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14 points

“Obama’s”

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12 points

This little slip doesn’t prove Donnie is demented, but he is demented.

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3 points

Didn’t he call his wife “Mercedes” a week or so ago?

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Yea but to be fair he has a sticker on his Mercedes that says, “My other car is Melania.”

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Yeah, they are both old fucks. Anything else?

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