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Joe Biden’s Last Campaign (www.newyorker.com)

submitted 8 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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For better and worse, he is a more solemn figure now. His voice is thin and clotted, and his gestures have slowed, but, in our conversation, his mind seemed unchanged. He never bungled a name or a date. At one point, he pulled out a white notecard inscribed with some of Trump’s most alarming comments: his threat to terminate the Constitution, his casual talk of being a dictator on “Day One,” his description of immigrants as “poisoning the blood of our country.” Biden tossed the list on his desk and gave a look of disbelief. “What the hell! ” he said. “If you and I had sat down ten years ago and I said a President is going to say those things, you would have looked at me like, ‘Biden, you’ve lost your senses.’ ”

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[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

For anyone keeping score at home: This is the 6th anti-Biden article (and 7th post overall) that OP has submitted to this community in the span of 2 hours.

I'm calling on the mods to do something about spammers.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 14 points 8 months ago

Not just this community. OP took their brigade over to Electric Vehicles, too.

[-] vikingqueef@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

not much of a democracy you're protecting here when you say you can't be critical of a politcal figure and if you are critical too many times, then you must be my sworn political enemy. y'all keep badjacketing anyone that says anything critical of biden or establishment dems and its really wild to watch.

[-] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago

...did you read the article?

It's long, but I'd hardly characterize it as anti-Biden. If anything, I'd say the ultimate tone is slightly positive and humanizing.

[-] Today@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

I read a good chunk of the article. Typical New Yorker vs. my attention span. I didn't find it to be anti-biden. Was fairly critical of Trump and showed Biden as physically slowing down but still sharp.

[+] jordanlund@lemmy.world -8 points 8 months ago

As long as they are using legitimate sources, I don't have a problem with what they are submitting.

We don't intend on running an echo chamber where contrary opinions are forbidden, unless they're the usual fake, hostile, etc. etc. etc.

I'm not going to remove a story from the multiple prize-winning New Yorker because someone is butthurt that it says mean things about Biden.

It's GOOD to see things contrary to what you think. It's CHALLENGING to either come up with a reason to discount that opinion or god forbid adjust your own opinion.

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I made it perfectly clear the issue is the frequency. This user's daily queue flooding is more than enough to constitute spam. You don't seem to have any issues addressing queue flooding in worldnews so you clearly understand it's an issue, so quit sidestepping it here. Do you have any thoughts on what I actually said or are you just going to continue lecturing me about echo-chambers and accusing me of being butthurt?

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world -5 points 8 months ago

In World News we had one person flood the entire front page with 19 posts.

Despite Ozmas frequency, Politics is still diverse enough to not need a crackdown like that.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

I think it probably would improve the health of the community if people who made personal attacks like the commenter you're replying to got a short ban, or at least got their comments removed. Every thread to every post this user makes just gets swamped by people complaining about them without discussing the substance of the articles they're posting.

[+] return2ozma@lemmy.world -16 points 8 months ago

Did you even read the article? It's an actual in person Biden interview with Evan Osnos. Stop being so paranoid.

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Stop being so paranoid.

Your gaslighting isn't going to work on me. Save it for someone else.

Though I do find it thoroughly amusing to see now that you've been called out you're scrambling to seed the community with a few token non-Biden related articles. Do you really think you're fooling anyone? lmao

[-] vikingqueef@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Yea, why read anything that is contrary to your worldview. are you afraid your thoughts and opinions may change? or maybe that you will learn something from something you don't like?

[-] vikingqueef@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024

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