• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    While Politics does not have the Recency rule that World News does, I’m removing this as it was well covered here when it happened 10 months ago.

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    11 months ago

    So… you can post anything related to politics here? If I were to post an article about George Bush vomiting on the Japanese PM, that would be appropriate content?

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      11 months ago

      Just post MLK’s Birmingham letter everyday till the 2028 primary lol.

      I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”

      https://letterfromjail.com/

      Some might say that would be excessive, buts it’s been 60 years and apparently people still haven’t read that shit…

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    11 months ago

    Listen, no one doubts Biden has done some good work in this term. But why are you posting this old-ass article when he couldn’t be trusted to navigate a sidewalk today?

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        11 months ago

        Biden is a right-leaning, corporate Democrat. A photo op doesn’t change that. Remember when trump held a bible in front of a church?

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        11 months ago

        I think you are right, especially how it frames the stark contrast the Biden we have now versus the Biden we had a year ago.

        Biden a year ago: energized, out in the streets, able to take a mic and at least passably speak, on the right side of historical things.

        Biden today: can’t remember what the topic of a sentence is by the time he gets to the end, on the wrong side of history.

        What a difference a year makes. But thats sun-setting for the elderly members of the human species. We had a geriatric grandparent who, I shit you not, was still felling cedars and hand slabbing planks for benches 6 months before he died. Within 3 months he couldn’t remember his kids names, and required live in care. Then poof, he was gone. He went from full control and agency to literally barely knowing who he was in less than half a year.

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          11 months ago

          Oh, the year was 1778, How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now, A letter of marque come from the king, To the scummiest vessel I’d ever seen, Chorus: God damn them all! I was told we’d cruise the seas for American gold We’d fire no guns-shed no tears Now I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier The last of Barrett’s Privateers. Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town, How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now, For twenty brave men all fishermen who Would make for him the Antelope’s crew Chorus The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight, How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now, She’d a list to the port and and her sails in rags And the cook in scuppers with the staggers and the jags

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          11 months ago

          🎤🎶Ohhhhh he was pale in the deee bate and slow in the brow Way aye biden step doooown🎶 So I looked in dismay and cried, “give it up now.” Give me new candidates, Biden step down!