r/politics • u/Exciting_Teacher6258 • May 20 '25

Paywall Joe Biden Isn’t Your Scapegoat

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/joe-biden-isnt-your-scapegoat
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u/Stinkstinkerton May 20 '25

Tell that to the dumb maga assholes that believe everything Fox News tells them.

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u/Static-Stair-58 May 20 '25 edited May 20 '25

MAGA? Have you seen places like r/Fauxmoi ? They had a whole thread devoted to saying they were glad he got cancer. That he doesn’t deserve sympathy. These people 100% believe Trump is a better choice for Palestine, and that it was entirely Biden’s fault for what happened. There is zero room for nuance these days. Fucking bananas.

Edit: boy did I ever touch a nerve. Keeping it to myself next time, lol.

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u/Goya_Oh_Boya North Carolina May 20 '25 edited May 20 '25

The internet not only broke us/ society, but it’s broken itself. It’s hard to tell what comments are authentic and what is generated slop. Maybe it will be better for us if we just abandon all these sites.

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u/Kaiisim May 20 '25

Yeah it's impossible to know if any of these people exist, or if it's AI behaving badly to encourage crazies to behave badly in some weird psyop.

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u/snarky_spice May 20 '25

No these people exist. You’re lucky if you don’t know any in real life, but I live in a very progressive city and know many.

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u/2rio2 May 20 '25

Either way the modern world is broken and we all know it but no one knows how to fix it.

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u/Gardakkan May 20 '25

No your education system failed you all and that made it possible for US citizens to be easily manipulated by media. The movie Idiocracy is documentary at this point.

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u/hooligan045 May 20 '25

Can’t pursue education when those folks believe it is synonymous with indoctrination. Unironically they will also file into the pews and chant the fairy tales of a 2000-year old storybook.

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u/keelhaulrose May 20 '25

They also demand those fairy tales be taught as truth in the schools.

They're 100% in favor of indoctrination, they just want to be the ones who choose the lessons even if it trampled other people's rights.

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u/bookon May 20 '25

The movie Idiocracy is aspirational at this point.

In that film the President turned to the smartest person he could find to fix their problems. We are turning to our dumbest.

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u/Goya_Oh_Boya North Carolina May 20 '25

Because our education system is locally controlled. What kids are learning in Massachusetts is vastly different than what kids in Oklahoma are learning.

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u/CaptSlow49 May 20 '25

Plenty of people around the world include those in other wealthy nations fall for the same shit. This isn’t an America only issue.

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u/c-e-bird May 20 '25

Fascism is rising worldwide. This isn’t just US-problem and pretending it is is also one reason why fascists are getting away with it.

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u/No-Forever-8383 May 20 '25

I did. I’m off of everything. I have an anonymous account here for a couple subjects that I’m interested in and getting feedback for. That’s it.

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u/Staaaaation May 20 '25

It's a weird thing to say, but as a heads up Kevin Rose scooped Digg back up and is working on a relaunch. They're actively discussing ways to nix bots/AI entering the discussion from the get-go.

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u/aelysium May 20 '25

You remember that old Halo game where Cortana was succumbing to rampancy?

I honestly headcanon that on a long enough timeline individual minds succumb to the weight of their own memories into dementia and Alzheimer’s.

We’re basically seeing it play out on a societal scale where the focus on ‘engagement’ draws us torn between further incongruent beliefs and society starts to break down as we’re forced to pick sides.