Groundhog day - eviltoast
  • PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    One of the main jobs of the president is assigning work to other people. The president isn’t supposed to be the best economist, the best strategist, the top scientist, or the best trade planner. They’re supposed to make decisions based on the input of the people they selected for the position.

    My biggest concern with Bernie (who is someone I absolutely admire and who I’ve supported for decades) is that he is total crap at picking staff and then he stays loyal to them.

    There’s a tendency in western political philosophy that basically says that the king himself is a good person, but he has bad advisors. This is done for ego-saving, as people would rather criticize advisors than the king.

    RFK is truly unhinged. He’s a conspiracy theorist. He’s the weird uncle you don’t invite to Thanksgiving. I wouldn’t let him house sit for me. If the guy can’t even win over his family members, I don’t think he’s promising. He’s being funded to run as a spoiler by the opposition, and I expect his support to plummet as soon as he’s actually put in front of a mic and gets national attention. Remember when Herman Cain was the Republican front runner until people figured out more about him? I think this is basically that.

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      6 months ago

      I’d actually really like to see how he would fare in a debate. I’d really like to hear what he has to say.

      I think the media is giving him a bad rap on purpose because American media is so biased and is completely bought by the Democrats or Republicans.

      Also, for the record, I’m not American or living in America. So I’m from the outside looking in. I’ve read some of the stuff RFK said and it doesn’t sound like he’s unhinged or a conspiracy theorist. Except for the death of JFK and his father and how that was the CIA. But, I wouldn’t even be surprised if that was true. America’s so fucked up.

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        6 months ago

        Also, for the record, I’m not American or living in America.

        Makes sense, because you definitely sound like someone trying to undermine US interests by stumping for this guy

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          6 months ago

          Yeah. I’m a Russian disinformation agent working towards the fall of American democracy.

          /s

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            6 months ago

            I don’t really think you are a Russian disinformation agent; my statement was an attempt to point out that you were at the very least playing the part of a useful pawn for people who want to undermine our election.

            However, if you genuinely think that RFK jr is worthy of consideration in this election, I genuinely think you’re an idiot.

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              6 months ago

              Maybe I am an idiot. I’d be willing to admit it if I was presented with the evidence that RFK is a complete crackpot.

              But I have a gut feeling that there’s something bigger at play here and that the American media, which is extremely biased in general towards either the Democrats or the Republicans, might actually be doing a smear campaign against him because he is very much anti-capitalist. Or at least anti-corporation.

              He has been praised in the past for doing good deeds for working class people and the environment and fighting the system.

              On the other hand, the pandemic really had brought out the worst in some people. And maybe that was the case with RFK. I’m still learning more about him.

              For example, I’ve distanced myself from one of my best friends from childhood since the pandemic because of his views on vaccines and mask mandates and every other measures implemented and all the conspiracies surrounding them. I’ve been encouraging people to get vaxxed and to follow the measures in place because I knew it was for our collective best interest and to help minimize infections and deaths and allow us to get out of that pandemic as quickly as we could. That period really brought out the worst in him and that was mostly because he started to follow more conservative channels, and the whole internet algorithms simply pulled him further down that path.

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                6 months ago

                But I have a gut feeling that there’s something bigger at play here and that the American media, which is extremely biased in general towards either the Democrats or the Republicans, might actually be doing a smear campaign against him because he is very much anti-capitalist. Or at least anti-corporation.

                The reason it’s always D vs R is systemic. Our election system punishes similar candidates that run against each other. Because of this, our political parties are more like coalitions, made up of a number of different groups who strategically send out only one candidate, which is decided in primary elections.

                As a result, the people who end up running third party for president are usually delusional, looking for attention, or intentional spoilers. So the fact that RFK jr has a screw loose is not surprising, and I would be more concerned about a conspiracy if our media elevated him to the level of the other candidates when it is undeserved and detrimental.