Yeah, so the gaffe in this speech would just have been in the present tense instead of past tense since he had already had that skin cancer removed. Which was stated in the article but still.

Edit: fixed I’m to in

I highly doubt Biden knew he had this specific cancer back then just because it seems incredibly unlikely he would find that out and just not get any treatment for it until he was out of office. It just doesn’t feel likely. You don’t just get told “hey you have cancer” and then not do anything about it at all. Especially when you’re rich and have the money. And when you’re the fucking President and have the best medical care available to you in the entire country all for free.

Course if we find out he was on chemotherapy back then then I’m obviously wrong. But I think that’s the only thing that could directly point to him knowing he had cancer back then.

Biden is known for his gaffes so it’s just more likely that’s what was going on in this 2022 speech.

Oh come on they can’t be racist! There’s people of color in that base! What are they, racist against themselves? Please, that makes no sense. That’s like if there were Jews that supported the Nazis! Or black folk that fought for the Confederacy!

/s if that’s not obvious

In Highschool I took health and it was the diagrams of the different junk, pictures and videos about STDs, saying most birth control doesn’t actually work very well (e.g. Condoms have a 36% success rates at prevent STDs or pregnancy) so it’s best to sign a card swearing you’ll be abstinent until marriage. Only one person signed the card since we were, thankfully, given a choice. No talking about being gay, since it’s a red state. They spent more time on a bunch of different drugs than sex.

Before high school there wasn’t really “sex” ed, just showing videos about puberty and ways to check for cancer/lumps. But I went to a Catholic school before highschool. There also might have been stuff about how Masturbation is bad in the Catholics “sex ed”.

Sorta like this but with citizenship?

Well we all know that Fascism experts are the least important people to have around when Fascism takes over a country.

Technically you can criticize from afar but it’s good to have fascism experts on the front lines.

This is also an incredibly privileged thing to be able to do and one that the vast majority of the most vulnerable and likely to be on the camp list are stuck here and would like some experts to help fight back.

I was going to comment a joke saying that it must have been “Iminacult1234” only to find out that it was actually a reference to her cult. She shouldn’t be anywhere near power.

Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll add it to my pile of books!

While true, it’s still a fact that the leaderless movements don’t usually get anything done and movements with leaders do. Sure the leader will likely have to face being targeted but it still makes it more likely to be able to achieve the movement’s goals.

I read a great book recently called If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. Great book. It mentions Occupy Wall Street in it. Basically talks about how leaderless movements like Occupy never really get anywhere. When anyone can talk for the movement it means that any person who happens to be kinda shitty about some things can represent the entire movement. This also extended to how some movements tried to have all the decisions they made be a unanimous vote by everyone who was actively at an encampment. This meant that one person who is a dick and disagrees about something minor could stop the entire movement in its tracks. It also means said movements can be co-opted by people who want the exact opposite.

For instance, it talked about a protest movement in Sao Paulo Brazil that was leaderless and actually managed to get what it wanted done. It was about stopping the raising of the bus fair in the city. Shut down the fucking city to make sure it didn’t happen. But once that was done, the same energy was then co-opted to help protest to get Bolsonaro into power. Something that the original organizers of the original movement didn’t want.

Essentially, you should read this book, it’s really helpful for understanding the flaws with a leaderless movement like Occupy and how maybe the best way for progress isn’t to be leaderless but to have a fucking leader.

Edit: the most successful movements in history have all had leaders. Every single one. Being leaderless isn’t actually very helpful.

Edit 2: changed flawless to flaws

The article leads with saying he did nothing, which is misleading because he did do things even if they didn’t work. Saying he did nothing is misleading.

Just so everyone knows, this article is kinda misleading. The original source is an Israeli news organization hour long special, 60 minutes style, where they talked to people who worked in the Biden administration. The thing this article is discussing is how Biden essentially never came to BB and said “ceasefire right now”. But that doesn’t mean there was no pressure involved.

For instance, the same special talked to people who were aware of plans in the administration to do a speech that, they hoped, would trigger elections in Israel and force out BB so that a pro-ceasfire government could come into power and get it done. It would have been a speech about Biden telling Israelis have two choices, continue the killing or work towards lasting peace. Those plans didn’t amount to what people wanted and Biden ended up giving a much more mild speech that didn’t do shit. To the dismay of many in the state department and the White House.

The report also talked about how multiple times throughout the administration was talking to BB to get a ceasefire and they’d come to an agreement and then at the last minute BB would pull out to prolong the conflict past the election. It happened multiple times. Remember when Biden said they had come to an agreement several times and nothing came of it? That’s because the agreement they had come to was dropped by BB and it made Biden look like a senile old man who made it up.

Edit: To be fair, this article speaks of this about 2/3rds of the way through and then addresses how Biden was also trying to broker a deal between Israel and the Saudis that would have lead to peace and international recognition of the Palestinian state. To which BB didn’t want to do because it would give him a win. Gotta lead with the most sensational stuff and hide that there’s much more to it than “Biden did nothing”

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BB was doing everything he could to prolong the conflict and make sure Biden and eventually Harris were not elected.

Should Biden have been more forceful and come to Israel and said “hey, ceasefire right fucking now?” Absolutely. But to say they did nothing is disingenuous.

If you don’t believe what I’m saying then you should really question this article too because I’m just using the same source they are, an Israeli news special.

If anyone wants to know what subreddit, it’s r/changemyview. I remember seeing a ton of similar posts about controversial opinions and even now people are questioning Am I Overreacting and AITAH a lot. AI posts in those kind of subs are seemingly pretty frequent. I’m not surprised to see it was part of a fucking experiment.

Since people are asking what this even is, it’s Laura loomer in 2023. She’s had a ton of plastic surgery - I mean, she’s had a ton of gender affirming care (while arguing trans people shouldn’t be able to have hormones).

Anyway, here’s the before and after.

Yes because Mugshots are done in cars, outside, in hallways, and only occasionally with a flat white background. We all know this.

Seriously though, only some of these are actual mugshots, often they seem to just be pictures of accused people with no fucking names attached so there is no way to fact check it.

I think it’s fair to say that the US stock exchange is officially a yo-yo market. Like going up and down constantly every couple of days just depending on the whims of the fucking fascist people decided to put in charge. So fun.

There is a way to prevent having a child with Autism and it’s absolutely fool proof. Just don’t have kids. Boom, you’ve prevented a kid from having Autism.

I think part of this is that because they “paused” the other tariffs, they still want to feel like they’re punishing a ton of countries. So that means they go from a 54% tariff on China just a few weeks ago, to the 104% tariff on China for just a few days, then the 124% tariff on China, and now the 245% tariff on China. They want to feel like they’re punishing other countries and this is the only way they can get that feeling, that fix. They’re fucking idiots.

This is pretty close to what I have for Ramen. I started having Kimchi with mine and it’s been a wonderful pairing. I have fish be my meat and chop up my green onions more and don’t have a poached egg.

Do you make a Tare with Gochujang in it or is it in the ramen noodles, as it seems they’re pretty red?

Edit: if this is a meal you got at a place and not something you made I hope it was good and you can ignore my question!

I’ve got a few problems with this article but honestly the thing that bothers me the most is saying Bill Maher is a moderate liberal commentator. He’s a conservative libertarian asshole and always has been. He’s never been moderate, he’s never been a liberal.

Alex Jones also calls Maher a liberal, using him to represent the entire non Republican political sphere. Maher is not a moderate and I don’t like seeing someone who is from the left calling him that.