Other poster said it basically, but If Lemmy as a platform isn’t disciplined enough to have a Megathead where a given major topic like this is discussed, then I’ll form my original thought, and copy and paste it across the wallet disjointed conversations to get my point across to the relevant audience.

Uh huh, “receipts” man, you liked the pirates… You TOTALLY got me… truth to power, bud. Maybe just move on with your life next time?

Anything substantive to say about the actual point of the post or did you just need to be heard today?

This whole night was so many layers of exhausting, but probably not for the reasons you think… No rational, serious person was expecting Biden to Willy Wonka front somersault into this debate? it was going to be what this was, the only true surprise was probably the volume of his voice (which they chalk up to a cold, okay fine, I guess) and actually how well he did quickly processing and responding to trump’s gish gallop and unchecked stream of consciousness mistruth firehose with little help from the impotent moderators for the majority of the night.

The people in this country, in their immediate reaction to this debate, demonstrate that they just fundamentally lack the focus, empathv and frankly basic intelligence to process the substance of this or any debate. On average, we respond solely to voice pitch, tonality, body language and facial expressions, like a still developing toddler… Or a dog.

Sorry we got caught. Please stop looking at us!

Do you know how Saudi Arabia was elected to that seat?

They are a reddish shade of purple, at best.

US Supreme Court justices are, by definition, the highest arbiters of truth in the US… BUT the definition is clearly trailing the reality.

Actions, not words.

“Blue mayor” and “Blue governor” are REALLY stretching the definition here… with a healthy push from the ever shifting Overton window.

Look at actions, not words or badges that people pin to their own lapels without earning them.

And just to say it, who owns the wall street journal, boys and girls?

The truth here is so simple and petty… Corporations and the psychopaths who run them saw COVID as a personal sleight, an attack on them personally. Period.

When things started to eventually “Open up” and financial numbers started to recover, it wasn’t enough to just rebound, they had to take revenge on society and get rolling, record profits through gouging, shrinkflation, etc.

Really and truly, this is what happened. Even if they didn’t know what was driving them necessarily, they are such broken narcissists that the motivation was/is, “You took from ME, and there are the severe and prolonged consequences for that”.

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