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[โ€“] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Trump started off coherent, but ~30% in he went of the rails.

Kamala on the other hand looks like she has no strong values, she doesn't seem like a Dem candidate. What kind of Dem candidate is pro fracking? Kamala honestly seems disingenuous.

Trump on the other hand didn't form more than 20 complete sentences, so I can't really call him disingenuous because he doesn't seem to stand for anything

[โ€“] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Not American but Bernie is the president we deserve

[โ€“] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who is we if you're not American?

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[โ€“] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a good split mate, if we have Bernie they can have Trump as many times as they want.

[โ€“] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

shoutout bernie he keeps that same energy no matter what. blud been pushing for social justice and all that for decades

[โ€“] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

I watched Top Secret! for like the third time. It's so funny! They don't make 'em like that any more. Unless they do: in which case, please tell me the title!

The interesting thing is how people find ways around my politics filter all the time by using abbreviations. Is there no way to keep politics to the politics channels folks?

[โ€“] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hes gonna lose, so not a bad thing.

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[โ€“] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Completely and utterly masturbatory. The reality is that the US is extremely polarized politically because the living standards are collapsing. There are basically two competing narratives for why that's happening, and people subscribe to one or the other. The democrats and republicans have fundamentally different world views, so nobody is going to be swayed by the debate. People subscribing to each respective view will hear what they want to hear.

People who will vote for Harris are the ones who think that the dems have been doing a good job for the past three and a half years, meanwhile people who aren't happy with the way things are going will vote against them or stay home. It's that simple.

[โ€“] anarcho_blinkenist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The democrats and republicans have fundamentally different world views

Correction: the democrats and republicans have fundamentally different standards of decorum and of how close they can be to the stench of the consequences of their highly similar world views without turning away.

[โ€“] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Fair, it's more that each one sees themselves as being an antithesis of the other.

[โ€“] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Watched it for the lolz. Lots of rhetoric aimed at their bases, with very little in the name of actual policy, outside short slogans that got repeated 3 or 4 times over with next to no detail. Each trying to 'gotcha' the other and each tried to miscategorize the other a few times. Each echo chamber will claim their person won, yet as an outsider and non-American with no skin in the game, I would say they both did pretty poorly with both stating a couple of valid comments, but few and far between. A couple of ABC commentators later said the same.

Looking forward to the headlines cheerleading their pre-selected person on Wednesday. Each camp trying to out meme the other. Lastly, weren't the microphones at the debate supposed to be muted when the other was talking? 'Cause they weren't at times. This made the thing funnier. Would have been better with an actual audience. Otherwise, it looked so fake and performative.

[โ€“] andrewta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The mute thing was something Biden wanted but when Harris stepped in she said unmute them. Ironically when Harris said unmute them trump wanted them muted

[โ€“] Nytefyre@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 month ago

Uh so one side rabbled louder than the other side who also rabbled.

Haven't watched it, can't care to.

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