• randon31415@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If it is Trump vs. Biden again in 2024, America will have gone 12 years without having someone under the age of retirement on the general ballot. Clinton, Bush, and Trump were all born the same year, with Biden being born 2 years before the three. Of course they all see Palestinians as terrorists, Cubans as rulled by Castro, socialists as Russia supporters, and drugs use as reefer mandness.

    Obama was a breath of fresh air because he was finally from a generation that was passed all that. Why can’t we find someone else from the next generation to run against Biden in the primary?

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think it’s just a matter of age. Plenty of old people don’t support genocide or fascism.

      And Obama isn’t a point in favor of that, because he also kept arming Israel, exercising PATRIOT Act powers, kept up all the U.S.'s wars as long as possible, and killing people by the thousands with drone strikes.

      We have a problem with authoritarianism. Call it like it is. The 30-50 year old representatives support it, the 70 year old representatives support it.

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      Clinton, Bush, and Trump were all born the same year, with Biden being born 2 years before the three.

      Actually, 4 years (1942 vs. 1946)

      Why can’t we find someone else from the next generation to run against Biden in the primary?

      For what it’s worth, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is running a not-so-subtle shadow campaign.

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        1 year ago

        At least that is a new moral quandary with new technology. The guy after Obama heard that the Chinese were pointing microwave beams at the White House windows measuring vibrations caused by sound in the rooms - and then turned around and said the Chinese are hiding microphones in his microwave oven.