• MsPenguinette@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The takeaway for me as a leftist is that this indicates how dogshit Biden is but also how much more infininately dogshit Trump is.

    We really are in the dogshitiest timeline

    I guess it’s cool that a few on the right are finally agreeing with progressives that Biden isn’t the “radical leftist” that the fearmongerers have been pushing for the last 4 years.

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      9 months ago

      I was watching Sanders on The Colbert Report and was thinking what the timeline would look like if he hadn’t gotten fucked over by the “It’s Her Turn” team in 2016. I made myself sad because I think we’d be about half an Overton Window back towards sanity.

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          9 months ago

          IDK, I was there. Gore seemed like a pompous buffoon then, but he still had to be better than Mission Accomplished.

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            8 months ago

            I looked at Gore’s congressional record in the years after the election. The guy is one of the most genuine public servants ever in federal office. He didn’t invent the Internet, but he did create a key piece of legislation that led to the Internet as we know it. Few other politicians at the time would have ever thought to bother.

            I don’t know what his hypothetical presidency would have been like, exactly. Political pressures often force you to set aside idealism. That may not have allowed his post-election advocacy for global warming to be quite so prominent. What I do know is that we’d likely be in a better place as a nation if he had been in office.