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@meowski @whiteline @zaitcev @ageha I haven't done an exhaustive analysis of European politicians to say that pathological personalities are inevitable in democracy. european politicians seem more like boring middle managers to me but for a country instead of a toothpick factory or something
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@whiteline @ageha @meowski @zaitcev I was willing to give your statement about trump possibly having signs of dementia a chance until I found out it was just a full-spectrum democratic party campaign happening exactly right now.,
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@sun @meowski @ageha @zaitcev
the difference is that (at least northern/central) european politicians represent their parties and do what their parties decide to do, they are almost never charismatic leaders
in this sense, biden seems much closer to a european politician (and i'd argue, why it doesn't matter that he's a bit senile, unlike with trump who wants to run the show from the top
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@whiteline @ageha @meowski @zaitcev So so far the way I see it, both of them are awful and ways one is more awful than the other are different and varied and make it hard for me to say one is definitely worse than the other. However I think the fears of what Trump will do to the country if he had a second term are completely baseless (he would have done it the first time) but the democratic party is rapidly destroying the law and norms to go after trump which will have repercussions for the entire rest of my life so that is a major ding against biden.
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@sun @ageha @meowski @zaitcev
yes, there's a full press campaign claiming that he's visibly declining mentally in real time.
because it's an easy angle of attack due to it being observably true, just like it's true that biden is a bit senile, or that obama is a liar, or that hillary clinton is machiavellian and arrogant, etc.
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@whiteline @ageha @meowski @zaitcev I don't want to defend trump because if it appears he has dementia he shouldn't be president but if I had to pick between the two, biden is literally being elder-abused. He's not "approaching" anything, he crossed the threshold already.