🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
Remember that time we elected a president with rapidly progressing dementia and all the democrats would block you or call you a Nazi and disagree with you when you pointed it out. Then his own party dropped him for having dementia....
Good times, good times.
🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
And yet, I had no trouble seeing the obvious dementia in 2020 and was clearly correct. The only difference is the dementia progressed to the point that it got worse and at a certain point no amount of denial will get you through it.
But the fact is, reflect on that. Clearly people were screaming he had dementia, the fact that you didnt think he did and it turned out he did suggests perhaps you were blinded to the truth and couldnt see what was obvious to everyone else.
The real takeaway here is if you couldnt even tell a person with severe rapid onset dementia has a problem, what other issues are you unable to see due to biases? Perhaps you should rethink how harshly you criticize someones opinion of your candidate as well if you were blocking people who said that.
Louis Ingenthron
@freemo Hey, I'm one of those folks. There was a pretty big difference between his campaigning/debating skills in 2020 vs 2024, which is what led us to change our minds. He's just not the man he was.
🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
@trinsec Werent you one of the ones who were pretty adamant about him not having dementia. I mean you didnt block and were always polite about it. But I do remember you arguing pretty strongly you didnt see any signs of dementia no?
I'm curious now that the party itself has dropped him due to it, have you changed your mind?
🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱
Oh well nothing too bad about just disagreeing and being wrong. But even so sounds like a good opportunity to reflect and consider what other blind spots you may have, since that was a pretty big one IMO.
Are you saying back then you would have admitted he had dementia but just that his dementia was mild enough you voted for him anyway? Because thats a very different argument then disagreeing with people who claimed he had dementia at all.
Louis Ingenthron
@freemo Lol, well I wasn't calling people Nazis or blocking them. Just disagreeing.
Dementia's a sliding scale. People at the beginning are very high-functioning. So, yes, while he may have been in early stages back then, it wasn't debilitating enough to disqualify him.
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