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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months 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€“] Olgratin_Magmatoe 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Predictably, it was a shit show. Trump was doing his normal routine of batshit crazy stupidity. Harris was level headed and sensible, minus the bit about the "most lethal army" and pro fracking stuff. It's mind boggling to me that to think that it will sway votes. How could you possible look at these options and change your mind only after the debate? But at the same time I know it doesn't matter, I know that there are still people who will somehow be swayed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Olgratin_Magmatoe 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I checked that off my bingo/drinking game as well

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Not American but Bernie is the president we deserve

[โ€“] Kbobabob 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who is we if you're not American?

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[โ€“] trolololol 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hes gonna lose, so not a bad thing.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months 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!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

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€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 1 points 3 months 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

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