• RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    One of the biggest critiques leftists and anti communists have for various socialist governments is that the leader stays in power past anyone’s approval and without training successors, so that leaves room for a power struggle between various factions

    Here we have Biden refusing to let go or even supporting any successor who can speak competently or more popular with voters. And this is under what liberals call a transparent, democratic, free country. Their own party members are silenced because for whatever reason, Biden must win both terms. Biden’s legacy and ego are more important. Tens of millions of democrats, and only Biden meets the criteria to lead a country. Incredible.

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      Biden’s legacy and ego are more important.

      ruthkanda-forever Someone doing incredible damage by clinging to power for egoistic reasons rather than doing the politically strategic thing? Couldn’t be the democrats lol

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      No, but he’s popular with the right people. So that makes it ok, Biden 2024 and 2028! Biden’s mummified corpse for President 2032! We don’t want to be like those damn commies with their cult of personality! We want real leadership we can trust!

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        cult of personality

        Always one of my favorite accusations given that a substantial portion of the US electorate votes on the “who would I rather have a beer with” index.

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          Always one of my favorite accusations given that a substantial portion of the US electorate votes on the “who would I rather have a beer with” index.

          Fidel should have run for president he would win this index against every single historical president.

          Fidel-deke fidel-bat fidel-balling field-baseball fidel-si

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          It’s kind of sad really, they’re so used to their government not giving a shit about people and only pay lip service to problems that they legitimately cannot imagine a leader deserving the adoration they get. They assume anyone who likes the leader of another country must be “brainwashed” in some way, because the idea of a leader being good at running a country is inconceivable to them.

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          Though Fetterman is a Zionist piece of shit, he’s literally one of the few politicians, maybe only, who literally dresses like someone you could have a beer with. And republicans and democrats trashed him for that because he looked too poor and raggedy and disrespected da institutions