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The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.

These days, multiple people who’ve spoken to him over the last year say, Biden often punctuates conversations with: “You think we can actually come back from this?”

The 83-year-old Biden continues to feel out a post-presidency that may prove to be one of the shortest in history and is already one of the most complicated.

There are days when Biden is heartbroken, indignant or in disbelief about what is happening as President Donald Trump — the man he defeated in 2020 — returned and moved not just to tear down his accomplishments, but to dig in with petty insults like the autopen photograph he put in Biden’s spot in the “Presidential Walk of Fame” installed at the White House.

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[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 3 points 3 days ago (7 children)
[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think thats Wishful Thinking. Who is going to fix it? the courts? the DNC? the judiciary? Congress? Some people we need to eventually elect through a rigged system and get a majority with that overthrows the "left-leaning" party? You'd have to fix every single part of government simultaneously, with a left party with no interest in doing so, thats top-to-bottom bribed by the government of Israel who wanted the right to win. And a rightwing party thats openly violent and fascist. I'd argue that history shows us that whats always next is a rise of a violent autocrat followed by a lot of carnage before they are violently put down, or the failed state conquered or puppeted by a foreign power. Or we can split power into a triumverate to slightly delay the inevitable.

This situation has played out time and time again. When Jefferson said the tree of liberty has to be watered by the blood of tyrants this is what he meant. Humans repeatedly forget our history and do exactly this same thing.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 1 day ago

This is another dsa comprador type, don't bother.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The world is quite pissed. Your "allies" aren't though. How does it feel to be in league with the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea or Russia?

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Okay, but what if we like fuckin Mussolini'd him?

I'll bring the bats and blindfolds!

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That will never happen and you know it. Your nation is uneducated and completely captured by billionaire propaganda. The future is bleak for the average US citizen but since the malls are still open then nobody gives a shit.

(If it were to happen, it would be a start.)

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 day ago

What keeps striking my mind loud and clear, with regards to the billionaire issue, is that even the billionaires themselves would be far better off, once we proliferate the emancipatory technologies, and eliminate the manufactured scarcity used to maintain power-leverage that reduces our potential. Then we move to what potential we have, leaving how much power over others we have. No more need to keep others down.

Do you have spaceships yet? And the reassurance no one else is trying to take your spaceships, because they have their own spaceships?

Always fun to consider the tech arc from Michael Faraday through to Nikola Tesla, passing by the likes of the Sonora Aero Club and Charles Dellschau's 1850s drawings of those fledgling starts of zero-inertia propulsion technology... and seeing man-made "foo fighters" in WW2, revealing by the 1930s, we could have had spaceships for everybody. ... At conference (I forget which, sometime 2000-2005ish) patent office whistle blower Tom Valone revealed to the effect of "by the year 2000 there had already been over 3000 free energy device patents secreted". It's not just that we have so much headroom without the crooks & billionaires... it's that even they do too. They've hobbled themselves from the higher potentials, by keeping everybody else down for their pathetic petty relative gains, just to have more than others, ignorant to how much vastly more we each and all could have. ... Plenty space in space, expanding faster than we could fill it. No cull necessary.

Imagine what happens when billionaires snap out of their sunk-costs fallacy perpetuating that pathetic paradigm, and instead see the greater riches they have, by availing abundance to each and all...

[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

No shit sometimes you just need to let it out in catharsis. At this point going to the camps has been looking more like when not if for a while now.

I'm kinda surprised I can still legally present feminine still.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 day ago

For sure, we are in a lot of trouble.

But not so much that defeatist self-fulfilling prophecies are warranted or wise. ;)

... "What if all art is a tool of manifestation?"

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf -1 points 1 day ago

I've read this reply many times now, and it's not getting any clearer to me as to what it's intended to mean.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only if those that did this are held accountable. Otherwise no we can't.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 day ago

Accountability evasion, perhaps the core criteria to detect narcissists by.

We could have aptitude & personality testing to catch and filter out narcissists from roles where they'd do the most damage.

Loads of other ideas to explore.

Prevention's better than cure, or punishment.

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Not without violence we can't, and liberals aren't willing to do that

[–] Hapankaali@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Plenty of dictatorships were overthrown with no or only minimal violence, and the US isn't even a full-fledged dictatorship yet.

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Go on then, you and your mates first

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Can they not identify the solution unless they're willing to risk their life?

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Obviously, no comment. But things have happened and other things are in motion.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Concepts of a plan, as it were

[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Frameworks of concepts.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 day ago

Room for accelerating improvement.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We have to scare them into compliance and that’s not going to be easy with kegsbreth trying to get AI mass surveillance and autonomous policing of the population plus aren’t they bringing in around 5k “white” South Africans a month I guarantee you they will be putting them in ice for their little state sponsored domestic terrorism on the polls campaign. Plus they are building 55 billion dollars worth of concentration camps possibly with incinerators compliments of core civic. DHS posted that they want to remove 100 million people and Miller has openly stated he thinks the US should only have 100 million people who all look like him…I don’t know where he’s going to find 100 million nasfaratus though