Blue Hefner
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This is funny, but also true
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George Floyd murder | Clashes between US police and protestors
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This is funny, but also true
this is a massive chance for Biden to come out and promise some kind of reform - perhaps harsher penalty's for police for any related black brutality. this would really help calm the storm
Biden, good grief - you have completely missed the point
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Biden, good grief - you have completely missed the point
He is the only alternative for the November election
we can't rely on Trump to make this sort of systematic changes can we ?
He is the only alternative for the November election
we can't rely on Trump to make this sort of systematic changes can we ?
I believe the clear point here is neither is a solution
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I believe the clear point here is neither is a solution
so the solution is having no president ?
I believe the clear point here is neither is a solution
Biden clearly is a solution. He's not perfect by any means, he's not the solution but he is many orders of magnitude better than Trump and would be a desperately needed return to normalcy.
This might be the pinnacle of idiotic "both sides"-ing, when someone compares Biden's pitfalls and compares them to the worst, most racist, misogynistic, destructive president in living memory and decides that because Biden's not their perfect candidate there's no difference between the two.
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Spot on, PC
I've never understood the morbid fixation this country's media have with all things American.
Hurricane season starts in America, and its the first item on OUR news. Yet in Asia, when it's monsoon/landslide etc season, and the death tolls are tenfold in comparison, these stories are footnotes (or even unreported) by our media.
There's DAILY civil unrest in countless African countries, yet these are on page 15 in the bottom corners of broadsheet newspapers.
Car bombs go off daily in various Middle Eastern countries. These are left to the ends of bulletins. Should something like this happen in America, Clive Myrie, Dermot Murnaghan and spurious ITN journalist will be on the first plane out of Heathrow.
American lives matter more.
A typical example of our media's obsession with USA, was the circus (that's what it was) surrounding OJ Simpson in the mid 90's. I'd wager that well over 95% of our population wouldn't have had a clue about who or what he was. And that 5% who did know of him, was mainly due to him being in the Naked Gun films. Yet, umpteen UK camera crews/reporters/journalists were camped outside the courtroom for weeks. Would the Yanks have done the same for Kevin Keegan/Ian Botham, etc???? I think we know the answer.
We've come full circle and are pretty much an American colony now. I can understand it to an extent with some of the online papers (where clicks from US visitors bring in £) but having it plastered all over the BBC? Same with the coverage about Trump.
Biden clearly is a solution. He's not perfect by any means, he's not the solution but he is many orders of magnitude better than Trump and would be a desperately needed return to normalcy.
This might be the pinnacle of idiotic "both sides"-ing, when someone compares Biden's pitfalls and compares them to the worst, most racist, misogynistic, destructive president in living memory and decides that because Biden's not their perfect candidate there's no difference between the two.
Solution to what? Genuine question because he is simply a continuation of what has long persisted in a corrupt democratic party
Less of two evils doctrine has done nothing to effect any actual change. Biden, is among the worst possible options as an 'alternative' to the clown in office atm. Follow his history on black issues, you don't even have to go too far back to reveal just how ridiculous it is to even have him in the conversation
System is broken (on nearly every level) and I have commented on this previously, any substantial course correction is predicated on a revolution. It must be rebuilt from the ground up
so the solution is having no president ?
When all the public is left with is one bad option vs another the solution is fixing the system of government since it is rotten to the core
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