See also: Pliny the young complaining about how chariots getting bigger and bigger made the streets unsafe for Roman pedestrians.

Because US doesn’t want to give more money to Ukraine.

As November approaches, US cops look more and more like they’re preparing for something bad to happen

No she doesn’t. She said she deleted them. From the Politico article:

Racicot said she later deleted all her texts and social media correspondence with Platner as she tried to move on from the assault, and said she has not been able to recover the Instagram messages she sent him about the incident.

The other messages are ambiguous (they do not mention rape), or are a few weeks old, between her and her therapist.

They are allegations, but he probably did. But did you know it’s not illegal to run for senator when you have been convicted of a felony?

In a representative democracy, the rational way to go is to vote for the person who you think will vote on the same side as you on issues you care about. You’re not choosing a friend or someone you will interact with on a regular basis.

Republicans understood this a long time ago. Billionaires understand it too, that’s why they give money to candidates they think are more susceptible to return the favor.

Purity tests are something you have to put aside when your country is sliding into fascism… Otherwise you’re giving an advantage to the other side.

I think the problem right now is not the justice system because the case is still at the investigation phase, and there seems to be a lot of obstruction going on.

I get that a lot of people need two jobs, that there is no safety net, that education is expensive, etc.

But let’s not forget that, even though the middle class has been shrinking in the last decades, there is still a significant part of the US population is doing “ok”, people for whom feeding the kids tonight or keeping their house is not always on their mind.

A lot of Republicans elected Trump on the promise that he would release the files. He didn’t, nothing happened, and now he’s openly defying a judgement.

Apathy is a real problem.

China has said that they cannot afford Russia to lose.

I fail to see why that would be the case. I feel they would actually benefit from a beaten and isolated Russia.

Well, there have been a few signs in the recent primaries that they should move a bit to the left of they want to follow their constituents. Whether they do remains to be seen, but they won’t need to if the right is divided.

This is exactly why you need to vote in the primaries.

LOL

Yeaaah but the Dems would see this as an easy win and so wouldn’t have any incentive to change.

Insurgent != Radical. Mainstream Dems don’t like this new social-democracy wave.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/politics/mamdani-house-democrats-primary-elections

In this sense, it’s quite reasonable to qualify them as “insurgents” within the Democratic party.

Get outta here with your rational opinions! /s

Sealioning is a popular tactic for people arguing in bad faith. I don’t think I’m arguing in bad faith, I am just trying to point out the flaw in your reasoning.

You are saying that Biden’s affirmations have no value because they might be a way for him to gain popularity. First, is this any different from anyone emitting an opinion online? You could say that Mamdani, before he became the mayor of NYC, had the same motivation. In many cases, it’s a good thing for someone with good ideas to gain popularity. So this means that you have to evaluate the ideas before judging the person.

Also, it’s hard to guess someone’s intentions. For example, I don’t know what your intentions are, should I presume they are bad and automatically reject your opinions?

Finally, there is a lot of assumptions in your reply. Nobody knows if Biden will run for office, how he will act if he does, or whether he’ll stab his constituents in the back.

What you are doing is called ad hominem and it’s a logical fallacy.

Let’s say it helped him gain popularity; does it make the situation he is describing less true?

I don’t think he is, but even if he was, how does this change the value of what he’s saying?

Thanks

You have sources for this?

Vous avez beau ne pas vous occuper de politique, la politique s’occupe de vous tout de même

(You might not care about politics, politics will take care of you nonetheless)