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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by macintux on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:29PM (#41029334)
Democrats encourage their fellow elected officials to step down when convicted of crimes. They notoriously don’t encourage a mob to attack the Capitol to interfere with counting of the electoral ballots. And they haven’t spent the last 4 years undermining confidence in the election system.

There are plenty of faults in the Democratic party, but “both sides” is a tired and inaccurate trope.

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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by mistermann on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:36PM (#41029395)
I think it is funny to watch how people on a programming forum think "democracy" is a decent enough designed system.

It is very interesting how the manner in which people think changes when the topic changes, and also how we focus only on the flaws in intelligence of the supposedly dumbest among us.

> There are plenty of faults in the Democratic party, but “both sides” is a tired and inaccurate trope.

Only if the claim is both sides are identically bad, which is rarely the case.

It is amazing how simple memes (and boy, does our culture run on them) can inject bugs into cognition.

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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by blasphemers on Sunday July 21, 2024 @09:22PM (#41030033)
The Democrats have yet to remove or seriously call for Senator Menendez to resign for serious corruption and obvious crimes while the Republicans removed Santos for campaign lies knowing a Democrat would replace him.
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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by amanaplanacanal on Sunday July 21, 2024 @10:08PM (#41030272)
I think some of that is just the different norms in the senate vs the house. The senate is very much about decorum and tradition, whereas the house is more of a free for all.
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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by kagakuninja on Sunday July 21, 2024 @09:57PM (#41030199)
Bullshit.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-democratic-senators-bald...

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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by neverartful on Sunday July 21, 2024 @10:18PM (#41030334)
Denying that Democrats play 'the ends justify the means' is blatantly dishonest.
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