Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him"

LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ChaosSpectre@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not that I think he had much in the way of empathy prior to this, but he lacks a filter of any kind which is a symptom I had to repeatedly apologize for when my grandfather’s dementia got worse.

  The dude has full on dementia, no one is doing anything and he will continue to degrade both himself and the reputation of anything associated with him as this keeps going.

  Funnily enough, dipshit donny might be the best publically perceivable evidence of the need for reform we will ever get.

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  • mtpender@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Reforms that are needed:

    1. Compulsory voting for all citizens
    2. Ranked choice voting system
    3. Age limits for politicians

    I’m sure there are more, but this is just off the top of my head.

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    • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d go with term limits as well. Too many people in what are essentially life terms

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    • huppakee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Plenty of countries have laws that fine or otherwise punish people that do not vote, afaik this doesn’t tend to lead to better functioning democracies. I think this is a thing where the carrot works better than the stick.

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      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Automatic voter registration. Boom, solves a big percyof the problem.

        You’d be shocked how much a bit of minor paperwork stops a large percentage of people from doing the bare minimum.

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    • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      1. I’d be less oppose if it’s accompanied with NOTA options.
      2. What if A gets 26% of the vote, B gets 25%, C gets 24%, D gets 15%, and E gets 10%?
      3. What should be the age limit for US Presidents? and should the 35 be lowered to 18? Ditto for US VPs?

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What if A gets 26% of the vote, B gets 25%, C gets 24%, D gets 15%, and E gets 10%?

        The standard method of ranked choice voting: E gets eliminated as they have the last, everyone who voted for them goes to their next ranked choice. Repeat until one person has over 50%.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d like to believe but do you really see a future where old (white) dudes in power will vote in favor of a reform where old dudes arent allowed to be in power because they are “supposedly” unfit for it?

    Yeah that wont be happening any time soon in my opinion.

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    • DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They could vote for the legislation, maybe push for an amendment, that doesn’t kick in for about 10 years.

      e.g. starting 1 January 2036, no person can be a member of Congress who has been in office for 10 or more years, consecutively or non-consecutively. This does not apply to any person who was a Congressperson at the time that this amendment was ratified; and years served before 1 January 2030 will not count.

      and/or,

      e.g. notwithstanding the aforementioned, starting 1 January 2060, no person can be a member of Congress who has been a member of Congress for 10 or more years, consecutively or non-consecutively.

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        “they’ll only vote for policies that benefit the country if it doesn’t affect them” tells you everything about the people currently in power.

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• K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Respect is earned while someone is alive and healthy, Biden has earned no respect.

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  • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Despite his many crimes, I am nearly sure Joe Biden has done more to deserve respect than you ever will.

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    • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “If Biden deserves so much respect, then why am I still an asshole?”
      - Assholes

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      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Biden is a war criminal that prepped the way for Trump to come to power.

        If you feel any pitty for him, you should stop NOW.

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    • mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Genocide is the mother of all crimes. Financing it nullify all the good thing you did. He also supported balkanizing Iraq.

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      • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah and the other guy rapes children. What's the point of comparison in this scenario?

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    • K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Anyone that has an ounce of respect for him based on what he has done throughout his life and the harm he has caused on untold millions of people deserves no respect either.

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      • Azzu@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s not about respect for his actions, it’s about respect for a human being suffering. There is no real point to wish suffering on anyone, other’s suffering never helped anything except satisfy one’s vengeful fantasies/sadism. If someone is hurting others, you make them stop hurting others, but you still give them basic human respect.

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  • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Basic respect for the life of your fellow human is intrinsic. Nobody should have to earn the right to live, jackass.

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    • K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When the actions they’ve committed throughout their life has led to the harm of others, there is no intrinsic respect.

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      • Azzu@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        People that are able to say stuff like this are exactly why we have the situation we’re having. If you can turn off your empathy for the “bad guys”, all it takes is just misidentifying the “bad guys” once, either by mistake or on purpose or by being manipulated.

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      • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Life must be simple without nuance.

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Respect and derision are not the only choices.

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  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s actually not how respect works at all, what your thinking of is adoration. Respect is lost, if you don’t start with a baseline of respect for everyone, you don’t respect anyone.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Neither have you. So get lost to the maga community on lemmy (if there even is one)

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    • K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Incapable of believing that a critique of one piece of shit implies endorsement of the other piece of shit?

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      • huppakee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So if you treat someone with respect you endorse them?

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    • kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      reddit.world moment when not respecting a genocider makes you a trumper apparently

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• fizzle@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He doesn’t need to have empathy, he could just say nothing.

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• atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Had me until you said “muster a but of empathy”. Trump would never.

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  • andxz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Could never, even.

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• brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  if you’re a public figure like trump, the least you can do is muster a bit of empathy.

  Public figures have even more reasons not to muster empathy for genocide supporters

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  • chortle_tortle@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wish we had public figures that were unbothered by it for cool reasons.

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• Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  talks about genocide and then wants empathy for the scumbag they called Genocide Joe.

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