Respect is earned while someone is alive and healthy, Biden has earned no respect.
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LillyPip@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Sociopath. Even if you hate the guy, if you’re a public figure like trump, the least you can do is muster a bit of empathy.
But he can’t, because he can’t even fathom the concept of empathy. It’s completely foreign to him.
Electing sociopaths is how you get war and genocide, as we’ve known for millennia.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 2 days ago
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Despite his many crimes, I am nearly sure Joe Biden has done more to deserve respect than you ever will.
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“If Biden deserves so much respect, then why am I still an asshole?”
- AssholesWorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 days 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.
mrdown@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Genocide is the mother of all crimes. Financing it nullify all the good thing you did. He also supported balkanizing Iraq.
Chozo@fedia.io 2 days ago
Yeah and the other guy rapes children. What's the point of comparison in this scenario?
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 2 days 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.
Azzu@leminal.space 1 day 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.
Chozo@fedia.io 2 days ago
Basic respect for the life of your fellow human is intrinsic. Nobody should have to earn the right to live, jackass.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 2 days ago
When the actions they’ve committed throughout their life has led to the harm of others, there is no intrinsic respect.
Azzu@leminal.space 1 day 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.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Respect and derision are not the only choices.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Neither have you. So get lost to the maga community on lemmy (if there even is one)
kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
reddit.world moment when not respecting a genocider makes you a trumper apparently
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Incapable of believing that a critique of one piece of shit implies endorsement of the other piece of shit?
huppakee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So if you treat someone with respect you endorse them?
fizzle@quokk.au 2 days ago
He doesn’t need to have empathy, he could just say nothing.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Had me until you said “muster a but of empathy”. Trump would never.
andxz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Could never, even.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 day 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
chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Wish we had public figures that were unbothered by it for cool reasons.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 day ago
talks about genocide and then wants empathy for the scumbag they called Genocide Joe.
ChaosSpectre@lemmy.zip 2 days 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.
mtpender@piefed.social 1 day ago
Reforms that are needed:
I’m sure there are more, but this is just off the top of my head.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I’d go with term limits as well. Too many people in what are essentially life terms
huppakee@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 1 day ago
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
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%.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days 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.
DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 day 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.