Comment on If I live in a red state, would it be better to vote for rfk to take votes away from trump?

• frankPodmore@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  OP has given us no info about the candidates they’re considering other than RFK, who is a lunatic. There’s no merit to encouraging RFK’s views, so Biden should be OP’s choice.

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    RFK has significantly less lunacy than Trump, and is much more coherent than both Biden and Trump.

    He still supports Israel though, so there is no anti genocide candidate.

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    • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      didn’t he literally have a worm burrowing through his brain

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yes. 14 years ago.

        Kennedy said he had recovered from the memory loss and fogginess and had no aftereffects from the parasite.

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    • frankPodmore@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      RFK is less coherent than Biden politically and intellectually, which is what matters.

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The way RFK makes (coherent) arguments in public is streets ahead of Biden and Trump, but so is almost any politician.

        In terms of honesty, RFK is between Biden and Trump. Half truths and populism, rather than the full lies of Trump.

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• JackiesFridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Voting for other candidates only shifts the needle if they win. If they can’t possibly win, nothing is accomplished by voting for them.

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Incorrect. Bernie shifted the needle and didn’t win.

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    On Thursday he rolled out two new policy proposals:

    • Lower the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 60.
    • Forgive student debt for low-income and middle-class families who attended public colleges and universities and some private institutions.

    "Senator Sanders and his supporters can take pride in their work in laying the groundwork for these ideas,

    npr.org/…/joe-biden-won-the-primary-now-hes-tryin…

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    • JackiesFridge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Didn’t win? Dude’s a congressman. He’s in.

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Bernie didn’t win the presidency but still got some of his policies adopted by the president.

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