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I dunno a single leftist irl who didn’t vote for Kamala

They’re clearly not clueless, else the whole joke doesn’t make any sense.

You’re right, that was awful and idealogically-rooted behavior justified in the name of liberal statecraft.

US support of Israel is a huge problem, and needs to stop. I am with you, and he should be held accountable for the part he played in that.

To clarify, I am not a Biden supporter by any means. In fact, I place a lot of the blame for the fucked state of the world right now squarely on his shoulders. It would not be a stretch to say that I harbor a deep resentment for the man’s work.

However, I do think there’s a lot to learn from his career. Because as far as I can tell, the man genuinely seemed to be trying to improve the world for the average person. Thus, he clearly fucked up catastrophically, and there’s a lot to learn from how and why.

The US disregard of the Rule of Law historically seemed to be one of his personal bugbears. At least from what I’ve seen of his accounts and those around them. I won’t judge you if you want to discard him as a bumbling hypocrite, but we can learn the most from failure.

I disagree with Biden’s handling of the transition, but it’s definitely internally consistent with his beliefs. He really, really wanted the global rule of law to work.

I would not be surprised if part of the intention here was to maintain legitimacy during the initial transfer, so that when the monsters refuse to do the same, it will lend legitimacy to a global response to assist the people in reclaiming their democracy.

Now, you could also call that ‘passing the buck’ and… Well, yes. He did seem to do too much of that, imo. Or not enough, depending on how you look at it.

They definitely knew what they were doing.

American Eagle? Like, c’mon.

At the very least, the resulting controversy is an intentional marketing campaign, since that’s the phase of capitalism we’re in now. At the most? This is one of the infortunately soon to be many American businesses seeking to benefit from the growing population of literal fascists in our country.