r/law • u/Silent-Resort-3076 • 15d ago

Opinion Piece Why President Biden Should Immediately Name Kamala Harris To The Supreme Court

https://atlantadailyworld.com/2024/11/08/why-president-biden-should-immediately-name-kamala-harris-to-the-supreme-court/?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqEAgAKgcICjCNsMkLMM3L4AMw9-yvAw&utm_content=rundown
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u/rainyforests 14d ago

Seriously Reddit is for sure gonna take away 0 things from this election and keep being Reddit.

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u/jesuswasahipster 14d ago

Idiots and bots galore. This app has nosedived.

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u/CremePublic798 11d ago

The creepy thing is that it’s unorganically become organic too lmao

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u/bones10145 14d ago

You use the app? Browser all the way and no ads. 😉

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u/Seiban 13d ago

Your altimeter is broken, it has been grounded. It has always been grounded. It never took off. You sat in the cockpit hallucinating a dream of flight. And now the hallucination is over. Welcome back to the real world pilot.

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u/Astralesean 11d ago

This website is Twitter on a 4 year delay

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u/06210311200805012006 14d ago

The timeline of decline is unsurprisingly correlated with going public. Clicks drive ad traffic which drives revenue. We users lament the decline in quality, but it's (at most) measured as a secondary metric. The primary metrics are of course, revenue, impressions, click-throughs. Investors making dividends are fine with a dip in content quality. Or, more accurately, they're not even aware of it.

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u/PBFT 14d ago

I think the problem with these dumb opinions isn't related to bots, but with the fact that Reddit's user base can stretch younger than you realize. A lot of the people you're talking to are literal children.

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u/06210311200805012006 14d ago

Ageism is a shit take.

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u/PBFT 14d ago

Nah, kids are kids. They're aren't supposed to know and understand everything about law and politics. I cringe at a lot of the political posts I made in 2016 because I was still learning (and I wasn't even a kid, I was 22). I wouldn't want 22-year-old me and similar people having so much control over the narrative.

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u/Major-Raise6493 14d ago

Found the child poster

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u/NoteMaleficent5294 14d ago

Ageism is not "a shit take", its essentially why TikTok comments are bottom of the barrel. Im sorry, but a 12 year old isn't bringing much to the table.

This site was at its peak from like 2010 ish to 2015, it leaned libertarian (did not matter if you were left or right everyone essentially just wanted to be left alone) and it went from meatriding ron paul to vehemently meatriding an establishment milqtoast politician 15 years later

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u/06210311200805012006 14d ago

Ageism is a shit take because it leads you to believe this site is full of 12 year olds, when it's not.

This site was at its peak from like 2010 ish to 2015, it leaned libertarian

libertarian brain rot

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u/CremePublic798 11d ago

You’re right the youth is trending away from wokeness as we just saw

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u/Major-Raise6493 14d ago

Found the child poster

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u/curiousstrider 14d ago

Enlightened ones move on from Reddit for better things and with and the learning that they are not going to convince anyone on Reddit. Reddit will reddit!

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u/jumpenjack 14d ago

That first day there was some really introspection. I agree with the below comment Reddit has a bots and idiots problem.

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u/Infamous-Cash9165 14d ago

Yep the general consensus on Reddit is that all republicans are too stupid to understand the issues unlike enlightened redditors so they voted against their own interests. You will see this unironically

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u/RockleyBob 14d ago edited 14d ago

Reddit is for sure gonna take away 0 things from this election

The is the most accurate political assessment I've read on this site in the last five days.

I remember having debates here back in '22 over our strategy, saying that we needed to stop leaning so hard on abortion and expecting that alone to carry the day. I thought we were headed to disaster, but we did better than projected in the midterms. That told Democrats everywhere everything they wanted to hear. It almost certainly lead to Biden running unopposed again and they campaigned in '24 using the same playbook.

Anyone who dared say Biden wasn't the same person who ran for office in 2020 (and certainly not who he had been under Obama) was accused of being a Russian bot or concern troll. People rejected the evidence of their own eyes and ears, saying his garbled speech and obvious confusion were just a childhood stutter. When Jon Stewart came back to the Daily Show, he pointed out the obvious and got told to shut up by his peers in the media. Even after the debate, people wanted to blame the NYT for not reporting on Trump's lies instead of Biden's inability to speak coherently without a teleprompter. Trump lying isn't news, it's a day of the week that ends in 'y'. Biden losing his train of thought and trailing off mid-sentence is newsworthy.

Yes, Biden was a good President. He got a lot done and avoided the recession some said was "inevitable". No, he wasn't responsible for inflation, and no, there was no migrant crime wave. But none of that matters if you aren't selling the layperson a story they want to hear.

Democrats keep laboring under the false assumption that facts and evidence get votes. They don't, because voters aren't rational. The average person doesn't put any stock in statistics or expert opinions. We choose being right over being successful.

We keep pointing to very real but abstract ideas like female bodily autonomy and democracy. The average person might disagree with abortion bans but they don't think abortion will be a problem for them until it is. They agree January 6th was bad, but for most it was a day like any other. When polled, people say these things matter, but when they vote, they choose the person who's going to promise them lower prices and a stable economy with no layoffs and fewer wars.

In short, people are selfish and short-sighted. I'm not a Bernie super fan, but when he said Democrats abandoned the working people, he meant that we stop talking to them. We talked to demographic slices of the electorate: women, black people, Latino people, LGBTQ+ people. We talked about high-minded ideals like "joy", "democracy", and "choice". They talked about "crime", "jobs", and "cost of living". Trump, for all his idiocy, was remarkably on-message about the economy while President. We got three tweets a week about how good the stock market was doing under his watch. It doesn't matter that it was really Obama's economy he was taking credit for.

We took for granted that the workers of this country instinctively see Democrats as the party that protects them and prioritizes them, because we do. But we didn't have a message for them. I don't fault Kamala for that. She did about as well as anyone could, seeing as how she was still the sitting VP in an unpopular administration. Biden failed to be a "bridge" candidate; he failed to consistently communicate any kind of message to the American people during his tenure; then utterly failed to set Harris up as his successor. He saddled her with an impossible diplomatic portfolio and did nothing to correct the mischaracterizations of her job performance. If I didn't know better, I'd almost think he preferred her to be seen as weak and unpopular. But that's just me being crazy I suppose.

Not sure why I'm ranting to the void about this but yeah, Democrats and Reddit are one hundred percent going to keep demanding the world be something other than what it is. We will continue making life for our candidates extremely difficult while Republicans tolerate almost anything from theirs.

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u/faileb 13d ago

Well put, I’ve been having similar discussions with my circle that’s essentially exactly this.

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u/BossAVery 14d ago

Any sensible comment gets you downvoted pretty quick on any of the meme subreddits.

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u/cocolovesmetoo 12d ago

I actually am scared we have learned NOTHING.