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Noel French

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Detroit area lawyer in a dull practice area. Personally (as opposed to professionally) interested in China. Pro immigration. Anti Alito. Currently reading: Void Star by Zachary Mason

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If Musgrave comes back and starts handing out his little momento moris (momentos mori? idk) someone please let me know 😥

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Seriously. He's so clearly more mentally fit than Trump. I say this as someone dealing with a parent with advanced dementia. Trump seems like he's got dementia, Biden seems like he's slowing down a normal amount for his age. You can argue they're both too old. They are! But those are the choices.

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I understand the two are related. I also am beginning to suspect that the NYT keeps running stories on his age at least in part because it get clicks because people want to have these discussions.

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It is amazing how quickly this website has turned from the absolutely dire threat of another Trump term in light of yesterday's opinion to further discussion of Biden's age.

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Yeah I think the thing is we don't even have confirmation that he said those things. If he did that I agree it's a big red flag!

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Parking this here so I can reskeet it as a reply wherever my post gets reskeeted.

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I'm not a Gaiman fan (or not fan, just not my bag) and it's possible the allegations are true (and they are bad), BUT I want to point out the article I linked to is the "comic book resource" and it's source is itself a bit sketchy, so it may be wise to wait for additional information.

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I'm not a Gaiman fan (or not fan, just not my bag) and it's possible the allegations are true (and they are bad), BUT I want to point out the article I linked to is the "comic book resource" and it's source is itself a bit sketchy, so it may be wise to wait for additional information.

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I'm on the fence about deleting the original post because I think it's going around without anyone actually giving much attention to the source, anyone have a thought on best practice here?

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Right! We really don't even know that what they're saying he said is accurate!

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Re: the Gaiman accusations and the link I posted that is doing the rounds.

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The response was way more extreme! It's bewildering how this has morphed into a meltdown here, in comparison.

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Seeing some of the reskeet conversations around this I gotta say I think we can all wait for a more solid source than the "comic book resource" before we reach conclusions.

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OP is not my wife's coworker, to be clear, tho I guess they were meant to be on the same flights 😅

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Wife's coworker was meant to be on this flight after their first flight back from Amsterdam was cancelled for mechanical issues. This one didn't make it to Amsterdam, of course.

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Kind of fascinating in a train wreck you can't look away from sort of way to look in retrospect to see how they just threw shit at the wall until they found something to stick.

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Anyway, I am thankful that the Supreme Court has given Biden the tools he needs to save democracy from the Supreme Court, and just hope that he can rise to the occasion if required.

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the first, second and third most important news stories this week are about the SCOTUS decision, and every columnist spending their time talking about biden old is telling you what they value. we don’t have to indulge them, though, stop your subs, stop clicking, stop talking about them.

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This is really helpful context, and I'd frankly completely forgotten about the whole fabricated "Hillary health scandal" before the fabricated emails scandal.

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If you find a way out of the Matrix please let us know.

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Anyway you can watch him give a press conference and compare it to Trump talking at a rally and tell me which one you think is cognitively fitter.

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"We watched the debates and saw what we saw!" Yes after literally months of media priming you to be on the look out for signs that Biden has dementia.

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It is absolutely bonkers to compare how people responded to the mass Republican freakout after the Access Hollywood tape compared to this largely manufactured narrative.

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter 's avatar The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter @swolecialism.bsky.social
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i swear to god. people will spend eight goddamn years complaining about how friendly the new york times is to donald trump and then just... keep accepting their framing. apparently forever. it's a provincial newspaper run by a sixth generation failson. have some self respect

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The overall reaction, compared to when a number of Republicans called on Trump to step aside after the Access Hollywood tape leaked, is very odd and asymmetrical.

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Ya I think it's ultimately up to the individual with a disability/condition to decide how people should approach it?

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But he doesn't give a shit what I think! And at the end of the day I'll vote for a literal potato over Trump.

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One thing I am extremely glad about is that I have absolutely no influence on any decision Biden makes. So far he has proven himself a far savvier political operator than I expected, and he's the only person who has ever beaten Trump in an election, and I think he's the best to do it again.

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Score another one for my "you can responsibly assume anyone with a Cybertruck is an asshole" theory.

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A great thing about being people on the internet is that we are not well positioned to nor responsible for investigating allegations against someone, and we have no obligation to make a judgment at the first possible opportunity.

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Definitely raised my eyebrows! Here's hoping the truth prevails, whatever it may be.

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Well, more accurately, I don't think Gaiman said he cooperated with them (the NZ police), just that he offered and they declined. I don't think there's any evidence to that statement's veracity one way or the other at this point.

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I don't think that's clear at this point.

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