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  • brian avatar

    What do you need from a candidate to convince you to vote for them? For me by far the most important thing is geopolitics. Given that America is the world police and is largely responsible for keeping world maritime trade routes open (on which the entire world economy rests - including the US economy), it is shocking to me how much people focus on internal things like crime, abortion, gun control (all of which are very important, but pale in comparison to the whole planet imo).

    I think America has done a good job of leading the world in the last 70 years despite also messing up many times, I struggle to think of any other power that could have done better. I’m very set on voting for Harris, but I hope to find out in this debate that she and her VP are better than I expect, and hopefully not worse than I expect.

    aditya•...
    This is from a recent newsletter of Charles Eisenstein’s. He’s a favorite author of mine, and also an advisor to RFK: [Trump] is not even particularly right-wing....
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  • xander avatar

    Why did Vance change his tune on Trump. He was quite vociferous against Trump and now he’s his biggest fan, what happened?

    cindym•...
    My opinion, At this point, Trump is the antidote to the Biden/Harris socialist policies. A lot of people, including, RFK, Elon Musk, have changed their position on Trump because they believe that Harris is a mouthpiece for a corrupt American system that has already shown their...
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  • dara_like_sara avatar

    fact checking: fentanyl situation. how are folks receiving Vance’s claim that Kamala Harris’ border policy allowed more fentanyl into the country?

    i don’t know much about this topic

    thehunmonkgroup•...
    Fact checking myself here: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/traditionally-how-much-power-t-he_1BvUTTW6dPRowRX.nZQ – cool to know that VPs have more influence on policy in modern times....
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  • dara_like_sara avatar

    fact checking: fentanyl situation. how are folks receiving Vance’s claim that Kamala Harris’ border policy allowed more fentanyl into the country?

    i don’t know much about this topic

    thehunmonkgroup•...
    I think that’s a debatable take. It’s Biden’s administration, his policies – as president, pretty sure he would have the final say. I haven’t done the research to know how much impact Harris’ opinion had on Biden’s policies in this area....
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  • brian avatar

    What do you need from a candidate to convince you to vote for them? For me by far the most important thing is geopolitics. Given that America is the world police and is largely responsible for keeping world maritime trade routes open (on which the entire world economy rests - including the US economy), it is shocking to me how much people focus on internal things like crime, abortion, gun control (all of which are very important, but pale in comparison to the whole planet imo).

    I think America has done a good job of leading the world in the last 70 years despite also messing up many times, I struggle to think of any other power that could have done better. I’m very set on voting for Harris, but I hope to find out in this debate that she and her VP are better than I expect, and hopefully not worse than I expect.

    jordanSA•...
    Word. Btw what do you think about Trump’s claims that he doesn’t know anything about Project 2025? I believe him, even though I believe he also would happily not support democratic institution if (a) he thought it would benefit him and (b) he could get away with it....
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