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Commenter is incorrect that he promised, instead he just strongly implied that he would stop at 1 term.

While the option of making a public pledge remains available, Biden has for now settled on an alternative strategy: quietly indicating that he will almost certainly not run for a second term while declining to make a promise

According to four people who regularly talk to Biden, all of whom asked for anonymity to discuss internal campaign matters, it is virtually inconceivable that he will run for reelection in 2024, when he would be the first octogenarian president.

“If Biden is elected,” a prominent adviser to the campaign said, “he’s going to be 82 years old in four years and he won’t be running for reelection.”

Biden signals to aides that he would serve only a single term -Politico

The world finding another oil and gas reserve is like an alcoholic finding a secret door to a fully stocked bar.

We're probably going to drink ourselves to death.

It must be such a relief for Blinken whenever he can go to Ukraine and be on the right side of history.

Facilitating a genocide in Gaza must really do a number on a man, you can tell by the hideous bags under his eyes.

The line from Kendrick's Meet the Grahams is actually

He hates Black women, hypersexualizes ’em with kinks of a nympho fetish

This part isn't about children, it's generally believed to be about Drakes alleged assault on Laquana Morris.

The former stripper and Instagram model alleged: “Drake forced me to perform oral on him. It wasn’t your ordinary oral it was more so a fetish.” She then describes how he told her to spit into a cup “until he had measured it."

Ah the old "That horrific story you heard about me was actually fabricated by me, so this is actually a win haha gotcha" defense.

Is this guy a Drake ghostwriter?

I still dont understand why, after 3 or 4 victories, the Dems would abandon neoliberalism and become a leftist party. Why would they change their winning strategy?

Is there any precedent for this in history?

Yes we both agree that you can vote and also protest. My argument here was that voting for Dems does not move them left, so I'm not sure how protest is relevant.

But since you asked for the alternative, I think the american labor movement of a century ago is the last truly successful model. It required a large peaceful protest movement, various forms of violent direct action, and a broad base of support in the populace who would not be swayed by propaganda. Those who died in that fight earned us the weekend, workplace safety, and dignified retirement. They planted the seeds for the most progressive era in American history.

I think we have to reckon with the fact that recent protest movements all failed. George Floyd defunded 0 police departments. The Womens March was a punchline. After Occupy Wall Street, banks and hedge funds just got bigger. Anti-Iraq war protests may have curbed some brutality, but that war continued for 2 decades.

These protests are on the right side of history, and changing peoples minds is good, but to change peoples material condition you need to change policy too.

So your idea is to keep voting for the corporate Democrats, and eventually the Republicans will moderate themselves in reponse?

Mate, either you haven't been paying attention to Republican politics, or you are insane.

This is a recipe for disaster. We can't afford to keep this status quo for another generation, we are destroying the planet.

It's got good bones, but they are bare.

It's very pretty, the fundamentals are well done, its satisfying. The animations stand out- you can watch a villager build each building beam by beam.

But after you set up food growing and a few production chains, there isn't much left to do. This could be a great game in a year or three, but its not there yet.

Yes of course, but that's not really relevant to the broader point here.

Democrats have won more elections than Republicans, yet they have moved to the right. So what will it take to move them left?

The person I replied to suggested that voting can move the Dems left, but I disagree. At a national level, the Dems have been captured by corporate money.

They understand the best way to get votes is through advertising dollars, and the best way to get dollars is corporate fundraising. Other countries call this corruption, but here we call it free speech.

This sounds like a fantasy.

I've voted Democrat my whole life, yet the dems keep moving to the right, and the overton window keeps moving to the right along with them.

You're not wrong, these Trump trial judges are bending over backwards to avoid any grounds for mistrial. In one sense they are doing the right thing inside the legal framework, but look at the downsides.

The public is watching how a rich and powerful man can game the system, even as a criminal defendant the system is working for him. Every incarcerated person can see the reality: they were treated with default brutality, but Trump is treated as royalty.

And even worse, they are allowing Trump to delay every verdict until after the election. If he wins the election he pardons himself, this is a horrible precedent for our democracy.