President Joe Biden says there's an extremist movement that doesn't share the basic beliefs of democracy.

President Joe Biden is arguing that “there is something dangerous happening in America” as he revives his warnings that Donald Trump and his allies represent an existential threat to the country’s democratic institutions.

“There is an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy. The MAGA movement,” Biden says in excerpts of the speech Thursday in Arizona, released in advance by the White House, referring Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan.

Although voting in the 2024 Republican primary doesn’t begin for months, Biden’s focus reflects Trump’s status as the undisputed frontrunner for his party’s nomination despite facing four indictments, two of them related to his attempts to overturn Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.

  • queermunist she/her
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    1 year ago

    Lysenko had less idea than anyone else about what they were doing. However he was promoted to the Soviet head of agriculture science. And his batshit crazy ideas were pushed by the party. Simply out of a feel-good desire because it aligned with their political beliefs

    I’m familiar with him (we learned about his failures in my highschool actually), but his ideas (while wrong) weren’t all that much worse than the other dumb shit people believed.

    I’ll give you one thing, decentralized agriculture at least means every individual farmer is trying their own whacky shit and occasionally they get lucky. Central control destroys that. If the central ideas are bad, like the modern model of infinite growth at any cost, then the results are bad.

    Did you fail to notice modern farming today is largely centrally owned and controlled? It’s not a bunch of little disparate mom and pop shops. There is absolutely a central ideology behind it. Perpetual and impossible growth at all costs. With no focus on sustainability.

    Fair - but that is liberalism. The ones you think you can work with. What’s up with that?

    Speaking of Xi what are your thoughts on the recent Naomi Wu situation?

    They want centralized control over their image in the West (she had an English speaking audience after all), and she wasn’t the image they wanted. Tragic collateral damage in a propaganda war.

    They also have a backwards notion that queer people must be silenced to promote population growth - as if we aren’t, ourselves, important family members that can help our straight brothers and sisters watch their kids.

    Central control is good when the central ideas are good, it’s bad when the central ideas are bad. I think that’s pretty obvious. What’s so hard to understand about that?

    While we’re on China, what are your thoughts on the fact that Chinese life expectancies have surpassed Americans?