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To bad she didn’t stay in there

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Lemmy is so reddit 2.0 lol, fucking astroturfing for Biden.

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Or people just find humanizing moments in leaders and their spouses very endearing.

Here, I’ll give you an example with Trump (probably the only example I have). There was one interview where he was asked about his youngest son, Barron, and his response was talking about how great he was with computers and technology, but in the typical boomer way of saying all the wrong terms with the wrong grammar. That’s stayed with me all this time, he seemed very genuinely proud of him.

Biden has had plenty of these over his career. I like how he defends Hunter and doesn’t see him as worse for having gone through a drug addiction. Leaked phone calls show it wasn’t an act either – he genuinely still loved and cared about his son.

And then you’ve got Obama, who was chock full of them. It’s a big reason why he’s so well-liked. He was very in tune with jokes about him and he played off of them. Remember the White House Correspondents Dinner where he said he was releasing his birth video to prove he was American, and then showed the beginning of Lion King?

Even Bush. He was listening to schoolchildren when he got the news about 9/11. He first finished what he was doing with the kids so they wouldn’t be alarmed, and then he addressed the situation from an adjacent classroom. He made it a point to give those kids at least another hour or two of being able to be carefree kids, and I respect that.

That pretty much covers all of the ones in my lifetime that I’ve been old enough to pay attention to.

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While I don’t think your premise is correct, I appreciate the lengthy write up and the stories, it is possible the OP felt it was just an endearing story. I consume a lot of politcal media/news and not many people that are active politically (and not just vomiting left/right wing talking points from cnn/fox) think positively of this administration to the point it has become really doubtful for me that anyone can truly share positive info on Biden’s family or the Biden admin unless it is to promote a politically motivated agenda. I think most people that still promote his admin fall into a few catagories: either they are very poorly informed/misinformed through watching bias media (cnn/msnbc, not to say right right wing media isn’t bias just doesn’t apply here) with little to zero personal investigation or research, not politically involved/echo chamber because orange man bad and all conservatives are racist/bigots and want to strip women’s rights, or attention seekers, the kind that only wish to be a victim or virtue signal. Sadly because people are so determined to form sides and be either team red or team blue, most people (especially young college age/indoctrinated youth) are very binary.

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How do you that it’s astroturfing and not that you’re actually in the minority?

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You are in the wrong place for that talk. You are looking for truth social or that kind of things for that type of talk

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Nah I’ll stick around :)

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How am I astroturfing? I just thought this was some funny shit for a grown ass woman to do.

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Apparently famous grown ass women are just not allowed to be funny on the internet now.

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18 points

“Anybody who likes things I don’t like most be brainwashed or paid to lie!” - that asshole, probably

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Nah he’s just popular among this group, most of us are techies

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