That's an entirely different argument, though. I'm trying to understand why @BeijingPalmer thinks this analysis of Biden's poor chances against Trump is so far beneath contempt.
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Because it's blatantly not actually about that but about the wonders of Bernie Sanders, and to the degree that it *is* about that it's essentially yet another projection of the neuroses of 2016.
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The article doesn't mention Sanders or argue that he's a superior candidate to Biden. Maybe all the author's other articles are love poems to Bernie (I haven't read the guy) but from the vantage point of a dispassionate bookmarking site, you're the one projecting neuroses here.
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Yeah, you need to have read *literally anything else Nathan Robinson writes* to understand this. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/10/why-bernie-has-to-win …
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Replying to @BeijingPalmer @Pinboard and
"I don’t think I quite realized how much we need Bernie Sanders—or how much I need him, personally—and how desperately urgent it is for us to elect him"
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That is, the piece is no more being done in good faith than the regular volleys of pieces by former GOP candidates about how the Democrats are Doomed if they pick a leftist.
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Okay, but you're attacking the author's broader political agenda rather than a completely sensible standalone argument about Biden's family baggage. Not knowing the author from a hole in the ground, the article seemed sensible and your attacks on it didn't.
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Who - literally who - is going to be swayed by an argument about Biden's family when his opponent is *Donald Trump?* Anybody who believes in Biden's corruption over Trump's is *already* a GOP voter.
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Since the election may be decided by 50k voters in the upper midwest, I think it's important not to throw away any advantage, however cynical we are about the process. We have candidates who don't have corrupt children who abuse their family connections, why not run one of them?
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We could make this case about so many things, though! We have candidates who weren't the vice-president of a hugely successful and popular president. We have candidates who put their own family on their staff for years. We have candidates who falsely claimed Native ancestry.
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Ladies and gentlemen... the Democrats!
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short of the Transmetropolitan solution of growing your VP in a vat ...
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