i did not endorse joe biden, i endorsed the green party.
i have no idea at all why anybody would argue that biden is in any way less terrible than trump. in fact, i found biden's foreign policy more troubling than trump's during the election, and i think he's proven those concerns founded. one of the few issues where biden looked better on paper was abortion, but he appointed pro-life judges and argued that you should elect somebody else if you want to block the court.
i have no interest in spending even five minutes arguing that biden is a better choice than trump on any issue at all. he's not.
this is in truth the least consequential election since 2012. the candidates are indistinguishable, and that's what biden has proven in his time in office - he's exactly the same as trump, except maybe worse on foreign policy.
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one of the louder, if perhaps ungrounded, fears about trump was that he was going to start a giant war. i didn't project that outcome, and he didn't. i did think that biden was going to start a giant war, and he actually did.
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monday, october 2, 2023
for the first time since may, nobody showed up here this weekend. the couple of people still here tried to have a party but nobody showed up and they left to go somewhere else instead.
the people freaking me out were casing the unit because they wanted to move into the basement, which is where i live. my tactic has been to wait them out, under the expectation that they'd eventually find somewhere else and leave me alone.
the situation remains beyond fragile, but the non-appearance this weekend is a very positive signal that they may have moved on.
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