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And Trump’s a sociopathic narcissist. Neither are good choices but I still pick the one not pushing fascism

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The article argues to swap out Biden with a more progressive canidate. It clearly would be better to do so with Trump, but it is what it is.

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You seriously think an opinion article from the Guardian is arguing people should vote for Donald Trump?

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What’s the option other than ‘Biden Bad’ then? Who is the candidate that will keep his support and pull away Trump voters that is superior to Biden in some meaningful way outside the statistical noise bounds?

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I don’t know, ask Joe Biden. He might have a list of probably 50 people who could beat Trump. But no-one is going to step forward unless he drops out.

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Context, subtext, actual text. Survey says: Yes.

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I don’t believe you’ve actually read the article. It’s not that long.

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It is not a cold heart towards Palestinians. It is a warm heart for Israeli and Zionist money and power

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Feels like this community needs a new name. I don’t think I’ve ever seen “pleasant” politics posted here.

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!PleasantPolitics aspires to be a place where people can have good faith discussions about politics without interference from trolls and assholes. ‘Unpleasant’ doesn’t mean merely having different opinions from conservative Democrats. Creating an echo chamber was not the intended goal.

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I agree. It’s working well at what I intended it to be, in my opinion, but the name is flat-out wrong at this point.

I made a post with my evaluation of the bot’s ability to create a space where people can disagree without being horrible about it. I think it’s succeeding at that, and these contentious topics are a good test case, since it’s not meant to create a space for only pleasant topics. The name is misleading. I don’t know why I didn’t expect this, but I didn’t.

What do you think? I’m interesting in hearing feedback on how people are receiving the content they’re seeing here. If the bot is working in my opinion, but the result from the reader isn’t good, that’s an issue.

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Just wait until Trump come. You will miss Biden greatly.

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Fuck you

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