[Info-vax] [OT] What is happening in/to the US ?

[Dave Froble]

On 7/25/2024 1:49 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-07-25, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>> On 7/24/24 10:02 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> On 7/24/2024 9:22 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 7/24/24 7:15 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>>>>> OTOH, Ms Harris needs to learn gravitas and to stop behaving like a
>>>>> giggling
>>>>> teenage schoolgirl if she wants to be elected (and to be taken seriously
>>>>> by the rest of the world.)
>>>>
>>>> Would you describe a male politician whose laugh you didn't like as
>>>> "like a giggling teenage schoolgirl"?
>>>>
>>>> Please take your ignorance and misogyny elsewhere.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why is it that one cannot say anything about some female without getting
>>> that silly word flung at them?
>>
>> He didn't "say anything."  He specifically belittled her for how she
>> expresses emotion in public, which is about as classic as misogyny gets.
>> If you don't get that, educate yourself.  Here might be a good place to
>> start:
>>
>
> And that reply is a perfect example of what I meant in my followup.
>
> You have taken a legitimate comment about the personality of a person
> wanting to do what is one of the most important jobs in your country
> and rewritten it to state that any such criticism is an attack on all
> women for being women, instead of discussing the criticism itself.
>
> This seems to be quite common in your country at the moment, although
> at least it's not as bad as the Google employees who released an AI image
> generator that refused to draw white men and were so out of touch with
> reality they simply couldn't see why anyone would have a problem with that.
>
> I hope the rest of your country does not end up as bad as that.
>
>> https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/07/kamala-harris-laugh-trump-sexism/679215/
>>
>
> That's an interesting piece of gaslighting by them...
>
> As already mentioned, one of the problems with Mr Biden leaving it as
> late as he did is that Ms Harris has not been tested in your country's
> primary election process. It also means that there are candidates
> (both male and female) who were unable to have their chance to be tested.
>
> That is not a good thing for your country and I really wish your country
> had a viable alternative to Mr Trump.

Well, we didn't 4 years ago, but enough were astute enough to vote against 
Trump.  I just really hope the voters do so again.

But the damn Democrats sure aren't doing anything helpful ...


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