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Of the last 12 articles I've posted, only 3 could be construed as negative towards Biden. If he doesn't want shitty publicity, maybe he should stop doing a genocide.
As soon as he's the one actually doing the genocide, instead of merely continuing long-standing US pro-war-crimes-by-our-allies policy (which, I'll agree, is pretty much war criminal on his part and his weak little baby steps towards maybe not doing it anymore sometime in the theoretical future are not nearly enough)... then I'll agree with this statement. As it is, it's a deliberate distortion.
Not true.
We could quibble about at what point a story about US policy in general counts as a story about Biden; I gave those ones half a point and arrived at 58% of the stories being criticism of Biden with multiple Hunter Biden stories being the red flag. Others might assign the points differently but it bears mentioning that the next three after that were all heavily and explicitly anti-Biden stories (incl. those two laughably slanted ones about Bidenomics.)
Obviously giving Biden grief over his Gaza policy or anything else is completely legitimate; I actually posted the exact same story you did about the State Dept employee angrily resigning, because it's important. But equally obviously, there's a pattern of accounts posting in a very particular way which includes a constant daily drumbeat of more-or-less-subtle anti Biden stories and individual one-off comments like this one without much engagement outside of that, and you're behaving like one of those accounts, and that's worth commenting on. No?
You're seriously upset that I'm posting too many articles critical of US foreign policy while the US funds and arms a genocide? The only pattern you'll find in my posts is a focus on Gaza. If you'd like to see other content, post it. Lemmy needs all the content it can get.
Are you reading my message through some inverted version of those "They Live" sunglasses?
As someone who appreciates your efforts in threads and is old enough to get this reference, I salute you
Haha thanks, call me Rowdy Roddy Piper I guess