• seriousconsideration@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    RFK deserves the dunking-on, but “I think my family would vote for me if I ran for president” is petty and speculative in order to generate views. Does PBS engage in 24 hour news cycle punditry now?

    • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      It’s neither petty nor punditry when she’s honestly answering the simple and direct question her guest posed to her.

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        8 months ago

        Exactly. Forcing ourselves to respond to trolls as if they’re legit is A HUGE PART OF HOW WE GOT TO THIS PLACE OF INSANITY.

        This motherfucker is crazy and unqualified. And he’s putting us all in danger, with his narcissistic third-party run, in this election of all elections. We don’t owe him anything. We need to stop answering lunatic shit with “well, hold on now, we have to treat this fringe whacko and all his dumbass, sophomoric, pulled-straight-out-of-his-ass opinions with just as much gravity as any real political scientist would command.”

        Fuck that. It needs to stop. It has gone on far too long, already. Make incompetent morons feel like morons again.