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Highly recommend this post be unflagged. Politics directly affects technology startups, as I'm sure everyone here is aware.
Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem isn't just his age, it's his decrepitude, both physical and mental. I know people in their 90s who are able to speak clearly at any hour of the day...
He’s far more physically fit than the Republican candidate. He can ride a bike. The Republican candidate also struggles to speak coherently. At least now we’ll likely not have both major party candidates be too old for office.
> He’s far more physically fit than the Republican candidate. He can ride a bike. The Republican candidate also struggles to speak coherently.
Biden literally cannot walk down two steps unassisted.
Meanwhile Trump appears to be bullet proof.
You can disagree on plenty of policy, but no fair minded person could possibly think he’s mentally or physically more fit than Trump.
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#103Dang, this shouldn't be flagged. This is hugely important and relevant.
How the fuck does this end-up flagged ... There is over 90 upvotes does this not count ? Where is the mythical vouch feature I could never find ? A yes I believe it's not yet dead, so you can't vouch ?
Several factors affect it... high number of upvotes and comments in a short amount of time, users flagging it because of politics, etc. Hopefully it gets manually unflagged.
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#104I actually think this loses Democrats the election. I don't know who the nominee is going to be but if it's Kamala I think they REALLY lose the election. People may be lukewarm on Biden but they despise Kamala for her shady history as a prosecutor.
The history as a prosecutor might be a significant advantage in a general election. The anti-police senitment has waned and she can position herself right at the center w.r.t. rule of law.
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He can do president duties, while the candidate they choose go around collecting votes.
That's the thing. If he's unfit to serve 6 months from now, then how is he fit to serve now? He didn't endorse Kamala in his letter. We'll see what comes out of the spin cycle this week. e: looks like Biden endorsed Kamala according to other publications
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#106Oof. This guy has been the biggest positive surprise of the US presidents in my lifetime. Expectations were low, but he actually turned out to be a good president (from a European perspective). No new wars, no more talk about shifting defense focus to Asia, generally nothing unreasonable. Good support for Ukraine, no doubts about NATO - rather the opposite. Basically, the rich uncle on the other side of the pond has…
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In the mean time, there are new posts about this same subject appearing on HN which are not flagged, linking to CNN, NYT etc.
But the very first post, linking to the primary source, was flagged. Seems unfair to me.
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"Tech < VC < Politics" is a very common career journey for higher-ups for a reason: Politics affects VC intimately, and VC affects tech intimately.
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#110This is wild. It seems super late in the game but okay. I'm super interested to see what will become of his chips act etc. The push he has tried to do to remove dependencies on TSMC is very forward thinking. Hopefully the next candidate takes up the momentum. Edit : Typo in TSMC
> It seems super late in the game but okay.
Why does the US in specific have such drawn-out campaigns? Earlier this week, I saw a pundit commenting that 4 months before the election is too short notice to pick a new candidate. But there's countries in Europe that announce elections, pick candidates, do the campaigns, go to the pools, do the counts, and have the electees take office, all in less than 4 months (see e.g. Great Britain recently).