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Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur 3h Can everyone please stop the dumb "from the river to the sea" chant? It is incredibly hurtful to our Jewish brothers and sisters. It's also incredibly counterproductive to protecting Palestinians. Do not chant something that majority thinks is call for genocide. Not complicated. Dec 11, 2023 · 11:09 PM UTC

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[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 44 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He's running for president? Lol lmao

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 39 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Hasan said on the latest Patreon episode of Fear& that no one (Cenk and the family) thinks he is going to win and that the point of him running is that, if he gains any traction at all, Democrats are going to have to admit they need to replace Biden with someone else.

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 43 points 11 months ago (2 children)

if he gains any traction at all

Lol ok sure

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 38 points 11 months ago

Hasan did call his family crazy for thinking Cenk has a shot at all lol

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

Yea just like if insert popular movie star here suddenly starts wanting to date me im going to tell her I need more time to focus on my personal projects

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Can he even run? I thought he was born in Turkey.

[–] riseuppikmin@hexbear.net 43 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

He was and is not eligible under current laws (as he has been told repeatedly by state election officials). The only good thing to possibly come out of this campaign is getting that law changed, but don't hold your breath because burgerland is way too fucking racist on aggregate to possibly tackle that.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 50 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The monkey's paw curls

Say hello to the candidates for 2028: zelensky-pain guaido-despair

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

Guialinsky 2028

[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

The monkey's paw curls

Oh god, repealing that law is going to open the way for Elon Musk to run isn't it.

[–] WhoaSlowDownMaurice@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

Honestly Guaido is probably still to the left of a lot of ppl in the us lol

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

If that law gets repealed Elon is the republican president in 4 years.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He'll get campaign finance reform successfully done before he gets naturalized citizen presidential candidates lol

[–] riseuppikmin@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Is this one of those greater infinities questions?

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

Countably infinite vs uncountably infinite, definitely. I haven't thought about set theory in ages bahahaha.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

I think it's one of those things where he could run but legally he can't be president. I have no idea honestly. It was a blip in conversation about how Gruesome Gavin should run because he's hot and who the hottest president was.

[–] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

his argument iirc is that that clause should be considered overturned by the 14th amendment (?) which guaranteed equal protection under the law to naturalized citizens or something.

He also cited like 4 other examples of people being elected despite having outright fake or tenuous claims to being born here

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 23 points 11 months ago

Isn't that basically why Marianne Williamson is running? She's polling way higher than Cenk ever would and the media are happy to pretend she's not running.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

if he gains any traction at all, Democrats are going to have to admit they need to replace Biden with someone else.

Imagine being such a bootlicking loser that the only reason you spend tons of money running for president is so that 'your' party maybe concedes that their candidate sucks.

And replace Biden with what, exactly? Some other hollowed out husk of a human that has 97% of the same views Biden does?

Joe Biden is a liberal, maybe THE liberal; he IS 'your team'.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

There's half a dozen other candidates who would already prove that and they're all left of this dumbass.

If he somehow found a genie in abotlle and started polling above 10% he'd start telling his followers that they need to drop it get serious and start supportung Biden.

Exactly like he did on the verge of crocodile tears with Hillary in 2016.