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I tend to think the whole problem might even lie with the bizarre insistence "we" (haha not me!) have on conflating the very 'ontology' of our human being with a colonisation of time that nobody liviing tioday ever consented to but somehow still goes along with, boots an'all. WHY do persons continue to declare shit like "I AM 26" or "I AM 42" ? What do they think (if indeed they think at all) they gain by such, exactly? Don't they know identification is a very powerful business? One that anything worthy of the term individual *soul* might do well to REJECT? This i have never at any point understood, and have therefore never wished to participate in. It might also be mentioned that, in defence of yr own participation, you invoke only the most brute clichés, which tbh had the effect of making me wonder anew why i should FOLLOW this othetwise most astute sounding fellow from In Di An A... ?

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Just why is an age figure the fiirst thing ppl want to know about another, verily AS IF it iwas the most important, when in any reality worthy of the name it is the least important? The most stupefyingly boring fact moreover you could ever wish to know?

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In the case of Joe Biden, it turned out to be a salient fact, didn’t it? Sometimes age doesn’t matter and sometimes it does. Where a high- stress job like the American presidency is concerned, age does matter. If it didn’t, Biden would be running against Donald Trump right now.

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Woukdn't ir be more accurate to say the salient fact is his particular.biology, not the chronometry he shares with millions of others?

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No, it wouldn’t.

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Well, do go on....

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Mendacity + incapacity is a worrisome combination to be sure, but thanks for using ‘mendacity’. It makes me nostalgic for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. We need to bring it back into circulation because it fits our politics so nicely at the moment.

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As you say, most thinking people recognized Biden's decline by 2022 (or earlier).

But the mendacity of the Washington political establishment (including much of the media) knows no bounds.

Americans were lied to (the fact that roughly 40% of voters eagerly welcomed those lies is immaterial).

Everyone knows that politicians lie; we (mostly) factor that into our reception.

But the media was complicit in those lies, relying on the goodwill and naivete of Americans to swing the election.

The media destroyed our trust in them - so be it, their choice.

But the fallout from the media's betrayal has been to lower Americans' trust in most institutions.

The legacy of lowered social trust is the real cost to the US.

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