"One Painful Debate Is Not Evidence of America’s Decline

Russia and China have seized on last week’s painful presidential debate to push their narrative that America is in terminal decline."

push their narrative that America is in terminal decline

Do… do the writers think it isn’t?

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64 points

they think America is like tinkerbell and as long as everyone’s clapping that it’s still the American century

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you have a way with words o7

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Russia’s state-owned Channel One covered the debate in depth, describing President Biden and Donald Trump as “small children from the nursery.” As Russian viewers were treated to replays of the candidates bickering over who was the better golfer, the presenter predicted that life itself in America would become “one never-ending game of golf,” with the United States lurching “from one big hole to the next.”

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Where’s the lie?

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Damn, I’m mad at them too, mad that I didn’t come up with that first, lmao that’s fucking funny

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57 points

What NYT thinks Russia-China-Iran are doing:

what they are actually doing:

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they’re doing it. they’re really doing the “biden and trump’s debate performance is ruzzian/seeseepee disinformation” bit.

don’t believe your lying eyes, yankoids

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One Painful Debate Is Not Evidence of America’s Decline

No, but like everything else is

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its not evidence but damn its a nice cherry on top of all the evidence

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I mean really, it sorta is, but so is everything else

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