Mr Biden’s speech is his first major campaign event of the 2024 election season

Mr Biden’s speech is his first major campaign event of the 2024 election season

President Joe Biden marked the third anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol by warning that the issue of American democracy will be “what the 2024 election is all about,” as he runs against former president Donald Trump once more.

Mr Biden, who spoke near the Valley Forge historical site where George Washington and the Continental Army were encamped during the winter of 1777 and 1778, told attendees that they were there “to answer the most important of questions: Is democracy still America’s sacred cause?”

“This isn’t rhetorical, academic, or hypothetical. Whether democracy is still America’s sacred cause is the most urgent question of our time,” he said.

Mr Biden said his speech, his first major event of the 2024 election season, was “deadly serious,” and about a topic that needed to be raised at the outset of his campaign.

  • osarusan@kbin.social
    141·
    11 months ago

    American healthcare system is very good and affordable for the vast majority of Americans. Sure it sucks if you’re poor, but most Americans are not poor.

    Taxes are not that hard to do. The vast majority of people get a single income statement from an employer and use the standard deduction. Could it be better? Sure but it’s not bad for most people.

    This is just…

    My god dude. Try living in another country for a while. You’re speaking like an abuse victim who keeps defending their abuser. The US’s societal infrastructure, including health care and taxation, are 50 years behind the rest of the developed world. Americans pay top-tier costs for bottom-tier society.

    “Sure it sucks if you’re poor” is the kinder sibling of saying “Got mine, fuck you!” Being poor sucks everywhere, just by nature, but the entire point of societal programs is to uplift the poorest and make it suck less, not to give handouts to the rich so they can say “Well geez, at least I’m not poor!”

    • nbafantest@lemmy.world
      114·
      11 months ago

      “Sure it sucks if you’re poor” is the kinder sibling of saying “Got mine, fuck you!”

      Yes it does suck. I didn’t say it was perfect, or that I was a fan.

      But our healthcare system works very well for most people. Acting like it doesn’t work for some people is just ridiculous.

        • nbafantest@lemmy.world
          111·
          11 months ago

          I have been very poor. Idk why you guys keep harping on being poor. Most Americans are not poor.

      • osarusan@kbin.social
        51·
        11 months ago

        Acting like it doesn’t work for some people is just ridiculous.

        I’ll just say it again and leave it at that: you need to spend some time in other countries. Not at a tourist, but as a resident. Your eyes need to be opened.