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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dementia is a continuum.

This typically involves problems with memorythinkingbehavior, and motor control.

Doctors generally don’t use senility anymore. Regardless, if there’s even a chance that Biden has this condition, he shouldn’t stay in the race.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You missed the point yet again. If there was even a chance that he had dementia he wouldn't have been on that stage you dumbass.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You seem upset about this. I am too. But getting angry at others doesn’t help. The politicians that put us in this situation like it when we’re angry with each other. It redirects our anger for them to each other.

Take care.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Being a condescending prick doesn't improve your position. Piss off.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

That was not my intent. Sorry if it came off that way. Displaced anger can be curbed.

Autocratic leaders rely on displacement as a way to divide groups and redirect anger that could potentially be directed at government leadership. Helping to displace anger is cited in a 10-point checklist on how to become an authoritarian leader. A review of the history of any autocracy highlights such displacement, accompanied by fueling fear, as a core strategy for strengthening and maintaining authority.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Correction: pedantic condescending prick.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Just trying to help.