• ComradePlatypus [fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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    His eye exploded during a debate.

    He definitely had dementia in 2020 and shouldn’t have been a candidate then. But weirdly a sub-conjunctival haemorrhage (eye spontaneously bleeding) while dramatic looking is surprisingly common and benign. I’ve known young people who got them from coughing or sneezing too hard.

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        Yes, but that’s my point. There’s a certainly lot of evidence about how frail Biden is, like videos of falls etc. That and how demented he is.

        But an eye spontaneously bleeding during a debate while looking bad is actually a mild thing. It happens when blood pressure spike suddenly (stress or even sneezing can do it). It could have happened to anyone, Trump, Bernie, Pete Buttgieg, John Delaney and is not a good indicator of overall general health.

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          I agree that it could have happened to anyone, but its importance and severity were elevated specifically because it was Biden. People saw him dying in front of them and just tacked it on as another sign of his poor health. Which is really just another reason why the DNC shouldn’t have rigged it for him, but apparently their media control was good enough to get a good chunk of the country to believe he didn’t have dementia in the first place.

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            I agree, optics wise having a conjunctival bleed when you’re trying to pretend you are not too old is bad timing (great comedic timing though). Just like saying only god could make you drop out and then getting covid19.

            I’m just saying human bodies are funny things and that your eye spontaneously filling with blood is humorously both benign and the kind of meaningless thing that can just happen.

            Had it happened to someone like Jeremy Corbyn for example, you’d get endless articles about how medically unfit he is, which would be false. (For reference this happened in September 2019 when Biden was still demented but not the shambling husk he is today).