• InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I’m fine with it, but only because those specific Americans were assholes and weren’t in a place they could be taken for trial.

      I wouldn’t mind a trial in absentia, but I also understand time was a concern.

      Before you say ‘oh yeah, what about others in the future!?!?’, everyone got that pissed over a few that pretty clearly deserved it, I’m not too worried about a potus drone striking random people at Walmart just yet.

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          I remember how Michael Moore disappeared as soon as Obama was elected. Obama increased drone strikes, bombed weddings schools and hospitals including a doctors without borders hospital, kept gitmo open, extended and expanded domestic surveillance. All the stuff Michael Moore was writing books and making movies about during the Bush admin were apparently no longer a problem now that a Democrat was doing them. Really changed my perspective.

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            Obama did some good things. But mainstream democrats are still right of center on the political spectrum and are still beholden to their corporate donors.

            The downvotes are funny as it is people downvoting facts.

            I wish Obama was as progressive as his speeches suggested he was, but alas. He was able to pass a healthcare plan, albeit a neoliberal republican healthcare plan.

            Obama would probably be a decent Supreme Court justice, he has some good ideas and knows law I believe. But I don’t know if he would do the right thing and overturn citizens united

            I would buy Obama a beer, Kamala and walz and Biden for sure. I don’t think I would want to be in the same room with him, Trump I mean

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              I would have accepted a centrist if he had done anything at all to dial back bushs aggressive attacks on our civil liberties and the people of the Middle East. He didn’t, in a lot of ways he ramped them up. Hope and change my ass. Fuck Obama.

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                1 month ago

                I am weaning myself off of giving votes for neoliberals after Obama. Starting with the president vote, trying to do the same for state and local elections but it’s exponentially more difficult