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  • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Lmao.

    Obama was a more aggressive and effective purveyor of empire

    He literally drone-striked Soleimani. The coups of Bolivia and Brazil happened under him. The Venezuelan crippling sanctions happened under him. Chinese trade war happened under him. I could go on and on.

    Trump was as much a fucking tool of the State as Obama. On top of that, he opposed abortions, trans rights etc.

    Seriously. Get a grip.

    • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      The coups in Bolivia and Brazil have failed, leftists are back in power. Hence supporting my argument that Trump was a shittier imperialist. The soleimani assassination was so blatant and perfidious that the US lost major international support, it was crude and ineffectual and only aligned more forces against the empire. Obama would have done it low and slow and effectively, you would never have even heard of Soleimani.

      Obama started the pivot to China, he started the sinophobic ramp up that Trump exploited.

      Liberal Socialist you never stop getting owned by communists yet still feeling so confident in your wrong and liberal outlooks. None of this is to say Trump was good, but he was actually an incompetent buffoon who divided the core and fucked up everything he touched, which is actually the superior option to a competent fascist manager of empire like Obama

      Oh no the settler-colonists inside the imperial core had to deal with a 3% more reactionary reactionary :( :(

      • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Are you calling the women, bipoc and lgtbq people who suffered under trump fucking settler-colonists and minimising their suffering? Seriously?

        Well, your name is “spectre of z” so I should expect such fascist, reactionary takes.

        • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          I'm saying that I care a whole lot more about the hundreds of millions of refugees & several million dead people in Syria, Iraq, Libya & Afghanistan thanks to Obama's wars than I do about those getting fat in the core.

            • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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              2 years ago

              Yes, death to Amerikkka, infinite genocide on westoid settler-colonist imperialists and their liberal apologists

                  • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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                    2 years ago

                    It’s a fucking joke, not a call to arms for your fascist rhetoric equating the billionaires and the vast, vast majority of people who suffer under them, and minimising their pain, you utter doofus.

                      • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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                        2 years ago

                        The entire point I was making was that the US State operates at a level beyond what the President wants, especially in terms of foreign policy. It’s useless trying to compare Obama and trump. They both do what the cia, nsa etc want them to do, as is appropriate to the times. The difference comes out, marginally, in certain domestic/social issues, where Obama is much better (though still terrible).

                        • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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                          2 years ago

                          The entire point I was making was that the US State operates at a level beyond what the President wants, especially in terms of foreign policy.

                          the opposite is true. The one area where the executive has the most consolidated power is in the area of foreign policy and military engagements. Of course imperialist forces are pushing for war, the massive blob has an insatiable blood lust. However, the president and his party gets to chose which group of imperialists to back and how to back their interests specifically. That's where a competent and laser-focused president is dangerous to the world, whereas an idiotic one that keeps contradicting itself and is more inwardly antagonistic than outwardly causes massive strains and contradictions in the system.

                          domestic policy is basically controlled by the bourgeoisie, the president has no ability to pass legislation or control major portions of budgets.

                      • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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                        2 years ago

                        Also, that fascist reactionary “spectre of z” was literally minimising the suffering of the marginalised in the first world.

                        • Spectre_of_Z_poster [they/them]
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                          2 years ago

                          You started the entire discussion by minimizing the vastly more marginalized, the global and colonized nations that make up the other 7 billion outside the core by stating obama was vastly better than trump. obama destroyed multiple nations. he went out of his way to expand imperialist destruction to hundreds of millions of people.

                          Trump barely tried, and where he did he failed hilariously (like in Venezuela :guaido: ). So I give him half a point for sucking at being evil.

                          • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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                            2 years ago

                            You are a reactionary fascist larper trying to justify your hatred and indifference for the marginalised people of the world by any means necessary and I’m done talking to you

    • AOCapitulator [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I was about to write a whole comment arguing with you but then I recognized your username and remembered the last time I saw you arguing dumb shit