• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    1 year ago

    Obama's first term was disappointing. His second term was abhorrent.

    Crazy how term limits change a politician's incentives to behave.

      • Yllych [any]
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        1 year ago

        good point, Obama only racked up 563 drone strikes. as we liberals are well aware, you must blow up at least 564 weddings military age targets to be considered abhorrent.

        thank you for reminding us to remain civil and measured in our assessment of our foremost vampires.

      • NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Since when did Obama legalise gay marriage?? In fact if I recall correctly they expressly said during their 2012 campaign that they wouldn't

      • duderium [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Health insurance prices continued to rise after Obamacare was passed as though nothing had happened. Tens of millions of Americans are still uninsured or underinsured and hundreds of thousands died from lack of insurance while Obama was president (and busy doing genocide in Libya, Syria, and Yemen). Back to reddit wi’ ye, lib!

          • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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            1 year ago

            'Oh look at me, I've just entrenched the entire lobbying apparatus of private insurance with massive payouts to insurance companies from the federal government with no real benefit towards the public, aren't I so 'progressive'?'

            Imagine looking at the human centipede of insurance lobbying post-ACA and thinking, "This is a step in the right direction!"

              • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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                1 year ago

                "No progress matters to you, huh?"

                Damn, you really do live in the memory-hole, you memory-holed the last thing you said. Impressive, honestly. Life is always a brand-new experience when you live like that.

              • duderium [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                But it wasn't actually progress at all. By every single metric (prices, preventable deaths, coverage, you name it), everything continued to get worse. Obamacare is nothing except a word liberals deploy when people make the claim that Democrats and Republicans are just two wings of amerikkka's fascist ruling class. That's it! And if you are making excuses for fascists, what does that make you?

      • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Black Americans saw their largest ever decrease in net wealth under Obama, he not only didn't end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but if fact expanded the war in Afghanistan, which meant ever increasing payments to pedarist warlords, which hey, still failed.

        This is besides the point that the ACA is just a handout for insurance companies, based on a Heritage Foundation made Romney-Care plan, and not the universal healthcare plan that he had promised voters during the election.

        Must be fun to live in the memory-hole, I'll bet it's nice and warm.

        • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Black Americans saw their largest ever decrease in net wealth under Obama

          I'm pretty sure that all Americans except for the wealthy saw their largest ever decrease in net wealth under Obama, and every president since. Inflation is out of control, school, housing, and healthcare are hundreds, sometimes thousands of times more expensive, wages have stagnated, and assistance programs for the needy have been cut or cancelled. The QOL and freedom indexes have been steadily decreasing for decades.

      • RedDawn [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Disappointing and abhorrent do not describe Obama

        Lol. Lmao even.

      • Vncredleader
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        1 year ago

        The surge in Afghanistan was abhorrent and disappointing, unless you dont view Afghans as human beings.

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        1 month ago

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      • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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        1 year ago

        Hnnnng I think I'm gonna... I'm gonna... I'm gonna drone! obama-drone

        Oh shit I just droned all over that orphanage.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        A significant amount of hexbear is queer and trans, it's pretty wild to call out gay marriage as some great thing when those in power turn a blind eye to trans and queer genocide and abuse

        Also they didn't codify gay marriage, it can be poofed just like abortion

      • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        After reading the replies here what comes to my mind is how can someone unironicaly praise fucking Obamacare or whatever considering Bernie's both campaigns and their ultimate outcome. Like fucking not even the reddit libs of the day would say this with a straight face, well unless you were a massive turbo Hillary/Obama shill which believe it or not at one time was not even that mainstream on that shit site.

        To read this unironically in the good old year of 2023 is just funny.

  • half_giraffe [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    It's an article literally saying that "leftists can push Biden to the left" while pointing to these accomplishments as proof:

    [Biden's administration] embraced massive government intervention to stave off the worst economic impacts, including handing millions of families monthly checks (by expanding the child tax credit), giving all kids in public schools free meals, boosting unemployment insurance and extending health coverage to millions.

    All of those policies were temporary and have now expired. Truly the most progressive president since LBJ.

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      1 year ago

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    • kristina [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Gotta give liberals that feel good dopamine hit before you throw the kids into the dumpster

  • Wheaties [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    "It's been four years, and your arguments in favor of Biden are the same as before he was elected. Ask your party for a less shitty candidate, if harm reduction is your goal."

  • RION [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    maybe-later-kiddo anakin-padme-1 "In a president's second term, they don't need to cater to public approval and can make bold changes!"

    bloomer anakin-padme-2 "Great! Biden will do good things then, right?"

    maybe-later-kiddo anakin-padme-3

    doomer anakin-padme-4 "Biden will do good things then... right?"

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      2 months ago

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    • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      The fact that so many people believe Biden isn't counting on the republicans to halt any student loan forgiveness he brings forward is hilarious.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      But yeah, can’t wait to hear how it’s my fault Biden lost to Trump in 2024.

      … but if you don't vote for him "you ain't Black." Or whatever nonsense he said that time. (I'm not a Black person, I'm just using his words for satire.

      • Smeagolicious [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        I caught that shit and I’m black. I usually give my reason for not voting Biden as “I won’t vote for a literal segregationist” which usually gets them to shut up, or at least switch tactics from “you ain’t black” to “well, people can learn and improve”. Still tired but not as staggeringly stupid

  • culpritus [any]
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    1 year ago

    work their hearts out

    not sure I've ever seen this specific phrase before, seems almost like a threat

    sure there's 'bleeding hearts' and 'wearing your heart on your sleeve' and 'knock your socks off' and 'work your ass off'

    but 'work your hearts out' like wtf

    Show

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    1 year ago

    Leftists should work hard so that Biden can continue to erode the rights of the working class

  • egg1918 [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    If he pays me the $1,200 he owes me then I'll think about it

  • Owl [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    During his last campaign, Biden said anarchists should be prosecuted. He's not getting anything from me.

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    1 year ago

    no votes for anybody that supported sending the child de-limbing bombs to ukraine.

    i'm only conforming to the International Community™️'s own goddamn treaties on this shrug-outta-hecks you want my vote don't flaunt international law, simple as.

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    29 days ago

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    • emizeko [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      In 2000, Nader's vote total in Florida of 97,488 was far more than the 537-vote difference between Gore and George W. Bush.

      author is a turbolib who took all the wrong lessons from 2000

        • fox [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          The Supreme Court stepped in during the Florida recount and said "stop that, Bush is president now mkay", and for some reason everyone listened

            • emizeko [they/them]
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              1 year ago

              not sure if I can articulate the lessons rn but it's the same people who are still mad about Jill Stein costing Hillary the 2016 election, ignoring that Gary Johnson got 3x her votes. if you vote you have to vote for the Realistic Option, they think if those voters didn't have Jill Stein that they would have been forced to vote Hillary instead of just not voting like most of the working poor

            • RedDawn [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              The lessons they took is that the democrats need to scold lefty people into voting for them instead of changing their policy positions to appeal to those people. They blame 2000 on people voting for Ralph Nader of the green party instead of on themselves for not getting more votes or on the conservatives for stealing the close election from them (Gore actually won, the SC just appointed Bush to the presidency anyway).

        • barrbaric [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Ralph Nader was an independent presidential candidate who got some votes in 2000, where the democratic candidate was Al Gore and the republican candidate was George Bush Jr.

          The election came down to an extremely close race in Florida. A recount was halted and Bush was given the presidency (partly because of deliberate sabotage on Bush's part, see the Brooks Brothers Riot) by the US supreme court.

          Libs claim that Al Gore would have won Florida (and thus the presidency) if Nader hadn't ran. This ignores that there's no guarantee Nader voters would have voted for Gore instead of just not voting, or voting for Bush. They do this because they believe that america's institutions are functional and just, so any evidence to the contrary is blamed on individual bad actors, including the voter base. This belief in institutions is largely the result of propaganda, as it was and is transparently obvious that the country is rotten to the core and must be torn down.

          • President_Obama [they/them]
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            1 year ago

            Libs claim that Al Gore would have won Florida (and thus the presidency) if Nader hadn't ran.

            Amazing. Just wonderful. chefs-kiss

            Thx for your detailed response

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Damn it's crazy how third party voters keep costing democrats elections. It seems like their success or failure really hinges on winning those voters. So I wonder what they've done to...

        Oh right I forgot, "The democratic party can never fail, it can only be failed."

  • DickFuckarelli [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Hell of a fucking statement right here:

    What about everything supporters of Bernie Sanders have found so thrilling about the Vermont senator’s vision of the future, from universal health care to free college? It’s true Biden was never going to deliver that, but to be honest, neither would Sanders had he been elected president.

    Motherfucker, then why bother? If nothing ever gets delivered then why should I give a fuck? What's the point?

    I won't vote for the Republican oppositon but I actively hope Biden loses.

    • neo [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I'm going to clue you in on a secret. 2020 election? That was child's play compared to what's coming. The 2024 election is the MOST IMPORTANT election of our lives! The fate of democracy is at stake!!

      (be prepared to dust off this statement every four years)

      • DickFuckarelli [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Dumb analogy, but ok.

        If the treatment isn't doing shit, why continue to take the treatment?

        • Liberalism [he/him,they/them]
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          1 year ago

          Oh I meant Bernie was the treatment, as in they're drawing a false equivalence between trying to do something good and running into difficulties vs just completely giving up.

  • CommunistBear [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I hate this shit. He's your fucking guy. You "work your heart out", asshole

  • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, I made it my policy a long time ago that I don't vote for war-criminals, which leaves me 'spoiled' for choice.