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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Asking your Average Joe American to fire up the old idiot box to watch bad bunny, likely already up and running for the game, is an infinitely easier ask than risk your job and possibly your life to fight fascists in the streets.

    I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment, but maybe dial in the perspective a bit. Those Italians have been fighting fascism at home for a very long time, it’s not like the blood fueds simply ended with the death of Mussolini.




  • Obama was the first to use drone strikes to kill an American citizen without due process, and claimed that judicial process wasn’t needed since he was on foreign soil. You can read more about the al-Awlaki killing here if you want, this article lays out the case for how Obama escalated beyond what even GW did in the initial years of the war on terror for abusing the executive power to murder perceived political dissidents who were American citizens.

    In the lead up to this, I believe what you’re referring to is the infamous wedding party strike. Dozens of Afghani civilians slaughtered while attending a wedding, because the US claimed there were Taliban insurgents present. Gee, where have we seen that line of reasoning in recent times? Oh yeah, similar excuse Netanyahu has used to completely level Gaza with the help of America. I’m not saying Obama was necessarily genocidal, but I also strongly rebuke his legal argument for these drone strikes resulting in extrajudicial killings as I believe it set a terrible precedent which we are suffering from at home today.


  • Not sure who you’re referring to here, I wanted the first black president to represent a meaningful departure from the status quo. Of course, that was how Obama attained such success so rapidly, by staunchly defending it. Which leads us back to the original post in this thread - he wasn’t willing to “look backward” and prosecute the egregious crimes of his predecessors. Just “looked forward” to bailing out Wall Street, and personally ensuring they got extra money for executive bonuses.

    Still, I’m curious to know more about your perspective. What are some of the things you view as Obama’s greatest accomplishments? Do you wish he had done anything differently or better?