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Innacurate. Obama used drones, saving countless american lifes. You naughty tankie.
Make no mistake, Barack Obama is a war criminal.
During his presidency, Obama approved the use of 563 drone strikes that killed approximately 3,797 people. In fact, Obama authorized 54 drone strikes alone in Pakistan during his first year in office. One of the first CIA drone strikes under President Obama was at a funeral, murdering as many as 41 Pakistani civilians. The following year, Obama led 128 CIA drone strikes in Pakistan that killed at least 89 civilians. Just two years into his presidency, it was clear that the “hope” that President Obama offered during his 2008 campaign could not escape U.S. imperialism.
The drone operations extended to Somalia and Yemen in 2010 and 2011, resulting in more destructive results. Under the belief they were targeting al-Qaida, President Obama’s first strike on Yemen killed 55 people including 21 children, 10 of which were under the age of five. Additionally, 12 women, five of them pregnant, were also among those who were murdered in this strike. These blundered acts of murder by not only President Obama, but the U.S. government, are morally reprehensible.
Even more civilian casualties came out of Afghanistan throughout Barack Obama’s time in office. In 2014, Obama began removing troops currently deployed in the country. However, instead of this action by the president being one in a pursuit of peace and stability in the region, it only acted as an opportunity to drastically increase air warfare. Afghanistan had war rained upon them by U.S. bombardment, with the administration viciously dropping 1,337 weapons on Afghanistan in 2016. In total that year, the Obama administration dropped 26,171 bombs (drone or otherwise) across seven countries: Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. The U.S., in cooperation with its allies including the Afghan government, killed 582 civilians on average annually from 2007 to 2016.
See "https://archive.ph/wK992#selection-1737.240-1761.53" for the full article.
Americans are propagandized to ignore U.S. imperialism; we assert ourselves as the world's policeman. Ask yourself: Why can the U.S. murder in the Middle East or sink civilian ships from Venezuela with impunity? The murder of U.S. civilians is unacceptable but when we do the killing it's always a "necessary evil".
except for that one guy and his son
Hmm, red makes it go faster so you kill more people faster but they don't suffer as long but blue gives you better team mates in matches... wait is this competitive trolley slaughter? I wasn't expecting to need a team I guess I'll choose blue because they will be carrying.
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Thank you to all the posters below doing great work debunking them.
"YOURE A BOT!!!!"
Some mf whose only posts are US corporate news and comments are 95% spreading the reddit lib bullet points
Your opinion is not shared by all, which should be obvious.
Ah, but the great thing about Communist jokes is that everyone gets them.
I touch grass for one full day and miss this thread? Oh well...
Hey hey don't start with excuses. Russian/CCP bots don't need to touch grass!
Oof, you caught me! lol
With democrats at the (wheel?). Its the same trolley, the same track and the same people on it.
But they mostly abide by a legal speed limit and in general go much slower.
Sometimes they get to a full stopt and get out to clear some people manually to get back going.
The gop sees this and cries out that these slow speed limits are the problem. Go fast, get there quicker.
Neither party wants to talk seriously about where we’re going.
Neither wants to stop.
Shit none of them talk about where theyre at. The bleeding edge of late stage capitalism.
And they're only going slower so they can keep going longer
in general go much slower
Tell that to Palestinians, the truce has been implemented famously not during democrat rule.
Lol, didn't the news report that israël didn't even try to stop killing gazan ?
The only reason there is a “truce” is cause the Trump regime causes so much chaos they think they can get away with a hypernormalized fake truce.
Also Trump does not care one bit about what happens in reality as long as he believes that people believe him to be successful. Towards BN he is nothing but a useful fool.
Most media channels are happy to stop reporting about this cause it was getting old but the war and famine are going on unchanged.
I'll just tell that to my brother in law who just got released from ICE custody. Like I know this picture is probably true for Gaza, but it isn't for many of my neighbors and family.
Wait until you find out Obama deported twice as many immigrants(could be just Mexicans, I can't remember) as Trump did. Or when you find out Obama dropped more bombs on Muslim countries than Trump. Or that Hillary raised twice as much money from corporations in '16 than Trump (same with Harris in' 24)
It went over your head didn't it. When he is taking about ice he is talking about erosion of law and norms. Ice has always been a thing but they were not like this.
But go on.
It is also true people benefited from Obama's DACA program. This isn't a simple trolley problem let alone a single track
Kids are still in Cages. Biden just kinda forgot to release them once he got elected. I bet you have already forgotten Trump I.
The Democrats have consistently expanded ICE
So much focus on the lever that nobody is trying to derail or cut power to the trolly
This.
Or be even more productive and go.....
"STAND UP AND GET OFF THE FUCKIN RAIL AND GO LIVE YOUR LIFE!!!"
The supposed democracy advocates within the democratic party continue to refuse to fix the First-past-the-post voting system.
Dont worry, you can count on them to point out all the flaws of the voting system during the midterm while doing nothing to fix it before or afterwards.
Trump was inevitable under such conditions. If you capture one (or more) political parties in a two party system, clearly you can undo every single check and balance. Wake up blue MAGA, your continued use of the FPTP crutch is a national security threat and will cause the nation to crumble.
Was it worth it keeping those safe blue states? Was it worth the easy elections against the worst of us all?
America last, party over country at all costs.
the FPTP crutch is a national security threat and will cause the nation to crumble.
Don't threaten me with a good time
Well I voted for it to be green
Bro is making a life out of ragebaiting democrat leaning lemmitors.
I'm here for the comments 🍿
Hey OP, you wanna go ahead and go to any neighborhood that's been raided by ICE and tell them how the Dems are exactly just as bad as the GOP?
Hell, go tell a bunch of drag queens and trans people.
While you're at it, go find some under aged girls who've been impregnated by adult men and tell them the Dems are just as bad as the GOP.
I'm sure it'll resonate with all of them /s
Hey OP, you wanna go ahead and go to any neighborhood that’s been raided by ICE and tell them how the Dems are exactly just as bad as the GOP?
I'll tell you.
This shit was already happening. Yes, it's taken another step under Trump, but the incrementalism occurred with Democratic fascists as well. What Trump is able to do now would be impossible if Democrats hadn't seized on the illegal powers dreamed up by Clinton and Dubya and ran with them.
Clinton, while fucking his interns, invented 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' and did nothing about persecution of gay people, and in fact, he was the one who signed DOMA. He invented "peacekeeping actions" so he could make war without calling it that, and he did just that. He cut the social safety net wholesale, making Americans poorer, and doubled down on poverty with his 'free trade' policies that helped usher in the era of companies moving offshore and killing US jobs. Oh, and he was a regular on Epstein's island and the Lolita Express.
Obama let police run roughshod in Ferguson and New York City, brutalizing victims of police violence and people who lost their homes and decided to participate in Occupy. He appointed Tom Homan and put kids in cages. He made torture explicitly extra-legal. He walked into Flint and performatively drank a glass of water. He dropped 26,000 bombs in the last year of his presidency and left office with American wars brewing in seven countries. We also learned under Obama that police departments in the US have black sites and his presidency was kidnapping renditioning people to black sites in foreign countries. He also ordered drone bombings that killed American citizens.
We knew Biden was going to be shit when, in a time people wanted federal police reform, he mocked the change people wanted in his State of the Union address by calling for greater police militarization, and his presidency gave rise to 'cop cities'. Even worse, it's now possible for cops to hang out in a school that's getting shot up, on camera, with zero consequences. After January 6 he did nothing meaningful to slow the evident rise of domestic fascism, showing a greater interest in keeping his scumbag son out of prison. He deported undocumented immigrants by the millions and continued the policy of caging kids. Biden earned the moniker 'Genocide Joe' for aiding and abetting the genocide in Israel, even when Israel escalated it into a manufactured famine, which is a war crime. Then he ran for president knowing he had dementia, paving the way for Trump's second term, prioritizing his own ego over the country's well-being.
This isn't a 'Democrats are better' scenario. Most people just haven't really paid attention to what Democrats do or have the short-term memory of a goldfish.
And before you try to argue they were powerless, consider that all three of these men had the presidency and control of Congress, just like Trump. They had all the power they needed to make real change. They just didn't care.
Are you one of those? Or do you just talk over them, depriving them of their voice?
Hey hypocrite.
Want to tell all the deported and kids in cages under Genocide Joe how that was much better?
Or that bombing brown people everywhere in the world, droning weddings or aiding genocide of Palestinians is better bcs it's under those Dems who have those famous 'democratic values' they're always crying about?
Just say it like it is, libs only care about themselves.
You all didn't give a fuck about what you did to the world since forever.
And you probably also don't give a fuck about trans people either.
The problem is now the fascism you supported has come home, and the libs don't like the taste of their own medicine.
That's ALL that bothering you.
Enjoy your karma, hope you get a lot of it.
wanna go ahead and go to any neighborhood that's been raided by ICE and tell them how the Dems are exactly just as bad as the GOP?
Those neighborhoors will tell you that ICE had been around since 2002 and while happy you're finally getting with the program, despite the current administration's best attempts, 2012 was the worst year so far right after the democrats had their governmental trifecta and with the dreamers bait and switch.
So yes, while different flavors, they have been equally bad.
go tell a bunch of drag queens and trans people.
Republicans despise them, Democrats love to use them. That isn't necessarily better.
go find some under aged girls who've been impregnated by adult men and tell them the Dems are just as bad as the GOP.
Fucking yes, the big Epstein reveal is that it's all of them. The Trumps and the Clinton's.
It's relieving to see common sense on the internet, have upvote. It's very interesting how the uniparty seems to get majority vote every single election.
Those neighborhoors will tell you that ICE had been around since 2002 and while happy you're finally getting with the program, despite the current administration's best attempts, 2012 was the worst year so far right after the democrats had their governmental trifecta and with the dreamers bait and switch.
So yes, while different flavors, they have been equally bad.
You are fucking delusional to the extreme.
While ICE has been attacking immigrants for decades, you got to be a god damn idiot to equate ICE operating under Dems compared to Trump where ICE NOW HAS A BUDGET LARGER THAN THE MARINES, IS COMPLETELY EXEMPT FROM ANY LEGAL ACTION BECAUSE TRUMP HAS THROWN OUT THE CONSTITUTION, RAMPIDLY BUILT CONCENTRATION CAMPS AT A RECORD PASTETHAT ARE MORE RESTRICTED TO THE PUBLIC THAN EVER, AND NOW ARE MASS ARRESTING LEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND CITIZENS ALIKE.
All while the rule of law has been entirely abandoned.
It was bad for immigrants before, it's actual Hell for everyone now.
Not to mention it's gotten so much worse that you can actually observe it on national economic data.
Republicans despise them, Democrats love to use them. That isn't necessarily better.
I think any marginalized community would prefer having the wiggle room of being able to exist and organize under hollow virtue signals than ACTIVE AND RAPIDLY EXPANDING GENOCIDE.
Call me crazy, but one seems a bit better than the other.
Fucking yes, the big Epstein reveal is that it's all of them. The Trumps and the Clinton's.
Completely avoiding the point. Are you playing stupid or is this just how you are?
REPUBLICANS BANNED ABORTION
REPUBLICANS WANT TO BAN CONTRACEPTIVES
Dems, believe it or not, fucking didn't.
The only people you are helping by spreading this "both sides" BULLSHIT is the fascists. Take Trump's tiny cock out of your mouth and smell the shit around you.
Hey OP, you wanna go ahead and go to any neighborhood that’s been raided by ICE and tell them how the Dems are exactly just as bad as the GOP?
Obama Leaves Office As 'Deporter-In-Chief'
Democrats tried so fucking hard to outflank the Republicans from the Right for eight long years. But as soon as they lost, its those damned leftists at fault for not voting harder.
Hell, go tell a bunch of drag queens and trans people.
I've got a trans friend who has more rotten things to say about Joe Biden than your eardrums can handle.
While you’re at it, go find some under aged girls who’ve been impregnated by adult men and tell them the Dems are just as bad as the GOP.
Sure, which victim of Clinton's should we start with?
"This is the problem with you Amerikkkan imperialists, you only care about your own people and don't give a shit about anyone outside your country"
~(a paraphrase of) an actual reply I got one time when I shared this sentiment
that reply is entirely correct
That would be me, and it is truth
Ok then, what should people do? Easy to criticize, but hard to find answers.
Edit: I'll stick to what actually works: punch a nazi.
Organize your locality, get involved with local politics start a communal garden, do literally anything more than just vote
Join PSL and DSA and do not vote until they follow through with demands, both sides continue genocide and war on a grand scale
This does nothing but help the GOP, who are openly bragging about installing a dictator.
Help the axis of resistance fight the west.
We have three mainstream parties. Works with that too.
“Both sides” idiocy.
The GOP is full of fascists, KKK, white supremacists, religious fundamentalists and anti-science pieces of shit. There is no way to redeem them.
The Democrats are a mixture of economic conservative socialists liberals, and socialists. There is a chance to fix it.
The socialists are the minority because the economic conservatives are corrupt and very well funded by billionaire Democrats and Republicans making them an effective controlled opposition.
There are no socialists in any position of power in the democratic party, you are delusional
People that believe in socialism are socialists. They don’t have to label themselves that way.
Americans are so brainwashed to be afraid of certain labels that they will do everything that the label is but will still claim that the label is bad.
Five minutes ago I saw discussion about a Democratic candidate, who was a Blackwater merc, Abu Ghraib guard and has a Totenkopf tattoo. Both parties are full of fascists.
“both sides are the same” - never the smartest person in class
"Both sides
There is one side, the omnicidal rich imperialist side, and it wears two faces to fool people like you.
"Economic conservatives" AKA
Genocide denier
Yeah! Let's all vote mauve! That's an option right? Teal? Aquamarine? So many choices!
In Poland last election saw 17 parties and 43 independents in sejm, but all of them are neoliberal fash ghouls.
You can only choose the flavours they "allow"
Furthermore: how many different parties are in the EU? How many EU countries are rising GDP expenditure in military to 5%? Democracy under capitalism is an illusion
More like...
The lever can reduce the speed of the trolley depending on which way you turn it, but regardless the trolley will gradually accelerate either way.
Karl Marx said:
The relationship of the revolutionary workers’ party to the petty-bourgeois democrats is this: it cooperates with them against the party which they aim to overthrow; it opposes them wherever they wish to secure their own position.
What that means in the American system is we vote against liberals in the primaries, and we vote for them against the fascists. America doesn't have ranked choice voting, but voting socialist in the primaries and left (out of the two candidates presented) in the generals is the closest approximation. This is the Karl Marx approved strategy, as you can see from his speech to the Communist League.
Now let's talk about this meme. It's fake news. There was no Alligator Auschwitz under the Democrats. Guantanamo Bay wasn't a concentration camp for immigrants under the Democrats. I submit that the Democrats are at least 1% better than the Republicans, and that this proves the meme is fake news. And if anyone replies to this comment and says well 1% isn't good enough, I'm going to accuse you of moving the goalposts, because this meme says colour is the only difference. The meme doesn't say 1% less people get run over by the trolley, and I think there are at least 1% fewer state caused deaths under the Democrats.
What that means in the American system is we vote against liberals in the primaries, and we vote for them against the fascists.
The democrats are also funding this genocide:
There was no Alligator Auschwitz under the Democrats.
The democrats expanded these immigrant prison camps. Some stats from the Obama era:
Guantanamo Bay wasn't a concentration camp for immigrants under the Democrats.
The democrats didn't close their torture camp in Cuba either.
If you go to university and do any kind of field that involves essay writing, you'll learn to use a thesis statement to summarise your argument so people know what you're arguing for. You've provided some evidence, but it's entirely unclear what your position is in this conversation other than "the democrats do bad things sometimes". If your entire position is "the democrats do bad things sometimes", then great job! We're all very proud of you for proving the democrats do bad things sometimes. Now go do your fucking job developing the Lemmy software, because this software is full of issues and the grownups are talking about important issues that actually have a point.
I submit that the Democrats are at least 1% better than the Republicans, and that this proves the meme is fake news.
You can't just state something as fact and not show your work. You are making a claim it's up to you to support it. You can't just go around saying "I'm right unless you prove the negative".
You have not placed any goalposts to begin with, what is your definition of "better"? By what metric are you using? What do you mean by "under the Democrats"?
How about we define "better" as "death rate per capita within immigration detention centers"? And "under the Democrats/Republicans" as "who holds the executive branch"? We should see an increase during the Bush years, when ICE was first created, a decrease during the Obama years, followed by an increase during Trump's first term, decrease during Biden, and increase under Trump's second term right?
Is that what happened?
If you don't like my attempt at making your claim falsifiable, which I suspect you won't; especially when you see the results, feel free to redefine your lose language into something else rigid and falsifiable. Set those goalposts.
No, you vote in a way that gives you power. Voting blue no matter who loses power. See 2020.
How out of touch do you have to be.
So did you miss the recent bipartisan genocide or...?
That doesn’t count because they are doing it to brown people. Those are not “real” people amiright?
This is copium for the folks who voted for Trump by proxy.
Terminally online leftist type shit
No one owes the Democratic Party their vote. To some people genocide is about the worst thing that anyone can do and the Democrats did it.
If you have to vote between a candidate who wants to build 5 concentration camps and another candidate who wants to build one. You vote for the candidate that only wants to build only one concentration camp. Sure, both candidates are really bad, but one is considerably worse.
Therefore, we must still vote for the lesser of two evils. Not voting at all because both sides bad is how democracy dies, especially when democracy itself is under attack right now.
If you have to vote between a candidate who wants to build 5 concentration camps and another candidate who wants to build one. You vote for the candidate that only wants to build only one concentration camp.
Well it's a good thing that we didn't have that binary choice then. My ballot had a few options, some of them even opposing concentration camps, so I got to vote against them.
I would vote a third party if it doesn't just help the right win. If only we had ranked choice voting instead of the electrol college, then we could crub the 2 party system. Unfortunately, in the US, it's either red team or blue team because until you can change the hearts and minds of millions of people, then it's always going to be one of them.
The US is not and has never been a democracy
Oh, you're right. My mistake. I guess I'll just stop voting or even protesting then :/
If you have to vote between a candidate who wants to build 5 concentration camps and another candidate who wants to build one
So you support China in their liberation of Tibet from feudal serfdom? You support the Soviet Union destroying Nazism despite the excesses made in the gulag years? Or do you only extend this courtesy to capitalist imperialist regimes?
Obviously not. I don't support building concentration camps in general, and China is a bad example since there's no opposing party in Chinq. Admittedly, the example I gave was a bit on the extreme side. Regardless, I still disagree that if both sides are bad then they automatically are equalivent and thus voting is pointless as the meme seems to imply.
If Harris had won the 2024 election, do you honestly think she would be mass deporting immigrants without a trial, starting a trade war with China, attempt to cut funding for FEMA, etc? Sure, I'll give you that she would have been content with the genocide in Gaza and would have been propping up the capitalist status quo. However, is that truly equilvent to what Trump has done in just his first year of his second term?
If the system is demanding that you support concentration camps, your main concern should be the destruction of the system by any means necessary, not the reduction of harm within it, and any measure that could be directed to the former instead of the latter probably should be.
If, hypothetically, the government demands that you choose between Hitler and Mussolini, the correct measures to be taking are ones directed at toppling the government.