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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Obama refusing to name a matching DNC chair is why we lost all momentum, and neoliberals were able to force Hillary, Joe, and Kamala down our throats for over a decade.

And people legit worship him for "getting" us a more conservative version of Mitt Romeny's healthcare plan while he normalized the US military killing US citizens...

Now Carter...

Carter gets rembered as the "last great" Dem.

But the truth is he was further right than the Dem voting base, and even had an anti-abortion speaker at his first nomination acceptance. He didn't push too hard to overturn Roe v Wade.

He wasn't "the last great Dem" he was the begining of neoliberlism.

It's just 50 fucking years later, nobody understands how much we've lost, because they don't know what we had.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who in the absolute fuck worships Obama? I've known many people who like him and most of those also criticize him on some level. Can't say I've heard of anyone "worshipping" him even if we go with a loose definition there. Strawman.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

My mother; but, to be fair, she's a Haitian immigrant who got to witness (and vote for) America's first ever black president so…you know.

For your average person, I'd have to agree with you (in my experience).

[–] 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 week ago

Our jobs as citizens is to be critical of the government.

If you're not being critical, then they are getting away with something.

[–] NewDark@lemmings.world 35 points 1 week ago (49 children)

Liberals are capitalists though. Just in a "I can fix her" kind of way

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[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And then I mention that I own firearms and start criticizing my state's overbearing gun laws.

[–] Ydna@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The proletariat needs weapons.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

I frame it as having a Marxist view on gun rights and seeing the gears turn after explaining what Marx said about weapons

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Obama is a war criminal. He continued Bush policies and was where the buck stops regarding the disposition matrix.

A lot of Afghani villages burned at Obama's command, and one in fifty people killed by drone strikes was a POI. The rest were mostly civilians, including children and grandmothers

Liberals are just not as left-wing -- and not as truthful -- as some of us are.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago
[–] miked@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Leave Carter out of this shit!

[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Jimmy Carter is a saint among demons as far as US Presidents go. I mean it's inevitable that some bad shit is gonna go down during almost any admin. But compared to the stuff other POTUS did willingly or proactively, c'mon...

[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Me ten seconds before I talk about how the root of all evil is capitalism :3

[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My Lemmy experience so far ^

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No surprise. You're in .world

Unfortunately, that instance is crawling with neoliberalists.

[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That isn't the only instance I've engaged with, but yes I've found that larger and more generalized ones have more liberals. There is a particularly obnoxious form of liberal discourse that I've found consistent across them too. Liberals on Lemmy think they're radical just for finding the loud fascism distasteful, and get very upset if you suggest that they aren't radical enough. It's less of the pompous fixation on hypocrisy you'd find on Reddit and more outraged entitlement to the desire for change.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago

like how schumer is a right winger calling "left" as way to say hes part of that group and supporitng israel. the only people calling Left in sentence are right wingers.

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