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I remember Obama fondly because Obama's actions were less bad. People who say "I wish it was the 20s-50s" are wishing for a time when things were worse on matters that they find less-compelling.
Would you like to outline any of Obama's policies which were worse than the current shitshow in the fascist merry-go-round?
"Things were bad in the past, therefore, things can never get worse" is fucking childish and asinine and something that should've been educated out of folk in the 1st-2nd grade.
i remember the cop who beats people fondly because cops now a days just shoot people.
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“People who say ‘I wish it was the 20’s-50’s ‘ are wishing for a time when things were worse on matters that they find less-compelling”
that was my exact point. it speaks to the character of a person who determines that the bad things that happen are not their problem, and shows a lack of empathy, and signals where its ok to stop trying to push things to being better. that is why its gross.
it was never about who was worse
Unironically, yes; for the same reason I would be nostalgic for the Weimar Republic whilst living under the fucking Nazi regime.
That you find those two to be morally equivalent is a 'you' problem.
"Wow, I miss the days when we were fighting a less-fucked system."
"Oh, so you'd want to stop fighting if only you could have that system back?"
???????
i would have both cops … removed instead of pointing for the days where it was only the minorities who were getting shot. the point is to acknowledge that both cops were pices of fucking shit and both needed to be stopped
Yes, but shit man, the argument of nostalgia isn't "Back in the days of Obama, life was a utopia that did not need to be improved upon or fought! 😊", it's "God, remember when I still had two bad legs and still had both arms, but now I'm a quadruple amputee? This sucks, I fucking miss the less-bad days."
cool, it’s self focused, and member berries a white washed version of events, just don’t be surprised when others don’t have that same fuzzy feeling over that period of time
Obama's administration is still fondly remembered by a supermajority of African-Americans. Maybe don't try to whitewash the lived experiences of oppressed demographics in favor of an abstract online political circlejerk.
What 'fuzzy feeling' over a period of time are we expecting, by the way? People judge their circumstances relative to the circumstances they've experienced; who among us has been alive for a better president than Obama? Perhaps some sexagenarians, if they prefer forgiving the brutal Vietnam War in light of LBJ's domestic accomplishments. You can say the limbo bar is in hell, and you wouldn't be wrong, but I re-emphasize the quadruple amputee comparison - people are not wrong to fondly remember when things were LESS fucked.
You're arguing with one of the most pathetically neoliberal goons on this site.
They have no solidarity with the oppressed and just want to stroke their ego with their self-centered, centrist bullshit.
It is quite funny how political commissars reveal their own projections so easily.