If Obama did it would you say it was respectful or to be an asshole?
That’s the difference here.
The what if the roles were reversed test always exposes how selective outrage can be.
The riots would be insane. Republicans love violence.
In a tan suit eating irregular mustard … the world would explode
The funniest thing about the tan suit is that there’s dozens of pictures of Reagan, Carter and other presidents wearing tan suits through the years
He made the mistake of being black
Classic mistake in America smh my head
Praise his noodliness.
And, you know, the F-bomb.
Fuck that what would have happened if Biden had talked about another mans dick for 15 minutes or just started dancing, but trump gets a pass. I still don’t know how that wasn’t bigger news.
This is what fascism is, when the followers (Fox) want to give dear leader their power.
And the rest of you fight among yourselves while the fascists run away with it
I don’t get this. Words aside, Obama’s actions were as bad, if not worse than Trump’s. Obama is as much of a murderer as Trump.
I think we all know American Presidents dgaf about murdering foreign civilians, but worse? No
I mean no? Obama was evil as fuck, but at least in terms of raw numbers Trump has him beat. Biden would be a more realistic comparison.
What the fuck is this bullshit take?
How in the fuck were Obama’s actions worse than this orange baboon?
Fuck right off.
Obama’s worse because most liberals (you being one of them) celebrate his term and look back at him “fondly” as a good president. They ignore the fact that he was the ruler of the biggest imperialist state, and used its imperialist forces to kill tens of thousands. He is directly responsible for funding Saudi’s war campaign in Yemen.
Ah yes, people’s perception of him makes him worse. How dare I not see THAT as the greater atrocity. That makes sense, you fuckwit… And my admonishing of the Pedo-in-chief strictly translates to me “celebrating” Obama’s term. Such an apt jump to conclusions! Your ability to outpace wit is admirable, you vacuous waste of keyboard strokes.
You didn’t really admonish trump, you were actually very hurt that I even dared to compare Obama and Trump. They are pretty alike, and that’s a fact. They both like murdering people, they both think of non-americans as disposable scum at best. And the fact that Obama’s got liberal keyboard warriors like you defending his murdering ass is exactly the point I was making. Obama got a nobel peace prize for fuck’s sake.
These are the people that never got over it that the US military used drones in its fight against the Taliban
And Afghan weddings, don’t forget Afghan weddings.
Sure, but do you think those people really cared that they were killed by a drone operator rather than a ‘real’ pilot?
Do people care if their kids have been mown down by an automatic weapon in a school shooting, rather than picked off? They’re allowed to care
If that’s the only thing they care about, I pity them
Sometimes it’s the only thing left
Honestly, this is a kind of literal “old man screams at clouds” moment.
When the rules do not apply to you, you have to keep on publicly demonstrating this or else you lose it.
It’s extremely important to remember and talk widely about the republican capture of US media - this is exactly the point
They scream and scream for weeks about nothing, then bury the real news. It could be the path to fixing america
We need pirate radio
We need pirate radio
You don’t even need to be licensed for Citizen’s Band. Get started today!
…I don’t know, man. I bootleg content and have adblocker. Since the only media I’m exposed to is social media, I’m only bombarded with left-wing propoganda.
Tankie opinion from a 1week old account?
Suspicious
Maybe they’re talking about tankie propaganda?
We need pirate radio
Eh, what? In the old days, the means of mass communication were limited or expensive, so sure stuff like pirate radio made sense.
But nowadays, anybody can start an Internet radio station for very little money. Or a YouTube channel or whatever. The problem is people not listening, not that they are prohibited or prevented from listening to you.
But nowadays, anybody can start an Internet radio station for very little money. Or a YouTube channel or whatever.
That means nothing when the search engines and algorithms don’t let them show up.
That doesn’t stop people from sharing it with other people, you don’t have to use megacorp services.
Well, yes. But how would a pirate radio be any better?
No idea, but the youtube and internet radio aren’t solutions either.
We need pirate radio
This is how we got in this mess to begin with. Talk radio, then podcasts.
Republicans are how we got in this mess. We need to leverage similar channels if they’ve proven to be effective
It’s ultimately a both sides issue. The Republicans did this shit and the Democrats did fuck all to stop it.
Oh you sweet summer child
I’m not saying both sides are the same at all. I’m saying that both sides share blame for the current situation for different reasons.
How embarrassing for you to say
How’s it embarrassing if they’re right?
Besides witty comebacks, do you have any arguments that can demonstrate your point?
I’m not embarrassed by being correct.
The Democrats had a chance to lock Trump up and they sat on their hands for 4 years. The Democrats had a chance to block the horrendous spending bill, but they caved. The Democrats had the chance to stack the supreme court and they didn’t.
It’s no different than saying protest non-voters share the blame for Trump being elected.
Well I guess at least some pirate radio would be saying “Did you know it’s illegal to say that we should kill the president”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8jdzfHvCI8
Can’t be worse than every station being owned by Sinclair and ClearChannel anyway
Completely agreed.
Not trying to rag on you specifically OP but I’m sick of these “whAT iF A DemOCRAt Did ThIS?” posts. As if pointing out the hypocrisy is helping at all. Fascists and personality cults do not care about hypocrisy.
10 years into this I don’t know who these posts are for anymore.
I disagree. It’s clearly not for them; as we continue to get pummeled by aggrigious behavior by world leaders it habituates us the be progressively less shocked by the next insult to democracy and human rights. Checking ourselves and putting these individual acts of hate, racism, xenophobia, and fascism in perspective is the one thing we can do to try to push the bar back to where it belongs.
Uh I don’t think “praise be to Allah” is an act of hate, racism, xenophobia and fascism, but also if the goal is to “push the bar back to where it belongs” then clearly it’s not working. Maybe consider doing something about the hate, racism, xenophobia and fascism?
Are you kidding? You think he meant that in a sincere respectful way?
If so this only proves my point.
I mean obviously not, but either way it’s not an act of hate, racism, xenophobia or fascism. It’s the whole war crime part that’s problematic, is my point.
Yeah. This is George Takei. He is admittedly old, but has been through more than most. Once you are pushing 90, though, it’s probably hard to do serious adaptation to political landscapes.
Yeah respect George a lot but I worry he and a lot of other old Hollywood liberals still think we can vote our way out of this. Maybe we can, but that window narrows every day.
Or raped children.
I keep hearing people be shocked about that line as if he’s serious and I seriously question most people’s reading comprehension. Can they SERIOUSLY not recognize 7 year old level mockery when they see it?
The real news story is ANNOUNCING INTENT TO COMMIT WHAT IS UNQUESTIONABLY WAR CRIMES.
Our presidents have been committing war crimes for decades. Unfortunately, it isn’t news.
It could only be a crime if he recognized the regulators as lawmakers. He thinks (as a lot of americans) that “I have big guns, nobody tells me what to do” The issue here is that he is one man, he will die, but the country and its people will have to pay for his crimes for a long time.
I don’t recognize the federal government’s authority. Does that mean I can’t commit crimes either?
E.g. Raping children is not a crime anymore
Who the fuck said anything about raping children? Point being, just because you don’t recognize someone’s authority, that doesn’t mean your actions aren’t criminal.
Just pointing out that, nothing happened to him after being found guilty of many crimes, nothing will happen to him after him being known to rape children and nothing will happen if he just destroy the world. Because he is not a politician he is a bully and bullys don’t care about consequences because those never come
Yeah no but if Obama said it in the same ironic manner MAGAts would freak out
Thank you for calling this out, my god. I think that its actually an intentionally misdirecting spin that someone manufactured
Well, yes. It was posted by “Republicans against Trump”.
“Republicans against Trump”
AKA Democrats.
People know it’s mocking, it doesn’t matter. If parties were reversed, they’d be literally lynching Obama
Dude ate mustard and people lost their minds.
Actually that’s not fair, they lost their minds because he was black. But still.
Don’t forget the unforgivable offence that was his Tan suit
His gravest offense will always be the “terrorist fist jab”
I would’ve been totally in favor of that criticism if it had simply been about fashion.
This 7yr old is smart enough to know exactly what the media will run with and how to manipulate discourse online
Someone again made bank on polymarket. I think he’s doing it on purpose.
Or whoever is using that account. There’s always a non-zero chance that Trump isn’t the only one who has access to it, especially if that site has trash opsec.
God I forgot that site existed
I kinda think Stephen Miller is making him do it, because Trump seems to be in a worsening mental state and is suggestible
At this point, it isn’t even an “I think” anymore. It’s just blatant.
fascists don’t think like that. they don’t care, and you’re wrong to assume that they care
I hate messing up replies - sorry about that. Anyway, I completely agree. We are very close to needing/wanting a forced reworking of the US government. Fuck, it’s only been a “democracy” for around 60 years. People that are, somehow, loyal to the constitution are therefore loyal to an oligarchy designed to make the rich richer. Fuck. When the constitution was framed and signed, roughly 6% of the population could vote and they were all wealthy white men that owned land.Things need to happen, and US citizens need to be very up in arms, but the arms won’t work despite 2nd amendment beliefs (I do believe in that amendment personally) because, in the end, small arms cannot harm a fighter or bomber. The US citizens are, despite the guns, incapable of actual revolution - ever.
scrap the constitution, start over from scratch. most other countries have rewritten theirs every 20 years or so.
That’s exactly how ours was supposed to be too
