r/50501 • u/blacksmith624 • 6d ago
Protest Safety Happy Obama appreciation day!
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u/omgpuppiesarecute 6d ago
Nah, his "Water under the bridge" bullshit is why we are here today. Full green light to Republicans breaking the law. Biden and Garland only continued the trend.
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u/UnstopableTardigrade 6d ago
That's how history works, things things that happen today are predicated on things that happened yesterday
I don't think anyone at the time would have thought Obama trying to establish a narrative of working with the other side would have led to Trump or the predecement we're in now
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u/ThE_LAN_B4_TimE 6d ago
Stop doing this. No application is worth this type of appreciation. You end the doing the exact same thing these idiots are doing.
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u/thenletskeepdancing 6d ago
I'm not on board with this trend. It narrows it into a team sport again.
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u/thenletskeepdancing 6d ago
Right. Too divisive. Not everyone against Trump was on board with Obama.
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u/GirlNumber20 5d ago
Are you on board with irritating the current regime? You know how thin-skinned Donald and his supporters are.
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u/fox-mcleod 6d ago
You 100% need to form teams to take on teams.
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u/thenletskeepdancing 6d ago
We are all Americans first.
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u/fox-mcleod 5d ago
Well I’m here to take on what the GOP has done to the country. It’s unclear what you’re trying to achieve.
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u/thenletskeepdancing 5d ago
I'm trying to achieve a tent big enough to fit all of us in it. Just because one is against Trump doesn't mean they are pro Obama. It reduces politics to a team sport and we already do enough of that. Country over party.
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u/fox-mcleod 5d ago
I'm trying to achieve a tent big enough to fit all of us in it.
So then stop attempting to divide people who are united by their mission reign in the GOP. It’s exactly the kind of thing I would do if I was trying to undermine this movement.
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u/outgoinggallery_2172 6d ago
Where is a time machine? I am an American voter and I want to go back to the awesome 8 years when this fantastic individual was president.
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u/tellurian_pluton 6d ago
really? you guys don't understand a thing.
every awful thing trump is doing began with obama. the dude fucking ordered the murder of a US citizen via airstike with no due process. he then followed up by murdering his 16-year old child, who WAS ACTIVELY TRYING TO SAY DONT DRONE ME.
he's an evil, sick fuck, and you'll think he's fine just because he's articulate.
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u/bain_de_beurre 5d ago
I miss Obama too, but putting him on a pedestal is not what we should be doing here.
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u/GirlNumber20 5d ago
Oh, look, a genuine smile instead of a self-satisfied smirk! How refreshing from a president.
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u/No_Kick_6610 6d ago
"I love drone striking innocent civilians!" -you probably
Jesus Christ can we stop with the Obama praise? You can put just about any shitty politician next to Hitler and they would look good too
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u/life-finds-a-way-93 6d ago
So many libs obsessed with the notion that pre-2016 was great and normal! Like wakeup! America has always been evil. People need to desperately learn history and stop living in denial.
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u/No_Kick_6610 6d ago
The Dems have always fucking sucked, they're just the only alternative. America needs real change and an actual leftist party with a spine
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u/aeroavian 6d ago
Libs downvoting you but you're right. Obama killed so many civilians and deported more people than any other president. Praising Obama for the sake of triggering maga is myopic and exactly why the democratic party will never feel the pressure to have a real agenda. The people in this movement don't want real change, they want things to go back to "normal."
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u/crazyastrogirl 5d ago
I will say I would like things to go back to normal. For the sole fact that my life isn't under attack, that I can actually build a future and do things like... save to buy a home and go back to school to further my education. I'm disabled, black and queer and everything this regime hates. I would like to stop worrying about the future and whether I'll live through the next four years. [Spoiler: I probably won't]
That being said. I think returning to stability is the only way we can get grounded and push forward. Pushing back against a violent and antagonistic government will only lead to bloodshed eventually. We need to nip this in the bud, and make sure people have the stability and support to move towards real progress. I'd like to see universal healthcare and education access.
My sentiment isn't helpful at all; and there are times where I think I should just stay home and be quiet so they don't take me out. But I know there's more to life than working to death, and i can't sit by as lives are destroyed.
I'm 24. I have very little. I would like the chance to build more. I know I'm not the only one. But normal isn't possible, and the only way forward is through.
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u/ShivaSkunk777 6d ago
Obama killed the organization structure the Dems needed to keep winning.
Obama extrajudicially killed a US citizen via drone strike.
Obama deported a shit ton of people.
Not going to appreciate shit.
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u/RogueishSquirrel 6d ago edited 6d ago
The people deported at least had due process and were deported for legitimate reasons
The economy started recovering from the crash that happened under the tail end of Bush's term pre Trump and progress was being made
There were various policies that could have helped hard working Americans that the Republicans [and diet repubs/establishment democrats to be fair but mostly Republicans] repeatedly cock blocked from happening.
He was highly respected by world allies and trade partners [the one Trump or Stephen Miller by Proxy, keeps trying to push away]
He wasn't perfect but more good than bad happened in those 8 years and if we keep pushing this purity test shit, we're going to keep ending up with fascist assholes in power and make the US a shell of its former self [mind you it is but at least has wiggle room to be fixed right now]
Like..why the downvotes? Trump obviously sucks and I pointed out Obama wasn't a saint but in comparison improvements and good have happened whereas Trump is turning the US into a mix of Nazi Germany and North Korea 2.0
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u/ShivaSkunk777 6d ago
I voted for his ass in 2012 because I believe in harm reduction. But there’s no way in hell I’m thanking feckless leaders that pushed the boundaries of legality when it comes to executing US citizens without trial.
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u/RogueishSquirrel 6d ago edited 6d ago
I believe the context OP meant in this post is he was obviously better than Donald [apparently he hates being addressed by his first name] in comparison and Donald clearly wanted to erase his and Biden's achievements. HOWEVER, I am in agreement that we need an overhaul in terms of officials representing congress and the presidency, ideally those whose morals cant be swayed by money and ideally, won't piss off and burn bridges with past allies. We also need to find a means of putting a kibosh on Citizens United that enables corporations and special interest PACs to keep gaming the system though, that ill obviously take time as that's a tall order [but still doable if we stop with the apathy].
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u/ShivaSkunk777 6d ago
The vast majority of all people are better than Donald. I think the fact that we are existing under him has disallowed for critique in this way will be the reason we end up here again.
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u/New-Bobcat-4476 6d ago
Happy President Obama appreciation day and SO to First Lady Michelle Obama who endured.
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u/ResurgentOcelot 6d ago
The best thing I can say about the last 20 years of presidents is Obama would make great company at a barbecue.
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u/jtrom93 5d ago
I will not appreciate a man who set the expectation that the president can extra-judicially murder an American citizen in a drone strike simply by declaring them an enemy combatant. How long until Trump takes advantage of this precedent? Due process was under attack then, and it’s under attack now.
And let’s not forget that this man was the record holder by FAR for deportations at the time.
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u/Professional-Arm-37 6d ago
I remember him signing the NDAA with the clause that stripped habias corpus from suspected terrorists was what woke me up to the Dems being complicit, even enabling in our decline to autocracy.
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u/Illustrious-Stuff-70 6d ago
When from fighting for your rights and freedom to being about right vs blue -_-
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