• Mr. Zeus@feddit.org
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    11 hours ago

    Right…because no one said that about all the bullshit that happened under Clinton, Bush Jr or Obama, it’s just the orange man that’s bad, right?

    Clinton is one of the reasons why marijuana is treated like it is.

    Bush Jr started the surveillance state we live in and started 2 illegal wars

    Obama killed 90% civilians with the drones and pretended that the flint water crisis was fixed…and he started at least 5 new illegal wars

    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 hours ago

      Clinton is one of the reasons why marijuana is treated like it is.

      Nixon. The name you’re looking for is Nixon. He’s the one who started the War on Drugs as a justification to arrest the hippies and black people, two groups who openly and publicly opposed him. We know this for a fact because his former cabinet has been very open in talking about it. Brazen, even.

      Cherry-picking Clinton for that and ignoring the multiple decades of policy before then is very telling of the narrative that you’re trying to spin.

      Also, here’s a quote for you directly from Trump’s incoming administration:

      We need a genocide of trans people.

      Bush Jr. is also a bad selection for your narrative. He was the most hated presidential candidate of all time during his campaign for reelection and has only been dethroned since by Donald Trumo and Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election. Maybe that’s changed again. I haven’t checked since then.

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      10 hours ago

      The fact that you believe Obama killed many civilians with drone strikes means you believed the propaganda.

      Obama had a lower kill count than any modern President except Carter. The reason you used the word drones is because that was the right wing talking point. Because no previous president had access to drones in large numbers, they could say Obama killed more civilians with drones than any other president. So talking about drones while ignoring total deaths with Obama would be like talking endlessly about Bush Sr as the stealth bomber killer. Trump killed more civilians in his first year with drones than Obama did in 8.

      https://truthout.org/articles/us-presidents-reconsidered-by-death-toll/

      https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47480207

      https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/5/8/18619206/under-donald-trump-drone-strikes-far-exceed-obama-s-numbers

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Im pretty sure none of them said they wanted to be a dictator, or that they wanted to do away with the constitution. All of your points may be valid criticisms, but that’s not the conversation being had.

    • naeap@sopuli.xyz
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      11 hours ago

      I thought this is about the FPÖ in Austria.
      No idea what ever you’re taking about