• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    This shouldn’t be a flex… It’s just a reminder why I didn’t understand the deep love for Obama for being a good orator who happened to codify the worst excesses of the Bush administration and basically laid the groundwork for someone like Trump to abuse the mass surveillance state Bush built and Obama expanded.

    • Vedlt@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Obviously I can’t know the intention behind the tweet, but I took it more as an attack on his fragile ego than a flex. Here’s hoping anyway.

    • Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      You can also get that protest and resistance works. They are seeing less success in deportations because of the work of americans making it much harder.

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        7 months ago

        While deportations are awful under all circumstances, I’d say it’s frankly incomparable. The deportees to El Salvador were legal asylum residents. The Government’s actions undermined the equal protection of law to an unforgivable extent.

        • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          7 months ago

          what I’m getting from this is that a forgivable extent exists to deport. which is what carotte critiques