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Do you have any positions or is glazing Obama the extent of it?
At this point it's not even funny. Do you do this with every conversations in your life, or did I get lucky? Do you understand the theory of mind? Do you understand that you actually need to listen to the person when you talk, and not just invent what you feel they might say, and then argue with that for some reason?
You got lucky. I'm understanding how vacuous your argument is and, it's making me curious if you have any beliefs.
Oh, you're lucky too, I made a comment in the beginning of the conversation that could satisfy your curiosity. Granted, it requires to read the whole paragraph of text, so you may never know what I actually mean
Right, so no beliefs. Now we can continue posting back and forth out of spite.
The lengths you go in order to avoid engaging in good faith talk are fascinating, really.
Obama was a mediocre president.
He absolutely was, but it is also tangential to what I was talking about
Yeah, vaguely gesturing about the difficulties of a party having all 3 branches of government for 4 months and passing legislation that almost helps everyone.
I'm very specifically gesturing at the fact that US government is an insanely complicated thing, that is unbelievably hard to operate, but insanely easy to break, that's why people who want to use it to achieve anything generally fail, but people who want to break it achieve it with ease.
And that's only one of the specific things I'm gesturing at, very explicitly actually, nothing vague about my gesturing.
Why didn't you say that?! I'm over here thinking you're a troll!
Yes it's complicated, I agree. My perception of his presidency was that he didn't try hard enough to get things pushed through.
I know he is a centrist so he would never have pushed for an economic agenda that's more keynesian. I just wish he fought harder as a president. This is why I think he laid the foundation for Trump's rightwing populism.