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[–] [email protected] 201 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (18 children)

Man I'm a progressive and even I can tell this is propaganda.

Also, missed a bunch of presidents? Bush 1 after Reagan. Lyndon B, Nixon, Ford and CARTER between Kennedy and Reagan.

I obviously agree with the overall message (that "both sides" is and always has been bullshit) but c'mon man.

Edit: like, you could put the actual campaign goals and summarized impacts and then it would be a real infographic. Like "passed tax cuts for top _% of income earning Americans" "repealed gun laws". It's still cherry picking and biased but that's what moves something like this out of the realm of propaganda and into I dunno...something more like biased news? Bias isn't inherently bad, obviously when you're trying to have an argument you have a side and an agenda.

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[–] [email protected] 183 points 11 months ago (16 children)

Anyone that says Biden isn't doing anything is blind.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 11 months ago

Or most likely not reading truthful news.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Mu'min wants to know if this is a pro-Biden or anti-Biden comment.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (5 children)

He sure is sucking zionist dick really hard. Some would say too hard.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But... he's old! And not perfect!!! So obviously, we should stay home and see how much better our lives will be under Trump when it's his last (legal) term and literally what keeps him out of prison... Duh.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

"saving democracy" tho; lol. if he wanted to do that, why the fuck is he running again?

edit: that feels more like 'dangling democracy over a trumpian abyss to jack off his own geriatric ego'.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (38 children)

He's certainly not destroying it.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

To be fair, I don't believe Trump's goal is more money for rich people.

I believe it's more money for himself but to do that he works towards more money for rich people because those rich people will in turn support and fund him further.

He's too damn selfish to actually consider people, rich or not.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Not even money, I have no doubt he just wants to be president to get out of all the rape and fraud accusations running against him.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Democrats aren't for more money for rich people? News to me. Nice job leaving off things like welfare reform, the crime bill, and the repeal of glass-steagall (which led to the 2008 global financial crisis) from under clinton. You left off obama continuing the policy of bailouts for the rich after the 2008 global financial crisis, his support for the surveillance state (and going after Snowden after claiming to protect whistleblowers), and bombing so many more countries (like Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria). Of course there's the glaring absence of supporting genocide under biden, but I think you get the picture.

Both sides aren't the same in all things, but they are definitely the same in supporting the rich first and foremost. Democrats are better than republicans, but you're not making a strong point by pretending democrats only do good things.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

In this system money is speech. Not literally, like the Supreme court has codified but in practice. No matter the party the only chance you have in getting elected is fund raising. It's a shit system and no democrats aren't a victim but their is no other credible option.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 11 months ago (5 children)

A huge part of Clinton's deficit reduction was eviscerating welfare with the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. He also made a lot of money for rich people by repealing the Glass-Steagall Act, which directly let to the 2008 financial collapse. Also, Obamacare is not Universal Healthcare; Obama would have needed to keep the Public Option for it to be considered universal coverage. He also made a lot of money for rich people through TARP.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I would like to see a more accurate one that actually just listed passed and proposed legislation for each one instead of just circlejerk fodder.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Saving Democracy

Biden was responsible for removing the democratically elected prime minister in Pakistan because he refused to follow the geopolitical whims of the USA. His entire party is dead in the water with several MNAs assasinated, hundreds tortured, and thousands of supporters still in jail without trial or bail.

So respectfully, fuck off with this shitty propaganda meme.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

“But but but vote blue no matter who!”

Give me a fuckin’ break.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I remember with each Presidential change, that when a Republican president came into power, they had a budget surplus, created by their democratic predecessor, which they then squandered, and when it was tome to switch to a democratic president, they got a deficit, and managed to work theyr way out of it. Each time, fox would comment on how these Democrat presidents always had a deficit. It was, and continues to be, maddening.

Require news organizations to be truthful again, fuck that "but much first amendment" bullshit, one has nothing to do with the other

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Require news organizations to be truthful again,

Faux News has stated in court that they are not a "news organization", they are "entertainment".

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

Clinton is one of the worst. The party went, can't beat 'em, might as well join em.

Clinton essentially fulfilled some of the great Republican dreams of deregulation. See Glass-Stegall how he joined hands with Republicans. Which you can then fast forward to the banking and financial crisis that hit the world and screwed economies and brought austerity programs worldwide.

Dare ya to read up on all the congressional stock trading from not just Repubs but very much Dems as well.

The party went fully corporate with Clinton.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago (19 children)

So glad Obama gave us universal healthcare.... Oh wait.

We all know this is bullshit right? Neither the Republicans or the Democrats give a shit about anything else then making rich people more money. I'm sorry to break it to you but the Democrats aren't your friends. I know they pretended to be but they're not. They are just as much your enemy as the Republicans. 😞

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Clinton repealled the Glass-Steagal act, which led to the 2008 crash, Obama's unconditional bailouts of financial institutions and ultra-low interest rates and subsequent hyperfinancialization of the Economy, the current house prices bubbles, an explosion in inequality, and an even further collapse of social mobility in the US.

To say that he doubled-down on Reagan's work is an underestimation.

Sure, it's all a bit obscure for those who weren't in Finance during the period around 2008, but that doesn't make it any less so.

(And lets not forget his wife's later "got paid million dollar for a speech to a room full of financiers" that helped her loose to none other than Donald Trump)

The idea that almost all those Democrats in that list didn't do "More money for the rich" is hilarious.

Also as an European in a country with a National Health Service, celebrating Obama's version of "Universal Healthcare" is "you're fucking kidding me"-level insulting.

That stuff is some Narnia-level Eyes Hard Closed level of tribalist self-delusion.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Don't forget deregulation, those fuckers love removing protections for the environment and workers.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I would not say both sides are the same, but this a bullshit oversimplification. The dems are not some ray of sunshine who have only made this country better.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Nixon: More money for rich people,

Carter: Peace in The Middle East

Edit: Carter: Climate Change. He installed solar panels at the White House that Reagan destroyed.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Carter: Peace in The Middle East

Also, getting started fighting climate change back when we should've started. (See also: solar panels on the White House etc.)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

OK who let the DNC get a lemmy.world account

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (12 children)

If you only compare democrats to republicans, every Democrat is going to look amazing.

Like comparing a large McDonalds combo meal to a literal shit sandwich.

I'll always take some Mickey D's in that choice. Even though it's probably been a decade since I've actually ate that trash.

But if those are my only two options for every meal, I know on a long enough timeline the McDonald's is going to kill me. Eventually I got to start asking why my only options are something bad for me and something that's drastically worse for me.

I just want a fucking salad for once. Like, let's just give it a chance, see how it works out.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Excellent. Changing the electoral system and changing the FPTP ranking is going to take a lot of work, but that’s the way to go!

Until then though, we got the McDonalds (now with 30% less plastic!), or the shit sandwich which wasn’t refrigerated properly. So. Make your choice. Oh and If we could maybe not kill the planet, like, real soon that’d be swell.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (10 children)

God, go back to fucking Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget Bush the First, the former director of the CIA and his mad desire to run shadow wars to disrupt democracy in other countries in the name of American corporate interests

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (21 children)

You left 'exterminating Palestinians' off that last one.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (8 children)

I'm convinced that Lemmy is riddled with Russian bot farms trying to stir up shit. I'm mostly democrat and believe Biden is a net good over Trump, but I won't delude myself into thinking they care about me personally. How-fucking-ever, Trump is a literal threat to our democracy and if we can't rally against him by rallying for Biden, we're absolutely fucked. And you morons are just giving into this extreme lefty rhetoric because of people like Hasan? That mother fucker is a millionaire and lives like one too.

Lemmy is a worse echo chamber than reddit. I was proud when I came here during the API-bullshit and supported Sync for Lemmy but I can't do this shit any more. I'm actually embarrassed to come here and read all this anti Biden shit while you guys complain about roe v wade being overturned, billionaires (which trump made the biggest tax cuts in history to), Israel (which is somehow Biden's fault? 🤣).

I believe this post, OP. Whether you're trolling or not. Everyone else can go fuck yourselves. Go ahead and ban this one too, mods. Since we're not living in an echo chamber.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Don't forget Obama's work on a 2015 stimulus for the international Doctors without Borders program that allowed the construction of a brand new hospital in Kunduz, saving countless lives!

For more information, Google "2015 Kunduz Doctors without Borders"

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Bush: More money for rich People, killing a bunch of brown people, try to be be even more of a global disaster as dear old dad (was close but too incompetent to do it)

Obama: More money for rich people, killing a bunch of brown people

Trump: More money for rich people, killing a bunch of brown people, destroying democracy, treason, try to be even more of a global disaster as Reagan (was close but too incompetent to do it, there's always next time)

Biden: More money for rich people, killing a bunch of brown people

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