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[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know how we say Democrats are terrible at messaging? This comment section is perfectly emblematic of why. You can't make a statement talking about accomplishments without people bringing up negatives.

It's fine to debate value judgements here, and we should, but be wary about continuing them in neutral spaces. We don't have to be happy about everything Biden has done. I'm certainly not. But if we're trying to convince moderates by talking about his accomplishments, we probably shouldn't talk about everything we dislike too.

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[–] BeardedSingleMalt@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still the best president we've had since Obama

[–] match@pawb.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obama is the only decent president I can name since wwii

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like someone's family wedding wasn't droned.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, one thing I haven't been able to find was how prominent the drone program was during the Bush administration. While Obama's admin had more drone strike kills in like 1 year than did the whole of the Bush admin, one also has to question how many of the damned things were flying and launching missile strikes with civvie casualties during the Bush admin. If anyone has info on that, I'd like to read up.

Also, more drone strikes during 45 and 46 each than 44, too. But somehow this always gets glossed over. I don't understand that.

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought it was mostly about the prevalence of the technology. Bush was still in the era where we bombed family weddings.

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[–] Cruxifux@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Underrated comment

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

For some reason I feel like these articles are written by people for whom covid was their first real brush with death

[–] Crow_Thief@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you ignore his genocide, maybe. Mussolini even made the trains run on time.

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