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Theodore Roosevelt: Be a badass mother fucker

[–] tartarin@lemm.ee 8 points 5 days ago

It's not about the party or the POTUS, it's all about the oligarchs who are funding the parties and really make things happen. All of them were in debt to oligarchs and had to return the given money for the campaigns somehow. Don't be fooled, as long as the funding of political parties isn't reformed to prevent these oligarchs to grab everything there will not be much for the rest of us. Just enough to avoid revolt and riots as long as sustainable. Democracy in the USA is a mascarade.

[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah let me ignore all the atrocities that blue presidents committed abroad, those don't count since its brown people

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[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

From the perspective of those who have a lot of money, what’s the problem with that? My wealthy friends always vote r because they want to pay less taxes. Thats their only motive. This selfishness needs to be manipulated.

Edit- thinking deeper. The problem is also that they’re not taking things seriously. They believe it’ll work out… by itself… in a little while. That’s not how problem solving works. This is how we got to the situation we are in today.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I like former President Obama, but his ACA was half baked. It is not even close to the healthcare system in Germany and other EU members.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

The ACA was essentially the republican compromise that was offered to Clinton when he tried to get universal health care. He rejected it and was unable to get any meaningful change.

It shows how much we have moved to the right that the republican plan from 10 years earlier was barely able to be passed by Democrats.

I'll also point out that Clinton's big goal for his time in offices was universal health care not balancing the budget. He completely failed on that but did briefly balance the budget.

Still better than the republican goals.

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 children)

I'm pretty sure they all overwhelmingly achieved the same goal for the rich, it's really very dishonest not counting Clinton at least at around the same level as Reagan.

(Well, Kennedy had that car accident, so perhaps he didn't end his term fully.)

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[–] hedge_lord@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Hey that's not fair, he also campaigned on explicitly hurting a bunch of vulnerable people!

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