• Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    If democrat your democrat blue team is infallible but if your republican then your republican red team is infallible

    With football politics the only right people are the ones making you believe you are part of their football team mean political party same thing here in the United States

    As long as the one breaking the rules are from the persons political football team then they are doing no wrong democrat or republican

    Actual merits and job performance and anything else that could make or not make someone hirable does not apply here just blind tribal sports politics ruling the day

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        19 hours ago

        Unlike republicans and democrats do not feel the need for alt accounts or shadow play

        Rather do it in the light out in public

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            Yes, I am former President Bill Clinton on my burner account and I approve of this courageous voyagers message!

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          18 hours ago

          Can you give some examples of a time when a Democrat president just flagrantly disregarded the law with absolutely no repercussions

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            Andrew Johnson with torpedoing reconstruction?

            Just off the top. As for modern era politics, not really.

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              Yea, see that’s why a question like that has to come with qualifiers. Andrew Johnson was a democrat, but he was a conservative democrat from before the party flip.

              He’d be a republican under the modern party ideals.

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            Obama drone striking American nationals on foreign soil with no due process.

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              Leaked Drone Papers

              The White House and Pentagon boast that the targeted killing program is precise and that civilian deaths are minimal. However, documents detailing a special operations campaign in northeastern Afghanistan, Operation Haymaker, show that between January 2012 and February 2013, U.S. special operations airstrikes killed more than 200 people. Of those, only 35 were the intended targets. During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets. In Yemen and Somalia, where the U.S. has far more limited intelligence capabilities to confirm the people killed are the intended targets, the equivalent ratios may well be much worse.

              The documents show that the military designated people it killed in targeted strikes as EKIA — “enemy killed in action” — even if they were not the intended targets of the strike. Unless evidence posthumously emerged to prove the males killed were not terrorists or “unlawful enemy combatants,” EKIA remained their designation, according to the source. That process, he said, “is insane. But we’ve made ourselves comfortable with that. The intelligence community, JSOC, the CIA, and everybody that helps support and prop up these programs, they’re comfortable with that idea.”

              The source described official U.S. government statements minimizing the number of civilian casualties inflicted by drone strikes as “exaggerating at best, if not outright lies.”

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            Leahy Law

            Multiple provisions in U.S. law restrict the sale or provision of weapons to other countries, including the federal Arms Export Control Act, the Foreign Assistance Act, and the Leahy Law. The open letter draws on evidence from Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and other watchdogs to argue that continuing to provide weapons to Israel blatantly violates these laws, in addition to international treaties.

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      You’re not wrong, but. As I replied to your other comment:

      There are differences (between Dems and Reps), and ignoring them is just as bad as not seeing the problem.

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      This comes from a third party football team viewpoint that labels both the dominant teams misguided and seemingly infallible following, while also thinking their alternate team would be infallible if it could play.

      There can be blind loyalty to anything. That’s human nature. But you ignore the many times Democrats have burned their own because they do tend to take the higher path, whereas Republicans are more known to march in step and protect their own, usually while projecting onto the left the same behavior they did.

      Your caricature is a strawman of politics. I wish it was as simplistic as you make it out to be.

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        the last president supported segregation of schools

        sorry but dont just grow up from that take it from my great grandparents

        and the last election we had harris and walz who both worked with republicans

        walz worked with trump to take care of protesters that were fighting for all of us to live in a clean environment but hey democrats should get a free pass because they say and do a few good things compared to the republicans who democrats are supposedly fighting against on our behalf

        at the dnc protesters who were fighting for all us there as well to have healthcare, a world without war, living wages, etcetera were locked out but the republicans and celebrities got in and had grand ol’ time at the gala

        where does the differences come in and how is does it help when democrats are bathing and sleeping with republicans

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          It’s not that you’re wrong, it’s that you’re trying to use a broad brush that groups everyone in the same light. No one is getting a free pass either, all of those have been mentioned in the scope that Democrats need to do better, and stop only going halfway when they manage to get traction. The American people need to do better too, the acceptance that this is how it is contributes to the problem. As does the apathy of “both sides” which you’re using here.

          As a side note: I’m usually not a stickler for grammar and spelling, I figure if there is understanding any mistakes are fine in a casual discussion. But I have to say your sentence structure is hard to follow sometimes. A bit better wording would allow your points to flow a bit better.

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          You should probably take your meds regularly. Who knows, maybe you’ll feel better after a while.

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        Yeah, that’s called electoral politics. Do you know how earlier we would’ve gotten civil rights if the right were too busy arguing over who was more racist, whilst letting pro civil rights politicians gain power. Would’ve been awesome.

        Unfortunately, right wingers know when to lock in and stop ANY semblance of progress from the left. I wish the left would figure this out by now.