• SadArtemis@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 day ago

      It really shows that finally, America is getting the leaders they deserve. Not the ones they need, but the most honest representations of all the sins of the empire come home to roost.

      Obama and Romney can speak eloquently, give a veneer of respectability, and pretend they gave a damn about the common peasantry or “human rights,” but beneath it all they’re just as terrible as Trump or Biden, and they played a role (and continue to do so) in creating and sustaining all the same problems haunting the US now.

      Obama strikes me as particularly insidious, because he- as the first black POTUS (figurehead) for the blob, oversaw the destruction of Africa’s most developed country, and its turning into a hell-on-earth with open air slave markets. He oversaw the destruction of black home ownership, and (despite his sensible misgivings) set the stage for the current events in Ukraine, as well as the “pivot to Asia,” and for whatever sympathies he appears to genuinely have had and still have for the Palestinians, ultimately he did and still does nothing about it.

      He was just a figurehead, sure- and if he’d attempted to do anything meaningful, he probably would have gotten JFKed. But he allowed himself to be the figurehead for such atrocious policies, and he played no small part in cleaning up and sustaining the facade of “liberal democracy.”

      I prefer the clearly abhorrent character of Trump, and to a lesser (but still significant) extent Biden, in comparison. It would of course be best if the US could turn itself around, but as that won’t happen- better a blatant monster, than a competent and affable person who can present a pretty picture of the monstrous empire and fool many, if you ask me. Biden, and even Obama before him, were no better than Trump- in fact in many ways they were worse, certainly in their foreign policy they were. And I suspect Biden (or whatever Democrat runs) will do a whole lot more damage- not simply to the empire, but to innocent citizens and to the entire world- than Trump would in a second term, considering that business didn’t only continue as usual when Biden took office, but accelerated towards WW3, and unlike how it was with Trump’s terrible image, Biden (or his puppetmasters, anyways- the man probably doesn’t have much sense left) has the whole west happily goosestepping in line with his atrocities. They would have done so anyways, sure- but at least they would have hemmed and hawed about it and maybe even had second thoughts if the optics were worse, if the Orange Man™ were in power.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
        5·
        1 day ago

        I very much concur, and I believe this is one of the primary reasons behind the intense disdain towards Trump from liberals. He was the first to boldly expose the true nature of US politics by stripping away its facade, as evidenced by his famous quip how occupation of Syria is about oil rather than the supposed defense of human rights.

    • Justice@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      211·
      2 days ago

      Jesus Christ

      This was a full dose of lib-virus

      Glad I got my anti-lib vaccine, although I did feel a tinge of something before the burnt toast smell became overwhelming, my vision went red, and I just heard “red sun in the sky” in my head

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
        17·
        2 days ago

        I really like this perspective, Liberalism indeed can be likened to a memetic virus that propagates through the population, infecting individuals with its ideological tenets. In contrast, dialectical materialism serves as an effective vaccine or inoculation against this pervasive influence, protecting people from the harmful effects of liberal thought and promoting critical thinking and social awareness instead.