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If you ignore the typical propaganda and research the actual policies of Obama you are likely to come to the conclusion he was the Bush dynasties 5th and 6th te

by edoo 7y ago

If you ignore the typical propaganda and research the actual policies of Obama you are likely to come to the conclusion he was the Bush dynasties 5th and 6th term. Despite all the rhetoric he continued nearly every significant policy that Bush implemented. You might find weird things like the fact Biden actually wrote the Patriot Act.

seemslegit 7y ago
I'm not under the impression that either Obama or Biden were or are friends of the cryptoanarchic hacktivist - this is just not the business that politicians or governments are in. But it's fairly clear whose voter base has a higher degree of sympathy for prisoners and support for keeping checks on the power of police, corrections officers et. al.
- edoo 7y ago
  Another interesting thing I found due to doing research after Google redefined fascism as right wing during the election season (it was not defined as right wing before) was that FDR, the father of the modern democrat party, wrote letters to Hitler and Mussolini praising fascism, how inspirational it was, and how closely aligned it was with their own socialist movement in America. Ponder for a second, what if, just what if our liberal biased educations were more about generating a sense of questionless support for authoritarianism instead of the opposite.
  - seemslegit 7y ago
    Maybe so, but I'm not seeing many republicans pushing for prison and bail reform and I doubt that this guy is what will cause them to do so.
- scottlocklin 7y ago
  Wow; a time traveler from 2008 has appeared in HN. Pro-tip: the US "left," outside of the Bernie Sanders left, is as totalitarian and evil as the "right." The Obama administration was absurdly totalitarian and run by lizard-man banker types; at least some part of the activist left was against war and the surveillance state during the Bush administration. Obama's regime pretty much destroyed the activist left; they dissolved into a froth of people being butthurt at each other over stupid purity spirals, rather than, you know, helping poor people and avoiding war. That said, I more or less agree with you that the person who wrote all this is probably a loony; DDOSing a hospital is not something sane people do.

by edoo 7y ago

seemslegit 7y ago

I'm not under the impression that either Obama or Biden were or are friends of the cryptoanarchic hacktivist - this is just not the business that politicians or governments are in. But it's fairly clear whose voter base has a higher degree of sympathy for prisoners and support for keeping checks on the power of police, corrections officers et. al.

edoo 7y ago
Another interesting thing I found due to doing research after Google redefined fascism as right wing during the election season (it was not defined as right wing before) was that FDR, the father of the modern democrat party, wrote letters to Hitler and Mussolini praising fascism, how inspirational it was, and how closely aligned it was with their own socialist movement in America. Ponder for a second, what if, just what if our liberal biased educations were more about generating a sense of questionless support for authoritarianism instead of the opposite.
- seemslegit 7y ago
  Maybe so, but I'm not seeing many republicans pushing for prison and bail reform and I doubt that this guy is what will cause them to do so.
scottlocklin 7y ago
Wow; a time traveler from 2008 has appeared in HN. Pro-tip: the US "left," outside of the Bernie Sanders left, is as totalitarian and evil as the "right." The Obama administration was absurdly totalitarian and run by lizard-man banker types; at least some part of the activist left was against war and the surveillance state during the Bush administration. Obama's regime pretty much destroyed the activist left; they dissolved into a froth of people being butthurt at each other over stupid purity spirals, rather than, you know, helping poor people and avoiding war. That said, I more or less agree with you that the person who wrote all this is probably a loony; DDOSing a hospital is not something sane people do.