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> Has he droned people like Clinton? Yes - he dramatically increased the use of drones: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/trump-war-te
by mikeyouse 6y ago
> Has he droned people like Clinton?
Yes - he dramatically increased the use of drones:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/trump-war-terror-drones/567218/ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/tr...
And he eliminated the restrictions designed to prevent civilian casualties:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/22/obama-drones-trump-killings-count/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/22/obama-drones-trump-kill...
> Has violence against black people increased compared to the previous presidencies?
One of his first actions was to disband the Federal oversight of police departments set up explicitly to address this issue:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/jeff-sessions-consent-decree-review/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/jeff-sessions-c...
His DOJ rescinded orders from the Obama era that prosecutors shouldn't charge low-level drug offenses that had mandatory minimums with the exact opposite tact:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/7/18073074/jeff-sessions-resigns-war-on-drugs-crime https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/11/7/18073074/j...
He's famously said that protesters should be roughed up and he explicitly said that police should seek to hurt the people that they arrest:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/07/28/trump-tells-police-not-to-worry-about-injuring-suspects-during-arrests/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/07/2...
His Attorney General said that he was okay with the KKK until he found out they smoked pot:
https://www.npr.org/sections/politicaljunkie/2009/05/specter_helped_defeat_sessions.html https://www.npr.org/sections/politicaljunkie/2009/05/specter...
If you don't think his actions directly lead to this, you're not paying attention.
- aabyx 6y agoThen that is what the media should be focusing on. It is not a matter of paying attention, whenever I hear something Trump in Europe (like now from the BBC) it is about one of his Twitter gaffes and not about the issues you mention. Why do Facebook people walk out over a tweet and not over these issues? That is what is mind-boggling.
- mikeyouse 6y ago> Then that is what the media should be focusing on. All of those examples are from "the media" - what you choose to consume is up to you.. > Whenever I hear something Trump in Europe (like now from the BBC) it is about one of his Twitter gaffes It's not a twitter gaffe to threaten to extrajudicially murder protestors / looters. > Why do Facebook people walk out over a tweet and not over these issues? That is what is mind-boggling. Straws + camel's backs.. In any case, this isn't the first time their employees were fed up -- similar sentiment was raised when he called for a complete and total shutdown of muslims entering the US: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-employees-pushed-to-remove-trump-posts-as-hate-speech-1477075392 https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-employees-pushed-to-re...
- HenryBemis 6y agoOP has the typical troll/seagull approach. And people like him/her are the bane of fora/democracy. They come in, write something stupid, and then it's up to others (thank you mikeyouse) to spend the time to educate them. The problem is that he/she will not learn, he just managed to waste 10 of your minutes with his/her stupid poison. He/she will go around, writing the same crap, until people will be to tired to rebuke it, and then he/she wins. We don't need trolls here. +1 to mike, -100 to the troll.
- Larrikin 6y agoDon't forget creating the coronavirus crisis by ignoring the previous administrations pandemic playbook and dismantling the pandemic department. Also the argument what has he done can be answered with saying his actions of doing almost nothing in February helped kill many more people than had he acted faster on intelligence he received in January