7 ms·

Wild. Scam on top of a scam. Crazy that the Obama administration refused to stand up to the industry on this.

by cool_dude85 2y ago

stackskipton 2y ago
>Crazy that the Obama administration refused to stand up to the industry on this. Not really, if you look at Obama Presidency, he was extremely neoliberal. Bank bailouts, healthcare bill and massive corporate consolidation.
- shiroiushi 2y ago
  Yep, the "hope and change" stuff was just a slogan to get votes. Even though Obama himself seemed like a political outsider at the time, his presidency was just more of the same, basically a continuation of the Clinton era.
  - firesteelrain 2y ago
    What will we be saying about a potential Harris Administration in ten years? I wonder.
    - shiroiushi 2y ago
      "Better than the alternative." I'm not sure many people have any huge hopes for Harris, aside from it being nice to finally have a female chief executive (an achievement most other peer nations made long ago; even Pakistan had a female PM). When Obama was elected, the US had gone through 2 terms of GWB's terrible policies and the two wars he started (1 somewhat justified, 1 complete BS, both handled extremely poorly after the initial military victory). Obama was running against McCain/Palin, with McCain being a pretty reasonable Republican and decent person, and very unlikely to start any stupid new wars, but with a complete airhead running mate who thought Africa was a single country. It wouldn't have been a total disaster if McCain won, as long as he didn't die in office. This time around, the country has already seen what 1 Trump term results in, and it's really bad. A second term will be a disaster, probably even worse than the 1st one. Anyone with half a brain might not be super excited about Kamala, but she appears to be sane and reasonably competent, and when compared to the alternative, that's really good enough.

7 ms·

Wild. Scam on top of a scam. Crazy that the Obama administration refused to stand up to the industry on this.

by cool_dude85 2y ago

Wild. Scam on top of a scam. Crazy that the Obama administration refused to stand up to the industry on this.

stackskipton 2y ago
>Crazy that the Obama administration refused to stand up to the industry on this. Not really, if you look at Obama Presidency, he was extremely neoliberal. Bank bailouts, healthcare bill and massive corporate consolidation.
- shiroiushi 2y ago
  Yep, the "hope and change" stuff was just a slogan to get votes. Even though Obama himself seemed like a political outsider at the time, his presidency was just more of the same, basically a continuation of the Clinton era.
  - firesteelrain 2y ago
    What will we be saying about a potential Harris Administration in ten years? I wonder.
    - shiroiushi 2y ago
      "Better than the alternative." I'm not sure many people have any huge hopes for Harris, aside from it being nice to finally have a female chief executive (an achievement most other peer nations made long ago; even Pakistan had a female PM). When Obama was elected, the US had gone through 2 terms of GWB's terrible policies and the two wars he started (1 somewhat justified, 1 complete BS, both handled extremely poorly after the initial military victory). Obama was running against McCain/Palin, with McCain being a pretty reasonable Republican and decent person, and very unlikely to start any stupid new wars, but with a complete airhead running mate who thought Africa was a single country. It wouldn't have been a total disaster if McCain won, as long as he didn't die in office. This time around, the country has already seen what 1 Trump term results in, and it's really bad. A second term will be a disaster, probably even worse than the 1st one. Anyone with half a brain might not be super excited about Kamala, but she appears to be sane and reasonably competent, and when compared to the alternative, that's really good enough.