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Possibly you’re a victim of the super polarized environment today but this is hard to believe. You’ve written dozens of comments attacking the current administr

Possibly you’re a victim of the super polarized environment today but this is hard to believe. You’ve written dozens of comments attacking the current administration. How much ink did you spill over Biden 4 years ago?

ModernMech 2y ago
How about instead of questioning me personally we focus on the discussion at hand? My personal politics don't matter, but since you're making it about that, I'm a leftist so I don't see how it's hard to believe I don't agree with Biden on most things. Like most people on HN, I don't comment about politics here often, but I made my displeasure known at the time in other social circle. I'm here now, as I think most people are, because this is some next-level shit. Comparisons to anything Biden did are strained. I generally don't find it hard to maintain a consistent view of executive power no matter who is wielding it, because it always comes back to: what if it was wielded against you? This is the question everyone who is in support of this right now needs to be asking themselves.
- encoderer 2y ago
  The last time democrats wielded this much power they created the new deal. The last time republicans wielded this much power we became a global power. Both Roosevelts. Both hated by their opposition. History looks kindly on both. Trump is not a Roosevelt, but in a way neither were they in their day. I’m a centrist. I believe the greatest living president is Clinton and it’s not even close. I hope leftsts become pragmatic again and choose a Clintonesque nominee next time.
  - transcriptase 2y ago
    Wait you believe the greatest living president is the one responsible for the whole concept of “if we make China rich they’ll become a friendly democracy”? The policies that backfired so spectacularly that the working class voted in Trump for some degree of reversal?

ModernMech 2y ago

How about instead of questioning me personally we focus on the discussion at hand? My personal politics don't matter, but since you're making it about that, I'm a leftist so I don't see how it's hard to believe I don't agree with Biden on most things. Like most people on HN, I don't comment about politics here often, but I made my displeasure known at the time in other social circle. I'm here now, as I think most people are, because this is some next-level shit. Comparisons to anything Biden did are strained. I generally don't find it hard to maintain a consistent view of executive power no matter who is wielding it, because it always comes back to: what if it was wielded against you? This is the question everyone who is in support of this right now needs to be asking themselves.

encoderer 2y ago
The last time democrats wielded this much power they created the new deal. The last time republicans wielded this much power we became a global power. Both Roosevelts. Both hated by their opposition. History looks kindly on both. Trump is not a Roosevelt, but in a way neither were they in their day. I’m a centrist. I believe the greatest living president is Clinton and it’s not even close. I hope leftsts become pragmatic again and choose a Clintonesque nominee next time.
- transcriptase 2y ago
  Wait you believe the greatest living president is the one responsible for the whole concept of “if we make China rich they’ll become a friendly democracy”? The policies that backfired so spectacularly that the working class voted in Trump for some degree of reversal?