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I condemn all excessively authoritarian behaviour. As a peer comment notes, bad behaviour _under_ a former administration is distinct from bad behaviour fully
by defrost 10mo ago
I condemn all excessively authoritarian behaviour.
As a peer comment notes, bad behaviour _under_ a former administration is distinct from bad behaviour fully embraced, endorsed, and backed _by_ the current administration.
As an aside, the "did you see what Obama did" is a poor response; while I'm certainly not a "literal communist" by any stretch I do urge you to watch a very short clip that specifically highlights the silliness of Obama V. Trump responses:
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD7Ol0gz11k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD7Ol0gz11k
If it helps to grasp my stance here, I'm not a US citizen and view all US administrations through the lens of not entirely reliable partners.
- RickJWagner 10mo agoI applaud your integrity. Thank you for the video, it highlights the discussion I think is needed.
- defrost 10mo agoIndeed. I look forward to you linking to evidence of Obama's whole hearted endorsement of ICE agents under his administration threatening children with rape. Clearly without such equivilance of support of excess from the top the cases of ICE under Obama and ICE under Trump are very very different.
- RickJWagner 10mo agoI don’t know what you mean. Here’s an article where ACLU says agents patted a teenagers behind and threatened her with rape but this was on Obamas watch. https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/border-patrol-was-monstrous-under-obama-imagine https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/border-patrol-wa... Have you got something that says something similar happened on Trumps watch? If not, I suppose an argument could be made that Trump is better than Obama, at least in this regard.