Source: https://lemmy.ca/post/69673892
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He is one of the best presidents in US history. The orange Mongoose is one of the worst if not the worst. Obama bombed the ever loving shit out of the middle east. Obama deported more people from the US than Trump at the moment.
I would do almost anything to go back to the Obama era, seriously. But I don’t want anyone thinking I believe Obama was some kind of saint. He wasn’t. He simply did things better than Trump.
His immigration policy made more sense. He deported people who actually needed to be deported without resorting to modern-day concentration camps. He used military force in the Middle East, but generally for far more defensible reasons. He was a significantly better diplomat, and he certainly handled Iran better than Trump ever did, without throwing tantrums and shitting himself on national television.
This person has never once spoken to an immigrant in their life. They have no idea what it’s like to be a poor, marginalized immigrant in the US and to live with the ever-present fear of deportation that has existed long before Trump took office.
They have no idea what it’s like to be poor or marginalized in general. Or that they’re persistently a couple paychecks away from becoming the former.
Yup, I’m so tired of being told by other white middle class queer people on
that voting Dem is “basic harm reduction” cause I’m like “for who, y’all know we aren’t the only people who matter right?”
Trans person here and yeah. Fuck every single person that tries to use that excuse.
I legit had someone tell me I should “care about myself more than single issues”. That single issue being genocide.
And to them I said no fuck you the lives of millions of Palestinians are in fact more important than the two of us and that if it were a choice between them and myself dying or the continuation of genocide I would die fighting for that without hesitation.