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A Boring Dystopia

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It was a "rubber" bullet, but still.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Stories like this are why despise Biden and Obama so much. Both enthusiastically armed the police while pretending to support change and helped give them this sense of invincibility, and both had the power to make real change in policing but cared more about being reelected than doing the right thing.

[–] NobodyElse@sh.itjust.works 43 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Despite Obama’s “hope and change” promises the first time around, they were both status quo presidents who needed to ensure the dominance of the state above all else.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Didn't take long to tie actions under a Republican admin to Democrats. Par for the course.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That's because these things do not happen in a vacuum, and if said Democratic presidents had made real reforms, the actions Trump is committing right now wouldn't be possible.

[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yep, and the "block everything" McConnell senate of Obama's terms would have allowed that reform too. You could conceivably make that argument about Biden for 2 fucking years if not for Sinnema(sp?) and that chucklefuck from WV.

The Dems are feckless but the president can't just decree shit. (well, unless you're trump I guess)

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

McConnell made things difficult, sure, but Obama had a supermajority for eight months of his first term.

Biden had Manchin and Sinema, but he wasn't without recourse. He could have targeted Manchin's daughter for regulation or investigation, because her company price gouges for prescription drugs and kills people. Sinema could have been stripped of all of her committee assignments, which would have made bribing her worthless and impacted her financially as well as severely limiting her power as a swing vote.

But, at the end of the day, you pointed out the most critical thing. Presidents have power. They just need to be willing to wield it in order to create change. The reason you're seeing Democrats participate in fascism and pretend to be powerless is that it serves their wealthy benefactors and they're happy to take those $100k bribes, I mean, "speech" engagements.