AaronMk 
Sky funeral
Reminder the anti-police movement began under Obama and Occupy began under Obama.
Ya’ll got your brains scrambled by Trump
Ya’ll got your brains scrambled by Trump
Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)
igotnopicks
Monado User
@CaptainXtra
The world was more chill when Obama was President. Because we had 4 years of Orange Man in charge and the chaos that came with it.
The world was more chill when Obama was President. Because we had 4 years of Orange Man in charge and the chaos that came with it.
Latecomer
@tehwatever
And I hope America pulls their head out of their arse and leans on them, but Biden doesn’t seem likely to.
And I hope America pulls their head out of their arse and leans on them, but Biden doesn’t seem likely to.
HeadlessHorselessHorseman
@AaronMk
Occupy didn’t make the news past 2011, and BLM protesters weren’t fully adopting “abolish/defund the police” as a core of their platform in 2014. And even then the fact that Occupy was advertising to a broad-based 99% and not a scared, confused 60% (Democratic voters) says a lot.
But Sanders-style social democracy was never actually as popular as Occupy made it out be. I think Trump actually managed to pick up quite a few of the more conspiracy-minded “burn it all down” types who could have gotten on board with Occupy five years earlier.
Occupy didn’t make the news past 2011, and BLM protesters weren’t fully adopting “abolish/defund the police” as a core of their platform in 2014. And even then the fact that Occupy was advertising to a broad-based 99% and not a scared, confused 60% (Democratic voters) says a lot.
But Sanders-style social democracy was never actually as popular as Occupy made it out be. I think Trump actually managed to pick up quite a few of the more conspiracy-minded “burn it all down” types who could have gotten on board with Occupy five years earlier.
Kiryu-Chan 
World's Okayest User
Obama was a mediocre president rife with tons of lasting damage himself to the country especially in regards to the middle east, among other things(he’s not President DroneStrike for no reason) but Trump was so bad that he made more of that sound enticing
Background Pony #C1E8
@igotnopicks
The chaos was brewing when Obama was president, that’s why Trump got elected in the first place. He is a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself.
The chaos was brewing when Obama was president, that’s why Trump got elected in the first place. He is a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself.
Background Pony #1F81
I liked Obama
NitroFury 
Nitro Cat still livin’
Now you have some GOP members trying to deny that the Jan 6th Insurrection, and try it to spin the insurrection as a “normal tourist visit”.
AaronMk
Don’t care
Sky funeral
@AaronMk
Occupy didn’t make the news past 2011, and BLM protesters weren’t fully adopting “abolish/defund the police” as a core of their platform in 2014. And even then the fact that Occupy was advertising to a broad-based 99% and not a scared, confused 60% (Democratic voters) says a lot.But Sanders-style social democracy was never actually as popular as Occupy made it out be. I think Trump actually managed to pick up quite a few of the more conspiracy-minded “burn it all down” types who could have gotten on board with Occupy five years earlier.
Don’t care
Background Human 
CHS, Class of 20XX
@igotnopicks
Once. Senator William Blount. For conspiring with the British to attack Spain’s holdings in North America.
And 17 were expelled during the Civil War for supporting the Confederacy. 3 in the House, 14 in the Senate.
(Sorry it took so long to respond. Today was… hectic.)
Once. Senator William Blount. For conspiring with the British to attack Spain’s holdings in North America.
And 17 were expelled during the Civil War for supporting the Confederacy. 3 in the House, 14 in the Senate.
(Sorry it took so long to respond. Today was… hectic.)
CaptainXtra
I’m not giving up.
Two things:
- Why is Emmanuel Macron such a corporate shill?
Seriously French Bronies, what gives with that guy?
And don’t even get me started on the fact that Merkel has him on a leash when it comes to EU lawmaking…
- Something I asked before but it got ignored…
Would it be a stretch to suggest that the Confederacy would’ve sided with Hitler in WW2 if the Civil War never broke out?
Natry 
Constant Lurker
@CaptainXtra
Well, thanks to the Butterfly effect, it would be a stretch for Hitler to still rise to power, let alone be born. But even if there was a Nazi Germany, I don’t think an alliance is too likely, unless they also experienced a fascist coup. The Confederacy would likely have been uninterested in fighting in some European war just because one country was really racist. Before Pearl Harbor, the US had a hard time getting support to join a defensive war, it would be harder to get people support a war just to give a faraway power more land. If the US humiliated them in some way they could join against them, but it’s equally likely at that point that the rise in industry makes slavery more and more economically pointless, and the the two countries could start reconciliation.
Well, thanks to the Butterfly effect, it would be a stretch for Hitler to still rise to power, let alone be born. But even if there was a Nazi Germany, I don’t think an alliance is too likely, unless they also experienced a fascist coup. The Confederacy would likely have been uninterested in fighting in some European war just because one country was really racist. Before Pearl Harbor, the US had a hard time getting support to join a defensive war, it would be harder to get people support a war just to give a faraway power more land. If the US humiliated them in some way they could join against them, but it’s equally likely at that point that the rise in industry makes slavery more and more economically pointless, and the the two countries could start reconciliation.
Ereiam 
Monde de merde
@CaptainXtra
He’s always been a corporate shill. Keep in mind that he used to be a partner at Rothschild Bank, where he befriended sarkozyst guru Alain Minc who told him that “better be rich to go into politics” (and took his advice at heart, making millions off the acquisition deals he oversaw).
After that, he used François Hollande as a stepping stone (which speaks volumes in itself about the ideological state of the French socialist party) where, as minister of the Economy, he embodied the liberal shift of his government’s economic policy (in which he oversaw the privatization of public assets and encouraged the deregulation of the labor code), while surreptitiously taking his distances as it increasingly sank into impopularity (his greatest trick was probably to keep his name off the aforementioned controversial labor code reform), culminating with the creation of his own party he presented as “transpartisan” and his public denial of being a socialist.
From there, at the presidential election, he played on his image of fresh dynamic face amidst the aging political class to become the catch-all candidate for all those disappointed both with the socialists’ (in)action (this time, they tried to redeem themselves by picking Benoit Hamon on their left wing as candidate, which ended in disaster as he was in direct competition with Jean-Luc Mélenchon) and the right’s corruption (when their candidate, François Fillon, became embroiled in a series of scandals which hurt his chances enough to make him miss the cutoff at the first round).
Only the far-left and the far-right were lucid enough to see him for what he was. Alas, Jean-Luc Mélenchon — who’d have had, of all the candidates according to the polls, the best chance to beat him, had he reached the second round — also didn’t make the cut (thanks to Benoit Hamon diverting the handful of votes that’d have allowed that) and Marine Le Pen was… well, Marine Le Pen.
He’s always been a corporate shill. Keep in mind that he used to be a partner at Rothschild Bank, where he befriended sarkozyst guru Alain Minc who told him that “better be rich to go into politics” (and took his advice at heart, making millions off the acquisition deals he oversaw).
After that, he used François Hollande as a stepping stone (which speaks volumes in itself about the ideological state of the French socialist party) where, as minister of the Economy, he embodied the liberal shift of his government’s economic policy (in which he oversaw the privatization of public assets and encouraged the deregulation of the labor code), while surreptitiously taking his distances as it increasingly sank into impopularity (his greatest trick was probably to keep his name off the aforementioned controversial labor code reform), culminating with the creation of his own party he presented as “transpartisan” and his public denial of being a socialist.
From there, at the presidential election, he played on his image of fresh dynamic face amidst the aging political class to become the catch-all candidate for all those disappointed both with the socialists’ (in)action (this time, they tried to redeem themselves by picking Benoit Hamon on their left wing as candidate, which ended in disaster as he was in direct competition with Jean-Luc Mélenchon) and the right’s corruption (when their candidate, François Fillon, became embroiled in a series of scandals which hurt his chances enough to make him miss the cutoff at the first round).
Only the far-left and the far-right were lucid enough to see him for what he was. Alas, Jean-Luc Mélenchon — who’d have had, of all the candidates according to the polls, the best chance to beat him, had he reached the second round — also didn’t make the cut (thanks to Benoit Hamon diverting the handful of votes that’d have allowed that) and Marine Le Pen was… well, Marine Le Pen.
Background Pony #F447
Thought I’d point out that the CDC is now saying if you have been vaccinated you don’t need a mask or need to social distance.
Penguin Dragneel 
The Lady Lightbringer
@NitroFury
“And over there, you’ll see what looks like white supremacists brutally attacking guards and trying to overthrow democracy, but in reality, they’re just tourists wanting to see observe how it all works, so don’t worry.”
Jesus Christ, it never ####ing ends.
“And over there, you’ll see what looks like white supremacists brutally attacking guards and trying to overthrow democracy, but in reality, they’re just tourists wanting to see observe how it all works, so don’t worry.”
Jesus Christ, it never ####ing ends.
CaptainXtra
In other words, Macron mastered Neoliberalism.
Found this lovely drawing from Iran:
Most accurate depiction of him ever.
I’m not giving up.
@CaptainXtra
He’s always been a corporate shill. Keep in mind that he used to be a partner at Rothschild Bank, where he befriended sarkozyst guru Alain Minc who told him that “better be rich to go into politics” (and took his advice at heart, making millions off the acquisition deals he oversaw).
After that, he used François Hollande as a stepping stone (which speaks volumes in itself about the ideological state of the French socialist party) where, as minister of the Economy, he embodied the liberal shift of his government’s economic policy (in which he oversaw the privatization of public assets and encouraged the deregulation of the labor code), while surreptitiously taking his distances as it increasingly sank into impopularity (his greatest trick was probably to keep his name off the aforementioned controversial labor code reform), culminating with the creation of his own party he presented as “transpartisan” and his public denial of being a socialist.
From there, at the presidential election, he played on his image of fresh dynamic face amidst the aging political class to become the catch-all candidate for all those disappointed both with the socialists’ (in)action (this time, they tried to redeem themselves by picking Benoit Hamon on their left wing as candidate, which ended in disaster as he was in direct competition with Jean-Luc Mélenchon) and the right’s corruption (when their candidate, François Fillon, became embroiled in a series of scandals which hurt his chances enough to make him miss the cutoff at the first round).
Only the far-left and the far-right were lucid enough to see him for what he was. Alas, Jean-Luc Mélenchon — who’d have had, of all the candidates according to the polls, the best chance to beat him, had he reached the second round — also didn’t make the cut (thanks to Benoit Hamon diverting the handful of votes that’d have allowed that) and Marine Le Pen was… well, Marine Le Pen.
In other words, Macron mastered Neoliberalism.
Found this lovely drawing from Iran:
Most accurate depiction of him ever.
NitroFury
Nitro Cat still livin’
@Penguin Dragneel
This is what the Republican Party is now, the party of Lincoln to MAGA Cult.
This is what the Republican Party is now, the party of Lincoln to MAGA Cult.
Penguin Dragneel
The Lady Lightbringer
@NitroFury
They’re nothing but a bunch of pearl-clutchers now.
They’re nothing but a bunch of pearl-clutchers now.
igotnopicks
Lincoln must be rolling in his grave.
Monado User
@Penguin Dragneel
This is what the Republican Party is now, the party of Lincoln to MAGA Cult.
Lincoln must be rolling in his grave.
Penguin Dragneel
The Lady Lightbringer
@igotnopicks
Hell, most of the previous presidents are probably rolling in their grave.
Hell, most of the previous presidents are probably rolling in their grave.
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