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[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago

Recency bias doesn’t help, especially with how fucking nuts headlines are every day, but holy shit it’s wild how many people have forgotten how wretched the bush administration was

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

A lot of people do seem to think "bush looks good in comparison to trump", ignoring the fact that the open corruption and rejection of reality under bush was an earlier iteration of our current fascist coup, an important stage in that same process.

Obama openly refusing to enforce the law against those bush era criminals ("I'm looking forward not backward") was another important step towards fascism.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Obama and Biden not rolling back Bush era things like the Invade the Hague act (Servicemans Protection Act) also.

It's no accident that the US already has a huge amount of the infrastructure required for it to start to fascist out the way it has under Trump.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Obama openly refusing to enforce the law against those bush era criminals ("I'm looking forward not backward") was another important step towards fascism.

This x1000. I used to be proud of South Korea's rich history of prosecuting their former Presidents, but recently they stopped doing this too. Shameful. We must bring back punishments for those who abuse power.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We talking George W or just George? I seem to remember the former got into office by a hair's breadth, with the help of some seriously dangerous nazis in Florida (2000). A blueprint for Jan6 and everything that went on during that election.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It's not that we've forgotten, it's that it's so much worse now that those were the "good ol' days"

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It's definitely both.

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