I guess that's just life when you're a hypocrite.
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Plus I think a very clear distinction is that Trump and his team are clearly enjoying it. I think it's disgusting no matter what, but if I had to choose between two murders I'd prefer the one that doesn't have fun doing it.
And this whole blame game bullshit never gets us anywhere. Yeah, sure, Obama did awful things. But what I wanna know is why we are still doing awful things? We could just, you know, not bomb random fucking people all over the world. People are dead and we're just arguing about who killed more people while more people continue to die. It's just so... Unhelpful.
The main target of this meme isn't Obama , but rather liberal hypocrisy. Double tapping is just the latest example of it, but while Obama is mostly a non-issue (though he still has influence within liberal circles and should be remembered for the monster he is) this double standard is still relevant because attacking the right for doing awful shit is one way liberals gain political capital to use for their own awful shit.
Besides, this is a post on c/leftymemes, not a dissertation, so I'm not sure why it should be "helpful."
Anybody from any political standing could say the exact same thing that you just said but compare any other president within the last 100 years about any other topic and their point would still make sense. It's unhelpful because it doesn't further the conversation. All it does is point fingers and pit people against each other which is exactly what this comment section has turned into. And whether it was done intentionally or unintentionally, it's basically ragebait. Now we are all arguing in the comments about things in the past that we can't change and what peoples opinions were 15 years ago and why that has anything to do with people that are dying today.
Feel free to do so, then.
It does, because there's a clear lesson to be learned from liberal flipflopping regarding the morality (or I suppose tolerability would be a better word) of whatever the evil thing du jour is: Just because liberals situationally agree with you, it doesn't make them any less anti-worker. Leftists helping liberals beat a common enemy and then getting the boot after they stop being useful is a tale as old as time, so it's important to remember what these people actually stand for. This is why so-called "unity" with liberals is such a ridiculous idea.