• 20cello@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    The average american tends to justify any horror perpetrated by the US military and its commander in chief if he is going to be a decent president with domestic policies

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      24 hours ago

      And with Obama, we didn’t even get the decency or good domestic policies either.

      Just pretty speeches and excuses.

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        23 hours ago

        Not sure here but among the other things I remember he campaigned with the promise to close guantanamo bay, thing that he didn’t?

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          23 hours ago

          Nope, and even more fun, he actually made enhanced interrogation techniques torture explicitly legal via EO on a New Years Day holiday. (I forget which one.)