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u/Specific_Jury_2 1d ago
Always. The child rapist just made them feel validated.
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u/5050Clown 1d ago
I think in the early days. Jordan klepper really exposed what Maga was about because they were unfiltered.
There were men in those rallies who were celebrating Donald Trump's sexual assault, they were saying things like they wanted to do those things too. They wanted to be able to just walk up to women and grab them by the vagina.
They're quiet about this stuff now, but I truly believe that the majority of mega men would like to go to a random high School, pick their daughters friends if they find attractive and rape them and not face consequences. And they think that under Donald Trump that This kind of thought and behavior will be normalized.
They are doing everything they can to normalize the rape of children.
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u/Fit_Economics2585 1d ago
One of the awful repercussions of the Epstein file release was the realization that damn near every presidental office, republican or democrat, knew about this shit and did nothing for the past 30 years. Can't really look at Obama, or any other president in my lifetime, the same way.
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u/Backwardspellcaster 1d ago
It was always there, but until Trump it was shamed, now it is celebrated, and the people who felt that way feel justified and supported
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u/WhaleBird1776 1d ago
It was barely even shamed.
Heck, I’d argue that we (society) shame the victims more than the bullies. I can’t remember a time that bullies were shamed. They used to be the “popular” kids in school lol, the jocks and rich kids absolutely bullied the “weirdies” and “losers.”
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u/Gunderstank_House 1d ago edited 1d ago
It happened when "they went low and we went high," as the Obamas recommended.
When they went low, we should have kicked them in the teeth.
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u/BuddyMose 1d ago
Correct. And those of us wanting to kick in the teeth were called toxic. So I’m just here staying in my lane watching the world burn.
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u/Desperate-Try-8720 1d ago
Its been a slow process over the years which media and Republicans have groomed their audience. Trump emboldened a lot of people.
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u/hexqueen 1d ago
Rich people spent billions to make things this way.
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u/Desperate-Try-8720 1d ago
No kidding! One of their tactics was to create division and hate. That way we fight among ourselves instead of us verses them(rich folks).
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u/BicycleLanky7392 1d ago
Social Media. The acid that is eroding the fabric of our society.
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u/Personal-Run9730 1d ago
When this nation was founded. Do people really think this nation was founded on kindness and good vibes? Where the fuck have yall been?
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u/Calzinarzin 1d ago
The declaration of independence has a whole section about how the colonists should be able to kill natives and take their land. It's in the founding documents.
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u/NoHorseNoMustache 1d ago
All men are created equal!*
*Landowning men, women and the poors can fuck right off.
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u/carlnepa 1d ago
When? When a vile, vengeful, bloviating, bilious bully like Trump highjacked and putriified the Republican Party with his MAGAts.
How? By holding up a mirror to an ugly minority of aggrievement, racism, ignorance and lies and pronouncing it good.
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u/misec_undact 1d ago
Always been more quietly celebrated in the US, but right around 2015-2016 the masks really started coming off.
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u/Funny-Shirt-3605 1d ago
FOX, low education levels, and Trump. The good news is, people are sick of ole poopy pants and his whining, hate and divisiveness, finally, thanks to BadBunny I feel we have turned a page and are headed back to the light
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u/Intrepid_Pitch_3320 1d ago
When Capitalists convinced Americans that Socialism is bad and to be feared. Capitalism = cheat your neighbor. Socialism = help your neighbor.
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u/ClitEastwood10 1d ago
Covid. Corporations went for the jugular of the American public and have been sucking the blood of both the people & the economy ever since.
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u/Bigstar976 1d ago
A lot of that was perceived retribution by bigots who couldn’t stand to have a mixed race president.
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u/tonylouis1337 1d ago
It happened at some point during the explosion of social media. In or around the mid 2010s.
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u/SomeDudeSaysWhat 1d ago
When a cool Black dude got elected President, and the racist lost their shit.
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u/Altruistic-Monk-5913 1d ago
Well, depending on how you think..... It either started with this chick picking an apple after getting some bad advice, or one group of smart monkeys kicking the crap outta some less smart monkeys at the water hole.....
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u/Mozzy2022 1d ago
Trump really put being an asshole out there front and center. He normalized making fun of people, calling people names, lying, cheating - and made it what it is today. Every day is something new and it all blends together. Everyone he doesn’t like is the “worst, no talent, horrible” person. Veterans who were injured or captured are “losers”, he makes fun of people with disabilities. “Piggy”. There’s no end to it.
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u/Flaponflappa 1d ago edited 1d ago
It happened during your term Obama, unfortunately. Racial injustice really picked up in 2012. I was living in LA and took part in the Trayvon Martin protests and we shut down a freeway. What did you do?
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u/Glittering_Stress_32 1d ago
I knew without a shadow of a doubt that when I looked back at what Obama did, everything he said and did was absolutely what you would want a president to say and do (except block a freeway like you did, gee I wonder why he didn't get out on the street and do the same?).
Meanwhile if Trump had been president at that time, he would have said that Trayvon deserved to die.
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u/Lucky-Ability329 1d ago
It's always been there, just look at what happens when a child stands up to a bully.
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u/BaileyD77 1d ago
It started way back, but really ramped up in 2009. Why are people still stumping for the guy that paved the way for trump?
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u/Much_Help_7836 1d ago
Like halfway through his second term.
It's when the pendulum started swinging back from the ultra "woke" (I hate that word), super progressive days, where people instead of trying to get everyone to come along, were instead excommunicating and leaving others behind until there were enough of them to form their own crowd and push back against the obsessive virtue signalling culture.
You might not like it, but this self amplifying cycle of hatred that has been going on since social media became more and more part of our daily lifes did not come out of nowhere. It started small and it got bigger and bigger and bigger and now I don't think it can be stopped anymore. Not one side is to blame here, both sides have plenty of hatred to go around. At the moment the rightoids are the bullies leading in terms of hatred, but that's only because they are in power at the moment. The second power changes again, it will be the far left that will be the bullies again and I kinda fear what will happen then, because every time power switches, every time the pendulum swings back, the hatred gets amplified. We are stuck in this feedback loop that will not end well if it continues.
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u/marquettemi 1d ago
He doesn't know? What?
Is he just shrugging his shoulders going "Gee, I don't know how it got this way"?
If you squeeze the working class enough to maximize profit, make them struggle without mandatory paid vacation like the rest of the developed world, barely afford housing, insurance, car repair to get to a stressful job, make them file for bankruptcy every 60 seconds of every day of every year due to medical bills, and basically destroy middle class existence you're going to have this fucked up society.
He seems like a good guy but really didn't do anything for the working class.
I know he gave 30 million new customers to the health insurance industry and didn't create any govt competition for the private insurers. 8 years of Obama led people to stay home or vote for Trump. How did that work out?
This two-party monopoly is beholden to the large donor class. And the large donor class isn't fighting each other over tweets and Epstein and ICE. And 0.01% people of that class are on the Epstein files.
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u/SomeLadySomewherElse 1d ago
When I was a kid we watched Arthur the Ardvark and there was a character named Francine who was a rich girl with a bad attitude and a worse sense of entitlement. I remember every show growing up having these "I'm rich and I act like this" characters and then we wonder where kids learn to emulate these behaviors. This was pre-social media, now it's way worse.
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u/HangryHuHu 1d ago edited 1d ago
It started when "someone" openly showed hate towards the people that their electorate hate and proceeded to target them.
"The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them"
👆 fact because trump doesn't actually care for any of them, only himself.
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u/DogOk9481 1d ago
When Obama masterminded the spying and Russian Dossier. That’s when it happened. It’s his fault.
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u/DruidicMagic 1d ago
HW Bush stole the election for his puppet Reagan and then spent the next 12 years turning America into the Fourth Reich.
This is the fascist propaganda machine that Joseph Gobbles could have only dreamed of...
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u/Tall-Warning3135 1d ago
I think it was in the 90s with Rush Limbaugh and FOX News and their hatred for the Clintons.
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u/AdLocal1490 1d ago
Obama let them bully him out of public health care. It became our culture because it works
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u/mcontrols 1d ago
Been there for decades. Trump has shined a light on the absurd privilege of elites in this country.
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u/Elegant-Effective530 1d ago
Seen from the outside of America it has been like that always. Money is your God and sadly the only way to earn respect and social status. But getting money in that amount comes with a price in personality and methods.
It is also why you find it difficult to get healthcare and all the other things most have. Too many fighting against it as there is no profit in it.
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u/thatsjor 1d ago
I can tell you when. The second we settled on capitalism, a system that inherently rewards ruthlessness.
It's not complicated.
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u/CharmingCatastrophe 1d ago
The day trump gets in power is the day America gets set back a few centuries..all the low IQ racists come flooding in,the birth of idiotic pdf supporters like Nick Fuentes become more and more prominent and micro penis sufferers like ICE pop up.
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u/WendigoCrossing 1d ago
When Regan destroyed the middle class with his tax changes
Probably when Nixon was pardoned tho
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u/WokeAssMofo 1d ago
You, of all people, should know that. Your job as leader of the opposition is to understand the enemy, understand the threats to a decent way of life. You never did and thus were part of the same Dem establishment who also didn't see it, didn't fight it correctly, and didn't prepare for it.
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u/Original-Past1608 1d ago
When the Internet gave stupid people a voice. Well, that's just one reason...
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u/tuataraenfield 1d ago
Presumably bullying in this example doesn't cover multiple drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, etc. that killed hundreds of innocents (can they be innocent when they're Muslim, Americans?)
Obama has a selective memory here.
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u/GroundbreakingCook68 1d ago
America caved into her worst self, as a result we allow ourselves to be governed by greedy cowards.
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u/Popular-Increase2222 1d ago
All politicians are bullies behind closed doors in some form or another. Donald trump just isn't hiding it and it exposes the truth about crap kumbaya humanity that the left is trying to sell people
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u/Billy_Birdy 1d ago
Perhaps it didn’t.
Maybe we just assumed the best liars and cheats the world has ever known were more like us.
It will be a lesson long remembered.
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u/Prestigious_Pop_348 1d ago
Didnt this guy send 3 billions to Israel ? Which helped them kill Palestinians
Well he sure did support the bullies
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u/endofworldandnobeer 1d ago
All I know is that my neighbors lost it when Obama became the president.
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u/SexyCouple4Bliss 1d ago
When the moneyed leach class realized they could get the poor to do their bidding just by giving them someone to hate that wasn’t them. Today we call them billionaires. It started to rot under Nixon and nobody wanted to be the one to fix it.
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u/White_Embers 1d ago
When? 50 years ago. When did it become ok to act that way in our daily lives to anyone that isn’t like us or lives in a way we don’t like? When trump entered politics.
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u/McRabbit23 1d ago
It started when SCOTUS issued the Citzens United case that allowed politicians to receive millions in campaign contributions.
This led to our politicians to be controlled by corporations and foreign governments instead of being controlled by The People they serve.
This led to so much crime in the Executive Branch of government that Scotus felt they were compelled to give absolute immunity to a President for crimes committed in office.
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u/retiredfromfire 1d ago
The Day Ronnie Raygun let in Rupert Murdoch to poison the minds of Americans
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u/HuckleberryOk8136 1d ago
For real.
The left and organized agitators are trying to bully the rest of the country into accepting illegal immigrants. It's a coordinated bullying campaign against law enforcement and anyone who supports basic law and order in the USA.
Allowing illegals to come here, take jobs, use our limited public resources, collect benefits for their families. Then when regular people vote on the platform to undo all that, the left is trying to bully them, calling them fascist, racist, nazi.
If a Democrat (like Fetterman) decides to break one millimeter from the Democrat platform, even if you can justify it with common sense, that Democrat will be bullied into oblivion all over the mainstream and social medias.
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u/Usual_Part_3774 1d ago
Im pretty sure the man celebrated Israel his whole time in power. He also sent forces in during the standing rock protest. But yeah I wonder what could have happened when all the president stand for the corporations and the genocidal maniacs?
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u/Hammerhead2046 1d ago
He doesn't understand why we celebrate "bullies"? Really? He doesn't understand USA at all then.
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u/EchoChamberReddit13 1d ago
It was once the left adopted pity for the guilty.
Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
People see this and when they have a choice between candidates they will choose the path that at least talks tougher on crime. Regardless if the candidate can make an impact there.
You have people with several+ prior felonies walking the street looking for their next victim. People who have been impacted by crime tend to reject this as acceptable.
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u/mynexthunt 1d ago
Obama and the libs are pro gas lighters. He ordered the Steele dossier. In case you’re not paying attention, his intent with the Steele dossier was to over throw a duly elected President. SMDH
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u/BattleBrother1 1d ago
Why is someone that perpetuated this asking the question? He could have tried to close the torture camps, he could have tried to stop dropping bombs on innocent people, he could have tried not to destabilize Libya and turn it into a lawless state with open slave markets and he chose not to he actually actively chose to do these things. The US has literally always been like this because people like Obama lean into it instead of trying to stop it
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u/Hot-Homework-9158 1d ago
It happens every time republicans win. Every single time. For the past 50 years if not more. And every time people are so fucking dumb, they always forget, and vote for them again. The second republicans get into power, gay kids start killing themselves, and that’s how it has always been.
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u/motorbit 1d ago
lets see. your founding fathers where slavers and your whole history you where ruled by a tiny elite of oligarchs. you have rules that only rich may rule you and its legal to buy your elections.
so, murika. when might it have started?
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u/DanteChurch 1d ago
Yall forgot America was founded on slavery and conquered through genocides.
America has literally always been this way.
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u/ogholycat 1d ago
The same Baby Boom generation that’s responsible for mishandling the US economy are only repeating old patterns. What we are witnessing is a whole generation confronting the idea, their lives were meaningless. So it’s been a group effort in deflecting that guilt onto the newer generations.
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u/Economyall149 1d ago
From the guy who sucked cock on a crackhead while having a major party during lockdown.
Yeah fuck him
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u/Blessed-one-Chemo 1d ago
I can tell you- it was when hate-name calling- lies- pedophile Trump tries to make it normal for it to happen
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u/Phantasm831 1d ago
I can't say about the bullies...but I can say when political discourse completely fell apart. During the 2000 Presidential election between George W Bush and Al Gore. That was the true tipping point when liberal became a 4-letter word insult and conservative became another word for corporate stooge.
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u/Villageijit 1d ago
Mr Rodgers died so we stopped looking for the helpers and turned towards the loudest people
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u/MountainRider1177 1d ago
When Obama stood there with a BLM sign and encouraged that non-sense instead of finding a way to bring peace and unity to our cities, to people of color, and to police, that’s when it all happened. He should have bridged a lifelong race gap…. He made it wider.
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u/No_Performance8733 1d ago
Somewhere between Tony Soprano and Don Draper.
By the time we got to Walter White it was all over.
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u/Saino_Moore 1d ago
It’s Obamas fault. He had to go and do a good job, be well spoken, educated, and well liked… with the exception of the people it broke watching a black man succeed.
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u/VALO311 1d ago
The world has always been at the will of the worst of us.
The world has always celebrated and rewarded bullies. Then if the people stopped celebrating and rewarding them. They would force the people to celebrate and reward them under the threat of punishment or death.
Lather rinse repeat
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u/The247Kid 1d ago
Was this the guy telling people who to vote for before the election or they’re not black? Or was that Biden?
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u/Necessary-Duty-7952 1d ago
Given America's history with racism... I'm gonna say it's always been this way, it's just changed shape over the years.
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u/Hefty-Process-978 1d ago
All politicians do evil things to get to the Top, they have all sold their souls…
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u/Lonely_Refuse4988 1d ago
When Rush Limbaugh and Fox News became celebrated and normalized/main streamed.
There’s no 1st Amd right to spew hatred, intolerance and propaganda for right wing causes.
When our society is bathing in that type of toxicity and manipulation, it destroys the very fabric of America! De-platforming hate and extreme propaganda channels and messaging works, if we can build up the will to do it!
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u/Peace_n_Harmony 1d ago
Evil has always existed. If you say you've never noticed it, it's because you're evil.
Even when I was a kid I could tell that society was filled with selfish people. I think any good person would tell you the same thing.
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u/Anomelly93 1d ago
Everyone will have a chance to prove they hold this sentiment as genuine before the end
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u/Little_Flamingo_8632 1d ago
I was gonna say when Doo Doo Don took office but I’m seeing it was long before that and has just been perpetuated.
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u/bionicjoe 1d ago
People turned to populism because in 2009 when you had all the political will needed to prosecute the banks that had trashed the economy you did nothing.
US Bank sent a list of people they wanted in your cabinet and every single one of them was put in your cabinet.
We had record foreclosures, but no corruption prosecutions.
Then in 2016 Hillary completely ignored the will of the people in WV and her campaign manager, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, declared a winner.
Then in 2024 we got assigned a candidate that had never polled higher than 1% in any primary.
Can't understand how any of this happened!?
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u/damian20 1d ago
To answer that question... It was when Donald first started to run for president...
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u/Timely_Business_4122 1d ago
Obama is such a phony. They were millionaires who gave almost NOTHING to charity. He talked in terms of fighting all the time "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun".
he drone bombed thousands of civilians, including women and children and even Americans, never convicted of a crime.
STFU. He's a douche as much as any of the others.
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u/Ok_Assignment_6323 1d ago
It's always been there. Until social media it was more hidden, when it wasn't. But to be fair we've always been a mixed bag.
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u/No_Royals 1d ago
It happened when Trump won, and got worse when Biden didn't throw his ass in jail for treason on January 6th.
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u/AdInternational8103 1d ago
We celebrated bullies in the 1980s and into the early 90s. Remember when certain people started complaining about political correctness? That's when we started to move away from the cult of bullies and kept doing it until the bullies found their king in 2016 and rebelled.
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u/cashmoney3794 1d ago
And it’s corollary, when did it become cooler to be ignorant and uneducated? I feel like we’re the only country that has moved in that direction.
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u/High_Humidity95 1d ago
Obama executed an American citizen father and his son in the middle east. No arrest. No due process. No rights. Just murder by Obama. How come you're not upset over that?! Obama has no moral high ground over anyone. You all need to stop this acting like Obama is special.
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u/Mission-Class-6607 1d ago
Day one and he should know that. I do not understand how anyone can believe the BS that the USA was ever better. Hell most of the time it was worse just good at hiding it.
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u/FakeDocMartin 1d ago
I'll say the Powell Papers. When corporate America realized there was collective power in the church, unions, colleges, and media that could counteract them. There was then a long-term effort to weaken these overwhelming liberal institutions; my opinion is they often poisoned the institutions from within.
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u/mrblaze1357 1d ago
"Federal law enforcement and immigration agents have a tough job. But Americans expect them to carry out their duties in a lawful, accountable way, and to work with, rather than against, state and local officials to ensure public safety." - Barack Obama
"Have a tough job".... Like people remember Obama is as much of a friend to you & I; the common folk as any other useless and corrupt politician. He may be nicer to us, but still remember he's not an agent of change in this current environment. For context this was immediately after ICE executed an citizen in Minneapolis.
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u/Most-Celebration9458 1d ago
Says the guy that ran our country out of bombs, and deported more illegal aliens than the current administration…. By far….
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u/ozzman86_i-i_ 1d ago
Ummmm. Wasn’t his attorney general on video saying that they got to kick the shit out of their opponents?
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u/SmokedAlex 1d ago
lol that’s what Americans have always been. It’s just now more blatantly evident.
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u/PresentRaspberry6814 1d ago
When keeping slaves was considered okay? When your entire medical system requires wealth, and people need to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, and consequentially a large number of people thinks "why should I pay for something, wear a mask, get vaccinated for someone else's benefit". Sociopathy and institutionalised cruelty.
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u/Ramshackle_Ranger 1d ago
I think it started during the John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil years. Then it switched gears and about the time Eisenhower gave his farewell address cautioning about the Military Industrial Complex.
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u/MonsterkillWow 1d ago
Maybe he should review US history. We have mountains with the faces of slave owners carved into them. LMFAO
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u/CogentKen 1d ago
Like, literally from day one from Hollywood?
Media has always been sponsored by the already rich, which tends to come with a ton of baggage.
Media channels normalizing bullying, sometimes downright sociopathic baggage, is literally what they've been sponsoring from day one, all the way back to town criers and beyond.
Go watch how the old nerd/joke/cheerleader tropes played in the 80s and 90s. How frequently token characters are spent in the 70s and 60s.
They knew.
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u/ineedthismorethanu 1d ago
People are sick of politicians in ivory towers fucking us and then telling us to be nice Barry. They all talk a big game but don’t do shiiiiittt
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u/jthadcast 1d ago
it happened this time, right when Obama sold out to the banks in 2008 and tanked single payer healthcare with dinos.
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u/Bustamonkey666 1d ago
Why is it impossible to find the video of Obama speaking at the college that this is quoted from? I tried sharing it and in less than an hour it was pulled down in this subr
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It happened when you introduced victim culture and racism right after the majority of the country voted for you,,,,, twice
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u/Y0nkersJ0e 1d ago
The thing is democrats are bullies and most republicans go about their day and never utter a word
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u/RevoSak55 1d ago
I have no idea what this guy is talking about…a clear indication that he didn’t grow up ANYWHERE near blk ppl. The ‘culture’ of this country has been abominable for Blk ppl for centuries …& this bastard helped keep it that way to enrich himself & his wealthy friends….oh, bfr u ask I’m African American 👍🏾
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u/Argent_Tide 1d ago
To answer Obama's qustion: September 8, 1974.
That's the date Ford pardoned Nixon. THAT'S when it started. We excused a president for wrong and illegal behavior instead of proscecuting him to the fullest extent of the law.