“I think it’s going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions. And it’s going to require Democrats to just toughen up,” Obama said at the fundraiser

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    Just say you’re a conservative and go. “Progressives” like you are such cowards. You’re so eager to slobber over politicians’ boots and make up excuses for why they can’t do anything good. I wish I could at least believe the DNC was paying you off, but I was one of you once, so I know full well you’ve just drunk the neoliberal Kool-Aid that hard. The people ready to jump down leftists’ throats with “um, ackshually, it’s physically impossible to do better than center-right austerity and authoritarianism” whenever we speak up have far more to do with why leftists have no power than any leftist “idealism.” Throughout history, it’s always been the lunatic radicals who made actual change, while the craven moderates fought them tooth and nail to preserve the intolerable status quo. Ever notice how conservatives are utterly unrestrained by all the things liberals insist are holding them back from making change? When MAGA wants something, they get it, no matter how unreasonable or flat-out absurd it is. But when the Democrats’ base demands better of them, they wring their hands and lament how gosh golly gee, they’d love to make things better, but they can’t because something something civility something something norms. If progressives fought like conservatives, we’d have fucking fully automated luxury gay space communism by now.

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            • Defends the bombing of children
            • Defends taking money from the poor and working class, and giving it to the rich
            • Defends the expansion of the military and police state
            • Defends politicians who screwed over their voter-base
            • Says that leftists are too idealistic

            “But I’m totally a socialist, I swear!”

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              Literally not. Imagine talking about a topic and your opinion on it forces you to be defending it?

              People here are just genuinely incorrect about how he handled the military.

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                Except you literally were. And yes, people here are genuinely incorrect about how he handled the military. They keep saying that he had no choice, and it was out of his hands, and it wasn’t his fault, when it was a choice that he clearly made and then bragged about.

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                  It literally wasn’t his choice and it was in his hands but alongside so many others. He’s not the king bro you don’t seem to understand that. You also don’t seem to understand he’s not making these missions he has people under him.

                  Do you have a job? How many times does the boss set an expectation and you or a coworker miss it? You’re being intentionally ignorant, obtuse, and just dishonest.

                  Most people here are repeating Republican talking points. He’s a warmonger who literally decreased the amount of war and avoided open conflict the best he could? What a terrible warmonger.

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                    It literally was explicitly his choice. He is literally the Commander-in-chief. He had every opportunity to pull out, but chose to brag about killing people instead.

                    If he had told everyone that we were ending our wars, and they didn’t follow through properly, that’d be on them, not him. Instead he continued on, killing innocent people and joked about it.