Kinda like every leader of every major superpower did at some point?


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Replying to @versaceaglets @Freeyourmindkid
It’s a continuum. There hasn’t been a single President in modern history that hasn’t had to engage in foreign conflict. The degree to which they try to do it responsibly is highly varied. Whatever you think the “good” alternative is doesn’t exist. Have some perspective.
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Replying to @versaceaglets @Freeyourmindkid
I wouldn’t disagree with one word of that. But we’re talking about the ideal, which is for this place to have never existed at all, vs. the real, which is what do we do with it now that we’re stuck with it? The answer is to try to fix it. #44 was a decent move in that direction.
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I think many would say it is un-fixable and we should hope for its demise and/or radical reconstruction. I'm more cautious about that because the only road to demise and most roads to radical reconstruction lead through chaos, and I think chaos always favors the powerful.
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but anyway the point is a lot of folks say bc Obama put a smiling face on genocide, he impeded radicalization and actually slowed down process, basically bc he placated many marginalized people (through lies), marginalized ppl who could/should have been radicalized instead.
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I have an issue with saying he placated people with lies. Much of what he (probably) sincerely wanted to (try to) do was torpedoed by the racist wave of blacklash that happened in Congress, the judiciary, and at state levels. Say what you will abroad but domestically he was sound
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Shrug. I don't think he lied to us much either but you know, just trying to represent a viewpoint I don't necessarily share with as much fidelity as possible. Also domestically I increasingly believe the deportation wave that he backed had no relation to sound policy.
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anyway even if you don't think he placated people with lies, I do think there's something to the notion that intentionally or not, he served to make a lot of people more comfortable within a very evil structure, without changing that structure.
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