Liberals when they see Obama
I have read your comment and I have determined. This, you are trying to find common ground like one of those people shouting, "guys they are the same they are all bad" and I am here to tell you. Even with what you are saying above is you can feel how you want but you are just wrong. You don't have to like it but you absolutely are.
Firstly, not all progress is linear. No one here doesn't agree that progress can diverge or go multiple complicated routes but progress absolutely and 100% can be linear. Seeing it the opposite or trying to come up with some reason progress can never be linear is also wrong. I will give you an example a basic one. Amending bills and rights.
Let's look at the Miranda rights these protect you from getting tossed in jail if you don't understand the rights or laws of the U.S. Albeit, it took a guy from another country committing a brutal act for the U.S. to get to a point where it said, "hunh, what if as an American I don't even know my own rights because they change." And so we got the Miranda rights --> this right here is linear it is progress forward. Doesn't matter how many ways you want to sit here and talk about trains and bread and circuses. Now Obama doesn't have anything to do with the Miranda rights. However, as we speak the current administration and President absolutely are trying to undo the Miranda rights. This protects you, me, and came from a legal case that moved the U.S. forward not backwards. This is absolutely linear progress. Which all sound like BS answers to Obama somehow being equal to Bush when Obama's presidency was far more complicated than that trying to clean up Bushe's shit.
So when you talk about progress and you talk about who you would pick.you can absolutely pick people that don't push progress backwards.i would have picked Biden or Obama or even fucking Bush again over Trump if it meant not picking a piece of shit looking at amending or straight up removing a basic right that moved the U.S. forward.
We can talk about something going on in the U.S. that kills Americans every year. Let's talk about progress there and Obama is relevant and you should like this one because it is one of those sliders that doesn't exist. Gun violence.
During Obama's presidency. Obama tried just changing background checks on guns and just looking at providing statistics on gun violence he tried this on multiple occasions just so people were more educated. Each time the NRA filed a cease and desist. Obama was halted every step of the way he even has a really good talk on it.
This attempt by Obama is a progress and it isn't exactly linear but it could have had some linear progress. Meanwhile the current administration chooses to do nothing because nothing is wrong. Each time someone tries to do nothing this doesn't push your figmental train back but it holds the train in place and prevents it from budging forward or hitting a different track to figure something out. This is holding progress and that is the same as pushing it back every time we do nothing to try and figure out how we manage it. The same administration is also shouting on X to kill it's political competition. This is not the same. The current administration said, "give them more guns" and is now shouting, "kill the political opposition" this is backwards. It's fucking stupid to sit here and tell me Obama was just as bad as the rest of them or shit to set here and tell me Romney or Bush was just as bad and they are all the same. It is just a defeatist point of view in of itself because it isn't acknowledging the whole picture or taking ownership of the shit the current admin is doing.
"Obama was literally the same program as Busy" you can sit here and say this because Obama had principals that didn't move the dial in some direction. But there was 100% linear progress from Busy no matter. How you want to look at it. Progress that things like Obama care absolutely and 100% helped poorer states like I come from but my own state voted against it. It wasn't perfect and it wasn't linear but it was a step in some direction. And now the same administration has changed it because it had a black man's name on it. Obama and Trump not the same. Obama and Bush not the same.
Progress has all sorts of divergent paths. I get your point but it is stupid to think that their isn't some linear progress that comes with some of the change you want. You are always going to pick someone that doesn't have something you want but when it comes to who is in office now and who has been in office I would pick Obama time and time again.
We can look at some of the stuff Obama moved forward.
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: Signed into law in 2010, this legislation implemented sweeping financial regulatory reforms in response to the subprime mortgage crisis. --> not linear but good for its time. Current admin is fucking with this. Houses are less affordable than they have been for years. Not progress. So yeah I would Pick Obama here because he figured something out.
Tax Policy: Allowed the Bush-era tax cuts to expire for the highest income earners, while cutting taxes for working families and small businesses, which reduced after-tax income inequality. --> every dem does this but lately it has been a dem wanting to make this move. Meanwhile the current admin is doing exactly what you are accusing Obama of. Reinforcing dominance of owners over workers I believe is how you put it? Doesn't really seem like the two are the same so far.
Auto Industry Rescue: The administration provided support to the U.S. automobile industry, which helped prevent its collapse and preserve jobs. Hunh another good thing. That the current admin is fucking up with terriffs.
You can spout Obama being shit at attempts to help foreigners crossing borders. I don't disagree but to think his foreign policies weren't also an improvement would be a lie this would be one of those complicated processes that aren't a slider. While border management may not have been good he made progress I would consider linear elsewhere.
Iran Nuclear Deal: Negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran and other world powers to prevent the country from developing nuclear weapons.
Paris Climate Agreement: The U.S. adopted this international accord in 2015 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow global warming.
"Cuban Thaw": Eased travel and monetary restrictions and began normalizing relations with Cuba after decades of estrangement.
Intervention in Libya: The U.S. participated in a NATO-led intervention in 2011.
These all seem like linear progress bars to me while the current admin fucks up foreign relationships. Literally left the fucking Paris Climate Agreement while the world burns. Is siding with Russia. Etc the list goes on. We could get into Obama's take on Gay rights also a movement forward while the current administration and Bush tried to fight them. Not the same app progress the current administration is fucking up also the sake shit Romney didn't want.
Not the same and sure I am open to discussing the bad from Obama and maybe the good from Trump. Trump's take on foreign adversaries like China stealing intellectual property was good his first term. However, he is fucking it up this term. Holding back changes in the automotive industry. Preventing foreigners from going to school where and diversity proves to be beneficial when it comes to progress.
My entire point is this "Obama was no different than the rest" is just bullshit and it always will be. I don't disagree that a man in a suit is going to be a man in a suit. What will absolutely disagree on is what we see as progress. And I understand not all progress is linear in that complications come from it all. But to sit here and tell me Obama is the same as busy with a different name badge is lying to me and honestly to yourself.
To tell me Obama and Romney were the same and we didn't pick Romney because they were absolutely not the same is also bullshit. I don't think you understand politics and why right now more than ever it is important to understand and create a distinction that you pick and choose battles and Obama gets the praise he does because he did make some progress on human rights figured out ways to avoid entire financial crises that Bush created and started for common people. The current administration tears that down more and more each day. Progress isn't always linear but when you look at moving forward making things easier on people less poor and people with less rights. It is very easy to compare and contrast the differences in progress Obama alone did not do what he did alone and he did do great things all while having policies that were not great.
Kamala's take on prisons and foreign immigration wasn't great either but God damn she would have been a 1000% better pick than the shit administration now. And to tell me even she would have been the same would also be shit. Because progress is complicated but Bush wasn't progressing the way I wanted and the current administration is currently dismantling the process that came from people I do want. There is no ideal president that is going to do everything you want.
This is why I think you are just another bystander shouting "they are all corporate greed and the same." When in reality what you are saying is understood on the greed part but absolutely fucking nonsense on the being the same part.
I don't think you understand politics or progression.
Your entire take is that Obama just held the ground. We forget we could have had Mitt Romney who would have been just as worse if not far worse a choice than Obama.
I see tons of comparisons, we need better! We need to do better! And everyone is comparing the president how to Obama and the president then to Obama. America did absolutely better picking Obama over Mitt Romney and I am confused as to why we aren't comparing the president then to the competitor then.
You can disagree with 60 percent of what a president did and argue people on the opposite side are going to react and just push the change back but if you want real change you pick the person that has 40% of what you agree with and you do that time and time again <until it is 50 percent and so on so forth.
Feel how you want but setting here and going, Everyone praises Obama and he did the shit those people complain about is just a dumb ass way of looking at what Obama brought to the table. It took one idiot in office to destroy the good he did and the good Biden tried to hold on to.
Sitting here and spouting nonsense that Obama would still be a worse choice is just a shit view. It would 100% still be better than the fucking moron we have in office now and I would take 40 Obama's for the next 10 years over 40 Trumps. It is a common sense statement to act self righteous with, "we gotta do better than Trump or Obama." Yeah, we get it. That is the obvious statement. But to say Obama was a bad choice given the margin of difference between him vs Trump is just fucking stupid no matter where you stand. To say if we had Obama vs Trump and we shouldn't pick another Obama is stupid because "we have to do better." That isn't how shit works either. You pick what is good in the moment.
I am not sure why people suddenly forget the president doesn't run the whole country when it comes to decision making. So suddenly we start just comparing the presidents but the office in power with the president is a big deal as well.
Obama may have made many decisions the majority of libs are complaining about but the problem is Libs liked him because of what he stood for on the better side of things versus the shit in office now. The Obama standard is the good we had until Trump and that is why it is the still wanted standard because it meant something even with the bad.
So feel how you want but taking the stance of, "we got a do better." Isn't a winning case. It is just a statement. Getting people to see some of the good that was done then is what matters and Obama had some of that and that is the point. You have to have something to look at and compare too. Who would you suggest would be better now? How would we do better? Could you help run a country with all of your wisdom? No, Obama would still be 100 times better and I would pick and Obama any fucking day even if it just meant slowing cons down or holding their ridiculous mind set off for a thousand years.
Lol, not they aren't they are going to say that in their day they could pay their student loans and nurses should too.
Lol wtf? The skin walker totally fucking played you, bro.
Stop viewing the world from this perspective? People ar just different that doesn't mean their aren't certain categorizations that classify as "normal" but self pity or just not finding a therapist to talk to. I know it is cliché to say, "help yourself bro." It isn't fair people hurt every day that need help and it isn't that easy.
But going online to get self justification on being "weird" and not fitting in with "normies" and feeling judged is why you feel out of place because you filter yourself into this, "I am not normal... And normies do not like me and women loath me and I don't understand why."
That and 4-chan is a cesspool "justify me non normies who also feel they are not normal and are justified in their beliefs of being racist and sexist. Help me justify the feeling of feeling that way please."
Is this FOSS? Is it on GitHub or can I get it from another app store like F-Droid?
"And by the way she had no complaints about us, as you know." This sounds entirely like there were complaints but also, SHE WAS FUCKING UNDER AGE TRUMP! Come on dude?! Like shut the fuck up. It isn't about complaints towards you it is genuinely about a guy, you knew, that you won't release files on doing shit with your business and you told him to "quit" what did you do to protect your actual employees and these young women.
It is just like, how the fuck is Trump not under investigation is it just shady as hell. If you are a federal agent reading this I just don't know you can't be ashamed of your country.
Same, sign me up.
I just want more NVIDIA support. My first attempt at switching to Linux for gaming was not a smooth one.
I kept having an issue with my monitors freezing. Any community suggestion made just didn't work at all. It was as if the monitor not only froze but was just turned off. Any UI Element would freeze up and then suddenly my Cursor would only work on the only remaining monitor until that would stop as well
I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. Tried 2 different OS's same issue. Was told by the community it was because I had an NVIDIA GPU, 4080. Which is fine except the 2 OS's tired both had the same issue. I just gave up.
In 20 years Flordians won't have teeth.
Honestly, I have been using Lemmy since the Reddit API ordeal and the community here over Linux just annoys me. It is this all high and saving OS but why hasn't it done so yet.
Why does the community and answering questions about Linux suck. Linux great and I use it but people here act like they figured something out the rest of the world hasn't but when the rest of the world tries to figure it out the response is, "good luck, figured it out, go back to Windows loser." Just annoys the hell out of me.
I have also never watched Star Trek but it seems good.
I think you over estimate people's ability to cook these days.
Well, here we are. Some 2 or 3 weeks in now.
Or they simply have fond memories of the graphical style of Oblivion, and are disappointed that it's now more "realistic"? I don't want realistic, I want Oblivion. It's a fucking fantasy game.
We have reshades problem solved. Not all fantasy games have to be overly saturated but hey look the remaster is great and you have options.
People were all over this style when Skyrim released.
Lol, why does it have to fit the original style of Oblivion. Stupid fucking argument.
I would love to play a remastered version that keeps the distinct graphical style I fondly remember. I know, a complete shocker.
Not a shocker? Just fucking do so? I don't mind a change in style because the game doesn't change. Also, stupid argument.
I did and you really didn't like me saying that! I like Oblivion, I really like the graphical style. I don't like that they are removing the graphical style and making it look like any generic action RPG. If you don't like my comment, maybe move the fuck on?
Your comment was pretentious and so here we are on the internet using it as intended.
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"truly the 60's were a time of liberation."
I love the people that compare one aspect of history and forget the rest, lol. The past sucked and our current future sucks.
John Lennon was a piece of shit.
"Lemmy has found a billionaire it likes." - reads one post makes a determination because of one post.
God I fucking hate Lemmy. It is the same nonsense like this Lemmy gives reddit crap about
One post doesnt make a platform like a billionaire. Also, if a Billionaire can speak about against something that protects artists then all the power to them. Slapping the word billionaire on something doesn't make everything a billionaire does bad.
I hate billionaires as much as the next Lemmy user but it is sentiments like this that are nonsense.
If you have people that talk like this around you as an artist I think you need to find different people to be around that is the real take away here.
Also, I have genuinely never in my 29 years of life heard people say anything like this. So this post can kind of fuck off.
They are also one of the few, next to tigers, land predators that actually have a taste for human blood. The nature of a polar bear thinks it can eat it then it will certainly try. You also absolutely cannot out run them.
Oblivion is hugely over saturated. The game feels perfect for that in some areas and like a kids story book in others.
The people commenting the generic "now it's brown and dull" are just lame. Its just hating to hate really.
Personally, Oblivion is 10x than skyrim even if the game looked like fucking Morrowind I would play it. It is like people on Lemmy have to purposefully hate on something popular so they feel different than the "Normies."
The game could use a graphical overhaul and the bloom and over saturation hurt my damn eyes in a recent play through. So please tone it down and make it feel more realistic.
Also, lol, the image for comparison is just subjective bullshit bias. It purposefully makes a comparison to make the remaster feel boring. People were all over this style when Skyrim released.
Much like my opinion people don't have to agree and if you like the way Oblivion looks now versus the graphical overhaul in the leaked screenshot well then the good news is you can still play the original Oblivion. I know, complete shocker.
The point I am trying to make is that Lemmy sometimes feels like the "I am not like other girls" version of Reddit. You guys hate shit just as much as Reddit but in a weirder "I am different so my opinion is better." Reminds me of a post I saw on here where some guy raved for 4 paragraphs about why he didn't think the new Deadpool was funny but that his opinion wasn't like others that didn't like the new Deadpool because his was more refined and over all carried sophistication I'm his criticism. When in the end all he was saying was, "it wasn't my kind of humor." That is Lemmy.
Just say you don't like something and move the fuck on. Personally, Oblivion is peak Elderscrolls for me. This remaster looks fucking fantastic and I am going go play the fuck out of it. Have a nice day.
They did
Lol, he isn't going to do shit.
Reddit users who switched to Lemmy, what is the most annoying thing you have seen about Lemmy users?
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