This definitely isn't whitepeopletwitter
Mixed people just can't catch a break
Maybe he shoulda experimented with clubbing McConnell with a baseball bat instead of rolling over when McConnell defied the Constitution during his SCOTUS pick.
When you're doing an experiment you set up the conditions and then observe the results. If you need to constantly involve yourself then you're running a bad experiment. "Experiment" is a terrible way to describe democracy.
what word would you use instead?
Case study seems like the most fitting research design terminology.
Then how am I supposed to support a coup in a socialist country and say "socialism failed the experiment"?
Biblically accurate entreaty for coexistence.
Thanks, Obama!
I guess "Inclusive experiment" is one way to describe slavery.
Started by those people doesn't mean we act like they did..even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Don't drown baby in the bathwater before you shower; or whatever the phrase is.
So they ended slavery, right?
Not going to well right now, is it?
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big, bold, inclusivefailed experimentHe had complete control of Congress for 2 years, and could have given us universal healthcare. Instead, he gave us the ACA and only made the existing system that much more complicated.
if republicans want 50 bucks they ask for 100 so they can negotiate down to 70 at most.
if obama wants 50 bucks he asks for 20 in hopes it'll make republicans more likely to accept, then lets republicans negotiate it down to 5.
Right it's all his fault and not anybody else's, especially not Republicans
The right actively worked against him from day 1. The death of Senator Ted Kennedy and Independent Senator Lieberman really hampered his efforts for a single payer option.
I don't remember the exact details, but the dems only had effective control of congress for something like 10 days, due to technicalities.
Angles, I think?
No. Better angels is correct. A fairly common expression.
It's a reference to Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address:
"I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
Barack, Barack. That might be what you wish it was about. Reality paints a different picture.
I love it when western leaders preach about democracy while raining down fire on people across the world.
They aren't mutually exclusive. Democracy just means that (in theory/principle) everyone gets a say in whose wedding on the other side of the world gets bombed.
Democracy isn't inherently peaceful. No governing system is.
Wait, aren't those mutually exclusive? You can have a democracy at home and still do all those things abroad.
You don't have democracy at home.
Even the most perfect Democracy will only ever represent the wishes of the voters in that country and never those of people who don't have a right to vote there.
Democracy is only less war prone than dictatorships for those situations were there would be large losses, because lots of soldiers coming back home in cofins doesn't go down well with voters.
For situations were there is a huge power imbalance Democracies can be just as war-mongering as the rest, which is why you see lots of military interventions of the US against small countries or countries with ill-trained armies and equipment two generations behind or even, as very heavilly done by the very gentleman quoted in this meme, remote bombing of people in other countries who have no chance whatsoever to retaliate: Obama had no problem whatsoever with remote murdering of people in far away lands because there was no significant path for that to harm him politically (and there wouldn't be even if the US was a proper Democracy rather than the Theatre of Democracy it actually is).
The hypocrisy is how some leaders (most noteable Americans, but far from just them) pass Democracy as good for people in other countries - sure, them having their own Democracy there will probably be good for them, but you having a Democracy makes no difference to them as they don't have a vote in your Democracy.
Imagine being such a fucking bootlicker, and probably financially privileged enough, that as a Black man, you consider America now, but also historically, "inclusive" in any way shape or form.
Never mind having had the job to know that American democracy is a lie (but I guess lying to yourself about it to make you feel better).
Makes me almost think it's a fake, but then neoliberalism is a hell of a drug..
Have you been to other countries? The USA isnt great.. but someplaces its literally gulag to be a minority, person of colour, or LGBTQ+
Have you been to other countries? The USA isnt great.. but someplaces its literally gulag to be a minority, person of colour
Have you been to any other countries?
Because the only place I know of which is putting its people of colour in open-air prisons is Israel, which has the full support of the USA.
You don't think the US is inclusive? What does that word mean to you?
Not trying to argue or anything. It's just a bit surprising to me. I work in the US and the company I work at takes great steps to be inclusive. I legit have to
alwaysapplaud their efforts (as a brown dude that supports gay/trans folks). I honestly can't imagine there's many cities on earth where that happensEdit:typo
Lmmfao..
The USA was founded on genocide and built on slavery, and has never treated either of the groups they owe their exitance to with anything but disdain and abuse, never mind other groups like LGBTQIA+, disabled people, those who aren't white or Christian, women, and so on and so on...
Members of all of those groups are not only generally paid less, criminalised more, given less access to services and opportunities, but are openly abused by both establishment and society.
But for you to specifically use trans people as an example, in this climate, where they have been the direct target of bigoted and violent abuse really is infuriating, and I have a feeling you're more of a self designated "ally" than an actual one, since you're clearly not even aware of what trans people are having to deal with.
The fact that you find the idea of American not being inclusive surprising only proves your wilful ignorance, not the presence of any real inclusion in the USA.
You're right, Obama. I'll load my AR and start teaching some chemistry. But, rest assured, I'll never match your kill count.
