Obama ran on closing Guantanamo and black sites but closed very few and maintained Guantanamo and its torture program. He expanded the war on terror resolutions, including allowing extrajudicial executions of US citizens in his expansion of the drone program. The expansion of deportations is not a right-wing meme, it is true. Obama has been the deporter-in-chief, with only Trumps second term probably finally topping Obama’s record there. NSA surveillance expanded under Obama, he was an expansion not just “Didn’t completely end everything and bring it to 0”. Sure, maybe Romney or McCain might have expanded it even more, but that is the only justification for Democrats, that they didn’t maximize the evil as much as possible, so should have uncritical support for that reason.

All the analogies of people to lobsters was projection.

https://www.amazon.com/Apprentices-Sorcerer-Tradition-Critical-Sciences/dp/1608462021

It isn’t that they didn’t “Completely remove law enforcement” or whatever. But that even when they run on these expansions of state violence and repression being bad, they immediately walk that back, make it bipartisan and even expand this very authoritarian repression apparatuses, like Obama running on opposition of Bush era anti-terrorism and opposition to ICE, but then expanding and empowering both once in power.

Liberals are more ideological aligned with Trump than leftists. Both Biden and Harris’ campaigns were supporting genocide and making Trump term 1 bipartisan (“Actually, we fill out the paperwork and are more competent. So if you hate immigrants, you should vote Democrat because we will build the Wall faster and have ICE working more efficiently”). The centrists equivocation of the Left and fascists is just the equivalent of saying “Both the left and the right got mad at me shitting my pants in the middle of the room. So they must both be the same!”

https://www.inkitt.com/stories/463590

Red Son was just a confession!

They should have been Rage For The Machine!

The Democrats actively contribute to non-voting by being the only space for opposition, but then always campaigning on being “polite Republicans that fill out paperwork”

Harris/Biden ran on opposing all of these. The Dems can’t simultaneously fight against Bernie and progressives and then pretend at some point they were fore them because Bernie was in a Dem primary at one point and forced Dem candidates to find deceptive ways to deflect and lie like Harris saying “access to healthcare for all”

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Grok is still woke!!!

I don’t have a list of specific instances on hand. But he was kind of a contrarian voice for a while that I listened to over a decade ago, but in 2016 went in the more anti-woke (anti-CRT in terms of the time) and very reactionary culture war turn.

You losers are still using mechanical tweezers? I upgraded to optical tweezers long ago.

“Despite claims to the contrary”, to grossly simplify Wittgenstein, a word’s meaning is how it is actually used.

And critically, not just since Trump. As soon as the ink dried on the Nazi surrender, the US and OSS/CIA armed and funded every fascist they could find since fascists are the most dedicated anti-communists.

Again, despite claims to the contrary, tankie for most people means “anything left of the Democrats, or willingness to break with US foreign policy.”

If I were criticizing various nations more than the U.S., I wouldn’t shame people for “authoritarian bootlicking”. Glass houses and all that.

Free market religious fundamentalists.

sounds like you are stupid enough.

An accurate rejoinder would be “In my brain, I am not stupid enough to believe that the market is an omniscient omnipotent God that makes everything perfect in all places and all times, in the absence of public input. I am not stupid enough to think that individuals and corporations are perfect benevolent actors that can do no wrong, because doing wrong always means making less profits and doing good always means more profits” FTFY