this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2025
110 points (92.3% liked)
Not The Onion
17667 readers
803 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Sounds like an easy way to make their entire program irrelevant forever.
Pretty sure giving it to Kissinger did that long ago.
Also Obama
Yeah, being an adult is recognizing that Obama was a great President, but he did not deserve that Peace Prize.
He was a standard neoliberal whose greatest virtue was nearly qualifying for Just Liberal
Genuinely surprised seeing the Obama love here.
I guess the past decade has really made people forget the actually bad things he did.
He succeeded in what he set out to do: give a nice face to American imperialism.
And I admit, Obama had charisma and was a proper statesman, in stark contrast to what came before and after. But most policies, with single exceptions like Medicaid, were standard neoliberal bullshit. And he didn't stop the machine from going to where it is now, which is his biggest failure in my opinion.
So you're blaming Obama for Trump? Seems a bit simplistic.
The Democrat party's insistence on neoliberalism and active fighting against actual progressivism paved the way for the current state of the country. They are just as much to blame for it as the republican party.
Blaming only? No. Having part of the blame? Yes.
Obama didn't really change the direction the USA moved because he didn't really help poor people and challenged the power of companies and billionaires. This helped put more unsatisfied people in trumps camp.