I see the point of the graphic, but I think everyone in a position of power should be held accountable for soliciting sexual favor from underlings. That goes hundredfold when you are the president of the United States and she’s a twenty year old intern.

I found an infographic a number of years ago that listed the numbers of indictments & convictions by each presidential administration since Nixon. I think over 90% were Republicans.

Clinton bombed a medicine factory based on weak/nonexistent evidence it was making nerve gas.

Obama used drone strikes ten time more than Bush, to the point he felt comfortable making a joke about drone striking the Jonas Brothers.

I'm not trying to "both sides" this. The two sides are not equal. But this type of post, that tries to pretend one side has no scandals, only makes the other side stronger. People see things like this and dig their heels in. They (justifiably) criticize things like this for not being impartial, and dismiss the people posting them as untrustworthy/unreliable.

We shouldn't be playing these games. If you want to take them down, steelman them, and show that even at their best, they're worse.

Yeah, I still hold Obama accountable for the Disposition Matrix, escalating mass surveillance and not confronting the police state even after Ferguson.

But these things all empowered the right to abuse those same institutions even more. Obama presumed they wouldn't be abused more extremely by Republicans, despite what we saw with George W. Bush bending norms.

And then, after Trump's first term, Biden failed to dismantle any of those systems, leaving them in power for Trump 2.0

Fuck every President. If they didn't cause poverty and inequality, they were courteous enough to ignore/allow it. I'm never convinced any act of humanitianism isn't a grab for nearly free advertisement.

so everyone just sucks, then?

Unironically - yes. The slave owners that started this doomed hell aren't special or different because their worldview predates modern fascism, and in some cases, they inspired it.

.ml: YEAH!

Fuck .ml too. I hate fake-communism as much as I hate fake-democracy.

.ml: aw, fuck

Abraham Lincoln didn’t free the slaves Slaves fought for their rights and freed themselves.

Lincoln is the most pro-black president in history and it's not close. His personal prejudice and treatment of Natives are irrelevant to the fact that emaciation being a war goal was his decision and wasn't inevitable. It's easy to see how a lesser president (like Johnson) would've made peace with an intact slaver society.

If you want to argue who the formally enslaved have to thank for their emancipation, I'd argue that the Confederates are the proximate cause. It was the slavers who started the rebellion that forced the issue. It was the slavers fighting for slavery that conjured fatal opposition that didn't exist before.

I don't want to minimize the struggle enslaved people faced. But only a tiny number of enslaved or formally enslaved people even participated in the war. They certainly didn't rise up and overthrow slavery.

GOP answer to everything: "let's bomb people"

Ooh, Ooh, "Potatoe: Democrat"

Hating anyone who has an (R) after their name is nearly as bad as loving anyone who has an (R) after their name. I've never heard Abraham Lincoln called a "sleaze" of all things. You're going to lose most people on that one.

Why Roosevelt? Is this part of the "Roosevelt only did those good things as a tactical move while serving big business" idea?

Is S&L an attempt at spelling SNL?

I will do it simply, Fuck murika, fuck you all to let this dumb shitter be in charge twice!

Fuck all of you