Obama Says Use Of Military On Domestic Soil ‘Puts The Liberties Of All Americans At Risk’
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/obama-warns-militarisation-under-trump-puts-the-liberties-of-all-americans-at-risk_uk_68b139cce4b0d635adb4de9b
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danekrae@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 359d
Yeah, but I'm sure americans won't just bend over and take it. Again and again and again...
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 357d
2A Folks: Harder daddy
Rooskie91@discuss.online · 17 pts · 359d
It seems the use of military on foreign soil has already had that effect.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 359d
These people are just incapable of taking any kind of actual hard stance and speaking the truth, aren't they?
This is a fascist takeover, and zero democrat establishment types have called it what it is.
pyre@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 359d
don't be silly Barack, they'll be greeted as liberators. isn't that what Iraqis did?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 359d
Do you think Obama started the Iraq war, or...?
pyre@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 359d
no? but he did continue those wars and even escalate. he's the drone guy. the drone strikes on weddings guy. ask me how much i give a shit if he started it. my point wasn't that he started it, it's that it's funny how the US army presence all of a sudden seems bad when it's US soil when people like him were all too happy using that army on civilians of other countries.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 359d
10X the drone strikes of Bush.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 359d
Did Obama say that the Iraqis would "greet us as liberators" like your previous comment references? It's amazing how often I see people blaming Obama for shit that Bush did.
pyre@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 359d
i didn't say he said it. wasn't my point though. he was only a part of the same machine. this is about US foreign policy, not what barack personally did or didn't do.
btw it wasn't bush either. I'd get my facts straight if I were trying to "correct" me.
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 359d
I mean... That's the point of a military. To deploy to foreign lands or repel a foreign invasion.
BussyGyatt@feddit.org · 7 pts · 359d
you dear sweet naive fucking summer child, no. you're gonna learn what we were using the military for. i wonder if you will be so flippant about its purpose then.
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 358d
I never said you couldn't disagree on its usage. That is the express purpose though. FOREIGN enemies.
Try reading next time. Believe me, Im very much against the mic, etc.
turtlesareneat@discuss.online · 10 pts · 359d
No shit Obama, but please feel free to stay on your lifetime vacation or whatever the fuck you're doing.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 358d
Obama signed the 2012 NDAA which created the power troops wield as they are mobilized on US soil. It expanded the concept of the "battlefield" on the "war on terror" to include US soil, and empowered indefinite detention without charge or trial, and without the possibility for review, of anyone an offical could claim was a "terrorist". Including US citizens. All some pig has to say is that they suspect you of terrorism, and they can imprison you for life without trial and with no recourse for you. Which is clearly unconstitutional.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obamas-most-fateful-decis_b_1143005
If he didnt like it he should have vetoed it. He signed it instead. I hope he's proud of his legacy on that one.
HailSeitan@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 359d
That’s right! They should only violate Americans rights when they’re overseas, right B?
srecko@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 359d
I thought Obama was a mythical creature that appears every four years to ruin the election.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 359d
Something something strike something something overtake.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 358d
Fuck you Obama. Fuck you.
You did so fucking little. You were a symbol, and you chose, and are continuing to choose, to be a useless, arrogant, generic politician.
Fuck this shit. Wake the fuck up, America. You all want Newsom in 2028? Have you lost your damn mind?! Shake the dust. Shake. The. Fucking. Dust.
hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 358d
What do you suggest he do about it? Hasn't he been retired from public office for over a decade?
QueenFern@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 359d
Barack Obama is a bitch
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 359d
The guy who ordered 563 drone strikes, 10X his predecessor.
vga@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 359d
Yeah, much better when they're on foreign soil.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 359d
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · -6 pts · 359d
Wasnt it Obama that changed the laws to enable this?
Z4XC@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 359d
Citation needed
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 359d
Guess i fell for some fear mongering article a while back. While it was about the national guard, it was not about this sort of use and instead about industrial stuff.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13603
kreskin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 358d
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obamas-most-fateful-decis_b_1143005
Smeagol666@crazypeople.online · -13 pts · 359d
Like how he persecuted/prosecuted Assange? Fuck that asshole. Promised Med for All? Lying piece of shit.
Greyghoster@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 359d
To be fair, he didn’t actually prosecute Assange and he extended medical benefits to a lot of people who didn’t have it before. When you look at the mess that is US legislature, I’m surprised that he achieved any medical reforms.
Krono@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 359d
Obama was handed a Democratic supermajority, but the dems dropped the idea of a public option right away.
The Dems couldn't hurt their real constituents: the insurance companies. Obamacare was a huge boon to the health insurance industry and their shareholders.
I remember the details quite vividly, as the medical bankruptcy that destroyed my life was started pre-ACA, but finalized post-ACA.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 359d
Eh.... To be fair, he did have a period early on when Dems had a supermajority, and he did nothing with it.