“The people are starving!”
“Then let them eat stories”Let them eat dreams (from my father)
As infuriating as the conclusion is, I think the premise is actually worse somehow
making goals materialistic and instrumental
When the hell did they do that?! All I can remember was:
“Brat summer, genocide, and lie”even that was too much. obama is asking for buttigieg levels of not saying anything here.
I voted for Obama because I thought he was gonna use the power of the state to help striking workers at the Congress Hotel in Chicago and was gonna do other things to make it easier to organize unions.
He didn’t do shit.
Yep. I remember Scott Walker destroyed collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin and Obama did not uphold this promise. It was a very illuminating moment for me as a teenager. I marched in Madison in solidarity with the unions because my parents were both teachers, and Obama (the first president I ever cast a vote for) didn’t do jack shit.
I was living in NYC in 2008, and I remember that when it was announced that they’d officially called the election for Obama, there was an audible cheer across the city. People were literally out dancing and partying in the streets. We really believed he was gonna do some shit other than just drone strike more poor people. Free healthcare, closing Guantanamo, and end to Iraq and Afghanistan wars–he pretty much promised the would and lots and lots of people believed him. It was pretty fucking wild in retrospect.
Yeah, I remember riding my bike around Chicago that evening and people were celebrating all over the place. I don’t wanna hear his voice ever again, so I’m definitely not gonna go back and listen to his campaign speeches to remember what he actually said, but he had a lot of us (myself included) thinking we finally had an ally at the top. Absolutely demoralizing.
Eh Biden and Kamala did lean into the cost of living stuff, and there was the whole “If you vote for us we’ll pay you $600” shit too. A far cry from what Obama is really referring to, which is his 2008-2012 campaigns that were the pinnacle of the immaterial, vibes-based neoliberalism that propelled him through 2 presidencies without much bother.
Though he’ll forget to mention the difficulty in legislating with a contested senate/house given how quickly his vibes fell apart at midterm elections, and how the failures ever since have been from fighting the legacy of his nothing-burger politics.
“Stop demanding the $2000 I owe you! That was aspirational!”As if $2k would even make a dent in everything costing twice as much
The $1600 stuff was OK, but it was a one-time response to a crisis, it was identical to what Trump had already done and there was no discussion about some systemic change.
There was a brief moment in the beginning of the campaign where she promised to crack down on compagnies that are price gouging, but that idea abandoned later https://apnews.com/article/kamala-harris-price-gouging-ban-inflation-65dc8844bb41159d76886f752b6cab28
she did the same lightning flip-flop on healthcare. the only thing she’s steadfast on is the need to murder children for the zionists
Hey now, that’s not fair! She also showed uncritical support for a rapist and child-killer.
“Democrats made the mistake of making measurable promises they weren’t going to even try to deliver on. We need to make vague platitudes so no one can hold us to account.”
He’s not wrong though
Liberal love for him is largely predicated on the ‘vibes’ he brought for wont of a better term
Truke
Every time that Obama complains about the current state of things, the only thing I can think of is:
That’s not a bit account. What the fuck?
Obama is, unfortunately, indeed not a bit account, but 100% like that.
let them eat vibes
I’m not starved for moral and ethics asshole I’m starved for food that isn’t moldy, full of metallic objects, full of poisons, and is something I can afford to feed a family of three on one persons paycheck.
idgaf about moral and ethics. I give a fuck about my material conditions.
Sorry pal best I can do is restoring the soul of america.
A shining city on a hill, where diesel is $11/gallon and the agrimonopoly passes the costs on to you, the food enjoyer!
food enjoyer
to be fair it’s kinda hard to enjoy food that either gives you lethal diarrhea, heart attacks or zombie deer disease
Nobody said the hill wouldn’t be a landfill
They paved over Staten Island and made it a *checks notes* Cuomomintang fortress
“healthcare pls”
I’m going to tell my boss this at my next review and see how it goes. Sorry boss I actually think you yearn for the story about how I fit into the team rather than my measurable KPIs!
Honestly, that’s how my annual reviews feel. The only time I’ve ever used an LLM was to generate my self review because it’s pointless.
I hate this fucking guy so much!
I just made a post about how he personally got involved to defang BLM by talking the NBA players out of a strike!
Fuck this fucking guy! Forever! I’m so sick of this assshole acting like he’s above this mess. Smug motherfucker acting like his hands aren’t red to the elbows.
and personally called all the candidates to get them to drop out at once and combine their powers to support Biden in the Liberal Voltron event to fuck over Bernie
Dude’s presidential library is a brutalist obelisk overshadowing low income housing.
It tells a story.Darth Vader’s Mustafar castle ass library
Kate Wagner (of Mcmansion Hell) called it the tombstone for neoliberalism (or something close to that) and then realized that it’s almost within sight of the University of Chicago, where neoliberalism was born.
It really does tell a story
Does he think we’re stupid?
Yes.
Are these guys actually high off their own supply or are they just BSing cuz they know the empire is failing but they can blame it all on Trump.
All I can say definitively is the Democrats don’t want to win elections.
What the customer needs is a story about how it’s ethical for me to sit in my car smoking weed all day instead of working
no i think we need money
