• flying_gel@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Not to defend them too much and I have to admit that I don’t know much about the details which bills were priorities during the 4 months that Obama has house, senate and Presidency.

    What I did read a while back was that Obama didn’t know how long his supermajority would last and some of the things he wanted he wanted done but couldn’t once he lost the house.

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      20 days ago

      I’d say the shining city on the hill should have made restoring the rule of law a higher priority, but that’s just my opinion.

      It seems the GOP can make things plenty worse in a hell of a hurry, but when it comes to righting the wrongs, it’s all too hard. The Democrat inclination toward civility politics and the status quo over basics like protecting the rule of law and the democracy will be the death of us.

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        19 days ago

        It seems the GOP can make things plenty worse in a hell of a hurry, but when it comes to righting the wrongs, it’s all too hard.

        Funny thing that. It’s almost like being destructive is a lot easier than being constructive.

        That’s weird because it’s certainly a lot easier and quicker to build an entire city than it is to raze one…oh wait, no, the opposite of what I just said there is obviously true.

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          19 days ago

          You mean like destroying the GOP’s atrocious policies, right? No? Then you might need to explain yourself, friend.

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            19 days ago

            Yeah, that’s it. Improvement is really just destroying destruction!

            Wow, you really got me there. 😆

            After the village has been burnt down, it’s easy to fix because you just burn the ruins!

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              19 days ago

              You’re using the vaguest possible language and imagining you’re profound, then dismissing the example I gave because it disagrees with your narrative by point to burning villages as though that means anything?

              I gave the more specific example of destroying Republican legislation, and either you’re too dishonest to acknowledge that, or too stupid to understand. Why be like this?

              I’ll be more specific and point to 4 executive orders from Trump that Biden destroyed, and ask you to explain precisely what the fuck you think you’re talking about?

              • Preventing Online Censorship

              • Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence

              • Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes

              • Rebranding United States Foreign Assistance to Advance American Influence’

              Try to refrain from smugly gesturing at vagueries - you look silly enough as is.

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                19 days ago

                I gave the more specific example of destroying Republican legislation, and either you’re too dishonest to acknowledge that, or too stupid to understand. Why be like this?

                Yes I’m too stupid. “Why be like this?” indeed.

                How about instead of a weirdo list of things you’ve randomly assembled, we take the actual subject of this original post into consideration?

                The reason they haven’t re-united the families is largely that there were no records and/or shitty records kept about who was separated from whom, so they don’t know who the children’s parents are.

                Yet another example of how it’s easier to make a situation worse than it is to improve it. It’s much easier to separate families and bus the people in them around the country, and it’s harder to figure out whose 4-year-old some kid is.

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                  18 days ago

                  A list of Trump’s executive orders that Biden rolled back is a weirdo list of random things?

                  That seems like a transparently stupid thing to say - I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt, stand back and let you explain that one.

                  It can’t be that you think that because some things are easy to undo, all things are, and that because my examples don’t fit that narrative, you dismiss them in a fog of cognitive dissonance.

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                    18 days ago

                    You came up with some stupid list of bull crap and want to discuss that instead of the actual topic because you’ve lost the argument.

                    You lost the argument in the general case: it is generally far easier to make something worse than improve upon it.

                    And you lost the argument in the specific case: it is more difficult to reunite children with their parents than separate families, and it is extremely more difficult to do so when you don’t know who to reunite them with.