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Democratic Congressional Primary Candidate gets ratioed after wishing cancer on Barack Obama
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When the number of replies to a tweet is larger than the number of likes. Basically you said something on Twitter people hate.
I see what happened. He tried to do a tactical strike on a major target in America and Obama, while not the guilty party, was just standing a little too close to them
We're just getting started.
It's going to erupt once the primaries end.
I wish people cared half as much about the thousands of innocent brown people obama killed and put half as much effort into making passive aggressive remarks to the people constantly defending him as they do about lame tweets from a soon to be nobody who is never going to win an election. Some people need to reevaluate their priorities.
I can honestly say you have no fucking clue what and Actual war crimal is. So perhaps you should stop throwing around that word.
So like left era is supposed to chill on generalizations but threads can passive-agressively imply that they somehow endorse wishing cancer on people they disagree with?
Tell us how you really feel OP.
(Obviously this is bad. Critique Obama all you want but don't bring cancer or revenge fantasies into politics)
Tell us how you really feel OP.
(Obviously this is bad. Critique Obama all you want but don't bring cancer or revenge fantasies into politics)
And I wish the people that so called cared about Obama killing innocent brown people actually cared about them and not only during times when they can be used as props to attack a popular former Democratic President.
But alas, neither of us get what we want.
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Yet.
DSA really just do be a bunch of Chapo troglodytes with zero sense of what people offline who are not hard left are actually like or how much of the rest of the country is either apathetic to or genuinely opposed to class politics.
I would love for you to expand on how you came to this conclusion.
Fringe parties attract fringe candidates. While the DSA's platform is good, because it's the default 'left of the left' position in America, it draws in far left extremists who don't really have a platform otherwise.
Hopefully Bernie won't endorse this person.
I have seen people write paragraphs of war apologia on this site, to the faces of posters whose families and countries were affected by war waged by America. This is a stance that has to be challenged or else it will be rationalized further.
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Barack Obama ordered these strikes. I believe this falls under the definition of "war crimes", as this targeted civilians directly. And I think that, in a just world, it wouldn't be controversial to point this out.
You are going to have to elaborate with specifics. Which people are you talking about here, who don't care about innocent brown people and only use them as props?
Its also been about insinuating criticisms of Obama here also fall under the same type of attack as the tweet in the OP. And since the majority of criticism against him (especially recently) has been on war crimes and not asking for him to get cancer, it felt worth mentioning.
Back to the original point, Obama re: the ACA, he did support the public option. When the act passed it was meant to be a stopgap solution, which would be improved on under the next Democratic president. Hillary losing in 2016 killed that and put us in our current predicament. You can say that Obama and Harry Reid didn't do enough to whip votes for the public option, and that's a valid criticism, but it is kinda unfair to lay the whole thing on Obama.
Thought: McCain actually got brain cancer and he still wanted to destroy Obamacare until his dying breath, so even if this hypothetical did happen, I don't know that anyone's viewpoint would change anyway.
My bad, I thought you were the first person to bring up drone strikes. I should've quoted Apharmd's post last page.
The district is 5% black. I'm not sure how well shit talking Obama is gonna go over with Latino voters but I can't imagine it'll be that great either.
Wasn't that bad last time.
The UK tho? We had Labour Centrists outright endorse Boris fucking Johnson.
There's more on the line this time around with Trump having already won 4 years. It's also a battle for who will lead the future of the Democratic party from this point.
I can't see either side going quietly, but we'll see.
To undermine the movement? This is the first time I've seen a leftist running for office make a death threat. I follow quite a few leftists on Twitter, and, yes, they levy heavy criticism on Obama his foreign policy and light treatment of the Wall St. executives who were responsible for the '08 financial crisis, but I don't recall any of them making death threats.
To be fair this isn't even a death threat, its a wish for suffering. Maybe not in good taste but not even a threat
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I am surprised his campaign people or the local DSA chapter haven't told him to take the tweet down.
you're never going to get anywhere with democrats by shitting on Obama. The man has 95% approval within the party. Not to say you can't criticize some decisions he made, but you're never going to get anywhere running on a platform of "Obama is a piece of shit war criminal who deserves cancer because the ACA wasn't progressive enough"
Its bad faith distortion thats attempting to blanket shut down anyone who dares be critical of Obama. Theyre using some moron's tweets as a springboard to gaslight an entire movement and group of people rather than confront the criticism the movement or members here have actually said. Its incredibly cowardly and pathetic.
Maybe do some research before shit posting.
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Even then, he mentions that he is a member of the DSA in bio and the tweet has been up for hours.
I can't imagine they are thrilled with it.
This is dumb for a whole host of reasons but first and foremost Obama is who you went after? As a Democratic candidate? how motherfucking stupid are you
Huh, that is a horrible fucking defense.
Only the truly dense would try it.
It's not a defense. It's a description of something someone said.
It was a shitty thing to say. he should take it down and apologize.
Still not a threat
