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Why was there such little civil disobedience against Obama?
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Date: July 27th, 2025 11:59 AM Author: contagious stain Think about how bad things were during Obama. TBF's Gawker poast made me think back to those times. Why weren't people revolting against Obama and trying to overthrow him? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49134559) |
Date: July 27th, 2025 12:00 PM Author: Bateful plum telephone Kill all lawyers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49134562) |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 12:07 PM Author: Khaki geriatric partner principal's office The Obama era and Obama himself were “fine.” Things were going well enough in the post-GFC period given that anti-corporate sentiment was simmering. Obama presented well and the media covered for him on his problems (Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, etc.).
Normies weren’t really able to perceive the changes that were going on beneath the surface and how it was all going to accelerate after this era. The extreme left and center left have hair triggers on mostly ineffective weapons, but the extreme right and center right are more corked up until they explode, also pretty ineffectually. |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 10:11 AM Author: maroon irradiated roommate sound barrier Cr. OP candy ride is a zoomer and legitmately stupid.
obama was an anti-corporate reaction to the bush era. it's funny that hilary was considered a shoe-in both 2008 and 2016 and both times got fucked by anti-establishment sentiment.
obama's covert establishmentness wasnt apparent to most until after he left office. leftists like taibbi and greenwald were exiled for questioning him. everyone was high on HOPE AMD CHANGE. this included most poasters here, and in 2008 that was mostly highly intelligent law students/aspirants. people best situated to know better. people had more trust in politicans, government, and media then.
it's only with hindsight bias that people openly wonder WHY like candy ride itt. but up until 2015ish with the MAGA revolutuon most people were still waiting for hope and change. that's precisely why a trump presidency became possible: disillusionment to the point electing a true buckwild radical. in 2008 people were reasonable and electing a dindu named barack hussein obama was an unfathomably radical act. |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 10:19 AM Author: contagious stain I fell for Obama too, but I am asking why everyone did. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49137038) |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 10:25 AM Author: maroon irradiated roommate sound barrier if you fell for him wouldn't you know why being that you personally experienced it?
why didn't *YOU* engage in civl disobedience. whatever the answer is to that, it's the same for many others. there's your answer. |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 10:41 AM Author: contagious stain I was a young idiot. Why didn't older smarter people see what was going on? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49137113) |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 10:48 AM Author: maroon irradiated roommate sound barrier because he did some things and talked a big game. how many people are going into the CFR and analyzing regs first hand? how many are reading laws passed by congress?
most people, especially then, consume secondary sources. and the media was very favorable to obama. i pointed out how libs who criticized him were ousted. this includes rogan and many associated with the right today.
things happen slowly. why didnt many people criticize trump for not building a wall during his first term? why aren't thebcriticizing him now? people waited for lbama to make good on his promises as it would be unreasonable for him to accomplish them immediately, and it wasn't until the end that many were realized they'd never come. that's what led to a trump reaction. |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 10:50 AM Author: hateful glittery ticket booth police squad I was young too and saw right through it enough to vote for fucking john mccain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49137142) |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 10:54 AM Author: maroon irradiated roommate sound barrier i voted for mccain and romney because i believed obama was a radical, i.e. i bought the lie, and i believed in cuckservatives.
in hindsight i don't think there was a meaningful difference between any of them. |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 1:45 PM Author: Amethyst Church Roast Beef lmao they weren't he introduced some noxious stuff into the discourse but by and large those years were fine and smooth with many achievements made by the state foreign policy during those years was excellent, the recovery from ITE was swifter than expected, and outside of "LESS RACISM" the discourse was as free as its ever been up until COVID opened it up even more on the fringes he was a mediocre president in his second term but scapegoating him for this country having Saurian AIDS is absurd |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 1:55 PM Author: lake 180 mexican the "economic recovery" was literally just having the dumbest crop of jews that have ever existed supervise ethnics farting into beanbag chairs along with the mass propagandization of this clownshow as being productive (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49134927) |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 1:58 PM Author: Amethyst Church Roast Beef it was the last time there were heavy reforms and regulations put down on securities exchanges and investment banks this is the real reason the market-men here hate him imo. he was wall street's most wanted during the first term until other domestic issues caught the attention of the state during the second |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 2:01 PM Author: lake 180 mexican 😐 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49134947) |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 2:08 PM Author: Amethyst Church Roast Beef it's literally just increasingly naked scapegoating. and this was fine for years when it was just tongue in cheek, an expression of distaste, and not a real sacrificial hatred. now these compromised idiots are looking for excuses for their own soiling of the white house and i'm not sticking around for it. obama was a mid president carried through his terms through administrative skill, candor, and a still at the time remarkably professional and competent federal level bureaucracy. that's my actual opinion. the state worked well, wasn't particularly restrictive of civil liberties, and the atmosphere throughout most of it was positive and organically growth-enabling. they were fine years. if trump wants to go ahead and jail him i'm not going to lift a finger about it but it'd be just the latest in another vulgar, repressive, and vindictive set of actions taken by an administration that is destroying a decade of collective work by the actual American youth right in mere months. |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 1:57 PM Author: aquamarine water buffalo spot he was a literal nigger who openly hated america and americans
wtf is this post lmao |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 2:01 PM Author: Amethyst Church Roast Beef it wasn't an imperial presidency, the consequences of some degree of this were mainly just BLM stuff years later and some racial tension towards the end of it the professional bureaucracy ran the state and this, while remarkably imperfect, was still preferable to the drunken Yeltsin orgy of looting going on in DC now |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 2:05 PM Author: aquamarine water buffalo spot no, actually, having some goofy white boomer who is 50th percentile competent and loves america as head of state is unequivocally better in every single way than having a literal nigger who hates america and hates white people as head of state
hope this helps |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 2:09 PM Author: Amethyst Church Roast Beef thank you, Senator Likud, R-Tel Aviv. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49134969) |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 3:12 PM Author: contagious stain In hindsight the Obama era was fucking horrible. That's where all the race and gender shit became mainstream. It's like everyone was under a spell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49135167) |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 3:41 PM Author: bistre main people love of her life whites were slow to pick up that the script was flipped wrt color blindness, at that time there was still a strong post-MLK "judge by content of character alone" and social pressure to prove one's lack of prejudice. it took several years of BLM madness to get whites to start questioning the programming, whites were severely punished if they failed to properly navigate the new lgbt racial hierarchy, even today in the tenuous "woke is dead" era whites are generally reluctant to discuss race realism. you have to go rural to find sanity. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49135236) |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 10:22 AM Author: Bateful plum telephone "race realism" will never go mainstream because it's impossible to separate from insufferable spergtards like Sailer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49137050) |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 10:23 AM Author: Amethyst Church Roast Beef Sailer is fine man it's the hasbara giga-racists discrediting sensible and reality-based race policy atm |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 1:27 PM Author: maroon irradiated roommate sound barrier the bigger issue is that people have a hard time accepting race realism and not crafting policy around it. also losers like the mpc crew cling to it because they're desperate to have evidence of their superiority and lack any individual accomplishments.
i think everyone is a race realist even if they won't admit it. before the woke era there was public acknowledgement of it e.g. Avenue Q's "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist." even the most outspoken shitlib wokescolds know to stay out of the ghetto and keep their head on a swivel around a certain crowd.
people just don't talk about it because what's the point? trends can be observed in different groups but that doesn't justify treating individuals definitely based on their membership in those groups. |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 1:21 PM Author: maroon irradiated roommate sound barrier the prospect of tumblr wokeness becoming not only mainstream but compulsory dogma seemed like gamergate hysteria. fortunately libs couldn't help themselves and dialed the insanity up so rapidly it shocked the middle into coherence. if they boiled the frog it may have stuck, but as usual they overplayed their hand. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49137559) |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 9:59 AM Author: Amethyst Church Roast Beef There was no gender talk at the time and the race stuff was pretty sedate All of that stuff came about from teen girls and girls at college having unrestricted access to sites like tumblr which became an echo chamber for intense and variegated forms of novel mental illness (suffering) The tipping point as I recall was sometime around the infamous "All PIV sex is rape" feminist essay-let |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 10:24 AM Author: bossy well-lubricated office mad cow disease Second half of Obama's second term was when all the woke stuff started to hit the mainstream (Trayvon, 'Caitlyn' Jenner etc.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49137057) |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 10:30 AM Author: Amethyst Church Roast Beef the sex change buzz was during libs meltdown of "defiance" on trump 1, wasn't it? that's when the People or VF spread was put to print iirc i remember the trayvon hoax. iirc DNC types used racial tensions to gain partisan support for a flagging DNC roster and this was a main driver of it beyond obama they didn't really have too many mainstream politicians with popular appeal beyond Sanders (politically unacceptable to the neoliberal platform) up until the DSA brought out ocasio-cortez and similar, who were more amenable to DNC control as they didn't have legacy ties i don't blame obama for this and he was remarkably moderate about it. i think it all came from deeper in the party and for particularly sinister aims too. the end-state of the leftist coalition that Obama rode to power would've been something like the UK's "true left" Labour party, and this was unacceptable to the billionaire donor caste |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 1:50 PM Author: bossy well-lubricated office mad cow disease I did civil disobedience during Obama 🙁 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49134912) |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 1:54 PM Author: aquamarine water buffalo spot it was the first time in american history that there was a head of state, or even a prominent political figure, who was openly hostile to american society and americans
most people were in denial and it's hard to blame them. there was no precedent or context to understand it |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 2:01 PM Author: jet-lagged bull headed background story pit Now shitcons hate America and Americans. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49134948) |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 2:11 PM Author: bossy well-lubricated office mad cow disease Americans like you, Pradeep. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49134971) |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 4:28 PM Author: hateful glittery ticket booth police squad you aren’t american (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49135344) |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 4:28 PM Author: jet-lagged bull headed background story pit You're not saying I'm wrong. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49135346) |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 9:56 AM Author: hateful glittery ticket booth police squad you think you're correct but you are wrong and foreign and insane (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49136939) |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 1:58 PM Author: Cracking cruise ship dragon Most of the people who were most pissed off at Obama were too old to do shit about it. They just joined the "tea party" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49134938) |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 1:59 PM Author: jet-lagged bull headed background story pit Conservatives secretly love him (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49134941) |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 2:11 PM Author: turquoise orchestra pit dingle berry Because he is a good dood, very few scandals, and always wanted to put the people first who needed it the most. It’s hard to hate on that even when you’re racist. As xo knows all too well, his second biggest scandal in 8 years was wearing a tan suit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49134972) |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 4:29 PM Author: hateful glittery ticket booth police squad You are a retarded Jewish pedophile and may as well be a bot that gives the absolute dumbest take on literally every topic no mother what it is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49135348) |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 2:13 PM Author: Pea-brained spruce shrine french chef People get the government they deserve. America had gotten really, really soft and has long been obsessed with racial egalitarianism as a key plank of its religion, and the implicit promise of Obama was to deliver that promise (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49134977) |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 10:12 AM Author: azure patrolman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49137008) |
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Date: July 27th, 2025 3:14 PM Author: excitant boiling water The Tea Party tried but you RINO faggots were too influential back then (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49135169) |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 10:35 AM Author: provocative low-t native pervert The right sucks at organizing protests
The only people protesting Obama formally were on the left |
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Date: July 28th, 2025 11:48 AM Author: comical address They did the shift on occupy wall street and subbed in dei to neuter it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5755168&forum_id=2)#49137303) |