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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I agree that the ballots should have focused on fixing the inequality and should have fucked the billionaires who caused these problems.

    Ukraine was trickier at that time though. They were still uncertain who was going to run Ukraine. Poroshenko was a bit questionable but at least started to defend Ukraine, but had serious problems with corruption too if I recall. Zelenskyy wasn’t in power yet and propping up the wrong guy was risky.

    The problem is that the Obama team never seemed to think Trump had a chance and figured Clinton would be able to work on all the problems it was in the middle of. That was the biggest mistake of his presidency IMO. that and allowing McConnell to steal the Supreme Court







  • We used to get even worse propaganda in the 80s.

    One house would give out creationist pamphlets with comics about evolved monkeys and Christian bullshit.

    The problem was they were in the same area as one of the full sized candy bar houses, and we could never remember which was which, so they got us multiple years.








  • I also thought the Obama bailouts were largely if not completely repaid with interest, albeit with interest rates that were close to zero at the time.

    Also Dodd-Frank was a good law and gave us the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Which until Trump and Doge killed it, was actually putting a small dent in financial crimes and credit card predators.