• Crackhappy@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Obama’s human rights record is abysmal. Sure he did a lot of good things too, but not closing Guantanamo, ramping up drone strikes etc negate all of that good. I’ve written him a couple of letters with all of this in detail to which he has yet to respond (no surprise). Instead he’s doing voice over work for shitty documentaries on Netflix.

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        9 days ago

        This may come as a surprise for you but you can be against something or someone without being for something or someone else.

        • Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world
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          8 days ago

          I don’t disagree. But holding both sides of the aisle to a certain standard doesn’t have to be whataboutism, though. It’s possible to look at government’s behavior as a whole without deflecting in the name of your particular side.

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            8 days ago

            In this case though, it’s a community note on xitter, so it’s definitely there as whataboutism

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      8 days ago

      Obama hasn’t been president for nearly a decade.

      And there are a lot of things to criticize him about, but he legitimately tried to close Guantanamo, and was blocked by Republicans (and possibly some Democrats?) over and over.

      • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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        Bernie Sanders voted against Obama’s attempt to “close Guantanamo,” because all he wanted to do was close the specific location while keeping the prisoners and practices going in other locations, possibly on US soil which would’ve provided firmer legal precedent for it.