The people yearn for platitudes
(midwest.social)
corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
ChapotraphouseI hate this fucking guy so much!
I just made a post about how he personally got involved to defang BLM by talking the NBA players out of a strike!
Fuck this fucking guy! Forever! I’m so sick of this assshole acting like he’s above this mess. Smug motherfucker acting like his hands aren’t red to the elbows.
Dude's presidential library is a brutalist obelisk overshadowing low income housing.
It tells a story.
Does he think we're stupid?
Yes.
Yea, the American people care a lot about morals and ethics. I'm sure. Just don't talk to any of them.
Every time that Obama complains about the current state of things, the only thing I can think of is:
"healthcare pls"
As infuriating as the conclusion is, I think the premise is actually worse somehow
making goals materialistic and instrumental
When the hell did they do that?! All I can remember was: "Brat summer, genocide, and lie"
I voted for Obama because I thought he was gonna use the power of the state to help striking workers at the Congress Hotel in Chicago and was gonna do other things to make it easier to organize unions.
He didn't do shit.
Yep. I remember Scott Walker destroyed collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin and Obama did not uphold this promise. It was a very illuminating moment for me as a teenager. I marched in Madison in solidarity with the unions because my parents were both teachers, and Obama (the first president I ever cast a vote for) didn't do jack shit.
Eh Biden and Kamala did lean into the cost of living stuff, and there was the whole "If you vote for us we'll pay you $600" shit too. A far cry from what Obama is really referring to, which is his 2008-2012 campaigns that were the pinnacle of the immaterial, vibes-based neoliberalism that propelled him through 2 presidencies without much bother.
Though he'll forget to mention the difficulty in legislating with a contested senate/house given how quickly his vibes fell apart at midterm elections, and how the failures ever since have been from fighting the legacy of his nothing-burger politics.
"Stop demanding the $2000 I owe you! That was aspirational!"
As if $2k would even make a dent in everything costing twice as much
even that was too much. obama is asking for buttigieg levels of not saying anything here.
There was a brief moment in the beginning of the campaign where she promised to crack down on compagnies that are price gouging, but that idea abandoned later https://apnews.com/article/kamala-harris-price-gouging-ban-inflation-65dc8844bb41159d76886f752b6cab28
she did the same lightning flip-flop on healthcare. the only thing she's steadfast on is the need to murder children for the zionists
Hey now, that's not fair! She also showed uncritical support for a rapist and child-killer.
"The people are starving!"
"Then let them eat stories"
Let them eat dreams (from my father)
let them eat vibes
“Democrats made the mistake of making measurable promises they weren’t going to even try to deliver on. We need to make vague platitudes so no one can hold us to account.”
That's not a bit account. What the fuck?
Obama is, unfortunately, indeed not a bit account, but 100% like that.
Gentlepeople, may I present to you the greatest orator of his generation
He's just circlejerking over how he ran on vibes in 2008 and 2012, even if the reality was that he was a lame duck with how people saw through it immediately and left him as one of the most unpopular modern presidents so far.
That got an outward chuckle from me. Fuck that clown. Get with the fucking program or go back to your podcast cave my guy.
I'm not starved for moral and ethics asshole I'm starved for food that isn't moldy, full of metallic objects, full of poisons, and is something I can afford to feed a family of three on one persons paycheck.
idgaf about moral and ethics. I give a fuck about my material conditions.
Sorry pal best I can do is restoring the soul of america.
A shining city on a hill, where diesel is $11/gallon and the agrimonopoly passes the costs on to you, the food enjoyer!
Nobody said the hill wouldn't be a landfill
They paved over Staten Island and made it a *checks notes* Cuomomintang fortress
food enjoyer
to be fair it's kinda hard to enjoy food that either gives you lethal diarrhea, heart attacks or zombie deer disease
A moral and ethical story, he says? How about we do something materially to stop the genocidal Zionist entity.
not like that
I'm going to tell my boss this at my next review and see how it goes. Sorry boss I actually think you yearn for the story about how I fit into the team rather than my measurable KPIs!
Honestly, that’s how my annual reviews feel. The only time I’ve ever used an LLM was to generate my self review because it’s pointless.
Are these guys actually high off their own supply or are they just BSing cuz they know the empire is failing but they can blame it all on Trump.
All I can say definitively is the Democrats don’t want to win elections.
What the customer needs is a story about how it's ethical for me to sit in my car smoking weed all day instead of working
That's a worse ending than game of thrones
no i think we need money
What the public wants is a good lore dump, something they can really sink their teeth into and get immersed in.
“Don’t you get it? People WANT impotent hypocrites for politicians!”
I got an idea, how about let’s test that on republicans? Placate the hogs in compliments but then do woke stuff behind their backs! No, you won’t do that? Wonder why…
It's frustrating to hear someone influential say something that is exactly wrong, not because they have to say it, but because they want to.
I know we rightfully don’t like Obama here, but he somehow still has a bit of a cult (I feel like he’s talking to those people)
