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[–] logen@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is how I've felt for every president we've had since (and including) Clinton... Which really is only because he's the first president I was old enough in which to be aware. I'm sure further back was just as bad in their own ways.

Things off the top of my head:

Clinton - sex stuff.

Bush - Oh so many things. His bumbling... His weapons of mass destruction stuff...I mean, if they are so bad, why can we have them, but they can't? I digress.

Obama - Authorizing terrorist attacks on Pakistan, also the failed health care reform.

Trump - Well... well... I honestly couldn't much pay attention to what he was on about through the non-stop assalt he had from our media (also life stuff kept me pretty distracted those four years). But he was certainly one to rock the system.

Biden - Wow. The Ukraine/Biden(and family) stuff, the China/Biden(and family) stuff all the stuff happening while he was a VP... His bumbling is even worse than Bush's was.

Yea, we've had a pretty embarrasing run of presidents in my lifetime. I know there are a few things Trump and Obama did in which I approve... But it's few... Oh so few. The rest though... Nope.

Oh, and, I'm not so sure about Clinton's races, I was too young, but all the folks that came in second to all these presidents? Not exactly great alternatives to what we got.

EDIT: Fix Spacing.

 

"Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things." ~The Enchiridion

This is the basis of Stoic ethical philosophy.

This is also an innate feeling many of us realise as children.

Deep High School philosophy right? Well.... We may figure it out then, but for some reason, we forget it.

Are we dismissing it as false? Childhood stupidity? I have no idea, but I've known this since the 8th grade.

Some like to say "it takes two to tango" or some other silly platitude, but the reality is, it only takes one.

I could sit on a couch and be offended. I could be out at a bar and someone calmly insults me in a language I don't understand, and I may be confused, but likely not offended.

Now, if that same person said those insults to someone who understands him, that person may believe that the insulter is also the offender.

But he is wrong, for if he was the offender, I too would necessisarly have been offended.

Therefore, we only offend ourselves.

My reactions are not caused due to your actions. They may encourage me or attempt to incite me, but any offense I may have is my own doing.

[–] logen@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

True, but this was in kandahar, I expect not much as changed....Except perhaps the selection.

[–] logen@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Used to be? As late as 2011 I saw entire businesses dedicated to selling pirated movies.

[–] logen@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I don't know about that. I think Musk as a unique ability to spend money.

 

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[–] logen@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Guess those definitions changed since I last looked. Used to mean anything that's somewhat obsessive. "I have a fetish for collecting paperclips"

Hell, I'd say #3 of cult is what fetish used to mean.

[–] logen@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, people saying right is violently psycho, just pointing out that the left is just as bad.

[–] logen@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

On the low end I haven't seen wages increase, if anything they've fallen, but they may be more to do with the whole of 2020 craziness that resulted in even greater worker shortages amongst the laborers, and the system comming back to equilibrium.

Foreign policy blunders? Pretty sure that's the first thing Biden did. Jump out of Afghanistan so fast we abandoned Europe and trampled some of our own.

Then there's the whole, cripple the European economy thing. I know there's more to it than that, but with the Ukraine thing, America really pressured Europe into crippling itself.

But I digress. I'm not trying to defend trump, nor attack Biden. Just note my casual observinces of my local economy.

[–] logen@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But what if you are an Italian cop?

[–] logen@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago

I feel that the (crazy) leftists would support this.

[–] logen@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago

Well, the standing president isn't exactly the ideal picture of someone who isn't facist...

[–] logen@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Most people I meet seem reasonable until they get behind a keyboard... Or a wheel.

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