Musical stars and retired politicians from less polarised era seeming antidote to cage fights on White House lawn

Musical stars and retired politicians from less polarised era seeming antidote to cage fights on White House lawn

The Barack Obama presidential center opened in Chicago on Thursday after more than a decade in the making amid a musical fanfare and paeans to democratic principles that evoked a previous age, all while delivering an implied rebuke to Donald Trump.

Featuring appearances by a cast of musical stars and retired politicians from a less polarised era, it was a seemingly perfect antidote to the crass spectacle of cage fights on the White House lawn.

Without naming the current White House occupant, Barack and Michelle Obama launched full-frontal attacks on Trump’s authoritarian approach, depicting them as an affront to American values.

  • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml
    314·
    7 days ago

    I can read so much better than you, it should make you embarrassed.

    I’m going to ask you to show me a graph of drone strikes under Bush and Obama and then you aren’t going to reply.

    It was nice chatting with you.

    • BassTurd@lemmy.world
      84·
      7 days ago

      I’ll reply, and instead ask you what Obama’s acts as president have to do with the name of this building and you’ll reply with more shit about how Obama being a monster. It’s his foundation, it’s his name. That’s why.

      I did this same shit with another moron last week, I know how it goes. Blocking and moving on, I just everyone else do the same.

      • doben@lemmy.ml
        53·
        6 days ago

        Obama is a war criminal, he should be trialed before an international court and consequently jailed, not having libraries bear his name. It seems hard to compute for Americans especially, but really, it‘s not that complicated.

        • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
          24·
          6 days ago

          I mean the vast majority of American leaders are war criminals. Its easy to compute; rules for thee, not for me. That being said practically every western country operates under that mantra

          • doben@lemmy.ml
            1·
            6 days ago

            That being said practically every western country operates under that mantra

            You are right, but there‘s no viable path to shift responsibility away from the US.

            Because every western country acts through capitalist forces and under US hegemony, which will enforce capitalist rule or try to kill you off. Which western country do you think plays a sovereign role here?

            • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
              22·
              6 days ago

              Please. You armchair warriors all say the same shit like your so sanctimonious. It’s not going to accomplish anything. You live in the same world we all live in. But go on, make it seem like me, some random guy in the comments of a lemmy thread, had any agency in what the president did before I could even vote.

              I bet we could go back and forth asking each other what we consider to be war crimes and we wouldn’t agree on half of it. I get the feeling that you’re not interested in actually having a discussion about war crimes, more so you’re just interested on shitting on anybody but the current president. So fuck off with your 2 week old Smurf account.

              I’m gonna go have fun with my family now. You keep raging at the machine.

              • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml
                23·
                6 days ago

                There’s that apathetic American spirit! You go enjoy your family time while your country actively destabilize the world and murders countless innocents!