Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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  • The profit motive was covered by the Pharaoh’s exploitation of the entire nation of Egypt as his personal plantation and palace; each Pharaoh’s Pyramid was the resulting useless passion project wasting all that accumulated profit. Albeit at reduced cost, considering the widespread use of corvee and legal limits on the ability of worker’s to negotiate contracts with the agents of the Pharaoh compared to with non-government notables.















  • The only credible war criminal accusation towards Obama that comes to mind is the practice of ‘double-tapping’ which, at the very least, is something that Obama deserves a trial in the Hague for, even if I wouldn’t necessarily bet on the outcome even with an impartial court.

    Every other major accusation I’ve seen stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of ‘war crime’ as ‘anything that’s bad’.


  • He did do some good things, but he failed the test given to him by history same as Biden by not ending the War on Terror after the death of Bin Laden.

    In what way did you want him to ‘end’ the ‘War on Terror’, itself an immensely nebulous term for a broad range of foreign policy issues regarding non-state actors?

    Perhaps nonintervention against ISIS? Or giving Afghanistan over to the Taliban ten years ahead of time? What form of ‘ending’ the War on Terror are we looking at? What ‘golden opportunity’ did he have?

    Obama was an insufficient solution to America’s post-Bush problems. But the urge to counter the hagiography of some liberals about Obama with a broad-spectrum condemnation of the Obama’s administration’s policies is not really a reasonable response.



  • He’s literally keeping his campaign promises, as anyone with two brain cells to fucking rub together and listened to his verbal diarrhea instead of playing fucking telephone with your favorite internet bubble could tell you. He was always promising Christian nationalism, disgustingly openly, but people still insist otherwise because, I don’t fucking know, because the vast majority of the population is dumb as fucking rocks, I guess, and wants some justification for why supporting or being okay with Trump was Acceptable, Actually, before he started fulfilling all of his promises to murder Muslims and deport innocent people.