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GOP Sen. refuses to admit Bush, not Obama, was president during Epstein’s plea deal
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A few weeks ago I had to correct someone on Lemmy who was blaming Obama for the "great recession". The comment even had a bunch of up votes.
Other people proceeded to also argue with me that Obama, who was sworn in on Jan 20th 2009, was responsible for the Great recession that started December 2007.
I honestly don't believe a lot of the anti-DNC content is organic. Like, yeah, we DO have lemmy users who don't like the DNC, in no short supply. But more than that I think their representation and vote power is just botnets by Chinese and Russian trolls/psyops trying to create situations beneficial to their masters.
Generally, people in the USA are tribalistic between the two sides or simply uninformed. To think more than half of a niche but open platform like Lemmy would be against both sides is just improbable.
Lemmy has a much higher than average population of actual socialists, communists, and anarchists. It doesn't blow my mind that they would oppose a neoliberal party that works exclusively for the rich.
There's opposing the neo liberals and then there's blatant fascist propaganda.
Like the fact that Obama used the double tap drone strike, which is unarguably a war crime because it almost always hits first responders.
That's a true and valid criticism.
Making believe that Obama had anything to do with Epstein or that he started Bush's recession is just shifting blame away from the fascist party and helps no one but the fascists.