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▲ unethical_ban 3 hours ago

I was not always pleased with Obama's behavior, particularly around drone strikes, and I am always skeptical of going after the press, which he did far less than Trump has. I reject that "both sides" have operated on the same scope of malice.

Now,

You hand-wave the methods of ICE by speaking of the desire for immigration enforcement in general. I think uncontrolled, undocumented immigration is a problem, but not the problem, and I don't think sweeping up mostly-law-abiding undocumented residents and placing them into concentration camps, shipping them to foreign prisons for life, or killing them is the proper response. ICE recruits are not well trained, and the leadership was explicitly aggressive and hateful.

You incorrectly call the verified behaviors between the Trump campaign and Russia in 2016 a hoax. Mueller said action should be taken but that it should be handled by Congress, which did nothing. Counterpoints: https://wannabewonk.com/summary-of-hypocrisies/

You wave off the 2020 Congressional attacks and absolve him of any involvement, and ignore his calls to the GA secretary of state asking for more votes, wave off that everyone one his staff told him the election was legitimate while he continued to call it a fraud, wave off that all his claims about fraud have been rejected in court cases around the country.

You conflate my criticism of Trump's attacks on the voting system with a lack of interest in secure, reliable voting systems in general.

You may not be aware the recent pivots to Russia the invader and away from Ukraine the invaded. I'm interested in the extenuating circumstances that would justify taking the side of the authoritarian invader, supplying them with money and reneging on the spirit of bipartisan legislation signed last month to put more sanctions on Russia, while calling for the ouster of the leader of the invaded country.