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Barack Obama joins Bluesky (techcrunch.com)
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[-] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 23 points 4 days ago

Boomer here. I was part of the “take it to the streets” movement in the 60s. (And don’t let anyone tell you that protesting doesn’t work). We organized without social media, we were fearless, and we were focused. We NEVER expected anyone to use their influence to help. Don’t throw your anger onto others for what you are not willing to do. Something else we had going for us…musicians. We had musicians that wrote the most amazing anti-establishment songs. They were like a call to arms. Where are the poets and musicians?

[-] illeagle@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

Jesse Welles is worth looking into. I have a feeling you will enjoy them.

[-] JailElonMusk@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago

As the child of boomers, I couldn't agree more. This is something I've been struggling to find as well.

For those that need some musical/cultural inspiration as I did:

  1. My favorite Hip-hop song to protest to: https://youtu.be/y9oUnC8JtXY
  2. My favorite Dance song to protest to: https://youtu.be/PuWVgVkMiHE
  3. Best Comedian to make you laugh about MAGAts (emphasis on the low T): Cliff Cash https://youtu.be/PPkqBK_Tox0

Best overall peaceful protest vibes:

Rage Against the Machines station on Spotify.

This is what inspires me, if you have anything that inspires you please share! Let's give each other hope to change the world.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 4 days ago

Musicians be counting dollar bills

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Well, some of them at least. Everyone else runs their shows at a loss.

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[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 91 points 5 days ago

Who gives a fuck. Do something with your influence instead of letting Trump fuck people over.

[-] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 31 points 4 days ago

Yeah the silence and not seeing ex living Presidents including Bush speak out on Trumps actions is bizarre to say the least.

People with the most capacity of reach dont use it.

[-] Tire@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago

Because it’s a game to them all. It’s rich vs poor and Trump’s bad decisions don’t hurt the rich so there’s zero urgency from people like Obama. They’ll still go on their private jet vacation next week regardless.

[-] rational_lib@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This is the first part of that. The top news media in cable tv, podcasting, and social media are all run as maga propaganda and I think that's a massively underrated reason for Trump's winning. The easiest of these to take down is social media, but it requires all the other news-related celebrities to go somewhere else.

[-] irish_link@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago

Dude, fuck off. This is an article about Obama, not Obama saying "hey look at me i joined it." In fact the first items were advocating for the ACA showing how it helped people. Trying to push people to stand up together for the common good.

Do you mean somthing like that when you say "Do something with your influence?"

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[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago

Who knows, maybe the system has declined too far beyond saving. Maybe we're already in Russia-stage of "democracy" where dissent gets them out of a window? We already have a former US Attorney dead. 🤷‍♂️

[-] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 days ago

like what

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago

Rally people to take concrete action for one. Go with AOC and Sanders on their tour.

Challenge all the bullshit executives orders in front of a judge, or give visibility to any group doing such a thing.

Call out old fucks like Schumer.

Any small effort to mobilise people to do something about what's going on.

His notoriety will give a lot of weight to what he supports or call out.

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[-] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Not that it matters but I just deleted my Blyesky account.

[-] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 30 points 5 days ago

Ditch X, dump Tesla, and maybe one day... drop Starlink? (Just saying I'm not hearing this boycott)

[-] qisope@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

probably because for most individual consumers it's a choice of last resort. if they had access to usable DSL/cable they'd choose that instead (cheaper, simpler), but have had to turn to starlink to get online where they live.

[-] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 12 points 5 days ago

id be pretty sure that the broadband expansion to rural areas projects in the biden administration was working on will grind to a halt if they havent already.

how maga people watch musk and dismantle public services and give billions of dollars in subsidies to musk's businesses and still think they're fighting for them is just otherworldly levels of cognitive dissonance management

[-] Loduz_247@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

Is it real or a fake account?

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Now we can yell at one of america's most mediocre presidents, actors, and movie producers.

Edit: as somebody pointed out he's not a director, he's a movie producer and actor per IMDB

[-] teejay@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Bot says what?

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Did I stutter? Obama squandered a huge mandate. I'm not saying he's a bad president like trump or bush, just a mediocre one, who could have done more but never rose to the moment. He also won the dem primary by poisoning the well against clinton which was a component of her 2016 loss.

And look at fucking Carter, spent his post presidency helping people.

Obama spent his whole post president career jacking off and chumming up with a bunch of tv celebrities. He's a mediocre president whose smug charisma presaged trumps smug charisma. Why live in denial?

[-] elatedCatfish@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

Say what you want, but that dude fixed up a lot of America after the recession. So many cities and towns were fixed up and modernized due to his stimulus bills. And Obamacare is great - my wife would quite literally have died without it. Legalized gay marriage too and made the order that killed Osama bin Laden.

He’s pretty dope in my book.

Also, screw the Clinton’s and their Epstein-buddy asses.

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[-] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

I wonder why you're getting down voted. Obama led us directly to trump.

[-] afronaut@slrpnk.net 34 points 5 days ago

It’s one thing to claim racist bigots voted for Trump as a retaliation to the Obama administration. It’s another thing to claim it’s Obama’s fault that we got Trump.

[-] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

I don't think that's the argument being made. I can't speak for OP but, Obama was objectively a mediocre president.

He was a wall street loving centrist democratic politician.

He campaigned on change and then he bailed out the big banks when the shit hit the fan. Sure, he had some redeeming policies. (ACA and such)

However, this does not detract from the fact that he created no tangible change to the status quo. His shortcomings led directly to the rise of the same rightwing populism that's decimating government institutions today.

[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

In his very short time of having a power over the Congress he achieved something that nobody thought possible. Against the wishes and the will of majority of Americans he gave tens of millions of them an access to health care, an access that they weren't able to get before, and will not be able to get after his legacy will be dismantled in a couple if months. It took all of his momentum, all the political power to do.
For some reason you think that America is capable of some change to the better, but you people are so deep in the conservative mindset, it takes the best momentum of the century to achieve a singular good thing.
And don't blame it on Obama or Democratic party, like you love doing so much, you are in control of your country's trajectory (well, until Trump will go full Putin on your ass). And you collectively chose whatever it is around you right now.

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Its the same american goldfish memory that lead us to trump 2.0. People forget how inneffective Obama was at fighting right wing narratives and how inneffective he was at pushing for the policies he campaigned on.

Over time people's memories of Obama have been more nostalgia for the times rather than an honest assessment of his actions. People forget that if he had given half the effort to shutting down guantamano bay that trump has to destroying the department of education we'd be looking at a very different calculus of executive power.

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[-] GreyAlien@lemm.ee 14 points 5 days ago

ok

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Oh boy half the comments in here I can't see because I blocked people. Hee hee!

Well, whatever you're saying, I'm glad I can't see it.

Thanks Obama!

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