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These memes are stupid.
These same things have been happening for two decades: The Patriot Act, extraordinary rendition (ie, kidnappings), foreign black sites (Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, etc), torture, and genocide against civilians. Obama even invented the term 'enemy combatant' so his military wouldn't have to record how many civilians their drones were killing. Hell, Tom Homan was an Obama appointee.
AND YOU ALL VOTED FOR IT.
AS DID I.
We could have stopped this in its tracks, but we rewarded it, and now it's normal.
Oh, shut the hell up. You damn well that kidnapping college students off the streets to send them to prison labor camps is SEVERAL STEPS beyond anything that happened in the past.
For real, fuck off. Do something productive. Be better.
And also, be less of a pathetic liar. Obama did not invent the phrase "enemy combatant". I was there when GWB used it every damn day.
This happened regularly, and was reported on, during the War on Terror. Teens and the elderly were likewise kidnapped.
The difference is there wasn't a camera on every corner.
Do some introspection here, and maybe, I dunno, read a history book.
You won't fool anyone with your revisionist history lesson. You're just sad and pathetic.