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In reply to the discussion: (Must get this off chest).... Unless Obama walks his talk on Net Neutrality, he is a Phony [View all]JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)Because in 2009 I had about another three months after the failure of General Motors before my pension ended forever. Fortunately for me, Obama stood up to nearly every republican in the country who wanted union contracts shredded, and bailed the company out with a loan.
Your excessive use of capital letters seems to indicate that we face an even worse fate than my grandchildren losing their WIC card or the health care they now have access to only because of Obama's choice of FCC chairman.
Back in the '80s the Supreme Court ruled that corporations could buy up radio stations wholesale without restrictions. Many predicted that it would be the end of FM radio, and I think that's mostly true. FM radio really does suck now that five companies own almost every station in the country, but is your daily struggle through life really worse now because it, or have you mostly forgotton how dire that desperately pressing issue was?
As I said in my comment, I'm all in for net neutrality, but we have to put things in proper perspective. It's an issue that has sincere merit, but it's not the most important issue we face today as your heated reply seems to indicate. I'd like you to give me one good reason why I should join you in turning our collective backs on one of the most labor friendly presidents of my long life and declare him dead to me.
Take me down that proverbial slippery slope that you've inflated in your head from a slow internet connection to an oligarchy of Comcast Storm Troopers marching through the streets gunning the working class down at will. Explain to me why should I tell Obama that I appreciate his action in saving my pension, his effort to bring gender parity into the workplace, and his work in providing healthcare for millions of uninsured, but he can now go fuck himself forever over net neutrality. I'm sure you can find negative consequenses in an NN defeat, but it's hyperbole at best and really not the end of the world as we know it.
I agree that NN is a battle worth fighting for, but you and others appear to be using it as an excuse to erase the legacy of a president that you probably never liked anyway. Certainly calling him a "phony" over this one issue is more repulsive than uniting for the cause, and no, I'm not joking. Instead of recruiting widespread support, it makes me want to disassociate myself from the mass hysteria you're trying to generate over net neutrality.
Please stop trying to help, you're absolutely doing more harm for the cause than good in your frantic overreaction, and is akin to the republican plight to beat Obama over the head with their cause du jour, from Fast & Furious to Benghazi.
BTW... If you're so lazy that you provide a cut & paste of someone else's rant, or add a truckload of links, I'm not going to waste time reading or exploring them. That'll tell me you obviously aren't that passionate to the cause. Use your own words and keyboard to win me over to your position of total disdain for a man I think is a great president. Sell me on why net neutrality is the end of the world and we have to impeach Barack Obama before it's too late.