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by brenden2 2202 days ago
I appreciate your passion, but Obama still didn't follow through with his promises, and whatever change he enacted wasn't enough.
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mthoms 2202 days ago
And I admire yours. I also agree with you the revised version of the statement above. :)

Friendly advice: if you want to engage in meaningful dialogue here avoid making absolutist (and lets' be honest, provably false) statements like "Obama did nothing" since you won't be taken seriously.

Have a good day.

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brenden2 2202 days ago
I just checked and my actual words were "basically changed nothing", which to me means "made some changes, but they were inadequate".
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mthoms 2202 days ago
I disagree. Most people will read that as saying the changes he made were inconsequential (in other words the changes "basically amounted to nothing").

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/amount+to+nothing

If you meant inadequate (weren't enough), rather than inconsequential (had little to no effect) you could have said it.

Edit: That's not to mention that you twice doubled down on the idea he "did nothing" in other comments.

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