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radius777's JournalCharlamagne was right, Manchin thinks he's the President.
As many of us said, the Dem party long ago should've played hardball with Manchin and Sinema. Their voters do in fact as polls show support BBB and the policies therein - it is a total lie that they are 'serving their red states' - no they are serving donors and helping to kill the Biden/Dem agenda and make the RW happy.
The idea that we need to be scared of Manchin and Sinema and walk on eggshells is bullshit. Play old school hard ball politics. Send operatives to WV and AZ and keep digging until you find something. Everyone has skeletons in the closet. Show them who's boss, play a game of chicken and let them know we are willing to lose their seats/allegiance as long as it means destroying them also in the process.
Gen-X ie 'Baby busters' are the smallest generation,
that's why we don't register as much as the Boomers and Millennials.
Gen-X births are from '65-'80, which was a time when birth rates dropped. Our parents are Boomers and our younger siblings and cousins are Millennials.
"The worst crime is faking it." - Kurt Cobain
"We was young and we was dumb, but we had heart." - Tupac Shakur
Manchinema would trim anything that would benefit PoC,
the poor, women etc. BIF was the white man's jobs bill that is why they supported it.
Charlamagne was right, Manchinema think they're president. It was PoC who made Joe Biden the president, it was PoC who gave Schumer the Senate - it's time for the Dem party to go to the mat and play hardball with Manchinema to get things done for PoC. BBB, Voting Rights, Police Reform are all things PoC voted for when we voted for Biden. Women are losing their reproductive rights. The insurrectionists are getting slaps on the wrist. Garland is wimpy. Fuck this bullshit.
Manchin is the hero of a segment of white moderates
the ones who fear 'too much spending' when it's on the working class, women, PoC etc. You never heard these people say one peep about the NeoCons' oil wars, spending on the MIC, Trumps 3T tax cuts for the rich etc.
MLK long ago identified the white moderate as the great 'stumbling block' in the stride towards freedom, devoted more to 'order than to justice'.
The Squad are disliked by this same segment for being the opposite, for believing in justice before order, and are viewed as uppity as a result.
"The defendant chased Valdez
Valdez’s relatives wanted the defendant charged with first-degree murder and held in custody, but instead, he was charged with second-degree murder and also held on home monitoring.
Those orders sparked accusations of preferential treatment and led to protests at the Glenview Police Department and the Skokie courthouse last year."
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-3592b89bb0f3accf0009578166b31d0c
The fact that Valdez was chased and this white thug is allowed to kill him and walk away - disgusting. And we hear the same bullshit we heard about Rittenhouse 'nice boy, bright future' type of bullshit. This system fuckin sucks and white people float around on a cloud of unearned privilege.
Whites are fundamenally viewed as innocent
and 'we can't mess up their lives' is what we constantly hear whenever a white is accused of anything wrong.
Blacks and browns are viewed as fundamentally guilty and deserving of harsh/brutal/ugly treatment.
Hence the unequal systems of justice in America, a country built upon slavery and a racial caste system which persists to this very day.
+1. Democracy cannot exist without justice,
which the left has stated for the past 100 years. You can't have a society in which some are exempt from the law while others are systematically held down by it. If Garland fails to act and Trump and his cronies are not punished it will only embolden them. The right is building an entire infrastructure to support a potential non-democratic future Trump admin.
Agree, I would make antivaxxers sign an informed consent form
stating that (a) the medical community has found that the vaccines are safe and effective (b) that I nevertheless choose to refuse the vaccine (c) and I thus relinquish all medical care should I contract Covid.
These people are the reason we can't get the pandemic under control. A pandemic is a wartime situation where the collective good must supercede individual rights. What would FDR do? Yeah, you know.
Hate crimes are an epidemic in America,
hundreds are reported daily and many are never reported.
U.S. Hate Crimes At New Decade High
by Katharina Buchholz, Aug 31, 2021
According to statistics released by the FBI, hate crimes have risen to their highest level in over a decade in the United States. Last year, there were 7,759 hate crime incidents, around 470 more than the total number reported in 2019 and, at an increase of 6 percent, showing a steeper growth than previous years.
The data shows that the majority of the reported hate crimes were motivated by race, ethnicity or ancestry bias (63.7 percent). Other motivating factors include religion (15.1 percent), sexual orientation (13.5 percent), gender identity (3.0 percent), disability (1.1 percent), and gender (0.9 percent). The statistics are a compilation of bias-motivated incidents submitted to the FBI by 15,588 law enforcement agencies.
Among hate crimes motivated by race, ethnicity and ancestry, Anti-Black hate crime was the most common at 2,755 out of 4,939 incidents. The number was up by almost 40 percent in a year that was marked by racial justice protests after the death of George Floyd. Offenses against Asians - often tied to the coronavirus pandemic - were also up from 161 in 2019 to 274 in 2020, meaning they increased by 70 percent while remaining a smaller type of incident.
The people who pounce on the Smollett situation were already outright racists or clueless types who subscribe an anti-BLM and white victimhood perspective ('see, the darkies really are just making it all up!') and are a much bigger problem in the overall picture than one troubled celebrity's stunt for attention.
Of course. A black woman in Texas mistakenly voted
and got sentenced to 5 years in prison. The white insurrectionists tried to overthrow the gov't and most are getting slaps on the wrist. It's how the system of white privilege works. Whites are viewed as inherently innocent thus sending them to prison is viewed to be painful and tragic, ie 'why mess up their lives, they simply made a mistake.' Where for non-whites being treated roughly and harshly is viewed as necessary and justified, and no benefit of the doubt is given.
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