Fuck them so much lol

  • foxodroid [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    . To all of the police officers, I’m praying for you and your families. To all of the citizens, my Black and brown sisters and brothers, I’m praying for you. I believe that you are an intelligent being just like the rest of us. Everybody, let’s use our hearts, our love, and our intelligence to work together

    ew the racist undertones of this one line..

    • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      "Intelligent being"

      Courtney, the black lifeforms seem to have some kind of sentience! I believe they are intelligent

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      OMFG THIS GOES RIGHT TO THE FRIDGE DOOR

    • BernieSaysTransRight [she/her]
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      It’s a black woman they’re quoting. It’s Jacob Blake’s mother. You’re a fucking chud piece of shit.

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          You, a white man (I assume) is calling Jacob Blake’s mother a racist. You’re a piece of fucking shit.

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            Black people in this country can't be racist, racism is connected to systematic oppression. So no, I'm not calling her a racist. I'm saying that she has internalized civility politics which have served to oppress the black community.

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                  Do I agree that black people are intelligent? Uhhh yes???? You’re the one who thinks her saying that makes her racist

                  • PonsonBaz [they/them,he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    Lmao, either you need to get way better at having good faith arguments with comrades, or you're a troll from outside of the community. If it's the former, please comrade, discussion furthers our own ideology.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    If you're black and you get murdered by the cops before Nov 5th please try and not make a big deal about it.

  • Bedandsofa [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Considering the audience for this piece, the message isn’t actually “please stop protesting.”

    The message is, “wealthy libs, here’s why you should be okay with violent repression of dissent.”

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The consent machine is steaming full speed ahead, I see.

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      When they don't even make a false promise about an important issue, it's because they prefer to tell you to go fuck yourself.

    • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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      There's only two reasons to vote for Biden imo: he won't publicly rally against LGBT and racial minorities, and he is slightly better than Trump on climate change

  • hagensfohawk [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Nothing would bring me more joy than watching Joe Biden standing in the bed of a pickup in front of protesters, like he's Bobby Kennedy after the MLK assassination, but all he can sputter out is a story about the time that fat Tony at the pool hall gave him funny look and then Joe told him to take his ninny ass back to Dover before he wooped him like a 10-cent whore

  • asaharyev [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    If Donald Trump wins, in a trustworthy vote, what’s happening this week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will be one reason. Maybe the reason. And yet Joe Biden has it in his power to spare the country a second Trump term.

    Shut the fuck up you talentless, smooth-brained fucking hack.

    • KamalaHarris [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Harris, a Black former prosecutor and now an advocate for police reform, seems uniquely positioned to speak to the crisis.

      I don't know what you're talking about, @asaharyev, I like his style.

  • 5HT [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    the will blame protesters, bernie bros, leftists, young people, anyone as long as it deflects blame from themselves and their plastic politics.

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Well, the article is really shitting on Biden/the whole campaign for being so incompetent. It's nice to see them admit it and freak out about it.

  • PrincessMagnificent [they/them, any]
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    4 years ago

    “Burning down communities is not protest,” he pleaded in a video. “It’s needless violence.” He said the same after George Floyd’s killing.

    How many Americans have heard him? In the crude terms of a presidential campaign, voters know that the Democrat means it when he denounces police brutality, but less so when he denounces riots.

    Oh fuck me, this is pure undistilled blue MAGA. it's the same exact same thing where you don't listen to the words that the candidate is saying, you just know in your heart what he really means.

  • a_maoist_quetzal [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Biden, then, should go immediately to Wisconsin, the crucial state that Hillary Clinton infamously ignored. He should meet the Blake family and give them his support and comfort. He should also meet Kenoshans like the small-business owners quoted in the Times piece, who doubt that Democrats care about the wreckage of their dreams. Then, on the burned-out streets, without a script, from the heart, Biden should speak to the city and the country. He should speak for justice and for safety, for reform and against riots, for the crying need to bring the country together.

    lol

    • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      If anything can heal this country, it's definitely an unscripted, stream-of-consciousness chat from good old uncle Joe.

      • a_maoist_quetzal [he/him]
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        Get it STRAIGHT, Jack! Donald Trump wants me to take a drug test before the debate, I'm the guy who SENT the DEA to Hondur... excuse me, Colombia. I'm the guy who GOT these drug dealing thugs off the street for real, for real, for real. And that's why we need a full investigation, a FULL investigation, of James Blanco's death, and I'm the one to do it. But we HAVE to come together and deal with our differences peacefully... peacefully...

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Harris, a Black former prosecutor and now an advocate for police reform, seems uniquely positioned to speak to the crisis.

    "Advocate for police reform" you say? When did that happened?

    Also, why did they capitalize "Black"?

    Anyways, it's nice see them freak out at their own incompetence. Any ghoul around the world would give their firstborn for a chance like this to capitalize on a tragedy/social unrest, but they are too incompetent for that; or they prefer to tell you "FUCK YOU" instead of winning.

    • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      It’s common attempt to be woke thing, common to capitalize Black. I do it myself (i am Black) but usually when white libs do it it’s fake woke shit like this

      • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        It's kind of weird from a grammatical perspective, but not a big deal. I do worry it will lead to more people capitalizing "White" which is fucking gross

        • RNAi [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          They are half milisecond away from capitalize "Cop"

        • TheDeed [he/him, comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          It’s is gross

          Why can we capitalize black and not white?!? And why is there a BET when there isn’t a WET?!?! 😡🍼

        • the_river_cass [she/her]
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          grammar is actually why you should capitalize it. you're talking about a specific group of people with a shared history, culture, etc.: the descendants of slavery in the US. you should not capitalize white for the same reason: it's an unspecific group with ever-shifting boundaries.

          • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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            Typically, races are capitalized when they include a proper noun: black vs. African-American, white vs. Italian-American, and so on. I mean grammar is ultimately arbitrary, so I don't care, but having a shared experience is not a grammatical reason to capitalize something.

            • the_river_cass [she/her]
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              4 years ago

              no, I'm saying it's a proper and well-defined noun so you should capitalize it, the same way you do every other proper and well-defined noun.

              • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]
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                Being well defined is also not a usual reason to capitalize something, and saying it should be capitalized because it's a proper noun is just circular logic. Why do you think it's important that there's an accepted grammatical rule that is going to explain capitalizing Black but not white? If you want to capitalize it to emphasize the shared history of Black people, then just do it. You don't need the academy to approve. Do you think bell hooks was like paging through Strunk & White until she found the loophole that would allow her to decapitalize her pen name?

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah, lets blame the Kenosha protesters for some fuck face that pushed the 94 crime bill losing the presidential election. Never mind he's part of a party that, overall, has resisted tooth and nail to do anything about police brutality in state and local governments where they had control for years. Fuck this guy.

  • cro [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Ugh it cringes me to remember when I thought The Atlantic was leftist media. I was such a lib.

  • InternetLefty [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Lol way to start playing the blame game. Maybe he's just not electable?