Due process and the presumption of innocence are all-important for socialists - but not for a politician on the make, like AOC.

:jesse-wtf:

Penny, on the other hand, is anything but an A-lister. After working in a surf shop in North Carolina, he was unemployed and in New York looking for a job as a bartender. Had the US entered directly into the Ukraine conflict while he was still in the military, he is just the sort of young person who would have wound up in harm’s way as a result of AOC’s pro-war policies.

Yeah? And his victim? Was he an elite too?

According to The New York Times, city subways saw 10 murders last year

And they just saw one more. Which you are defending. e: but also holy fuck 10 in a whole year in the largest city in the country? That's the terrifying crime wave you're so worried about?

“And then I heard him take off his jacket,” Vasquez went on. “He bundled it up and just threw it on the floor, very violently. You could hear the sound of the zipper hitting the floor."

Is this supposed to be a fucking joke? That's your excuse for why he should have been murdered?

Lenin wrote about the “absolute order and devotedly observed comradely discipline” that a workers’ militia would impose,

Fuck you

Not finishing this. I wish the American left were big enough that we even had to worry about tumors like this growing on it.