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Im guessing you weren’t an adult in 1996, would that be accurate?
And you would be way off. Democrats have been militarizing the police for decades.
The Omnibus Crime Bill was popular on both sides and was celebrated by the GOP. Framing it as if it was all Biden is a stretch.
If there's a single bill that's been drafted over the last 40 years that has been an invasion of our privacy or have restricted our rights, it's got Democrat fingerprints on it, and in many cases, Biden specifically.
I'm just curious: can you name a single bad thing that Donald Trump has done?
Edit: note, he appears to be unable to criticize Republicans directly. Curious, that.
Everyone to your left is a trumper.
You calling yourself a Trumper?
No, you do that plenty to anyone to the left of netanyahu.
If you knowingly help Trump, you're a Trumper. Not my decision, it's just how it is.
And it sure is neat how being to your left maps 1:1 with "helping trump".
I complain when democrats act like republicans. Maybe you should consider advocating for them to do something else for fucking once.
Or just dump insults at your left because you only punch left.
While the liberal is part of the oppressor, he is the most powerless segment within that group. Therefore when he seeks to talk about change, he always confronts the oppressed rather than the oppressor. He does not seek to influence the oppressor, he seeks to influence the oppressed. He says to the oppressed, time and time again, "You don't need guns, you are moving too fast, you are too radical, you are too extreme." He never says to the oppressor, "You are too extreme in your treatment of the oppressed," because he is powerless among the oppressors, even if he is part of that group; but he has influence, or, at least, he is more powerful than the oppressed, and he enjoys this power by always cautioning, condemning, or certainly trying to direct and lead the movements of the oppressed.
Kwame Ture
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MLK Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail:
You sound like Republicans saying woke.
There's like 3 of you people globally, it's cute you think you inspire fear.
It's an amazing feeling to know in one of 3 people with enough power to cause liberals to lose elections.
Don't break the rules and you won't get comment removed
"Be civil" is such a broad rule it's obviously intended for selective enforcement.
It's very binary to assume critique of one implies support for the other. Republicans crimes don't need to be tallied because they wear them on their sleeves for all to see, they will tell the public to their face what they are gonna do. Liberals on the other hand are more covert in their actions, talk one thing, legislate like their Republican counterparts. That's how their ratchet effect works.
Liberals are very selective in what they are outraged about. Turn a blind eye when BlueMAGA does something, and screech bad when MAGA does the same thing. Or ignore things like Biden giving trump everything needed to 'finish the job' while only focusing on trump saying he will finish the job.
So, no?
Shouldn't be hard for you to call one out and decry it then. Just pick one.
"I assume you are younger than me and are therefore wrong" - boomers who made this mess.
No I would presume they have no context of the time period given how ignorant of a take they have on that time period. If they weren't an adult then it would make sense to not realize how stupid their claim is.
And you base that assumption on them not agreeing with you.
As opposed to your assumption that anyone who doesn't immediately accept your boomer "wisdom" as gospel must be a child.
No, I base that on how remarkably ignorant placing the entirety of the 1996 crime bill on Biden is because I was a voting adult who read the news back then. People who weren't adults back then don't have the context of that time period that people who were adults then are going to have.
No matter how wounded your ego might be by the suggestion you are never going to have an informed perspective on time periods you weren't around for compared to those who were.
Sounds like a convenient way to win an argument by dubious virtue of being old.
No, it's the difference between real life experience and reading about the same event in a book.
Yeah, you got to believe that the crime bill was a good thing in real time.
I was working with advocacy groups that opposed it at the time. i wasnt a fan I just think blaming or giving credit to Biden for it makes no sense.
Didn't hurt enough minorities for you?
Are we talking about the same crime bill here? The 1994 crime bill that biden sponsored?