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Charles Barkley rips politicians for intently dividing Americans: 'Both parties suck' (awfulannouncing.com)
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Charles Barkley’s CNN show may have been short-lived, but that won’t stop the beloved NBA analyst from making his political thoughts known.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They do!

Of course only one parties main representative took us out of the Paris Climate Accord, WHO, banned Trans and non-binary genders, pardoned over a thousand insurrectionists, and made weirdly aggressive threats against some of our biggest allies... on the first day they took power.

Which isn't even speaking of all the policies and appointments they've made over the last several decades that have negatively impacted everyone but the already rich and powerful. To a degree that far outpaces the "other side".

I don't disagree that they both make decisions that ultimately lead to pain for the majority of people, and most especially the most vulnerable and the most different... but one does it significantly more than the other.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If this is the case then it’s our duty as citizens to overthrow it. Says so in the Declaration of Independence

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Then what?

Even if enough people gathered together to overthrow the government (the last time people tried, it was only a couple thousand of the most fanatic... and they weren't on the side of angels), what would you do then? If it were that easy to just "make a good government", don't you think someone would have done it by now?

Even the often lauded French weren't able to accomplish that, they're currently between a Macron and a hard place of right leaning bullshit.

We need more than a revolution of arms, we need a revolution of thought. People are well aware that there's problems, but no one can really agree on what that problem truly is. We all just point fingers at each other like some Spider-man meme instead of trying to figure out how to make the situation better. Or just hope someone else does the hard work of making our lives better *cough* Luigi *cough* while we sit on our asses and complain about how much everything sucks.

We need to stop working against everything and start working towards something. Until we do that, we're just going to keep running around a circle... one that's leading us directly down the drain "both sides" are leading us down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But, importantly, in MASSIVELY different amounts, and in very different ways.

To lump them in the same category is to lie, and to lie blatantly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

What category is it that you think they are erroneously lumping them into?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

His point is "No War but Class War" and that should be shared.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I particularly liked their single "Crazy"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

If he said that here or on Reddit, someone would accuse him of saying, "bOtH sIdEz!"