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Kamala Harris was not a cop
    #26886383 - 08/18/20 09:49 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

I don't know where this rumor started, but it's spread like wildfire somehow. I first started seeing the "Kamala is a Cop" memes on social media the day she was selected as Biden's running mate and, much to my own embarrassment, I just blindly believed it until today.

The fact of the matter is that Harris was never a police officer. Go ahead and read about her career history for yourself, if you like. She was a state prosecutor in California, but she wasn't a cop. It's true that state prosecutors often work in cooperation with the police, but calling her a cop is not true, and it's an obvious ploy to make all of the Democrat voters who supported the BLM movement look like hypocrites.

This is incredibly frustrating because of how much it's shaking up the Democratic voter population, and it's all based on a falsehood.

Before the pack of wild dogs comes in to rip her apart, I just want to be clear that I don't think Kamala Harris is a perfect choice. I'm just as frustrated with her as I am with the nomination of Biden by the DNC. She's a flawed U.S. politician that comes with all of the flaws of the modern Democratic party. However, the claim that she was a cop is false, and we need to stop saying that, and to start calling people out when we see it.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Nonagon Infinity] * 5
    #26886392 - 08/18/20 10:00 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

So she didn’t actually arrest them, just prosecuted them. That’s supposed to be better how? :facepalm:


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Dark_Star] * 3
    #26886394 - 08/18/20 10:02 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

If you're at a table with 10 Nazis and you aren't opposing them, there are 11 Nazis at that table. 


She helped perpetuate a broken system just like the boots on the ground did.  Being a DA might be even worse than being a cop.  She is, at the very least, a very tone deaf pick by Biden.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: illuminati] * 2
    #26886400 - 08/18/20 10:08 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

Yeah we’re talking about a person whose job it was to make damn sure that the people the cops arrested stayed in jail. How that’s better really makes no sense. There are progressive DAs.....but Kamala wasn’t one of them. Can’t be surprised he picked her though. Biden was the architect of the RAVE ACT & helped to write that notorious 1994 crime bill.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Nonagon Infinity]
    #26886421 - 08/18/20 10:21 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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I don't know where this rumor started, but it's spread like wildfire somehow. I first started seeing the "Kamala is a Cop" memes on social media the day she was selected as Biden's running mate and, much to my own embarrassment, I just blindly believed it until today.

The fact of the matter is that Harris was never a police officer. Go ahead and read about her career history for yourself, if you like. She was a state prosecutor in California, but she wasn't a cop. It's true that state prosecutors often work in cooperation with the police, but calling her a cop is not true, and it's an obvious ploy to make all of the Democrat voters who supported the BLM movement look like hypocrites.

This is incredibly frustrating because of how much it's shaking up the Democratic voter population, and it's all based on a falsehood.

Before the pack of wild dogs comes in to rip her apart, I just want to be clear that I don't think Kamala Harris is a perfect choice. I'm just as frustrated with her as I am with the nomination of Biden by the DNC. She's a flawed U.S. politician that comes with all of the flaws of the modern Democratic party. However, the claim that she was a cop is false, and we need to stop saying that, and to start calling people out when we see it.




I don't think you wrote a bad post, but I don't think any of this is much shaking up the Democratic voter population. Everyone knew Biden wasn't going to pick a progressive, and we got what we expected. It could have been worse.

They're running against Trump. No worries.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Dark_Star] * 3
    #26886424 - 08/18/20 10:22 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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So she didn’t actually arrest them, just prosecuted them. That’s supposed to be better how? :facepalm:




I don’t think the issue is prosecutors killing defendants in the courtroom  . It’s  cops killing them before they can have their day with people  like her,  thats what people are mad about  .


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Psilynut2] * 5
    #26886445 - 08/18/20 10:31 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

Prosecutors are the worst kinds of cops.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Psilynut2] * 1
    #26886449 - 08/18/20 10:32 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

People are also mad about lives being ruined over shit that shouldn’t be illegal in the first place, like drugs. Prosecutors routinely ruin people’s lives over such things....and Kamala did not have a good record of being progressive with things like drugs when she was a prosecutor. Quite the opposite in fact. Blows my mind that on this website; the shroomery...aka a website around a fungus that’s been banned by the government for no good reason, we have people defending prosecutors like Kamala. Just as crazy as all the right-wingers here waving their law & order flags. What a joke.....


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Psilynut2]
    #26886454 - 08/18/20 10:35 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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I don’t think the issue is prosecutors killing defendants in the courtroom  . It’s  cops killing them before they can have their day with people  like her,  thats what people are mad about  .




That's only a part of it.  The whole system from the top down is rotten and designed to keep people in it for legal slave labor.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Dark_Star]
    #26886460 - 08/18/20 10:37 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

Dems getting angry about Kamala's career don't seem to realise that Kamala is there to win over potential Trump voters, not them.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: mm.] * 1
    #26886462 - 08/18/20 10:38 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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Dems getting angry about Kamala's career don't seem to realise that Kamala is there to win over potential Trump voters, not them.




Imagine believing this.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: The Ecstatic] * 4
    #26886473 - 08/18/20 10:40 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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Imagine believing this.




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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: illuminati]
    #26886485 - 08/18/20 10:43 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

Effectively, it may make sense that Kamala would appeal to the moderate conservative, no?

But she's non-white and female so she has that working for those voters.  Maybe they are trying to hit two birds with one stone.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: illuminati]
    #26886493 - 08/18/20 10:50 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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Imagine believing this.




"You know who is really going to get those Trump voters to jump ship?  A black woman from California!"



Lol exactly


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Psilynut2] * 1
    #26886496 - 08/18/20 10:51 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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So she didn’t actually arrest them, just prosecuted them. That’s supposed to be better how? :facepalm:




I don’t think the issue is prosecutors killing defendants in the courtroom  . It’s  cops killing them before they can have their day with people  like her,  thats what people are mad about  .




That's why those people have their heads up their asses, the 'war on drugs' destroys tens of millions of lives every year, yet people want to focus on the small amount of cop killings. It's time to put this into the proper context. It's almost like BLM never addresses the 'war on drugs' because it has been infiltrated since day one.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Yellow Pants] * 1
    #26886499 - 08/18/20 10:53 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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Effectively, it may make sense that Kamala would appeal to the moderate conservative, no?

But she's non-white and female so she has that working for those voters.  Maybe they are trying to hit two birds with one stone.




It's the perfect plan, find a non-white female with a D next to her name and convince the sheep she's a progressive. This woman has a track record of a moderate Republican.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: qman] * 2
    #26886511 - 08/18/20 10:59 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

Dems &  repubes are both right wing parties. It’s just that the dems masquerade as liberals, and for whatever reason a large percentage of the population.....both dems & repubes somehow believe it.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Dark_Star] * 1
    #26886512 - 08/18/20 11:00 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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So she didn’t actually arrest them, just prosecuted them. That’s supposed to be better how? :facepalm:



That would be a much more accurate statement than calling her a cop - although cops and prosecutors support the same system of oppression, the difference between cops and prosecutors is not trivial. That's all I'm saying.

Again, not saying that she's exempt from criticism, or that you ought to vote for her. I'm not saying she has a clean record, or that her career was spotless. I'm just saying that calling her a cop is misleading. I agree that our criminal prosecution system is riddled with problems, and that she ought to be criticized for playing a role in that system. I'm just saying that calling her a cop is misleading.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Dark_Star] * 1
    #26886514 - 08/18/20 11:00 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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Dems &  repubes are both right wing parties. It’s just that the dems masquerade as liberals, and for whatever reason a large percentage of the population.....both dems & repubes somehow believe it.



I agree with you 100%. If I had one major criticism of the Democratic party, it would be that they're not left-leaning enough.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Dark_Star]
    #26886523 - 08/18/20 11:05 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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People are also mad about lives being ruined over shit that shouldn’t be illegal in the first place, like drugs. Prosecutors routinely ruin people’s lives over such things....and Kamala did not have a good record of being progressive with things like drugs when she was a prosecutor. Quite the opposite in fact. Blows my mind that on this website; the shroomery...aka a website around a fungus that’s been banned by the government for no good reason, we have people defending prosecutors like Kamala. Just as crazy as all the right-wingers here waving their law & order flags. What a joke.....




I completely agree with you. She didn't start supporting legalization of marijuana until that position was already considered popular among other Democrats. She's a right-wing politician who follows the progressive tides of change whenever it's convenient for her political career, and her role as a state prosecutor supported a system that oppresses people. I apologize if I didn't make this clear in my OP, but I am not defending her. I am simply saying that calling her a cop is not true. She was never a cop: she was a prosecutor. I'm not saying that's better. I'm not saying that being a prosecutor is exempt from criticism. I just think we need to be accurate when discussing politics.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Yellow Pants]
    #26886525 - 08/18/20 11:06 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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Effectively, it may make sense that Kamala would appeal to the moderate conservative, no?

But she's non-white and female so she has that working for those voters.  Maybe they are trying to hit two birds with one stone.




Trump would go for the line that Biden is an old stooge who will let the radicals take over. However his running mate spending her career locking up black kids contradicts that.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Nonagon Infinity] * 1
    #26886526 - 08/18/20 11:07 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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the difference between cops and prosecutors is not trivial.




Neither are the differences between the SS and Gestapo, but I know they're all enemies of the people.  If your argument is purely about a job title, then sure, it's not accurate to say she was a cop, but I don't think it really matters considering she upheld all the same garbage.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: illuminati] * 1
    #26886528 - 08/18/20 11:07 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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the difference between cops and prosecutors is not trivial.




Neither are the differences between the SS and Gestapo, but I know they're all enemies of the people.



No disagreement. I agree that prosecutors are a part of the same system of oppression that police officers are a part of.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Dark_Star]
    #26887010 - 08/18/20 03:55 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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People are also mad about lives being ruined over shit that shouldn’t be illegal in the first place, like drugs. Prosecutors routinely ruin people’s lives over such things....and Kamala did not have a good record of being progressive with things like drugs when she was a prosecutor. Quite the opposite in fact. Blows my mind that on this website; the shroomery...aka a website around a fungus that’s been banned by the government for no good reason, we have people defending prosecutors like Kamala. Just as crazy as all the right-wingers here waving their law & order flags. What a joke.....




Blame the legislatures and governors that passed those laws. A prosecutor doesn’t make the laws.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: koods]
    #26887017 - 08/18/20 03:58 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

I blame them too. But prosecutors participate & therefore just as culpable.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Nonagon Infinity]
    #26887115 - 08/18/20 05:11 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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Dems &  repubes are both right wing parties. It’s just that the dems masquerade as liberals, and for whatever reason a large percentage of the population.....both dems & repubes somehow believe it.



I agree with you 100%. If I had one major criticism of the Democratic party, it would be that they're not left-leaning enough.



This kind of thinking is exactly why I'm increasingly going conservative/republican. The democrats are already getting too "liberal" for me, and now we've got all sorts of people wanting them to go even further. Well, you can count me out. I think I'm going to vote republican up and down the ballot this election.

Also Kamala is shit.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: nooneman] * 2
    #26894942 - 08/23/20 08:15 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

There's a reason Manson is in jail despite not being a murderer himself.
And Hitler is responsible for the Holocaust despite never gassing a single person himself.

Harris was a top cop. They call them prosecutors.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: nooneman]
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Nonagon Infinity said:
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Dems &  repubes are both right wing parties. It’s just that the dems masquerade as liberals, and for whatever reason a large percentage of the population.....both dems & repubes somehow believe it.



I agree with you 100%. If I had one major criticism of the Democratic party, it would be that they're not left-leaning enough.



This kind of thinking is exactly why I'm increasingly going conservative/republican. The democrats are already getting too "liberal" for me, and now we've got all sorts of people wanting them to go even further. Well, you can count me out. I think I'm going to vote republican up and down the ballot this election.

Also Kamala is shit.




There are economic issues where I want the Democrats to go farther left. I don't know what I want them to do about law enforcement. But if cops keep needlessly killing black people the, the social backlash will get more extreme than what we are experiencing now.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Brian Jones] * 1
    #26895115 - 08/23/20 10:06 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/510763-biden-says-he-supports-additional-funding-for-the-police

So I guess D's are voting for even more cops and arrests than under Trump.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Brian Jones]
    #26895165 - 08/23/20 10:47 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

Man you should really read up on the history of policing in America, if not the concepts of crime and punishment in and of itself.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Brian Jones]
    #26895435 - 08/23/20 01:42 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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There are economic issues where I want the Democrats to go farther left.



To me, economic issues are the most important ones, and those are the ones Biden/Harris won't dare hurt the wealthy to make things a little better for the rest of us.


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    #26895493 - 08/23/20 02:09 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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There are economic issues where I want the Democrats to go farther left.



To me, economic issues are the most important ones, and those are the ones Biden/Harris won't dare hurt the wealthy to make things a little better for the rest of us.




Oh, I thought removing statues, having the police reform themselves and begging white peasants not to be racist was the most important issues of our time. Who cares about the economics? It's not the Democrats of 2020.


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Those are Republican talking points.


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    #26895511 - 08/23/20 02:18 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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Man you should really read up on the history of policing in America, if not the concepts of crime and punishment in and of itself.




What I said was if cops keep needlessly killing black people, what looks like social disruption now will escalate into full blown riots. I think a lot of people think we are having riots now. That's because they've never seen a real riot.


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Those are Republican talking points.




Really, Republicans advocate for the removal of statues, police reform and removal of white covert racism?


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Man you should really read up on the history of policing in America, if not the concepts of crime and punishment in and of itself.




What I said was if cops keep needlessly killing black people, what looks like social disruption now will escalate into full blown riots. I think a lot of people think we are having riots now. That's because they've never seen a real riot.




Sure but it’s so much more sinister than the killings of black people. Extrajudicial murder of minorities grabs the headlines but that contributes to the idea that we just need to train officers to de-escalate situations better, or shoot people in the leg as Joe Biden said. The entire system is the issue: from the way crime is codified into law, to how it’s policed, to how it’s prosecuted, to the various ways prisoners are exploited, all the way to the system of second class citizenship (notably disenfranchisement) to folks convicted of certain crimes. That’s the real, premeditated evil here. A racist cop shooting someone is just an emotional crime of passion, a side effect.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: qman]
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There are economic issues where I want the Democrats to go farther left.



To me, economic issues are the most important ones, and those are the ones Biden/Harris won't dare hurt the wealthy to make things a little better for the rest of us.




Oh, I thought removing statues, having the police reform themselves and begging white peasants not to be racist was the most important issues of our time. Who cares about the economics? It's not the Democrats of 2020.





I think most of us here can agree the Democrats really don’t give a shit about helping poor and/or marginalized groups, but I’m confused by your response. Are you saying statue removal, police reform, and racism are rooted in economic issues?


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]qman said:
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There are economic issues where I want the Democrats to go farther left.



To me, economic issues are the most important ones, and those are the ones Biden/Harris won't dare hurt the wealthy to make things a little better for the rest of us.




Oh, I thought removing statues, having the police reform themselves and begging white peasants not to be racist was the most important issues of our time. Who cares about the economics? It's not the Democrats of 2020.





I think most of us here can agree the Democrats really don’t give a shit about helping poor and/or marginalized groups, but I’m confused by your response. Are you saying statue removal, police reform, and racism are rooted in economic issues?




No, my point is that the D's prioritize those issues and completely ignore the economic issues.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: qman] * 1
    #26897011 - 08/24/20 11:52 AM (3 years, 5 months ago)

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qman said:
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The Ecstatic said:
]qman said:
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Brian Jones said:
There are economic issues where I want the Democrats to go farther left.



To me, economic issues are the most important ones, and those are the ones Biden/Harris won't dare hurt the wealthy to make things a little better for the rest of us.




Oh, I thought removing statues, having the police reform themselves and begging white peasants not to be racist was the most important issues of our time. Who cares about the economics? It's not the Democrats of 2020.





I think most of us here can agree the Democrats really don’t give a shit about helping poor and/or marginalized groups, but I’m confused by your response. Are you saying statue removal, police reform, and racism are rooted in economic issues?




No, my point is that the D's prioritize those issues and completely ignore the economic issues.




That’s because painting BLM on a street in your town is a lot easier to do than redistributing wealth. Remember when Hillary told Bernie Sanders that Medicare For All wouldn’t solve racism? Pathetic, but also a shortsighted approach. All these issues are related, Democrats just opt for the path of least resistance for obvious reasons: they wanna play themselves up as the defenders of the downtrodden without having to actually do anything about it.

I guess my point is universal healthcare WOULD help with racism, as would a jobs guarantee. Wage increases, card check, a green new deal, and all these programs we see as strictly economic.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: The Ecstatic]
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I'm really glad I started this thread, because I think it's opened up a really important discussion. Just to be clear, I agree with all the criticism being leveraged against the Democratic party here. Democrats are not left-leaning enough, especially when it comes to reducing our military influence over the globe and protecting the interests of the working class.

I also recognize how frustrating it is that people on the left of the political spectrum, many of whom supported the BLM movement, are now being asked to vote for a candidate who used to be a state prosecutor. It's insulting.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: Nonagon Infinity] * 1
    #26897293 - 08/24/20 02:45 PM (3 years, 5 months ago)

...or the guy who literally wrote the Crime Bill that put our racist carceral system into overdrive.


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Re: Kamala Harris was not a cop [Re: The Ecstatic]
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...or the guy who literally wrote the Crime Bill that put our racist carceral system into overdrive.




Like military spending, it has become a central part of our economy, besides the feel good effect it has for law and order types.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%E2%80%93industrial_complex


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Sad but true


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