Krono

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[–] Krono@lemmy.today 11 points 3 days ago

what they are supposed to be doing

When a federal cop commits a local crime, like for example a murder caught on camera, then it is the local police departments duty to investigate, and the local DA's duty to prosecute.

When they refuse to investigate and prosecute due to federal pressure, that is an abdication of their duties.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Both sides onviously aren't the same, one is more evil than the other. But they are both evil.

Obama has the blood of tens of thousands of innocent civilians on his hands, shame on anyone helping him wash.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

We did that already, we voted for the people who suck less.

They are letting the GOP run wild.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

PLEASE do not nominate another candidate with a vagina

It's so frustrating when well-meaning people have this blatantly sexist take.

The problem with Hillary and Kamala was not their vaginas, it was their policies.

If you actually believe that the US is too sexist to elect a woman, then you need to explain the election of Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico. By every statistic (rape, domestic violence, etc), Mexico is a more sexist nation than the US, yet they overwhelmingly elected a woman.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

True, but your comment seems to ignore the fact that leftism is the only resistance to fascism. Liberalism and civility politics have historically paved the way for fascism, and the same pattern is proving true in the modern era.

We need leftist solidarity to defeat the evils of liberalism and fascism.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 5 points 3 weeks ago

So your idea is that we will vote in Democrat politicians who will... Legislate themselves out of power by instituting ranked choice voting?

This part of your plan seems absurd on its face. I want ranked choice voting as much as you, but we need a realistic plan, and what you're proposing is a pipe dream.

Voting third party is more realistic than expecting Dems to institute ranked choice.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

By 1970, it was fully criminalized nationally esp. because of the whole drug culture of the late 60's and the Vietnam anti-war protest movement.

“You want to know what this was really all about?

The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

-John Ehrlichman, President Richard Nixon’s domestic policy chief

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 13 points 1 month ago

This is an open problem for advocates of the Dark Enlightenment theory (Wikipedia) like Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin.

One of the most commonly discussed solutions is to surgically implant explosive devices into the bodies of your lead security force.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 33 points 1 month ago (6 children)

We tried that. We had a whole national protest movement, it lasted a year, millions of people were in the streets with the explicit goal of lowering police budgets.

Despite all of that effort, no police budget was defunded. Most police budgets have continued to increase. ICE funding has drastically increased.

So what's your plan to do something different? From where I'm sitting, the "let's kill cops" camp is more realistic than the "let's try the George Floyd protests again, maybe politicians will listen to us this time" camp.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 13 points 1 month ago

And history shows us what happens after the US Navy gets kicked in the nuts. The US kills hundreds of thousands of people. Sometimes millions.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 15 points 1 month ago

support the DNC vocally

Why should we support the DNC when the leadership of the DNC is supporting Trump's war crimes?

Read the responses from Jeffries and Schumer- they aren't the opposition party, they are manufacturing consent for this 'military operation'.

If we actually want to change the situation we need to fix the DNC, not blindly support it.

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Secessio is a great start to a proud history of workers fighting for their rights, but history tends to clean up the details.

I always wonder how many scabs stayed back in Rome.

 

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