• Eddbopkins@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    To think that the right wing can be so violent that it needs a presidential pardon of their crimes. Fucken insane time to be alive right now.

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      17 hours ago

      Not electing the alternative, if just to keep him out of office, could also be seen as that.

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        38 minutes ago

        Why is it that this continues to be the strategy election after election when it’s been proven time and time again to be a failure?

        When faced with a monster of an opponent, the DNC keeps deciding to pick the blandest, unlikeable, center-right, status-quo politicians possible to run against them. If COVID hadn’t happened, there’s no way Biden would have won in 2020, Clinton lost in 2016, and both Biden and Harris lost in 2024. Republicans, by virtue of being Republican, always pick a monster as their candidate and we can expect them to keep winning so long as the DNC sits on their ass letting them run the show just so long as they don’t have to stand for anything and jeopardize their own comfy seats in office.

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    22 hours ago

    Fuck, DC is gonna burn…

    Police response to the protests of the murder of Karon Hylton-Brown was heavy handed to say the least. With the upcoming protests already planned, this was either completely tone deaf and ignorant of the significance of the pardon. Or could be an antagonizing effort to show “riots” to justify more police violence and show the “left” as violent extremists.

    Shit like this is how we get a Reichstag fire type event to allow a concentration of power and a justification for martial law or worse.