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[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I find it interesting how many self identified leftists are cheering and welcoming a racist and corrupt cop as president of the United States.

Like, this isn’t even about the whole “anyone but trump” or “vote 3rd party” war.

The crowd claiming to be the left are just straight up cheering for cops.

Fascinating how I see the left continually blamed for not meeting Dems in the middle with that 1930s Germany copypasta and yet it’s only one of them constantly shifting right.

Since apparently a rabid mob comes up every time someone touches this topic, yes I understand what’s at stake and will be voting accordingly.

I’m sure all these self proclaimed leftists will be there to advocate for the local socialist parties after we secure the presidency right? …right?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not I. ACAB. She had a history of horrible policies.

Kamala Harris is a complicated choice for some LGBTQ+ people

https://19thnews.org/2020/08/kamala-harris-complicated-lgbtq-choice/

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

I have some reservations (need to research her more) as she was relatively progressive in an American context it seems.

If anyone has more starting points for my research, I am absolutely open.

However, for the moment she’s a “NO” from me. Even at the most forgiving judgements, it seems she sent away a whole bunch of poor people and did nothing about the system that is driving them to crime.

Ah also her weird racism, nepotism, and stances on LGBT issues. Who refers to art in their home by the ethnicity of the artist???

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Another one for you. As a Californian, we knew she was bad. That's why she dropped out polling 5th in the primary.

The Human Costs Of Kamala Harris’ War On Truancy. The "progressive prosecutor" wanted to transform how California responded to students missing school. Parents like Cheree Peoples wound up paying the price.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-truancy-arrests-2020-progressive-prosecutor_n_5c995789e4b0f7bfa1b57d2e

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Good info on her background, thank you! As a former Orange resident this is especially disappointing to read this story and how the mother and child were treated.

Harris has since replaced her punitive stance with the message that parents of truant children need help, not scare tactics. It’s a shift that happened roughly in step with voters’ waning tolerance for using the criminal justice system to address complicated social problems and Harris’ own preparations to seek higher office.

Emphasis mine

She’s a cop, down to her core. She’s got the mentality that “I can fix social problems through the threat and use of coercive state violence”. That was her law, that she asked for, I assumed drafted/guided, and defended publicly… until she ran for the Oval Office, and was made to choose compassion.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Yeah, it's all performative ladder climbing bullshit.

Why black voters never flocked to Kamala Harris https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/04/kamala-harris-black-voters-2020-075651

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

She did something about the system. She defended it. On two occasions she opposed the release of people who had convictions overturned by demonstrating actual innocence to appellate courts on the basis of legal technicalities, in both cases her office argued that they had waited too long to file a petition to be released. Her office argued against the release of inmates eligible for parole after a federal court ruled that the extreme overcrowding in California prisons was cruel and unusual on the basis that releasing the prisoners would reduce prison labor.

She helped with a cover up of an employee at the state crime lab who falsified testing results. The truth came out after the employee was arrested for stealing drugs from the lab and hundreds of convictions were overturned. She defended a police detective that falsified a confession to coerce a defendant into accepting a plea deal. She opposed requiring police to use body worn cameras. She opposed legislation that would have required her office to review police shootings.

She consistently declined to investigate allegations of police and prosecutor misconduct including police shootings of unarmed people. Eventually she had to for the police, it got to the point that the justice department eventually stepped in to investigate an incident where a group of officers surrounded a mentally ill man with a steak knife and shot him 21 times after Harris refused to review the case. While she cooperated with the federal investigation into the police shooting, she backed the prosecutor who had his entire office removed from a case because of proven misconduct including hiding exonerating evidence.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

She had a history of horrible policies.

The idea that voters vote based on policy rather than loyalty is totally incomprehensible to the Democratic party.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Calling out Red MAGA is fine but don't you dare call out Blue MAGA.

Saying that Democrats will vote for literal Genocide if it means Republicans don't win really hurts their feelings. And like the Republicans they will explain that if the other guy wins it would be worse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Yes these are the same people that tell you that Biden hasn't gotten anything impactful done because the president really doesn't have that much power while following that up with claims that Trump would completely end democracy the minute he gets elected. This is a variation of an argument first coined by fascists who claim that their enemy is both weak and all powerful.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

They keep saying that Democrats fall in love while Republicans fall in line, but clearly haven't internalized it.

Because Republicans clearly love Trump, and Democrats keep ordering their base to fall in line.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You realize you are part of the rabid mob too then? Instead of listening to people with which you mostly politically agree, you immediately resort to shitting on and scapegoating them by jumping to a wild conclusion. This type of rhetoric is equally unhelpful.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And that’s a fair assessment as well. It is a scapegoat to say those folks don’t support other leftist policies.

However I must disagree that my conclusion was wild.

My train of thought is, people say they support making peoples lives better and implementing policies proven to work and be more cost effective.

When it comes time to ‘nut up’ and do it, their chosen representatives roll over and compromise and refuse to use the same governing tools used against them to stop the rise of fascism.

Republicans famously grind the country to a halt with a minority. It’s their whole shtick, and yet they sail through these fascist policies nationwide with no fighting back from the Feds.

Is it truly that like minded when the purpose of a system is what it does, and my fellow patriots choose the continued decline of society driven by capitalism?

This, I believe, is the source of this leftist’s anger. Open denial of genocide by party leaders, while capital interests make life shittier literally every day, and no way out between “shit choice” and “literal fascist”.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (7 children)

My stake is that democrats aren’t Nazis. They just dont mind them very much. In fact your political opponents being actual nazis improves your election chances.

There is no left wing in American politics.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Gross. I don't care who you are, President Cop is gonna be a no from me, dog.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Taylor Swift have more chances winning than Harris tbh.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sure, and Thor would have better chances than Trump. But why compare a normal candidate to a force of fucking nature?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (7 children)

What kind of dumbass article is this? Biden is the candidate the election is in five months.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They mean that he could die before then.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

fuck just restart the whole country from scratch.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Nice to know that a lot of you would vote for a slaver. Oops, sorry, forgot she is black, so that makes it okay.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What’s dystopian about this? I would vote for her in a heartbeat.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Her approval rating is lower than Biden's...

Voters have real doubts about Kamala Harris as potential president, poll finds

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/12/kamala-harris-favorability-poll-00162093

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'd vote Harris without complaint. That's basically our closest path to normality.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Without complaint? Really? The only thing she has going for her over Biden is he age

I'd vote for her the same way I'd vote for Biden - begrudgingly

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Honestly I think that's a great example of just how low my bar is at this point, younger than ancient and not trump is enough to get me excited.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (4 children)

She a scumbag cop guess if your wanting to speed run to police state faster she be your choice.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

So... instead of a conman cosplaying as a fascist, you might be getting a pig - someone well-versed in the business of fascism.

This just keeps getting better and better.

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