• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    Just getting together well-meaning people and talking things out is like the pinnacle of liberal ideology too. Don’t know why so many Democrats are tripping over their feet to paint the protests as bad and cheer on the cops. You have your perfect resolution right there!

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      8 months ago

      Because far too many US Dems are cowards who live in fear of the conservative news media who will claim, no matter what they do, that they are “soft on crime.”

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        8 months ago

        Presidential candidate Trump claims to be tough on crime. But is that really true? Record incarceration rates, increased violence, increased crime statistics. President Biden is the toughest president on crime yet. Debt forgiveness, decriminalisation of drugs, police reforms, rehabilitative incarceration, mental health subsidies, affordable healthcare, and free housing make Biden America’s biggest enemy of crime. President Biden: say no to crime.

        Whitehouse should just run this ad and actually implement these policies. Start redefining what it means to be tough on crime. It’s not hard, it just takes actually disagreeing with reactionaries on premises. Unfortunately, Biden is trying his damndest to lose the election this year.

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          8 months ago

          it should be easy to paint politicians as pro crime when they oppose gun control, oppose limits on ammunition purchases, support arming criminals, psychologically disturbed, violent abusers, etc.

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        8 months ago

        The media isn’t making up Biden’s call for law and order, nor the calls from the Democratic governors in CA and NY, or the Democratic mayor (albeit DINO) of NYC. Basically every statement by a non-progressive politician is vague support for freedom of speech before moving on to statements about violence and antisemitism (generally unsupported) and how protests aren’t supposed to actually inconvenience or disrupt anyone’s lives.