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[-] [email protected] 75 points 4 days ago

"What I have seen is a demand that we get ourselves arrested intentionally or allow ourselves to be victims of violence, and ... a lot of times that's coming from economically very secure white people," said an eighth House Democrat.
"Not only would that be a gift to Donald Trump, not only would it make the job of Republicans in Congress easier if we were all mired in legal troubles ... [we are] a group that is disproportionately people of color, women, LGBTQ people — people who do not fare very well in prison."

ALL THE PEOPLE CURRENTLY GETTING ARRESTED TRYING TO DO YOUR JOB FOR YOU COULD TELL YOU AS MUCH, DIPSHIT

[-] [email protected] 54 points 4 days ago

a demand that we... allow ourselves to be victims of violence

Yes. It's me folks. I'm the one that's demanding this. The rest of the quote confirms why I will continue demanding it.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago

It's like if a firefighter complained like "they want me to run in to a burning building? Pfft as if!"

[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

“Not only would that be a gift to the fire, not only would it make the fire’s job easier if we were all mired in emergency response… [we are] a group that is disproportionately harmed by fire.”

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

I could die in the fire and then there would be less firefighters

[-] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago

Also most of them are rich and politically connected, which matters more than literally anything else for how you fare in prison.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago

anakin-padme-2 So you've spent your political career trying to fix the known problems in American prisons, right?

[-] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago

Interesting how doing anything is a "gift to Donald Trump" but not stopping him isn't?

[-] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Lmao and here comes the idpol shield they love using so much. Too bad they shown none of that for Zohran or any marginalized person to their left.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago

Yeah, Senators famously face more injustice than everyone else. They can't afford legal defense, and the media doesn't care when they're arrested.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago

"Nobody told us that this great power that we voluntarily obtained came with responsibilities!" angery

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago
[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

I just want to be on the beach why do they need me to press a stupid button on the stupid little desk shrek-pixel-despair

[-] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

Lmao the fucking endgame boss of liberal idpol is a black senator implying there's a racism ick factor when rich white people complain about them

[-] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago

You can only demand that your elected representatives take a stand for something when you're poor enough to be ignored.

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