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DOJ refuses to hand over Epstein files after judge’s order
(www.independent.co.uk)
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You've obviously never been poor. Being poor is a lot of extra work, just to stay fed, keep your body and your clothes clean, stay healthy and get to and from work assuming you have a job. For some people, homelessness and then starvation are not all that far away. You want them to do what, spend a few hours holding a sign at a protest, maybe get arrested and lose their job? With time stolen from their sleep while they work 2 jobs? I mean come on.
Wait, do you think “holding a sign at a protest” is “taking action?” That’s called “basic participation in democracy.”
Jesus Christ. Somehow I continue to be surprised every day by how fucked your country actually is. People like you are part of the problem.
Am I? I am an old rich white guy who remembers saving up over multiple paychecks to buy a pair of pants to go to an interview for a real job, and had to take a 2 hour busride each way to that job until I could afford a car payment a year later. I still held petitions on street corners in Seattle for medical marijuana, upping the minimum wage, and stopping killing of Palestinians. This was ~ 1995. And look at the results. I was part of a Bosnian refugee program too, that was one of the only things I did that made any difference in our "democracy". If we weigh 60 years of results against the effort that went into them, its not working well enough and never has. We need to evolve, and yelling at impoverished young adults that they are at fault is not a coherent answer, if you'd just understand the data we already have.
You’re an old rich white liberal wondering if you’re part of the problem? Cool, cool.
I am. With a social work resume pages long. And you're just running your mouth about things you dont understand and have no experience in. Cool, cool back at you.
A condescending, virtue signaling old rich white liberal, even. Yeah, tracks.