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[–] 50 points 1 day ago (10 children)

No one needed to sell out the Democrats. When Nixon was president, the entire time the Democrats held strong majorities in both bodies of the legislature. You know what they did with it? They joined Nixon in developing the war on drugs to turn normal legal behavior into felonies that would disenfranchise Black people and those that associated with them.

The Ds have ALWAYS been this evil. No one needed to sell them out. They have always been a faction of the elite collaborating with the other factions of the elite.

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  • [–] 15 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

    When Nixon was around, conservative Dixiecrats were still a thing. You can't really compare across different party systems.

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  • [–] 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

    Sure, that's why Biden was different when he architected the crime bill and why Clinton was different when he went after Black "super predators" and spiked racialized incarceration and why Obama was different when he expanded DHS and ICE immensely and appointed Homan and deported 3M people and human rights organizations fought his policies and why Obama and Clinton devastated Libya. Very different

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I think it's like squares and rectangles. All republicans are absolute shitheads. Some Democrats are, too.

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  • [–] 1 point 23 hours ago

    They're all rotten.

    Niggas talk about change and working within the system to achieve that The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try To change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system It's the system that will eventually change you There is usually nothing wrong with compromise in a situation But compromising yourself in a situation is another story completely And I have seen this happen long enough in the few years that I've been alive to know that it's a serious problem

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Yeah Chomsky spoke about it in the 70s as well, I think

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