Political Discussions for "Adults"

The Batlord · 08-07-2020, 03:45 AM

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OccultHawk · 08-07-2020, 04:57 AM

On and on til the break of dawn
Mother****ers in Portland stay ****ing strong

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The Pacific Northwest Youth Liberation Front, which advertised the Wednesday rally on social media, used Twitter to announce “Round 2” of the same demonstration on Thursday night with the slogan “No cops. No prisons. Total abolition.”

The group, which described itself as a “decentralized network of autonomous youth collectives dedicated to direct action towards total liberation,” did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

“You are not demonstrating, you are attempting to commit murder,” Mayor Ted Wheeler said Thursday in a hastily called news conference alongside Portland Police Chief Chuck Lovell. Wheeler also warned that the city anticipated more “attacks on public buildings” in the immediate future.

That federal building courthouse is getting razed bitches!

SGR · 08-07-2020, 05:32 AM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

In theory I'm for it

but in practice it'd make the country less democratic

the presidency is typically won by Democrats after all because simply more people vote Democrat

I don't know if that's true. Democrat presidents have done plenty of things that could be considered undemocratic (the bigggest example off the top of my head are the Japanese internment camps that FDR set up). Just because a president is a Democrat doesn't mean that every executive order they issue or warlike behavior they engage in is suddenly an extension of the Democratic will of the people. Limiting the power of the presidency would be meant to prevent executive overreach of power, whether said President is a Republican or Democrat.

And I think, in strict terms, America has elected more Republicans than Democrats, if we're starting the count from the right place (Democrats beginning with Andrew Jackson and Republicans beginning with Abraham Lincoln).

**Marie Monday** · 08-07-2020, 06:05 AM

Giving the president less power sounds like a good idea to me. I think the problem goes much deeper than that though, and needs much more drastic measures. The problem is that many good ideas don't turn out the way they're meant. For instance the communes and anarchist camps that WWWP mentioned would be great but I think in reality humankind is just not good and altruistic enough to make it work and it would descend into fascism or violent everyone-for-themselves anarchism

Psy-Fi · 08-07-2020, 06:13 AM

Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence

Anteater · 08-07-2020, 07:24 AM

C'mon Biden, all you have to do is sit in your basement, take your meds and binge Netflix...then boom, you'll win in November. Stop getting in front of podiums - Bloomberg learned that the hard way.

Politico - Biden: Latino community is diverse, ‘unlike the African American community’

OccultHawk · 08-07-2020, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday

Giving the president less power sounds like a good idea to me. I think the problem goes much deeper than that though, and needs much more drastic measures. The problem is that many good ideas don't turn out the way they're meant. For instance the communes and anarchist camps that WWWP mentioned would be great but I think in reality humankind is just not good and altruistic enough to make it work and it would descend into fascism or violent everyone-for-themselves anarchism

As opposed to what?

Plus don’t forget she included no breeding.

OccultHawk · 08-07-2020, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi

Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence

Not a bash on you for posting that but I hardly needed a poll to tell me that.

Portland is whiter than a Mormon snowman anyway.

OccultHawk · 08-07-2020, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Anteater

C'mon Biden, all you have to do is sit in your basement, take your meds and binge Netflix...then boom, you'll win in November. Stop getting in front of podiums - Bloomberg learned that the hard way.

Politico - Biden: Latino community is diverse, ‘unlike the African American community’

lol

I get what he’s saying because LatinX is deeply tied to their countries of origin but it’s still such a foot in the mouth statement - Jesus- the funny thing is Trump doesn’t even need black supporters. He just needs them to cross into the gray area of whether they’ll choose to watch Netflix that day or bother to go vote.

It’s hard not to want Biden to lose just to laugh at how stupid of a choice he was.

SGR · 08-07-2020, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

lol

I get what he’s saying because LatinX is deeply tied to their countries of origin but it’s still such a foot in the mouth statement - Jesus- the funny thing is Trump doesn’t even need black supporters. He just needs them to cross into the gray area of whether they’ll choose to watch Netflix that day or bother to go vote.

It’s hard not to want Biden to lose just to laugh at how stupid of a choice he was.

I think it would be more fun if, at the last minute, they swap Biden for Hillary and Hillary loses yet again. It would again, of course, be the fault of sexism.

Biden is, of course, a terrible choice. The Dems deserve it if they lose.