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[–] 71 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Also, bodycams were always a cop wishlist item. They control the footage, does anyone think if ICE had bodycams there would be transparency? Of course not, there would be a ton of “malfunctioning” bodycams when they did some shit, and in any case where a civilian showed even a hint of resistance or that they might fight back, the footage would be used to bury them.

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  • [–] 39 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    If the bodycams came with a law that said  that in case of malfunction of the bodycam the one to be trust is the civilian all those "malfunctioning" bodycams wouldn't have any problem working right.

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  • [–] 64 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    News about the USA makes me so incredibly sad and anxious currently.

    I hope the world won't go to shit and people will eventually see reason again.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I think the sooner we stop hoping and start fighting, will improve our chances to see a world based on freedom and reason within our lifetimes.

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    [–] 49 points 9 months ago

    Semi trucks have camera systems that send recorded events to a third party to be monitored and stored in case needed. The only reason this is not done is because police want the ability to cover up their crimes.

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  • [–] 42 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    The most telling part of the vid is where he switches the camera from his right hand to his left, so he can pull his gun out with his right hand.

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  • [–] 37 points 9 months ago

    Gives the same vibes as believing being anonymous online encourages hate, when the same people wouldn't change their behavior when they are not anonymous.

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  • [–] 164 points 9 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 55 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    "We need police reform in america!"

    Unironically, Democrats:

    (This is clothing specific to Ghana (We didn't get police reform.))

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  • [–] 149 points 9 months ago (76 children)

    Dems are beholden to billionaires. They just don’t want to be as obvious as Republicans.

    It’s not liberals versus conservatives.

    It’s the rich versus the rest.

    There’s a lot more of us than there are of them.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (72 children)

    DNC platform is tax the rich, raise minimum wage, and fund social programs. They have had 48 or less senators for over 13 years, currently 45. The last time they had 58 for less than two months they caucused with 2 independents to pass Medicaid. They would have launched a Public Option identical to Germany's healthcare if not for one of those independents opposing it.

    DNC is liberal, DNC is on our side, Vote DNC. Or, if an independent polls higher, then vote for them because at least they're not a Republican and removing every single Republican should be our goal.

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  • [–] 36 points 9 months ago (21 children)

    Many democrats are on our side. Historically, traditionally the DNC AKA leadership absolutely isn't. There have been some changes in recent history. And that's good. But till there's enough history to plot out a new pattern of behavior. We'd be fools to treat them as if they changed.

    The biggest problem with the Democratic party for decades has been that they're serving two masters. Lip-service to the voters to try and get their neoliberal candidates in office. But legislating largely for the major donors that took over funding the party once Reagan broke the unions. The DNC talks the talk. But atm are unable to walk the walk. I hope that changes soon. With each death and retirement, things look a little better for them.

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  • [+] 5 points 9 months ago (11 children)
  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    Everyone does. AOC and Mamdani literally are marching with us. It's largely leadership that keeps anything from getting done or changing. Blame them.

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  • [+] 1 point 9 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    AOC and Mamdani are leadership? Did anyone tell them or the DNC that?

    The closest we're getting to a shell game here is painting with a broad brush and lumping them all into one shell. You're never going to get the old guard out if you continue to make enemies of the ones actually working to do it.

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  • [+] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I was. Literally what I was talking about in the post you replied to before this. Did you reply to the wrong person?

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago* (8 children)

    Many democrats are on our side.

    Yeah, like three of them.

    And the rest are fighting harder to stop Democrats who actually are on our side than they are against fascists: people like Mamdani and Platner.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Yep, but thankfully it looks like Mamdani and Platner might be changing the equation. Fingers crossed.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Fetterman was always shit. Long before he was elected. Still better than memeht oz. But yes, AOC has significantly pushed back against neoliberal leadership. Not perfect by any means. But some small hope for future improvement as more like her get elected.

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  • [+] 15 points 9 months ago (10 children)
  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    The current batch believes in ending PACs, taxing the rich, and expanding healthcare. Most importantly, perhaps, is they replace Republicans who would actively harm us all. Why don't you want those things?

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  • [+] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)
  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (7 children)

    They had 58 senate seats 16 years ago for 2 months. They had 53 seats over 13 years ago. They had 48 or less every year since.

    And yet they do pass such legislations literally all the time. You just ignored it.

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  • [+] 2 points 9 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I'm all for newer more progressive dems, but the way you insult and drag through the mud all the current dems is ridiculous and harmful to us all.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I think it's ridiculous and harmful to ignore the lack of rhetoric lining up with our interests over the last 16 years as well as who they endorse and more importantly, who they don't. It's not remotely difficult to believe they're complicit when they don't stand up for civil rights for trans people, don't call the republicans what they actually are, capitulate early for no reason on the shutdown, seriously spare us the hand-wringing, that's all they ever offer now days. You don't have to have power to say the right thing, and they don't, simple as that.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It's ridiculous if you have no knowledge of policies written in the past two decades, I guess.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    Rhetoric is almost as important as policy. If you see your leaders back down, your only option is to be mad at them and assert your right to what they capitulated on, or tell yourself that you don't really need it after all. An actual leader doesn't stop fighting because they lose or don't have the votes, they fight for the public mandate that will make up this difference in power and it becomes a larger fight. This is what Mamdani did instead of capitulating to the party that told him to stand down. The democratic leaders should be more like him, and less like whatever the fuck they're trying to be right now.

    If you can excuse schumer and jeffries not endorsing Mamdani that's certainly a stance you can make, but having such low standards as to openly support them can't be good for your psyche. I'd rather vote for them and outwardly hate them, because being able to do math and tell a fascist from a neoliberal isn't the same as an endorsement, which you seem confused about.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Schumer and Jeffries did endorse Mamdani in the general, even if a bit late. That's what I'm talking about, a large number of people seem either totally ignorant or completely in the dark about what the DNC do, instead seeing some warped reality where they're the villains.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    Schumer did not in fact endorse Mamdani and just so we're clear, "a bit late" to you means the day before voting started. I'm glad you've clarified that that was the type of thing you're talking about, where you're objectively wrong on one and incredibly minimizing on the second. No wonder you like these empty suits.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    The DNC has had multiple opportunities to tax the rich, raise minimum wage, and fund social programs during my lifetime and they have not done so once. I don’t believe them anymore when they say it’s their platform.

    Being anti-Republican isn’t enough anymore. This shit will keep happening for as long as we allow private ownership of the means of production.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    The quiet part is there wasn’t a plan to tax the rich for another decade or two when they thought shit would actually hit the fan. Shit hit the fan much sooner than they hoped, as this was an issue they were going to leave the next generation to handle. It’s more an issue of the baby boomers having had control of the DNC for decades.

    Business was booming during the Obama years; why did it matter to the rich people in Congress if the rest of us had to hustle more? That’s the real reason they didn’t tax the rich when they could have, well that and they were getting tons of funding from the big businesses.

    The pro-corporate Dem plans went up in flames quite a lot when Hillary was not elected. Now that shit got worse much sooner than they hoped, they’re in a rock and a hard place because they still don’t want to tax their rich buddies but the voters are actually pushing to vote them out if they keep doing nothing.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    They have actually. They do those things literally every time they enter power. Maybe try searching if a statement is true before you post it.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    The last legislation I can remember is the pro act, which failed. There have been progressive executive orders, progressive agency moves in the executive, progressive judges appointed, but all of this was destroyed by sleeper agent dinos. I'm also not remotely naive enough to believe that Manchin, Sinema, and Fetterman are the only ones. Legacy fossils like Dick Durbin was literally the leader and he betrayed us recently upon retirement. They're largely career-minded capitalists through and through with few exceptions, the rotating villain shtick is fucking old. We're dying, it's not enough.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Biden Administration:

    • expanded overtime pay eligibility to millions

    • forgave $186 Billion of student loans despite constant pushback from Republican AGs and courts

    • increased audits for the rich, which payed for itself and more

    • allowed over-the-counter birth control to hit the markets

    • pardoned thousands of marijuana convictions, commuting 2500+ sentences

    • awarded $286 million for schools student mental health programs

    • replaced more federal vehicle fleets with all electric

    • expanded solar and wind power across the nation

    • drafted new anti-redlining predatory mortgage regulations which went into effect in January

    • a crackdown on hidden fees from service providers, ticket sellers, and banks

    • forced Chinese companies to properly report SEC Filings in order to remain publicly tradeable

    • expanded less carbon intensive farming practices in the USA

    • expanded nature conservation and national parks more than any past president, including $4 Billion for the preservation of the shrinking Colorado River

    • cut federal funding for career training programs which trap their students in more debt relative to their post-graduation earnings

    • brokered a peace deal in the Congo

    • strengthened alliance with Japan and South Korea over countering potential threats from China and North Korea

    • funded medical research for things like cancer, countering the previous cuts by Republicans

    • helped Class-A railroad workers to have industry-wide paid sick leave, albeit after he undercut their strike he still aided them in getting all of their demands in the following months

    • literally penned the first and then only AI oversight and regulation with his AI Executive Order

    • investigated grocery store price gouging and blocked mergers such as Krogers-Albertsons

    • The Respect for Marriage Act which protects gay marriage

    • protected LGBT+ Service Members and Veterans

    • signed multiple executive orders protecting lgbt+ throughout the federal government including "prevent and combat discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation" and "advance equality for LGBTQI+ individuals"

    • appointed the first openly LGBTQI+ Cabinet Secretary, White House Press Secretary, and White House Communications Director, the two first openly transgender people to ever be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and the first out lesbian to achieve the rank of Ambassador.

    this list goes on, and Biden wasn't even particularly powerful given his only senate majority was 47 DNC and 3 Independents with VP tiebreaker, and only for 2 years.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Brother, I literally said there have been progressive executive orders and progressive agency moves in the second sentence and virtually all this is executive shit. The only thing I see from congress is the respect for marriage act, which was put in place as a wall to prevent backflow of civil rights that the Supreme court granted in Obergefell v Hodges. You may as well give credit to Neil Gorsuch in your effort to thank Democrats in Congress for writing the opinion that gave them the courage to act on something they should have done during the Clinton era.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    You can't complain that a party with between 45 and 48 senators isn't passing enough legislation. They literally don't have the votes to pass legislation unless all of the stars align and Republicans forget to filibuster. By your logic you're giving Republicans credit for not blocking that particular piece.

    Some of what I mentioned was a part of the massive Inflation Reduction Act which did a lot more than reduce inflation.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    I certainly can when my criticism isn't that they're not passing shit they don't have the numbers for, but rather that they don't stand for anything that isn't already in the public mandate. Idk how many times it needs to be mentioned, apparently more times than I have patience for.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    No, I'm pretty sure Democrats are for more funding for ICE. Don't project your ideals into these ghouls.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (26 children)

    DNC platform is tax the rich, raise minimum wage, and fund social programs.

    And their campaign promises have so much value, clearly.

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  • [+] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    they have absolutely no chance intention of pulling any of it off

    I corrected this slightly, but you're right. They know that none of it is actually going to get done, and they have the excuses already lined up: not enough votes, obstruction, filibuster, parliamentarian, etc. etc. etc.

    It's the same reason some billionaires insist that they support higher taxation on themselves, because they know it is never going to happen.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (23 children)

    Maybe if we had more than 48 we could find out. Let's call their bluff.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    I agree.

    And also, itd be great if senators like Bernie, Warren and others, actually called out their "peers" who are obviously blocking progress.

    I think my two Senators: Kaine, and Warner are playing a shell game where they go as corporate as they can and still give the appearance of resistance.

    And yet I ha e to vote for them until there is a viable alternative. Its just so frustrating the lack of transparency.

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  • [+] -16 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    Honestly, I think voting for them isn't even enough. We have to promote them. We have to outwardly support them and not talk shit about them online or in public, or else they will lose to a Republican and we'll be all that much worse off.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I mean, depends on your definition of "talking shit" is. If you would describe what I said as "talking sbit" I think that makes the party way too inwardly focused, and almost "cult of personality" like we see from the republicans.

    The good thing about the democratic party is the wide tent and diversity of strategies. We need to be more transparent and proove ourselves since we dont (alway) have millionaire and billionaire funding.

    I would not slander Democrats and still encourage voting, but to take a different stance, I cant exactly enourage Palestinians to vote for a candidate that actively promoted the genocide of their people. So its tricky, and open primaries and diqlog really clarify all that.

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  • [+] -6 points 9 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago*

    What do you even mean? I did vote. And just because someone feels ok voting foe someone doesnt mean others do. Are you saying all muslims are the same? Wow.

    Edit to be clear, I went out and knocked doors for that election too (2024), but I refused to campaign explicitely for the higher ups, and focused on local candidates I actually believed in. This drives interest up the ticket.

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  • [+] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    The DNC and any Democrat is better than any Republican, and their voting histories are full undeniable evidence of that.

    You want a better world? Vote DNC.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    It was suspicious how many accounts claiming to be left-leaning all of a sudden in like, July 2024 decided to suddenly buy the lies the GOP had been selling for years that Biden was old and senile just because he has a stutter.

    The DNC does need to have better primaries though. Which means people PARTICIPATING in them. But also not allowing people like Bloomberg to buy their way in. To actually HOLD primaries like they didn't for Biden's incumbent campaign.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Biden won the primary just like every incumbent in us history, and then he stepped down and his Vice President took over.

    And when Biden won the previous primary in 2020, he actually more than doubled the runner up Bernie Sanders.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    Nonsense.

    Donald has the same amount of power that Clinton, Obama, and Biden had.

    The problem isn't a lack of power. It's their predilection to enrich themselves at the expense of their constituents. The only difference is Donald isn't offering shitty excuses like Dems do.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (3 children)

    Biden had the least amount of power because as I mentioned the DNC have had 48 or less senators for over 13 years.

    To be clear, Trump's power comes solely from inaction in the Senate.

    But, on that note, Biden accomplished a lot of great things including taxing the rich.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Biden accomplished a lot of great things

    Totally. Genocide Joe achieved an economy that has my 80 year-old parents driving for DoorDash in a car they borrow from me, so his economy won't render them homeless.

    Awesome guy, that Joe.

    Love it.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Man, you must have been a Maga until the Epstein files came out if you really believe all that. I normally try to bring reason and facts to every argument but I think this might be a tried and true "turtles all the way down" moment.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    I'm not MAGA at all.

    I hate partisans of both team colors, and I think it is objectively false to call Biden 'great' in any context. I wish he'd spent half as much time making sure Americans can eat and put a roof over his head as he did keeping his son out prison.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Every time the Dems have had a majority in my lifetime, they have failed to even discuss progressive legislation, let alone try to enact it.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The Dems had control for a few months in 2011, and that was when they passed the ACA. That was the only point in my lifetime they controlled the government.

    The last time before that was 1961-1969. Which included such legislation as the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act, though in sure you can find plenty more that was passed.

    Not to mention that the Dems have absolutely been discussing progressive legislation. It's failed to pass, passed and then been vetoed, or even at times been passed and then struck down by conservative courts.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    In 2003 they banned campaign funding from PACs instead allowing only a maximum from individuals, but in 2007-2010 the SCOTUS shut it down then declared it unconstitutional.

    The Inflation Reduction Act also contained a ton of good stuff not even related to Inflation.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The ACA is the brainchild of the Heritage Foundation. It is not progressive legislation.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I'm sorry that you think tens of millions of americans don't deserve any medical care, but keep in mind they had to pass the watered down version due to Independent Joe Leiberman being the 60th vote needed to bypass the Republican Fillibuster.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Maybe someone bought Axon stock recently and is looking to boost its value?

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago

    there is no lesser evil, just the same evil dressed in different clothes

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    They only released this video because they somehow thought it exonerated the killer. They don't release the videos of them abusing victims at their concentration camps, or breaking into peoples homes. They should always be on camera.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago

    As long as the gas chambers are up to code, who am I to judge? - Lib circa 1944

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Both parties grift, and we need a Third Party.

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