Posts made by chanelkokoro

@bi4smooth

This seems slightly off. The military is much better trained than police are, they kind of have to be. every service man I have ever seen speaking on this topic is appalled at policing in america. They said that not only are they taught de-escalation they are are taught abut discernment, operating under pressure, how to suppress your fear and be rational. And it makes sense, because if you think about it, if you're in the middle east you can't just go in guns blazing shooting everything that moves, you have to be able to accomplish your mission and work with allies. sometimes the mission is to rescue and protect civilians etc, this is the main reason why a lot of people who return from active combat or at least have had combat training become police officers get into these police brutality incidents much less than those who haven't, (barring the mentally ill psychos who joined the military because they just wanted to kill legally.)

the police have been militarized in the sense that they have access to all of the military's leftover toys and none of their training.

@raphjd said in Candace Owens and the art selling out your own race for profit:

@chanelkokoro

Joy Reid only added "Ann" to her name after the scandal, as if that would get people to forget it.

well Joy Ann Reid was a piece of shit before the scandal. She constantly lies about progressives and and fills middle age karens minds full of poison if you ask me. She made a career for herself by trying to make Hillary into a victim. I don't even care about the homophobic statements. I'm sure a lot of people start out homophobic until they know better. I care about the lying and obfuscating. Saying the russians or the berniecrats hacked her, like bitch who are you? why would anyone hack you, a fucking nobody? your bullshit was found on wayback machine hahaha

Maddow is pretty disappointing too. She was the only MSM host I found tolerable. Then she spent 4 years making my ears bleed explaining why the russians stole the election from hillary. She was worse than when CNN would not stop talking about the damn missing plane. I think Maddow may actually have a stroke the day she finds out hillary ain't shit.

I'm not sure if you are aware of it, but TYT is named after the people that committed the Armenian Genocide.

while that might be the case, the phrase "young turks" has a few meanings and uses in modern day society. A young turk is a rebel looking to overthrow an established system and the show was named with that concept in mind. It's a term that's been used in numerous books and songs having nothing to do with the Armenian genocide. Also, the young turks have never denied the Armenian genocide, it's because of that show that I even know what it was in the first place.

@raphjd nah he's a liberal. I mean he's an awesome liberal and I love his work, but he definitely doesn't call out the dems on the bullshit enough if at all. But he's super informative, and he's done some incredible deep dive segments I really like.

I'M to the left of him, I consider myself a leftist.

@raphjd said in Candace Owens and the art selling out your own race for profit:

David Packman isn't known for him being unbiased.

Dude, he is literally just commenting on all the insane things she said. It's not Pakman's fault that reality has a well known liberal bias.

@raphjd lmfao

Homeboy, I hate Joy Ann Reid. That homophobic dumpster trick can choke on the cum of all the straight dicks she's sucked to get that fail show on the air.

I really hope I've been clear enough.

And no, we leftists don't claim her either. Neoliberals seem to love her though for all those identity politics they're obsessed with.

@chanelkokoro *bernie's plan combines elements of the canadian and nordic system together.

@eobox91103 said in National Debt Exceeds $123 Trillion, or Nearly $800,000 per Taxpayer:

@chanelkokoro I will continue to be optimistic that things will get better for Americans in the coming years.

You probably don't live here. I don't mean it in a condescending or demeaning way, I just mean if you lived here you wouldn't say this.

I can understand the expediency of dropping the minimum wage from the COVID relief package, in order to get the needs passed.

First off, expedient? we've been fighting for 15/hr for more than a decade. This is what the damn liar ran on. And prevent it from passing for who? the majority of constituents in every single state want to see the minimum wage increased, dems are just actively going against the will over the voters.

Covid relief was a must-pass bill. Any dem that voted against it would lose their seat and spark national outrage. And even after taking out the minimum wage not a single republican voted for it. But the republicans are out of power and wholly irrelevant right now. That's why this guy who created the thread is losing it and screaming into the ether everyday, because the republicans can't do shit. This is 100% proof that democrats are the ones that killed the very 15/hr minimum wage they campaigned on, depressing their own vote and leaving the senate vulnerable for republicans to retake it in 2022. We are barely getting anything done now, when republican regain the senate it will be gridlock for the next 2 years till 2024. Meaning we only have these first 2 years to pass it.

The dems didn't have a choice but to pass that bill. So the chamber of commerce used biden and kamala to pressure bernie to take it out of the bill, in order to protect corrupt dems from voting against it. Then kamala refused to overrule the parliamentarian even though she was fully within her right to. When republicans were in charge they overruled the parliamentarian all the time. When she was against funding a war in the middle east they even fired her ass and put in someone who would agree with them for optics. Yet Kamala refused to overrule her and lift millions of americans out of poverty because she's a corrupt hack. So bernie then decided to introduce it as an amendment and 8 democrats raised their hands and voted no, because they suck corporate sell outs. Kyrsten Sinema (D) gleefully voted no and watched her approval rating tank 15 points just to say 'let them eat cake.' and the cake part is literal: Kyrsten Sinema's Marie Antoinette moment

Have you ever wondered why the republicans keep regaining power even though they are awful cutthroats whose goal is to destroy government? This is why. Because both parties are straight trash.

It remains to be seen whether the $15 plan will resurface.

If it does it will be in spite of biden, not because of him. His two strongest allies who do his bidding the two senators from delaware voted down the amendment, they are proof he's not fighting for it.

I do think it's a bit odd to have minimum wage on a national level, as there's considerable difference in the cost of living in different parts of the US. There's even a large difference in cost of living within individual states. I don't know what the right solution is here.

Federal minimum wage is a MINIMUM wage. It means the lowest a person can get paid. There is federal minimum wage and state minimum wage. The federal minimum wage is there to set a baseline that says no employer can pay someone less than this anywhere in the country and then the states set there own minimum wages that are higher than that. For example federal minimum wage is 7.25 but my state's minimum wage is $10, no one in my state can get paid less than $10.

The reason why we need to raise the federal minimum wage is because wages haven't kept up with inflation in over 40 years in america. If it did wages would be more than $23/hr right now.

15 is not even enough, but it's a start. I can't find the study so you'll just have to take my word for it but I saw a study that said the kind of wage needed to live n the POOREST county in the united states is $15.10. And this was during the obama years 5 or 6 years ago.

Raising the federal minimum wage would drive wages up all over the country, as most state wages would have to increase to be higher than the federal minimum as well. All sorts of different industries would see wages increases too just by moving up the baseline.

Healthcare policy seems to be a mess in the US. I think many people want universal health care, but there are different ways of going about it. Mr Sanders was strong on advocating this, but rather on short on details, which left him open to criticism.

This is profoundly untrue. His plan was very robust and detailed. The proposal was over 100 pages:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6785499/S1129-Medicare-for-all.pdf

Because I'm a registered nurse, this affects me and so I read every word. But even at that, Bernie explained the details of his plan over and over again, and he explained how it would be payed for over and over again. the corporatized media funded by the private insurance companies that would no longer exist should this pass just chose to keep asking how he would pay for it, lie and obfuscate. The plan is actually quite brilliant. And probably the first of its kind combining aspects of the canadian system together and offers 8 different ways we can create a tax system that will pay for it all. If implemented experts say it would cut down heathcare costs by TRILLIONS over 10 years.

Ms Warren had a more detailed plan, but I don't think many read it.

You can say you prefer warren's plan but you can't say it was more detailed when it was just a 20 page wishlist she put on her website compared to the 100 page proposal bernie put on the floor of congress. Furthermore, Bernie's plan is better simply by the virtue that it seeks to end private health insurance companies entirely through an equitable tax plan, while warren's plan (while originally stellar) sought to use a public option transition plan which would've done nothing but overburden the government the cost of the sickest individuals while the private insurance companies cherry picked the healthy, thus destroying medicare for all.

I will remain optimistic. There are 330 million people who deserve better than what they're getting.

I will remain pessimistic to balance you out bro. Someone has to.

@vmalar also we don't know why person a had the knife, it's possible she was defending herself, and it's possible she may have been the person to call the police in the first place.

to me it's just pathetic how cops shoot people to death the minute the situation becomes a little inconvenient. They rather someone else's life end than working harder to defuse a situation. This is what our taxpayer dollars are going towards?

@eobox91103 well i suppose that if he means what he says about pulling our troops out of afghanistan he'll already be a better president than war criminals bush, obama, and trump were. Plus we are 100% surviving the pandemic because of his leadership so that's something. That alone seems to make his election worth it. But I have 0 faith in him beyond that. He does have a well documented history of being a corporate prostitute, something he admitted himself:

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Trust me, when Biden hit 40 he did hit that electric slide straight to Goldman Sachs and has never left ever since.

Biden's been in office for nearly half a year. It's not a question of him not being there long enough, Biden has ALREADY killed 15 dollar minimum wage, something he said was a campaign guarantee, by taking it out of the must-pass covid relief package. Then he along with 8 other democratic senators, including the 2 senators from delaware his own home state, killed 15 dollar minimum wage again when Bernie introduced it as an amendment to the bill. Then they punted the ball to the senate parliamentarian an unelected busybody whose opinion can easily be overruled by the vice president.

Of course Kamala Harris, another two faced lying pos who ran on 15 dollar minimum wage chose not to overrule her and now here we are. Now it won't even be discussed for the next 4 years while there are people in the country making $7.25/hr and tipped workers are making $2.13/hr. The dems promised this over and over again. 15/hr minimum wage was a core promise. Now we are likely to lose the senate to the republicans in 2022, because people will always prefer the party of bad ideas, to the party of no ideas.

Biden has some good rhetoric on the environment but this is the same guy who has supported fracking and pipelines, and the empowered the banks to screw over their consumers and fund the pollution of the environment, so I'll believe it when I actually see it.

I voted for Howie Hawkins of the Green Party because I didn't want to have to choose between a climate change denier and a climate change enabler. We could've had a real president for once, like Bernie Sanders, but the fox news and the older generation of geriatric losers and has beens banded together to ruin the dreams of a generation by running a smear campaign against a man who simply wanted to bring America universal healthcare and making him out to be a Bolshevik commie.

As a proud African American woman myself, let me just say this: We do not claim her.

Saying it louder for the bitches in the back: WE DO NOT CLAIM HER.

candace owens lies about the george floyd trial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MizHuGWl0ww&t=338s

@eobox91103 omg That's such a great point. I'm a nurse, I'm positive they wipe down the injection site first.

I agree with cenk, the male host, in saying that the death penalty is wrong because we keep executing the wrong people.

I don't mind killing people who have killed people especially in purposeful and cruel ways. I'll go even farther and say, I believe people should die the same exact way you killed someone else. If you shot someone to death you should be shot to death, if you knifed someone you should be knifed, if you strangled someone you should be strangled, and if you raped someone you should be raped too. But I'm not a bible hugger who purports to be pro life though. I'm pro justice. I'm sure there is something about this logic that's a bit messed up, but I can't help the way I feel.

The only problem is that we keep killing innocent people on death row. And I'd rather get rid of the death penalty entirely than risk even 1 innocent person dying because of it.

@eobox91103 No the jury is not still out of Biden. Biden has been a lying pos for 30 years, who only became president after his third try because he stood next to the country's first black president for 4 years. Biden only looks like he's doing a good job because trump spent 4 whole years ramming that bar into the dirt.

Biden has already gone back on several campaign promises which include him killing 15 minimum wage, refusing to repeal the trump tax cuts, refusing to decriminalize marijuana by taking off the schedule 1 drug class, a move that biden could have done unilaterally by himself on his first day if he wanted.

Biden and Kamala is the one who empowered these cops to start butchering people in the streets like animals in the first place. While his own son was busy getting high off his damn face and committing drug crimes of his own, he helped his child, he wanted empathy for his child, he sent his kid to rehab, and got him a nice cushy job, all while working his ass off to make sure that other people's children went to jail for making the same mistakes his son did.

Biden fought the desegregation of schools and school busing and is quoted as saying "I don't my kids going to school in a racial jungle." If you don't know this, Biden is a racist sack of shit human being on two legs, who only got elected because America doesn't deserve nice things.

Biden only won by 43,000 votes in 3 states, that's it. If trump wasn't such an incompetent jackass who didn't bungle a global pandemic in 18 different ways, he would've sailed to re-election, because again, America doesn't deserve nice things.

@eobox91103 said in Party of family values part 1 :

It's also the "pro-life" party that favours capital punishment.

Here is fox news celebrating that South Carolina brought back the firing squad in may of 2021:

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@bi4smooth Arizona just spent $150,000 proving Biden won Arizona.

It doesn't bring me joy to say that as I hate Biden almost as much as I hate Trump and didn't vote for either of them, but it is what it is. When people were saying trump stole the election from Hillary because russians got on facebook and called her a bad person, I rolled my eyes vigorously at that notion as well.

Hillary lost because she was a soulless piece of shit for stood for nothing. People wanted to try a wild card like trump because trump wasn't a politician so they thought he'd bring something new to the table. Instead he put corruption on steroids and ran the united clown show of america for 4 years. After 4 years of seeing what incompetent rich man buffoonery looks like people went back to standard scumbag politicians. This is not that hard.

the fact that Trump continues to con his base to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars perpetuating the lie that the election was stolen is just chef's kiss. Rudy Giuliani was laughed out of court 60 times after he himself told the court they had no evidence.

but why? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fjGG_ZlfGQ

This is the party that cannot stop obsessing over the trans bathrooms and underground pedophile rings.