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JimmiC
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ZerOCoolSC2
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House lawmakers on Wednesday passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a police reform bill that would ban chokeholds and eliminate qualified immunity for law enforcement. The 220-212 vote came nine months after Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed by Minneapolis police officers last spring. The wide-ranging legislation would also ban no-knock warrants, mandate data collection on police encounters, prohibit racial and religious profiling and redirect funding to community-based policing programs. "Never again should an unarmed individual be murdered or brutalized by someone who is supposed to serve and protect them," said Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., in a statement. "Never again should the world be subject to witnessing what we saw happen to George Floyd in the streets in Minnesota." In debate on the House floor Wednesday evening before the vote, Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota said Minneapolis is still traumatized by Floyd's death. "Time and time again we have witnessed the people who are sworn to protect our communities abuse their power," she said. Source Edit: Also in other news, the grifting does not stop. The brazenness of the past administration to openly steal from the american people and flaunt it. That's *chefs kiss* fantastic. It being mcturtle's wife makes even more hilarious that he tries to maintain any high ground whatsoever. In her time as former President Donald Trump's transportation secretary, Elaine Chao repeatedly used her position and agency staff to help family members who run a shipping business with ties to China, in potential violation of federal ethics laws, according to an Office of Inspector General report. The findings were uncovered in the Transportation Department's inspector general report released Wednesday that detailed the office's investigation into Chao's dealings as secretary. The inspector general referred the findings to the Justice Department in December 2020. But with the Trump administration coming to a close, the DOJ declined to open its own investigation into the matter citing "there is not predication" to do so. Chao, who is married to Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced her resignation Jan 7, saying she was deeply troubled by the previous day's mob attack on the Capitol "in a way that I simply cannot set aside." Her term was set to end at President Biden's swearing-in. The Transportation Department watchdog launched the probe into Chao's actions as secretary following news reports that detailed her interactions with family in her post as the agency's head. That included an official trip to China in 2017 in which her father and sister were set to join her and participate in high-level meetings. But as the OIG report details, Chao also tasked her staff with far more than travel planning. The internal watchdog cited Chao for four kinds of ethics violations, including requiring DOT's staff to help with personal errands and with marketing her father's biography. Source | ||
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JimmiC
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Mohdoo
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farvacola
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Jockmcplop
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farvacola
United States18828 Posts
On March 05 2021 04:44 Jockmcplop wrote: When you punch the right wing culture war outrage bear money comes out of its mouth. In that sense, this debacle can be neatly compared with the GME short squeeze, tons of people legitimately thought they were sticking it to the Man by pumping GME up; meanwhile, giant market players like Blackrock lapped it all up to the tune of billions. | ||
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Jockmcplop
United Kingdom9658 Posts
On March 05 2021 04:48 farvacola wrote: In that sense, this debacle can be neatly compared with the GME short squeeze, tons of people legitimately thought they were sticking it to the Man by pumping GME up; meanwhile, giant market players like Blackrock lapped it all up to the tune of billions. Next will surely be transgender Lego. The mix of nostalgia, social movements and outrage will be impossible for the public to resist. | ||
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farvacola
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Doublemint
Austria8541 Posts
On March 05 2021 01:56 farvacola wrote: The issue is largely that Dr. Seuss carried over some of his anti-Asian depictions from his wartime cartoons to his foray into children's books. The idea that outraged people want to force his estate to publish his works against its wishes is hilarious. the silliness is that it is the Seuss ESTATE itself that CHOSE to avoid publishing 6 - six - books out of 45 - fortyfive!- because of what they themselves believe are bad/problematic/racist cartoons. how they even come close to "DR. SEUSS CANCELLED - THANK YOU SLEEPY RADICAL WOKE BIDEN" is... just next level. as if Biden and Kamala burned Dr.Seuss books on the WH lawn next to crying kids while laughing maniacally. | ||
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Salazarz
Korea (South)2591 Posts
On March 05 2021 04:48 farvacola wrote: In that sense, this debacle can be neatly compared with the GME short squeeze, tons of people legitimately thought they were sticking it to the Man by pumping GME up; meanwhile, giant market players like Blackrock lapped it all up to the tune of billions. The whole 'sticking it to the Man' narrative is vastly overhyped. It's just a narrative, no one was seriously throwing their money into GME because they wanted to 'stick it to the man', everyone is / was doing it because they want to make money. It's the same as Bitcoin -- lots of talk about all sorts of ideological bullshit but at the end of the day, the only real reason anyone is buying / holding it is because there's money to be made doing so; the demagoguery is just tacked on top of it to make folks feel better about themselves, since it's a lot 'cooler' to be invested into something when it's for a cause. | ||
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WombaT
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On March 05 2021 12:03 Salazarz wrote: The whole 'sticking it to the Man' narrative is vastly overhyped. It's just a narrative, no one was seriously throwing their money into GME because they wanted to 'stick it to the man', everyone is / was doing it because they want to make money. It's the same as Bitcoin -- lots of talk about all sorts of ideological bullshit but at the end of the day, the only real reason anyone is buying / holding it is because there's money to be made doing so; the demagoguery is just tacked on top of it to make folks feel better about themselves, since it's a lot 'cooler' to be invested into something when it's for a cause. I’m not so sure with this specific instance, although in general I think you’re on the money there. You hate hedge fund bullshit, well vote for the party that doesn’t like hedge funds... Ok they don’t exist so then what? I’m sure many just wanted to make money, and many jumped at the chance to hurt any of these folk and the general system in which they operate. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23250 Posts
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brian
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NewSunshine
United States5938 Posts
On March 06 2021 10:13 GreenHorizons wrote: The Senate found some bipartisanship with 8 Democrats voting to shoot down $15/hr min wage by 2025. Unconscionable imo. Criticisms of an increase on the grounds of it being too much, too fast ring pretty hollow when they still found plenty of motivation to vote against a 4-year implementation. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Doublemint
Austria8541 Posts
On March 06 2021 10:46 JimmiC wrote: Is it not everyone who is against it the problem? Edit: like these guys are levels worse. https://ca.yahoo.com/news/paul-gosar-white-nationalist-republican-104500349.html sure. it's just that the sting is a very different one if "your side" that is supposed to see things very much the same and also reach the same conclusions on how to fix problems are not with you on such a vote. that's also an explanation why the infighting among - generally - like minded coalition parties/groups is so fierce. centrist Dems and lefties - generic Rs and Trump wing. | ||
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Doublemint
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JimmiC
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Zambrah
United States7312 Posts
https://twitter.com/joelmwarner/status/1367992193366032390?s=20 Democrats are going to get crushed in 2022, and then they can go back to their happy place of pretending like they ever intend to do anything half decent for the American people. Vote Blue No Matter Who really feels like its wound up being Vote Blue Ha Ha Fuck You. | ||
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