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"And it's eerily similar to the double standards enjoyed by the apparatchiks back in the Soviet Union."
Yes, absolutely.
And there is yet another similarity: the #fascist movement in #Italy with its #BlackShirts came into existence b/c the #Italian landed gentry and industrialists were afraid of losing their property to the plebs, like their #Russian counterparts in the #OctoberRevolution of 1918.
Seen from this perspective, #Communism is the...
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...their peers or another branch of government. (Impeachment is clearly not working for the Presidential office, the chief reason being the undemocratic #filibuster.)
So, any any special Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights (#LEBOR, #LEOBR, or #LEOBoR) for the police is undemocratic and should be ruled unconstitutional, including contractual means to circumvent this fact.
It's a manifestation of #AnimalFarm.
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...#RomanRepublic, elected officials of one of the 3 branches of government, deserves immunity while in office. Once their term ends, they must be accountable to the fullest extent of the law.
This is what really differentiates a democracy from (absolute) monarchy or Putinesque authoritarianism/tyranny.
Therefore, if there is serous cause that members of the government committed crimes, their immunity must be lifted by their...
@CarlG
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...recently begun to think that given the slaver and colonial origins of the police force in the US, it might become necessary to rebuild everything from the ground up. How? I wouldn't know.
Looking at the causes auf #BLM and the current police brutalities against students exercising their #1A on public grounds (sometimes private--different story,) the system might be beyond repair indeed.
In essence, as in the...
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...#Orwellian #dystopias simultaneously: #1984 and, more pertinent in this context, #AnimalFarm. Seen from this novel's perspective, aspiring to be the One Animal [that] Is more equal Than Others makes perfect sense. It even strongly appeals to the lowest human instincts.
I have long thought that #DefundThePolice doesn’t have any merit, except for anarchists waiting for the breakdown of civil society to loot shops, etc.
I have...
@CarlG
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...of the #MagnaCarta 2), which only applied to barrons and the clergy, the #US despite #Reconstruction and all the Amendments was never able to really overcome systemic racism and plutocratic discrimination. In fact, ever since #CitizensUnitedVsFEC, the pendulum has been swinging in the opposite direction, so far culminating in the overturning of #RoeVsWade.
Alas, we are living in at least two...
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Taken at face value, it is ironic, indeed.
However, ss #MathewCooke rightly analyses in his podcast*, all US institutions were originally built as a #SlaverNation. Unequal justice for different parts of society continue(d) to be the groundwork for the development of the Republic.
Whereas the #UK was (arguably) able to eventually overcome the strongly discriminatory nature...
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Attached: 1 image (1/7) Are the #US on a road to a #NewCivilWar or to a resolution of #SystemicRacism? Truthful history education in the #US would be quintessential, yes, but very hard, because the US are built as a #SlaverNation right from the st…Mastodon
"And though some may forget because of her proximity to the glitz and glamor of Hollywood, Beyoncé is a Black Texan.
In that context, her critics are misunderstanding Cowboy Carter’s lush symbolism. She’s striving to communicate many things, of course, while also simply reminding all of us that Black cowboys and rodeo performers have been part of the social fabric of Texas, the South and the US for a very long time."
#music #CountryMusic #UShistory #texas #CowboyCarter
Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Album Cover Makes Complete Sense to Black Texans
Many misunderstood why she would choose to hold an American Flag, but the reason is clear.Taylor Crumpton (Bloomberg)
