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[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Jesus fucking damnit. It's like that first moment in House of Cards when you're like "omfg and this is the blue team?!"

I know US Senate is as prestigious as you get after the executive election, but if this is the people's guy, how tf we ever going to break up the two party system in the upper house?

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

as soon as you say the phrase "blue team" you betray a bit of a misunderstanding. don't feel bad, people work really hard to perpetuate that misunderstanding. the blue team doesn't exist. the red team only kind of exists. the people you unconsciously split into the "blue team" and the "red team" are on the Money Team, and we're not.

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I understand your point and mostly agree with you. But I will never ever ever say both sides are the same

This is what the blue team does: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/new-california-laws-2024-18552414.php

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

all right cracking down on that "excited delirium" horseshit is eliminating a very real and very deadly police overstep. I'm into it.

[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Dude right?? Our state is legislating against police brutality. And doing it with tools, and creating a safer space, rather than trying to get the good apples to snitch and risk their lives and careers.

The ebony alert sounds like white people grandstanding bullshit at first but there's a good point.. if all day you see that and rarely see amber alert.. you'll realize why black people are begging to be seen and the whole point of BLM. Plus it's first hand experience, not pushed on people, so they can draw the conclusions themselves without getting defensive

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