Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters said in a statement to the AP that the agency had “taken unprecedented steps and provided a tremendous amount of resources to address culture, recruitment and retention, aging infrastructure - and most critical - employee misconduct.”...
Is this a ”we have done nothing and are out of ideas!” Thing. Or a “nothing we are doing is stopping the rapes, we have done everything short of holding the officers accountable, and for some reason it still happens!” Thing?
Colorado’s Democratic-controlled House on Sunday passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms, a major step for the legislation after roughly the same bill was swiftly killed by Democrats last year....
The problem with that is that’s putting a lot of faith in the state both not being just a tool of the tyrannical government, or the state not being tyrannical themselves, which is why i support a more granular right to bear arms. But you are right that was the plain intention for the second amendment.
Then it’s not protected/covered by the second amendment. The tyrannical qualifier prevents it from covering baseless coups. But there was a reason it was put in due to the harsh lessons learned from the revolutionary war.
I may reconsider my position on the second amendment if you can convince me that the government or the local police will not become tyrannical, ever…
I mean, usually a rebellion against a government success is tied to its access to weaponry. I don’t know a single rebellion against tyranny that was successful without weapons.
I am for more regulations because obviously we got a massive problem here. but with my primary point being what i said above, how do you decide who can’t have a weapon without the government ultimately deciding who can have a gun, which defeats the purpose of having the right in the first place.
I was thinking about leaning into the militias where you have to be sponsored by a group that could have their rights to guns withdrawn as a whole when they foster a bad actor, to make sponsorships harder and to have a pressure to maintain connections with people and when someone starts throwing red flags or ghosting, there is a group with a vested interest to start interventions. But then there is the tricky bit of taking the guns when it’s time to enforce anything, still has the government choosing who can be armed. So i still am stuck.
Well…At least i have a better understanding of what NCD is. Im going to go back to only stumbling in and lurking when you pop up on the main page, and i fail to read the instance name. But uh good luck with that
Well hey now! They did fire that one officer! You know! The female poc officer who forced another officer off the neck of a protester during the protests about the police murder by neck standing. What was her name? Totally didn’t jive with the force and the union. /s
The blaming of the protest voters shamed them into voting for Biden? Yea i doubt that.
Though right now the situation is different. Biden has done some things that make voters balk. Maybe he should stop doing that. It might help more then making circle jerk posts on Lemmy
All these posts blaming protest voters and those who don’t vote are all generated because of the bad numbers from the primaries right? And the over all loss in confidence in Biden due to his willful protection of isreal right?
Just got to remind people that they don’t really have a choice when the real voting happens. I think if you wanted to reach these voters these posts would be more detrimental then helpful.
What would help is if Biden stopped doing the hated things.
No you are not. This isn’t some revelation. That people just didn’t know that fracturing the Democratic parties vote hurts their chances against the republicans. You are making this post for selfish reasons.
Like i said, demonizing people who find it hard to vote for someone protecting a genocide is for your own self gratification. Its not to change minds, its not to help Biden beat trump. Its solely to start a circle jerk to validate your decision to vote blue no matter who, and to quiet that little voice about how bad of a candidate he is
You say that like this math factors into any part of why people are protest voting. They know this already and this gives nothing to the conversation. Instead, your best bet is to find out what they want and maybe go over a plan that gets them what they need. Sure as shit attempting to shame people with your basic math will only accomplish in widening the divide and pushing contrariness.
So, when will it be time to vote in a way to get representation? When it’s Harris v DeSantos?
I can also make statements like “a vote for Biden is a vote for the status quo”. Its victim blaming because it is not the voters fault for being conflicted. The Democratic Party and Biden has made voting for them difficult, and failed their campaign promises. If they want cohesion, they are the only ones who can achieve that.
I will still probably vote Biden next election, but i am thinking about it every single day. And you do not ducking help this dilemma throwing shade around. knowing people, as long as they can be distracted there will be no change. And maybe a trump victory is not so easily ignored.
You got me on the campaign promise thing. The only thing he really promised was that he was not trump, and i can’t say he didn’t deliver. A more correct statement is that he refuses to do what i need from the dnc and was one of the worst of the lot as a democratic candidate for his first presidency.
As for the 2016 Clinton debacle. Yes that did indeed more than suck. It is greatly distressing that the dnc didn’t take the hint. But it was not the disenfranchised voters fault the democrats lost that, the dnc was decidedly uninterested in appealing to their left leaning base. They thought, like you declare, that the voter has no real choice. Turns out, they did. That’s on the dnc and Clinton and we all are going to be paying for that for ever.
Saying that not voting for the dnc will ultimately help the republicans is not some secret or unknown. Bringing it up is wholly missing the point and a distraction. It will never ever change anyone’s hearts or make them forget our part in a genocide. Right now before the election it the time for people to air their grievances in the hope that the dnc will pull their head out of their assess. And you are stifling this process at all our peril.
And do you really believe that the dnc will change without leverage? Seems to me that just like the last forever times nothing will happen once the heats off. There is a threat that the dnc is losing the hearts of their base and it will cost them power. Next election they will just hold some other republicans as the bogey man and you will say the exact same thing.
First of all, whether or not you are quiet makes no difference. You are not making an argument. You are stating an ultimatum and the part i have issue with is laying the blame of everything on those who do not vote as you do. That blame rests squarely on the dnc for not compromising with their base.
If the dnc will not change to maintain a cohesive voting block, then they might lose power, and not being relevant is a choice i guess. Either there will be enough disenfranchised voters or there won’t be. If they refuse to learn the lesson they were so soundly taught in 2016, then so be it.
By saying trump is a bogey man, i am not saying that he is harmless. I am saying that he is held as so terrible by the dnc that they have told their base that they have no choice but to vote for their pro establishment right wing candidates so they can enrich themselves more, or else we get the trump again. It’s what you buy into when you blame trump winning and everything he did on the frustrated voter who does not step in line. And when trump dies, there will be another person just as evil but not as stupid as trump in the next election to force the exact same candidate choice on us. Thats the dnc’s choice.
I also do not believe you about voting for a more progressive candidate next time. Why? Because on the result of this primary, you are already throwing blame on disenfranchised voters for not falling in line, on a vote that did nothing but show the dnc how the left feel about Biden. You are using your ultimatum to silence people who are putting forward legitimate grievances months before the vote.
So yea i think you are lying. But it’s your vote so, what ever. What happens next is up to the dnc, not either of us.
You just did it again. Within the next very sentence, blaming the disenfranchised voters for if trump returns to the White House.
There are a lot of options in the election cycle. And one of them is Biden not supporting a genocide. Which seems to be a large dividing point that people are talking about right now. Also to stop increasing subsidies to big oil at the same time saying we will focus on the environment. Many choices to be made. And not voting is a choice.
You say you will never support a establishment Democrat in the future, it’s just this ‘one last time’. But the reason it’s ‘this one last time’ is because of how bad trump is. Do you really think the next republican candidate is not going to be enacting the 2025 plan? There may have been few president like trump in the past but there is no shortage of them being groomed for the presidency now. the harm to democracy are the republicans planning not trumps. It will be ’one last time’ until the end of time.
This whole argument is about assigning blame. It was never questioned whether a fracturing Democratic would help the republicans. That is no shit territory. You have not added anything to the discussion by saying that. If you had said ‘the Democratic Party fracturing helps the republicans’ i would not have argued.
But its that you said ‘if you vote third party, or do not vote you are agreeing with trump and the republican party. You will be at fault for the damage they do to democracy, and the harm they cause to the vulnerable of society’ which i have a problem with. You assign the blame of a fractured democratic party on the disenfranchised, the ones abandoned by the dnc.
The real blame for the harm belongs to trump and the republicans. The fault for a splintering dnc… is the dnc. Especially after not learning their lesson after 2016. It was spelt out directly for them then. But they have other obligations.
Actually it’s different from voting for trump for the reasons i stated, you may not like it, but quite literally a vote for trump is the only case where someone can say they are voting for trump.
Don’t know why you are mad at protest voters and non voters, you really should be upset at the dnc. And by the way i don’t live in a swing state, you can blame the dnc for crushing voting reform wile you are at it for rendering most people vote moot either way.
And yes quite literally when you say that a protest vote is a vote FOR trump and its their fault what ever happens, is in fact blaming them. And you will never in a million years convince someone to do anything different by telling them false equivalence and assigning false blame when they know better.
There is no way for left voters to send a message to the republicans, people who are upset at the democrats and are either not voting or voting third party never would have voted Republican anyways
There has been presidents in the past who tried and succeeded in abusing the power of the presidency for political and monetary gain, there have been populous candidates before. The big difference now it’s the party as a whole making overt moves to disassemble democracy. Trump is not the cause, he’s the symptom is what i am getting at. And only because of his cartoonishly transparent idiocy was the rnc’s plans put at risk. A mistake they will not make once trump is out of the picture.
If the dnc will not make concessions then i see no hope for the future of the nation. You can have your opinion, and blame who you want, but don’t pretend you aren’t.
They already know this, and these posts do nothing but demonize people who for one reason or another are unhappy at the situation and have one singular part to play. This is not winning them over. This is only affirming everyone’s already made decisions one way, or the other.
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