***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[cosmiccoffee9]

cosmiccoffee9 you done with Mexico? ...I know that’s not the answer to a “better place” for us bruvas but just wondering

not in the least...getting my shots and publishing this book and taking my beautiful bronze *** right back over the border.

ima get my citizenship right and start tf over.

...and btw, Mexico is actually pretty kind to our kind...there's a growing population of black immigrants I'm proud to be part of.

 

[mplsdunk]

That’s dope man.

 

[Based Jesus]

I know it gotta be a country out there where the politics mostly represent things that make sense and ppl vote for things that represent progress and making life easier...Just gotta find that place

New Zealand. But there aint no black people and they're not too keen on giving people citizenships
Denmark too, but again, no black people and they're really weird about making people assimilate culturally

...and btw, Mexico is actually pretty kind to our kind...there's a growing population of black immigrants I'm proud to be part of.

My friend sent me an article about a black expat community in Mexico when we were discussing other options to live and maybe raise a family. It's cool that you're part of the effort.

 

[biggie62]

New Zealand. But there aint no black people and they're not too keen on giving people citizenships
Denmark too, but again, no black people and they're really weird about making people assimilate culturally

My friend sent me an article about a black expat community in Mexico when we were discussing other options to live and maybe raise a family. It's cool that you're part of the effort.

European countries don’t assimilate foreigners very well. Deep rooted racism in the older population is a big reason for it. I mean they don’t like other Europeans very much either, forget being of a different race.

 

[Sharpshoeter13]

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen politically and I lived through Trump’s presidency and Ted Cruz playing basketball.

That David Koechner lookin ***

 

[gry60]

The Civil War Isn’t Over

From Reconstruction to Jim Crow to the Civil Rights era to the present, Americans have fought over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.

www.theatlantic.com

In 1867, Edward A. Pollard, a former Confederate partisan and editor of the Richmond Examiner, published The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates, one of the first of the thousands of books that have contested the meaning of the Civil War’s results. Pollard issued a warning to all who would ever try to shape the meaning and memory of the war or of Reconstruction policies and their legacies. “All that is left the South,” wrote Pollard, “is the war of ideas.” The war may have decided “the restoration of the Union and the excision of slavery,” he declared, “but the war did not decide Negro equality.” Wars of ideas, hopefully always conducted with civility and without weapons, are the essence of republicanism and democracy. But every time a federalist such as Senator Ted Cruz of Texas vows to “stand on principle” and “stand up for liberty” in order to “reestablish the crucial boundary of dual sovereignty,” or pledges to protect “self-government” through a “return to our founding principles of limited government and local control,” his audience should be alert not only for political ambition, not only for policy positions advancing the liberties of the powerful against those of the powerless, but for an effort to push the present back into the lost causes of the past.

 

[zekethephysique]

Embarrassing.

 

[rexanglorum]

 

[Nike Jordan]

Embarrassing.

 

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[aepps20]

Embarrassing.

 

[IATT]

Arkansas governor signs bill allowing medical workers to refuse treatment to LGBTQ people

The new law won't take effect until late this summer. The measure is among several targeting transgender people advancing through Arkansas' legislature.

www.pbs.org

 

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[gry60]

That's how the essay ends.

In the meantime, give up on the idea that “conservatives” have anything useful to say. Accept the fact that what we need is a counter-revolution. Learn some useful skills, stay healthy, and get strong. (One of my favorite weightlifting coaches likes to say, “Strong people are harder to kill, and more useful generally.”) Also, read some books, like this one, and this one, or any of these; and consider one of the Institute’s fellowship programs, for yourself or a smart young person you know.

It’s all hands on deck now.

That's a way to not say what you really want to say.

 

[doublemesh96]

 

[gry60]

Black voter says a painting at Georgia governor's voter bill signing shows the plantation where her family worked for generations | CNN

When Kimberly Wallace turned on the news after she got home Friday night, she saw Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signing a bill into law that critics have labeled Jim Crow 2.0 because of the disruptions it would mean to voters, particularly Black voters.

www.cnn.com

Wallace said at first, she didn't think twice about the painting. But "when I was watching the news last night, and I saw what plantation that was, that's the plantation that my family worked at."
When she realized it was the Callaway Plantation in Washington, Georgia, "I gasped," she said.
Generations of her family worked there dating back to slavery, Wallace said. More recently, her father was a sharecropper picking cotton at the plantation.
The optics of Kemp signing that bill into law in front of that painting was "very rude and very disrespectful to me, to my family, to Black people of Georgia," Wallace said.