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I was waiting for Undertaker to pop out with how the lighting looks lol
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Nah, I'm all for it.
Some people are crooked, lowlife, a pile of disgusting, rotten POS, do wild, unjust things to others, and don't deserve to live. AT ALL. Life is way too precious for some unknown **** to be out here just robbing you of it.
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So what happens when an innocent person is executed?
And death row inmates are disproportionately black, which increases the chances of an innocent black man being killed by the state. Furthermore, a lot of people facing the death penalty at trial don't have the resources to put forward a decent defense. So that increases the error rate of wrongful convictions.
I just can't understand why people think giving people life sentences to at least prevent no one innocent is unjustly killed is somehow not a better system than one that risks innocent people getting murdered because people think state-sponsored vengeance is necessary.
The criminal justice system is such a dysfunctional mess, why should we not think that the death penalty is part of that mess too.
I think Bryan Stevenson puts it better than I can...
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Not speaking on the innocent.
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You said you support the death penalty.
If you support that practice staying, then you have to grapple with the fact innocent people will be killed too, given how the criminal justice system currently operates.
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I'm reminded of Cornel West telling black people to rein in their expectations of Obama, before he was elected. That he was one man who did not exist to fix the flaws of american society and couldn't do it himself anyways. Then turned around and somehow managed to ignore his own advice
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Folk gotta realize West, while right about a lot of things, is also a massive clout chaser.I'm reminded of Cornel West telling black people to rein in their expectations of Obama, before he was elected. That he was one man who did not exist to fix the flaws of american society and couldn't do it himself anyways. Then turned around and somehow managed to ignore his own advice
Mans got beef with Bams because he didn't put him on after the election. The dude's beef is mainly personal, but he claims it is principled.
Plus, I lost a ton of respect for him and some other black leftist that gives trash white leftist a vessel to say slick **** about Obama.
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Trump Pardons Michael Flynn, Ending Case His Justice Dept. Sought to Shut Down
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Trump Pardons Michael Flynn, Ending Case His Justice Dept. Sought to Shut Down (Published 2020)
The president’s former national security adviser twice pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about his conversations with Russia’s ambassador.
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I can never trust a man, who does not change his clothes.I'm reminded of Cornel West telling black people to rein in their expectations of Obama, before he was elected. That he was one man who did not exist to fix the flaws of american society and couldn't do it himself anyways. Then turned around and somehow managed to ignore his own advice
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Trump Pardons Michael Flynn, Ending Case His Justice Dept. Sought to Shut Down
Trump Pardons Michael Flynn, Ending Case His Justice Dept. Sought to Shut Down (Published 2020)
The president’s former national security adviser twice pleaded guilty to lying to investigators about his conversations with Russia’s ambassador.
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I've watched him be confronted about that in person, and I also watched West flinch in the face of that question, especially with his support of Jill Stein, a white woman no less. He began talking about John Coltrane, and how he follows the theme of A Love Supreme, totally avoiding the question.Folk gotta realize West, while right about a lot of things, is also a massive clout chaser.
Mans got beef with Bams because he didn't put him on after the election. The dude's beef is mainly personal, but he claims it is principled.
Plus, I lost a ton of respect for him and some other black leftist that gives trash white leftist a vessel to say slick **** about Obama.
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Yeah, right after the 2016 election Bill Maher of all people pressed him about his Jill Stein supporting and it had him squirming
Dude was coping all kinds of pleas, talking about some I live in New Jersey, I didn't matter steez. Ignoring the fact he toured the country trying to get people to do as he did.
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Exactly. He and that idiot Tavis Smiley toured the country with their banjo's and their washboard rhythm section, tap dancing in front of all white audiences, talking down about Barack. I lost respect for Lupe Fiasco for using the same back up band as well.
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Problem is once you get to the stage of the death penalty there's less tolerance for truth and the need to not be embarassed so they dig their heels in. Probably more innocent than we know or care to know. You got a flawed system like that i'd rather it not exist.
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walking into a trap:
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so Loeffler had to quarantine for covid-19 and Perdue is under investigation by the justice department.
Georgia GOP is about to 28-3 control of the Senate.
Georgia GOP is about to 28-3 control of the Senate.
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I'm reminded of Cornel West telling black people to rein in their expectations of Obama, before he was elected. That he was one man who did not exist to fix the flaws of american society and couldn't do it himself anyways. Then turned around and somehow managed to ignore his own advice
You can temper your expectations and still be disappointed.
What we do know after eight years of Obama is that either he was unwilling or unable to make a dent in or even stop the growth of wealth and income inequality and the racial and gender based inequalities therein.
Based on his post presidency writings, they read less like a treatise on power and more a memoir of someone rising through the ranks of management. That’s appropriate because our highest ranking elected officials are like upper management of a huge company. Barack Obama was the CEO, a very public facing CEO with a little discretionary power who gave great pep talks to the hourly workers, that’s us. The real managerial power fell to the board of director, the Senate, led by Mitch McConnell. The Board, ultimately reported to the major share holders, which in this analogy is capital.
There’s some stuff that Obama could have done differently but arguing about his failure to leave America a fundamentally more just country upon leaving office misses the point.
If an impressive guy who came up through community organizing, who had genuinely bold plans and a lot of political capital upon entering office couldn’t get his transformative but still accommodating-to-capital plans turned into policy, there’s structural issue that go beyond even the GOP’s visible obstructionism.
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I remember when that ******** happened to her a few years ago. RIP
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Can you explain how he’s walking into a trap? I’m ignorant to this situation and would like to know
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An idiot.
Cause now that he's pardoned, he loses his 5th amendment right. They're gonna body this dude come January
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