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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Very cool very deep.

    I agree that the US prison system is messed up. There are tons of things to be mad about without making stuff up. People should be upset about the emphasis on punishment and the lack of rehabilitation that occurs.

    But here we have a pretty decent rehabilitation program and… we’re still upset.

    At some point this community needs to have a frank realization that this is the other side of the same rage bait, fake news slop trough MAGA folks are eating from.



  • LongMember69@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonemerry holidays!
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    2 months ago

    OP: posts a meme about weird and racist European holiday traditions and how Europeans will appear to defend them

    Europeans ITT:

    well actually it’s not a Christmas tradition it’s from November

    yeah uh, and it’s not actually blackface because we decided it’s soot and ash even though it was and still is blackface

    ok we might have people here that like the blackface but they live all the way on the other side of the country which is like a whole 10 minutes away so it doesn’t count

    uhhhh you Americans wouldn’t understand with your newer, watered-down, holiday traditions that are stolen from elsewhere

    it’s not racist it’s cultural and you Americans would understand if you could introspect about your culture











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    Yes, it is still objectively right. Anyone deciding not to vote for Biden isn’t automatically culpable for any Trump victory unless they voted for him personally.

    This is an incredibly naïve and privileged perspective, clearly held by someone who has nothing to lose if Trump were to win.


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    The reality of the shitty political system of the US means that it comes down to two bad choices.

    However one of the bad choices would see the genocide of the Palestinian people accelerated. Not only that, but Trump has tried to oppose aid to Ukraine, which would allow for genocide of the Ukrainian people to occur unabated.

    So if your actions to oppose one genocide results in the continuation of that genocide plus one more, is what you did objectively right every time?


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    It’s not nothing, but it’s barely anything.

    Tell that to the 6,500 people that got their freedom back.

    And I reject your assertion that it’s barely anything: by your source’s count he pardoned 2/3 of the people caught up in these archaic cannabis laws.

    Referencing back to OP, would you rather have 2/3 of an ice cream cone or go off a cliff?

    He could also deschedule cannabis

    No, he likely cannot unilaterally do that: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/can-president-biden-legalize-marijuana-1220802/

    Do you at least acknowledge that slow incremental progress, while admittedly not nearly enough, is definitely better than going backwards?


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    It’s not ”just optics”. Per your source he did pardon 6,500 individuals, which the Last Prisoner Project described as “progress for those eligible for relief.”

    Now they do argue that the Biden administration should go further by pardoning 3,000 additional people, which I agree with. But to call this step forward “just optics” is at best disingenuous.


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    Please don’t misunderstand me: I’m not thrilled about the situation either.

    But I’m also not going to coddle anyone that thinks making things significantly worse for untold millions to maintain some kind of ideological purity makes them somehow superior or less culpable.