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Black Lives Matter

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    nancy pelosi is bad at thinking

  • cursedkingcursedking Registered User regular
    It’s like she wants to score points for having the stupidest take as fast as possible

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    How the fuck do you say that and not spontaneously combust

    good fucking lord

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    That is some weird logic train she's got there. Like Turkey thanking Archduke Ferdinand for dying.

  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited April 2021
    It's crazy to think about the fact that meetings were had amongst her staff on what the statement should be if there was an acquital/conviction/mistrial, and had prepared statements for each

    and that's what was decided on.

    It's also crazy to think about the idea that there weren't meetings about this, and it was decided 'eh, I'll just wing it'

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  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    fuckin yikes, Pelosi

    glad to see pigs face consequences though

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  • MaximumMaximum Registered User regular
    "Thank you for being there...at your murder"

    What in the ever loving fuck kind of statement is that? Seriously, politicians, all of you. Shut up right now.

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
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    "in a way it's good that nancy said it out loud, you rarely get such an unvarnished look at what rich white liberals actually believe"

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    I don't agree with prisons and I don't think they help, and that's true of cops that murder people too. I don't think sticking this guy in a cage for 20 years will make society or him better or bring back George Floyd. But the conviction is good to see and hopefully will be a catalyst for change, as much as it is a single thing much too late for all of the other victims of this kind of violence. It is upsetting that so many people were so surprised that the jury went against him.

  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    The jury's verdict delivers accountability for Derek Chauvin, but not justice for George Floyd. Real justice for him and too many others can only happen when we build a nation that fundamentally respects the human dignity of every person. The trauma and tragedy of George Floyd’s murder must never leave us. It was a manifestation of a system that callously devalues the lives of Black people. Our struggle now is about justice—not justice on paper, but real justice in which all Americans live their lives free of oppression. We must boldly root out the cancer of systemic racism and police violence against people of color.

    hey look, a reasonable political statement nancy

  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    I hope cops get scared from this

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    The jury's verdict delivers accountability for Derek Chauvin, but not justice for George Floyd. Real justice for him and too many others can only happen when we build a nation that fundamentally respects the human dignity of every person. The trauma and tragedy of George Floyd’s murder must never leave us. It was a manifestation of a system that callously devalues the lives of Black people. Our struggle now is about justice—not justice on paper, but real justice in which all Americans live their lives free of oppression. We must boldly root out the cancer of systemic racism and police violence against people of color.

    hey look, a reasonable political statement nancy

    god that's so much better

    I think Austin Walker (of Waypoint) puts it pretty well here:



    "Conflating "being murdered" for "sacrificing your life" is the sort of statement you make when you have no skin in the game and eager to return to peaceable status quo ASAP"

  • StiltsStilts Registered User regular
    edited April 2021

    Abby Baird is a politics reporter for Buzzfeed
    the exact Pelosi quote is actually somehow worse than this tweet: "So again, thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice. For being there to call out to your mom, how heartbreaking was that, call out for your mom, 'I can't breathe.'"

    Jesus Christ, Pelosi

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    I have been done with peloci for years. that's why it's annoying to hear republicans do their low brow criticisms of her because I don't like her either except for good reasons not stupid own the libs reasons

  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    We should stop voting for octogenarians

  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    Oghulk wrote: »
    I hope cops get scared from this

    It would need to happen a hell of a lot more for that to happen. As is, we've gotten one out of dozens of national headline cases, and hundreds of cases we've never even heard about because nobody happened to be there with a phone filming.

    Very good odds if you're a cop.

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    re pelosi pretend I posted that achewood panel about the worst possible answer

  • WyvernWyvern Registered User regular
    edited April 2021
    This is a type of sentiment that I see somewhat often, in various constructions ("don't let such and such have died in vain" being the most common, and Pelosi's version being especially brazen), and it pisses me off every time. I feel like it really isn't that hard to not say "it's good that you died, actually" to murder victims!

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  • H0b0manH0b0man Registered User regular
    edited April 2021
    Solar wrote: »
    I don't agree with prisons and I don't think they help, and that's true of cops that murder people too. I don't think sticking this guy in a cage for 20 years will make society or him better or bring back George Floyd. But the conviction is good to see and hopefully will be a catalyst for change, as much as it is a single thing much too late for all of the other victims of this kind of violence. It is upsetting that so many people were so surprised that the jury went against him.

    I broadly agree with your take on prisons, but I'm don't consider Chauvin to be an appropriate place to start that change.

    There's plenty of other people I'm going to worry about getting stuck in our prison system before I get around to killer-cops.

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  • never dienever die Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    The jury's verdict delivers accountability for Derek Chauvin, but not justice for George Floyd. Real justice for him and too many others can only happen when we build a nation that fundamentally respects the human dignity of every person. The trauma and tragedy of George Floyd’s murder must never leave us. It was a manifestation of a system that callously devalues the lives of Black people. Our struggle now is about justice—not justice on paper, but real justice in which all Americans live their lives free of oppression. We must boldly root out the cancer of systemic racism and police violence against people of color.

    hey look, a reasonable political statement nancy

    Fucking Mitt Romney released a better statement than her. So many other Democratic politicians had better statements. She easily could have followed their lead.

  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    Stilts wrote: »

    Abby Baird is a politics reporter for Buzzfeed
    the exact Pelosi quote is actually somehow worse than this tweet: "So again, thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice. For being there to call out to your mom, how heartbreaking was that, call out for your mom, 'I can't breathe.'"

    Jesus Christ, Pelosi

    It's like she's quoting a scene from a movie

    This isn't real to her

    It also feels vaguely reminiscent of Christian theology, all "hey thanks for sacrificing yourself for our sins Jesus, great job getting murdered for us, we'll do our best for you"

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  • OghulkOghulk Tinychat Janitor TinychatRegistered User regular
    Wyvern wrote: »
    This is a type of sentiment that I see somewhat often, in various constructions ("don't let such and such die in vain" being the most common, and Pelosi's version being especially brazen), and it pisses me off every time. I feel like it really isn't that hard to not say "it's good that you died, actually" to murder victims!

    it is incredibly fucking tone deaf

    like, i think nearly anyone with half a brain would say "actually I would prefer george floyd was still alive please and thank you"

  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    Oghulk wrote: »
    I hope cops get scared from this

    It would need to happen a hell of a lot more for that to happen. As is, we've gotten one out of dozens of national headline cases, and hundreds of cases we've never even heard about because nobody happened to be there with a phone filming.

    Very good odds if you're a cop.


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  • R-demR-dem Registered User regular
    I really truly hope that if I'm still working at 80 I am better at my profession than Nancy Pelosi is at hers

  • WyvernWyvern Registered User regular
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    The jury's verdict delivers accountability for Derek Chauvin, but not justice for George Floyd. Real justice for him and too many others can only happen when we build a nation that fundamentally respects the human dignity of every person. The trauma and tragedy of George Floyd’s murder must never leave us. It was a manifestation of a system that callously devalues the lives of Black people. Our struggle now is about justice—not justice on paper, but real justice in which all Americans live their lives free of oppression. We must boldly root out the cancer of systemic racism and police violence against people of color.

    hey look, a reasonable political statement nancy

    god that's so much better

    I think Austin Walker (of Waypoint) puts it pretty well here:



    "Conflating "being murdered" for "sacrificing your life" is the sort of statement you make when you have no skin in the game and eager to return to peaceable status quo ASAP"
    Yeah, it's a very othering sort of statement. "All black people are virtuous warriors and martyrs for the higher cause of black liberation before which I'm expected to simply stand in awe", rather than "black people are regular humans who are tortured and murdered for literally no reason by a ludicrously cruel society (which I happen to be partially in charge of, oops)".

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    Man Im neither a liberal or a Democrat and Pelosi is still deeply embarassing

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    Nancy Pelosi is dumb and sucks and her being reasonably competent at whipping does not mitigate that fact.

  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    Don't think Pelosi's response is stupid. I think its insidious. Its something they do constantly. Try to turn the shameful murder of a man just trying to live his life into a act of civil resistance. It feels better if Floyd was a hero and not a victim.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    I absolutely guarantee you that Pelosi sees this as proof that the system largely works. all of those people are clueless.

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    It's not justice until the police stop murdering people and destroying lives with impunity, is the long and short of it. It's good that this cop faced consequences, if for no other reason than it might bring his family some measure of peace.

  • asofyeunasofyeun Registered User regular
    I feel like this isn't anything new with Pelosi. Didn't dem leadership say a similar thing last year?

  • CelloCello Registered User regular
    They at least did that incredibly ill-conceived Kente cloth kneel

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  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular


    AOC, of course, is on point.
    That a family had to lose a son, brother and father; that a teenage girl had to film and post a murder, that millions across the country had to organize and march just for George Floyd to be seen and valued is not justice.

    And this verdict is not a substitute for policy change.

    AOC is a member of Congress.

  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular

    Depressed Police Officer Reminds Self That Chauvin Verdict Not Representative Of System At Large https://bit.ly/3tDIzb0

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    Im a prison abolitionist but give me a chance to rattle a night stick across his cell door and tell the convict to be quiet and Im on it

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  • Typhoid MannyTyphoid Manny Registered User regular
    Im a prison abolitionist but give me a chance to rattle a night stick across his cell door and tell the convict to be quiet and Im on it

    call it reeducation and it's completely a different thing. easy peasy

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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    My roommate just casually dropped, "It's finally Taco Tuesday on 4/20 and America gets to witness actual justice being done? This is fantastic!"

    Taco Tuesday + 420 = Social Justice

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