• febra@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Dangling the carrot of civil rights in front of minorities just so he can get reelected… it’s sad, but it is what it is.

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      1 year ago

      It’s almost like shit has to go through Congress to become a law.

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      1 year ago

      Dangling a carrot of civil rights vs. Dangling a carrot of internment camps. Which one gets the horse moving toward progress?

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        Neither. Progress has never been made by begging powerful people for it. And if you just think about it for a second, you can see that. Hearing “just wait 4 more years then you can vote with your conscience” every single election cycle has to be a clue.

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      The whole point of discussing your intent is to get people to vote for you so you can do the thing.

      People want improvements to civil rights so Biden has to talk about furthering that agenda so they’ll vote for him to go do that. It would be kind of odd not to do that.