Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 02:24:07 JST mekka okereke :verified:

   in reply to

   • Flaming Cheeto
   • mike bayer :python_logo:

   @zzzeek @SnerkRabbledauber @PizzaDemon

   🤦🏿♂️The Southern Strategy is not a Republican thing. The Southern Strategy was invented by Republicans, but when everyone says "tough on crime" we know what they mean, and we know what they do.

   How many white people were beaten to death by SCORPION squads? How many white people have been held at gunpoint multiple times in their lives?

   Biden always does this nod-nod, wink-wink, "It's not racism! It's just tough on crime! Oopsie! I hurt Black men again!"

   • clacke likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     mike bayer :python_logo: (zzzeek@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 02:24:08 JST mike bayer :python_logo:

     in reply to

     • Flaming Cheeto

     @mekkaokereke @SnerkRabbledauber @PizzaDemon can we get a link to a quote from Biden at least ? He threw out some line about "reducing crime", ok, sounds typical and not ideal, but then he said "which as you know is entirely the single cause of post-pandemic economic hardship" ? Having trouble putting that together. Also the Southern Strategy is a Republican thing ? What's that got to do with Biden ?

   • Embed this notice
     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 02:24:09 JST mekka okereke :verified:

     • Flaming Cheeto

     @SnerkRabbledauber @PizzaDemon

     It's 2024. I'm not pretending anymore that people don't know what increases in policing really means. That's what the protests were about.

     Southern Strategy. This is what we all pretend not to know:
     https://youtu.be/X_8E3ENrKrQ

     And police don't even work on violent crime. We have reams of data on this:
     https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/police-are-not-primarily-crime-fighters-according-data-2022-11-02/

     And we have Biden bragging about his "American Rescue plan" fixing the economy by "reducing crime," which it didn't.

     1/N