AnonTwo

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Martin Luther King Jr: #1 Most Misrepresented man of all time

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929–April 4, 1968) was the charismatic leader of the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. He directed the year-long Montgomery bus boycott, which attracted scrutiny by a wary, divided nation, but his leadership and the resulting Supreme Court ruling against bus...

AnonTwo ,

...?

If anything an assassination is worse than just being murdered

AnonTwo ,

I hate to say this man, but assassination is a bigger deal than a murder, cause it does mean someone in a position of power wanted you dead.

All life is sacred, but that doesn't mean the amount of effort taken to snuff it out is equal. Does it make you feel better if you view it from the effort taken and not from the life lost?

To take the impact out of assassination though would just be...bad though? It'd be like saying you should react the same from crime as you do from organized crime. One of them takes considerably more effort both to do and to deal with.

AnonTwo ,

Don't really think that applies here, pretty sure you need to think more than you need to feel for a joke article....

AnonTwo ,

Yes, I think the main issue is (sadly), I don't think we have an option that actually wants to stop the genocide. It would likely need to be handled by something other than elections, like larger protests.

AnonTwo ,

I mean, when you violate one of the few laws above all the branches that is regarding whether you're allowed to be elected....

AnonTwo ,

It's regulated democracy.

It turns out that if you don't regulate things to some extent, humans exploit them. Who would've thought huh?

Plus, did you forget what the insurrection was about? You don't get much more undemocratic than trying to flatout deny the results of the democratic process.

In one case you have a democracy with defenses against corruption (imperfect but still present), in the other case you have something that is just flatout not democracy in any definition of the word.

AnonTwo ,

Well when you establish democracy after you've already destroyed the entire foundation of it, it makes it a lot easier to get the results you want.

Exactly why the insurrection was kindof an issue.

Pretty bad faith to argue North Korea though, like there aren't a lot of other things with the situation that make it massively different from whats happening here.

AnonTwo ,

They are not. Quite strictly speaking, the Russian example you gave is an abuse of authority.

You are comparing a silencing of political opponents to someone who has performed the most basic form of treason. Like, there are no countries where Trumps situation would not be worse for what he has been recorded doing.

You are blatantly trying to tie together things to support someone who is cut and dry a traitor to the people of the country, not just it's government, and has already been noted on many accounts that he will disrupt the democracy in the country if elected.

If you want to keep dying on this hill, I'll probably just block you because this is a waste of time. Because you're not here to have a discussion, you're here to find people who don't understand these basic concepts that you can potentially sway to your side. In other words you're a waste of time to argue with, you decided from the outgo what your stance was.

AnonTwo ,

A democracy cannot work if the will of the people is not enforced. part of that is enforcing the laws that those people have put in place. To argue that someone can be voted in against that is, indeed, undemocratic.

You're looking at the end result and ignoring the process that leads up to it. Given that the main violation was constitutional, the amount of effort needed just to make that into law requires a significant amount of representatives or straight up popularity throughout the country. This is not something that should be lightly brushed aside.

So yes, if they're not eligible, they're not eligible. Because by supporting your stance it is also damning the stance of many others both past and present.

I would also argue you shouldn't find much issue with finding someone you can vote for that hasn't performed the very uncommon crime of treason.

AnonTwo ,

That's just buying a used car. No new cars have ever been in the 3k-5k range...my car from like 10 years ago was in the 18k range.

AnonTwo ,

Employers don't understand (or want to understand) the concept of "Lawful evil", where just because someone is out of sick days doesn't mean you aren't a monster for keeping them from their cancer-stricken daughter.

AnonTwo ,

the only difference between Biden’s response and a theoretical Trump response is that Trump would probably try to get some boots on the ground.

Wait how is boots on the ground just treated as a "whatever"? That's usually pretty big isn't it?

How Popular Does Biden Need to Be to Beat Trump? Not Very. ( nymag.com )

Given the current state of partisan polarization, it’s unlikely Biden can get majority job approval next year even with the most fortunate set of circumstances. But the good news for him is that he probably doesn’t have to. Job-approval ratings are crucial indicators in a normal presidential reelection cycle that is...

AnonTwo ,

Has anyone tried explaining that if you allow in the people literally trying to take their rights away, they won't get another chance to vote in a politician against genocide?

Like the genocide is awful but it shouldn't make people forget they have very close to home issues currently happening right now.

AnonTwo ,

How are you hearing it every single election? The main issues didn't start popping up (or at least blatantly enough to change voter turnout) until the 2016 election.

Like that's not nearly enough elections in between to hear the excuse every election.

AnonTwo ,

I don't particularly care about the democratic party threat, I care about the uptick in voting issues, the supreme court, and...you know...that the opposing party is trying to vote in someone who attempted to not give up the office

So you know, the recent ones that a lot of people started voting in about.

If you truly believe that's nothing new, i'll just consider you to be part of that astroturfing described above and ask you to stop wasting my time. Seriously.....

AnonTwo ,

Stop bullshitting. You'll sit on your morals while a dictator takes over, just being happy you didn't "compromise your morals."

Which ultimately just means doing nothing while the dictator takes over.

AnonTwo ,

Am I bullshitting, or am I applying the only leverage I have over the party?

You're bullshitting

I feel like you've had plenty of years to see how that "leverage" is going, and choosing now specifically to try to enforce it is really suspicious.

Biden is targeting Trump's 'extremist movement' as he makes democracy a touchtone in reelection bid ( apnews.com )

President Joe Biden is arguing that “there is something dangerous happening in America” as he revives his warnings that Donald Trump and his allies represent an existential threat to the country’s democratic institutions....

AnonTwo ,

Nobody wants to encourage vigilantism, so if thats the only option you can provide then you don't have any options either.

TIL In the Hot Coffee lawsuit against McDonalds,punitive damages were given due to McDonalds intentionally overheating coffee to save money on refills ( www.poolelg.com )

During the trial it was revealed that McDonald’s knew that heating their coffee to this temperature would be dangerous, but they did it anyways because it would save them money. When you serve coffee that is too hot to drink, it will take much longer for a person to drink their coffee, which means that McDonald’s will not...

AnonTwo ,

It's pretty screwed up how the media made light of this lawsuit.

A lawsuit that ended in gross negligence, and the media shamed the lady involved for a decade.

AnonTwo ,

You don't need to end capitalism to help the climate.

Just properly regulate it. It's a tool just like every other economic system, and shouldn't be hoisted to a higher pedestal. Every system that fails fails because regulation falls off the wayside and leads into corruption. Capitalism's only strength is it took longer to get there because all the power was spread out for awhile.

AnonTwo ,

Better as in what though?

We've used every economic system by itself, and the only really successful version is a combination of them with proper regulation. What else do you do?

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