That time Diane Feinstein stood up at a cop funeral and got a standing ovation for publicly shaming Kamala Harris, who had kept a campaign promise to avoid the death penalty, even for a cop killer
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malena / bikes not bombsreplied to malena / bikes not bombs last edited by
one of many problems with our era of cult leader politics is we want an individual politician to exist outside all context & history (all that has come before lol)
but imagine if powerful white women had had Harris’s back and stood up to the cops alongside her, imagine the impact that would have had both on our struggles for justice and Kamala’s political praxis
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malena / bikes not bombsreplied to malena / bikes not bombs last edited by
if we step (for one minute) outside our obsession with shaming individuals for the circumstances they are in, we’re forced to see Harris as someone who stood up to the police unions out of conviction and principle and a sense of duty to her own promises. California’s Democratic Party mafia, enforced by white women, then broke her political knees
this is not just about Kamala Harris, this is about patriarchy, white supremacy, rampant corruption and a political party rooted in organized crime
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malena / bikes not bombsreplied to malena / bikes not bombs last edited by
Ps I am not telling you who to vote for, I am telling you that white woman feminism is a bitch and one of the reasons we can’t have nice things
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Darius Kazemireplied to malena / bikes not bombs last edited by
@seachanger Yeah. I read a lot about her early career. I see Harris as someone who was once willing to fight police, got kneecapped (as you put it) by more powerful people, and I suspect has unfortunately left the experience believing that being broadly pro-cop is a compromise she's going to have to make to remain effective in other areas
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malena / bikes not bombsreplied to Darius Kazemi last edited by
@darius yeah. Reading this though made me empathize with how that particular experience would have felt. Being a black woman holding a new political position, in a church with thousands of cops and having them stand up and thunderously applause a powerful person shaming you for political gain.
That’s the kind of deep hurt and humiliation you never heal from, it changes you
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Darius Kazemireplied to malena / bikes not bombs last edited by
@seachanger oh yeah it's fucking awful. that's the lever of power right there in the clear for everyone to see
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malena / bikes not bombsreplied to Darius Kazemi last edited by
@darius it’s like a witch burning or lynching - a public show of violence to keep hierarchies intact, just horrific
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malena / bikes not bombsreplied to malena / bikes not bombs last edited by
also reminding folks that in 2004 the death penalty was a MAJOR issue. ani difranco was doing songs about it lol. it would have been felt as a movement victory for Harris to take on the police unions of a major American city over it
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malena / bikes not bombsreplied to malena / bikes not bombs last edited by
also maybe part of her obsession with the “we exist in the context of all that has come before” line is her trying to say, on some unconscious level, remember when DiFi dropped a bomb on me in a church full of angry police. I am not just the little girl who got bussed to school, I’m also the young Black woman who sat in that pew alone
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malena / bikes not bombsreplied to malena / bikes not bombs last edited by
from an organizing perspective then, I think it makes sense to appeal to the early, inner Kamala Harris who pursued a career in criminal Justice to be someone who could implement movement demands. I bet that Kamala Harris is still in there to some degree - I mean we’ll see. but we are all Russian dolls y’all, like it or not
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Adrianna Tanreplied to malena / bikes not bombs last edited by
@seachanger DiFi sucked in so many ways
‘Night Stalker': How Dianne Feinstein Jeopardized the Search for Serial Killer Richard Ramirez
In Netflix’s “Night Stalker” docuseries, investigators try to find and apprehend Richard Ramirez, a serial killer who terrorized the L.A. streets in the 80s. And while they were on his tail, one political figure unknowingly tipped the killer off and almost derailed the entire investigation. Ramirez, first known as the “Walk-In Killer,” invaded homes, murdering and sexually assaulting the residents, from June 1984 to August 1985. He used a wide variety of weapons and would leave behind satanic symbols. When Ramirez killed the accountant Peter Pan in his San Francisco home in 1985, evidence of the crime made it all the way up to then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein, which would be a tipping point in the investigation. Also Read: 'Night Stalker': 10 Most Terrifying Details About 'Satanic' Serial Killer Richard Ramirez Holding a news conference, she held up a police sketch of the killer, and also went on to describe the evidence from all the cases throughout the state — crucial information that hadn’t been made public. And by then, investigators knew Ramirez was watching the news, because he told a surviving victim, “I am the Night Stalker.” Feinstein gave up the caliber of gun, his type of shoe, and the fact he left foot prints. One of the only trails investigators had was a shoe print he left in a flower bed in one of his earlier murders. In the process of finding the shoe to match it, investigators found out it was an Avia-brand shoe, an uncommon one at the time. Heading straight to the manufacturer, they looked through spreadsheets where the shoes were distributed in the United States, and only size 11.5 black shoes (the ones he was wearing) were manufactured. Five went to Arizona, and one was sold in Los Angeles. Also Read: 'American Horror Story: 1984' Fact Check: Is the Night Stalker's Origin Story True? “He could’ve left us a signed signature,” Frank Salerno, one of the lead investigators on the case, says in the docuseries. Somehow, reporters heard about the shoe print lead and threatened to print it. This was problematic for investigators because that would mean the killer could just change his shoe, and the lead would go cold. However, reporters were convinced to withhold that information from the public. But as it turns out, the chief of police had never told Feinstein to not release it. “Without a doubt, Mayor Feinstein made a big mistake,” said Frank Falzon, a San Francisco police inspector. Investigators never were able to find the shoes after that. According to author Philip Carlo’s biography of Ramirez, “The Night Stalker: The True Story of America’s Most Feared Serial Killer,” following Feinstein’s press conference, Ramirez walked to the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge and “dropped the size 11 1/2 Avia sneakers into the water.” On September 20, 1989, Ramirez was convicted of all charges: 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries, although he’s assumed to have committed many more crimes. He was sentenced to death — but in 2013, he died of cancer in prison, after serving 23 years on death row. You can read 10 of the most shocking details of the series here. Read original story ‘Night Stalker': How Dianne Feinstein Jeopardized the Search for Serial Killer Richard Ramirez At TheWrap
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Martin Vermeer FCDreplied to malena / bikes not bombs last edited by
@seachanger @darius Would parroting Zionist lies fall in the same category?
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Darius Kazemireplied to Martin Vermeer FCD last edited by
@martinvermeer I think so, yes! People get disciplined by a system power and then reproduce it