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
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
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/night-stalker-dianne-feinstein-jeopardized-174912261.html
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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