• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    These pardons are a good thing, though, and I don’t see what the problem is for some people.

    I think the problem is that there’s a very real sense that the party will make the first step the only step if we let them.

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      11 months ago

      100%. Look at all the cities that rolled back progress on changes made to their police departments from the BLM movement as soon as they could.

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        11 months ago

        It will be if we stop applying pressure while at the same time mindlessly supporting genocide for its own sake.