• kukui@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 hours ago

    AIPAC Shakur

    Tupac came from revolutionaries and Black Panthers. Hakeem Jeffries does not have a modicum of the class consciousness that Tupac had. Find a different stupid nickname.

    “He returned time and again to the themes of class inequality, wealth redistribution, and the moral bankruptcy of capitalism. He described the police as an occupying army in black neighborhoods, spoke of prisons as modern-day plantations, and decried the horrors to which US imperialism subjected the Global South. Despite his popularity, he remained angry, impatient, and unrelenting in his belief that another world was possible.”

    The Socialist Politics of Tupac Shakur

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      7 hours ago

      Too bad it wasn’t happening earlier in the year when he could’ve been primaried.

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        7 hours ago

        He’s been minority leader of the house for a bit. His district could have primaried him, but didn’t…

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    9 hours ago

    Countries don’t have rights to exist. Especially when all their right were gained at gunpoint.

    Humans have rights to exist.

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    9 hours ago

    That’s not everything, just the shit you, quite rightly, disapprove of.

    I am not saying Jeffries is a good pick at all, but this is (somewhat semantic) nonsense.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s not non-sense. A representatives voting record is the proof behind what they stand for.

      If you want to post the positive things that Jeffries has voted for, go right ahead.

      This is a list of things none of Congress should have voted for, but did.

      Don’t tell me you’re a good person because you feed the homeless… and then go home to beat your wife…

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        5 hours ago

        As I said, this is not everything he voted for. He made lots of other votes that you may agree with, but we can’t list that when calling him a bad, bad, little incompetent man.

        I don’t support Jeffries. He still has to go, and I agree this needs to happen for any meaningful change, but this whole post is a bad look.

      • Pronell@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        He voted for lots of things beside these bills.

        It is not everything he voted for. You are cherry picking the bad stuff to insult him.

        Again, I agree with you. I just don’t like the framing of the title and the title alone.

  • Mandarbmax@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I don’t object to shitting on Jeffries but calling him AIPAC Shakur feels very racist. Leave the racism to the zionists