Alt text: a screenshot of a microblog post with the text “you walking down an alleyway with a gram of weed in your pocket, who would you rather catch you?” Below are two pictures side by side. One of Kamala Harris and the other of Batman.

  • bigFab@lemmy.world
    101·
    5 months ago

    When she publicly apologizes for her past drug and inmate politics, we can call it a day. Until then they just fucking our ass and asking for our vote later.

    • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
      18·
      5 months ago

      I’m sure that when she apoligizes for that you will just find something else to insist she apologize for since changing apparently isn’t enough.

      • tacticalsugar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        7·
        5 months ago

        But what has she actually done to show any change? Lives are still ruined, they’re still being ruined every day. She hasn’t apologized, she hasn’t undone any harm, she hasn’t made progress on reparations to the communities she’s hurt. All she’s done is say “I changed” without actually changing anything.

        We don’t need to find anything else to insist she apologize for, she literally hasn’t apologized for anything. We’re asking her to take the first step and you’re mad that we would ask her to take a second.

        • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-record-marijuana-prosecutor-173249390.html

          As a senator, Harris championed marijuana decriminalization and eventually legalization. She signed Senator Cory Booker’s marijuana legalization bill in 2017, and she also introduced her own bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.

          Is trying a first step, or does it require succeeding?

          Does that not count because it is attempting to prevent future convictions instead of magically overturning the convictions from when she was a prosecutor?

      • TwiddleTwaddle@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
        6·
        5 months ago

        You’re probably correct. Until capitalism and all unjust hierarchies are abolished, anarchists will always have criticisms for those in power.

        I’m not sure who coined the phrase, and I’m probably paraphrasing pretty heavily here, but - Anarchism is a process, not a goal.

        Complaints about moving the goalposts aren’t really a valid criticism of anarchism in my mind. The goalpost is still seemingly impossibly far away. We’re just trying to hit some checkpoints along the way.

      • bigFab@lemmy.world
        11·
        5 months ago

        I just wanna be treated like a human being. If you like to have an arrogant bully manipulating you as she pleases then enjoy that fucked up relationship. Just remember, being raised without ever hearing an apologize doesn’t mean u don’t deserve it.

        Vote if u please, but don’t call that thing a human being.