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@tk42132 @yeongno3 to be clear: before the council voted in ‘86 to change their namesake (to MLK, during a time when his revolutionary work was being rehabilitated nationally, who only visited once), the county had been named for a slave holding former Vice President, and was for over 130 years.

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@tk42132 @yeongno3 Read the unhighlighted part.

out of frame is the line “Martin Luther King Jr. had visited King County once, for three days in November 1961”

King county isn’t a good example to use here. It’s adoption of MLK came during a broader “rehabilitation” of MLKs image across the USA.

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@tk42132 @yeongno3 King county Washington was named for Vice President William R. King. Hardly an opposition figure.

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@DayLilySusan Did it really take you a year and a half to come up with that one?

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@dwnews posting in a bot thread

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@PoisonArrowFrog @ArnoldFinch8 @beepboop722 @FelixPisecker @thehill Uhh, the state already does that.

Because it benefits from prison labor.

If prison labor were more expensive, there’s be less incentive to layoff dot workers, not more.

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@ArnoldFinch8 @beepboop722 @PoisonArrowFrog @FelixPisecker @thehill Just a heads up, North Carolina has “correction enterprises” which uses super low wage prison labor to supply state contracts for furniture and cleaning supplies among other things.

So, the state benefits from more prison labor in real, measurable terms.

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@SecularLad @warren_alec @Lodley @anildash Lol I’m not mad. The Supreme Court is the most undemocratic institution in American government. It was before trump and it is now.

It is literally a group of “experts” appointed for life based on their particular extremely partisan ideas about law.

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@SecularLad @warren_alec @Lodley @anildash Ah so rather than rule in favor of the will of the people they rule based on whatever “lenses” (partisan interpretations of the constitution) got them appointed for life.

The Supreme Court is the least democratic institution in American government.

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@SecularLad @warren_alec @Lodley @anildash Wouldn’t a democratically representative body *be* pushed and pulled by the political process? Especially if that political process is an expression of the will of the people, democratically represented?

Unless of course the court was explicitly formed to oppose democracy…

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@SecularLad @warren_alec @Lodley @anildash oh the lifetime appointments are *just* one step removed from voting twice.

and uhh, is this supposedley democratic body famous for capitulating to public opinion?

no! what do you mean they tend to rule in favor of money and power? ThEyRe DeMoCrAtIc!

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@warren_alec @Lodley @anildash uhh, are you saying the supreme court is a democratic institution?

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@RoseRue5 Both a capitalist and one who believes the economy and society should be run democratically to meet human needs not simply to make profits.

Liberals use any amount reading comprehension at all challenge 📰📚*IMPOSSIBLE*✍️📜.

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@0xhanvalen @PeakedTrader @AutismCapital For a little more context: the main idea that the government prints money and then destroys it with taxation is one of the main conceits of modern monetary theory.

The press sec may not know this or might be trying to dodge admitting that this is the admins monetary policy.

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@TD_Meyers @Robin3912 @ComixDepartment @Elena121970 @borglund_linda @politico yeah, it's a waste of time on both sides until we fix the combination of poverty and systemic inequality that make ppl get em.

out of curiosity, would you trust a random american doctor and random american woman to make a moral choice regarding an abortion?

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@TD_Meyers @Robin3912 @ComixDepartment @Elena121970 @borglund_linda @politico Yeah we pretty much have to create a society where the circumstances that make abortion needed are addressed before we can expect people against it to accept it.

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@JimmyLash8 @markslater42 @pszalai123 @ninaturner @MittRomney History tho…

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@JimmyLash8 @markslater42 @pszalai123 @ninaturner @MittRomney ah "demand", the universal indicator of usefulness!

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@usairforce LGMa ballz