Nathan Deutsch

American University - Why Big Govt

[Nathan Deutsch @nd5963a]

The U.S. has invaded all of these places except for South Africa, and now all of them are terribly corrupt and Libya has open slave markets, which reminds me of how the default position for deposing foreign leaders we don't like is still exactly the same as its always been.

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@adam_billen The U.S. government shut down Silk Road and was able to crack iPhone encryption when they decided there was enough incentive to do so; we're still awhile off from governments having little control over the goings on of the internet.

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@Angelin27821042 I think it's silly to assume that Biden won't also side with law enforcement in 95%+ of cases and be another "law and order" president, especially since he wants to increase police spending.

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I'm surprised that finding a reason to start a war in a foreign nation that most Americans couldn't identify on a map isn't one of these powers, considering no wartime president has lost reelection and it's not actually that hard to just make up a reason to start an invasion.

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This law seems literally useless, since if you are legally restricted to insurrection as a last resort, you won't legally be able to do anything since the government that has abolished the constitution won't make rebellion legal, on top of people not liking revolution anyway.

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@ChrisBerning6 As we saw in The New Jim Crow, there are plenty of laws designed to get racist outcomes, people just choose to ignore those because it makes them uncomfortable.

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how we can never forget 9/11 but that black people should also move on from slavery.

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Telling that hallowed ground for corporate America got a memorial and for slaves it got paved over. Reminds me of how many people today try to pave over the past and say that just because slavery is outlawed its effects aren't still felt. Just saw today someone tweeting about...

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I would like to hear what Coates thinks of the fact that despite his preference for Malcom's honesty and or what either Malcom or MLK accomplished, they both died the same way. I also wonder if he would agree with the common notion that MLK did more to advance black civil rights.

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It's telling that Coates describes the lives of white people his age as from an "other world" despite those people living right across town from him.

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@mlamerican Non-violent drug offenses shouldn't get any years in prison, regardless of how many times its been, as long as they're only "guilty" of doing drugs.

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It feels like an oversight that a system predicated on having a jury of your peers has its juries decided on by people who are obviously not your peers.

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In my psychology class in HS we took an implicit bias test and basically it is baked into societal norms to see black people as inherently more dangerous than white people, regardless of ones own race or opinion on racial relations.

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This reminds me of how so many people online decry calling people racist because you might hurt their feelings instead of not being racist in the first place.

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https://t.co/7lwJFVX54e
article for the week

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@mr2229a She mentions it briefly, not sure if she expands upon it, but at points in recent history it took 100x less weight in crack (used more by black people) than cocaine (used more by wealthy whites) to be sentenced despite them being the same drug.

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(This article contains racial slurs)

https://t.co/uGRLXpjJVL

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This reminds me of how today the "defund the police" movement is considered entirely too radical in mainstream media positions, yet in 20 years we might be wishing we had listened a lot sooner.

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@mlamerican Immigrants are basically always the ones who do the jobs no one else will fill, but they always end up being the scapegoat.

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This seems to be another instance in which America's negative connotation towards unions seems to be obviously hurting the workers.