2020 U.S. Presidential Election - Took place November 3, 2020. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assumed office January 20, 2021.

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I look forward to the latest COPE from our generous reality deniers.
 
Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
It was.

I never took that shit seriously, either. Even when Floyd died, I thought it was awful but didn't really think it was a super huge deal. However, a bunch of my black friends from the gym posted stories about how they've had awful dealing with cops, too, just because of the color of their skin. It wasn't about Floyd, it was about the fact that shit happens all the time. It's something you don't experience as a white person but black people deal with that shit all the time and it's fucked up that they have to. Reading their stories made me realize that it was a big deal not because of Floyd but because it represented.
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You know a lot of those police brutality stuff happened under the Obama administration right? Haven't done a damn thing and no one blame Obama and I was in middle school when Michael brown, Tamar rice and etc happened.
 
Hollywood Hulk Hogan said:
It's not about George Floyd, it's about all the black people who have had shit like that happen with the cops. All because they're black. It's fucked up.
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Have they tried not breaking the law yet? It's not hard to abstain from distributing fentanyl, assaulting your baby mama, pulling a gun or a knife on a cop, or pinning a dude and trying to bash his head into the sidewalk.
 
Pompano Mike said:
Perhaps right now isn't the time for actual discussion but I'll give it a shot, so here's a question for our resident Dems: do you believe that Biden's administration should adopt some sort of conciliatory approach towards Americans who believe in the MAGA agenda? That is to say, should there be some sort of compromise reached on what I see as the core tenants of the Trump "movement": America-first economic policy with an emphasis on domestic employment and a curtailing of outsourcing, restricting immigration of all forms, a general cultural rejection of wokeism, and an overall drawdown on foreign military engagement. If not, do you guys at least recognize that this political platform appeals to many tens of millions of your countrymen, and Trump's voter base actually grew in the last four years?

Totally understandable if you want to keep laughing at your defeated enemies, but on the off chance anyone would like to talk about these issues I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.
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My two cents:
America-first economic policy: Sure, but you gotta be realistic with how you do it. The way Trump was doing it (tariffs) doesn't work.
Restricting immigration? No way. America was founded on immigrants and we are a cultural melting pot. That's who we are.
Wokeism: Overly wokeism is stupid and annoying but I am vehemently against racism, sexism and homophobia.
Overall drawdown on foreign military engagement: I think this is good
 
Meat Target said:
Have they tried not breaking the law yet? It's not hard to abstain from distributing fentanyl, assaulting your baby mama, pulling a gun or a knife on a cop, or pinning a dude and trying to bash his head into the sidewalk.
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This is not the riot thread.
I-chi said:
Oh come now, even for you this is low effort lol.
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Still works, apparently.
 
WhimsicalTrolli said:
You know a lot of those police brutality stuff happened under the Obama administration right? Haven't done a damn thing and no one blame Obama and I was in middle school when Michael brown, Tamar rice and etc happened.
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Correct but Trump just made things worse.

Meat Target said:
Have they tried not breaking the law yet? It's not hard to abstain from distributing fentanyl, assaulting your baby mama, pulling a gun or a knife on a cop, or pinning a dude and trying to bash his head into the sidewalk.
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My friends that dealt with it didn't break the laws. They're all law abiding citizens. One works for an investment company. One is a professor. One owns a few car dealerships. Another is a teacher. They didn't break the law and yet still got hassled and threatened by cops.
 
soy_king said:
They won't for two reasons: 1) They lack sufficient support in the Senate to push it through, even from some of the more centrist democrats, and 2) it is deeply unpopular with the electorate for the moment and expose them for being the amoral powermongers most people suspect them to be.

The only way they could generate sufficient support to amend the judiciary act to allow for court packing is if they sensationalize a supreme court ruling favoring some socially conservative position and use it to argue that if they don't "rebalance the courts," the eebil Rethuglican pawns on the Bench will force this country to become Nazi Germany and a Christian Theocracy for realsies. They don't have an excuse right now, but they're chomping at the bit to find one.
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No, they won't do it because they don't have to do it. Do you honestly believe the Left is going to care if the Supreme Court strikes down some provision of a law passed by Congress? No they're not. If PA, can openly defy the Court, so can Congress. Stop pretending like the Constitution and past laws, norms, and rules apply. They don't.
 
soy_king said:
Like every good lawyer's answer, I think it depends. The internet has remarkable potential as a tool for mass organization and coordination, but it also has the potential to completely disrupt any attempt to motivate or organize large groups. Despite the fact that they ended up as a completely lolworthy failure, I think the model that the Five Star Movement used to organize has merits. @Puerto Pollo would probably be a better source than I, but their use of the internet to form a large political movement was effective, and if they had a more cohesive platform they might have actually been able to achieve something.
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The lesson one can learn from internet activism turning into a political party is that enthusiasm does not, and cannot replace experience.
 
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