This was bound to happen, and it’s ridiculous

  • irmadlad@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    In the US, the same people who say they care about the porn industry preying upon women are the same ones rolling back child labor legislations to send 14 year olds to meat packing plants. The same ones who have kept the minimum wage where it is for decades. The same ones who want to ban abortion even in cases where the woman’s life is threatened. I

    …and guess what. Those same people are the ones didling the children. I can fill your inbox weekly with examples of clergy, police, republicans, christo facist et al. Now, don’t even think for a second that I give the democrats a pass either. However, the list of democrats is much shorter, but fuck them both. Me thinks they doth protest too loudly.

    I’m neiher republican nor democrat. Just a lowely American. I don’t need a political echo chamber to have a political compass.

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      At the very least, most of the Democrats are guilty of taking money from those ghouls.

      To bring it back to Palantir, Biden himself was singing their praises back when he was vice president and the US government was using their surveillance tools.

      As much as it is good to see MAGA turn on Trunk over the Epstein files, it’s not lost on me that Garland, under Biden, sat on the files doing nothing for 4 years. And maybe that would make sense if they were actively investigating and trying to prosecute people, but as far as I can tell Maxwell is the only one who faced any consequences.

      I don’t want to distract the narrative away from Trump’s guilt. And also, when you stack up presidential accomplishments I’d still rank Biden near the top, probably top-5 in US history. But that says more about the other presidents than Biden.

      • irmadlad@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Our government in the US is corrupt and compromised top to bottom and side to side, and has been for quite a long time now. No one gets a pass.