Wanderthread Redux (Part 1)

Politics
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Yeah.

I have a regrettable tendency to refer to everything south of Texas as “South America” when I don’t think about it.

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Eisenhower inherited the Korean War and reached an armistice.

He should have reined in the bombing campaign, but he couldn’t have ended the war in January instead of July.

Nixon inherited the Vietnam War, but he had Kissinger scuttle peace talks and he prologed the war.

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Thread.

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Y’all get that politics of representation are basically the trickle-down economics of civil rights?

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White supremacy is bipartisan.

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Dunning-Kruger in action:

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It’s often enlightening to occasionally take a moment to think about the things we accept as normal.
“Poor people are vastly more likely to be imprisoned when accused of a crime” is apparently a thing that most folks accept as the natural order of the universe.
Why do we accept the advantage of wealth in the “justice” system as a proper or unavoidable thing? It doesn’t have to be.

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