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  1. I hope you are right, Newsom is far from good let alone perfect

    These authoritarians are not restrained by norms, conventions or laws, and now they are allowed unfettered power by a mix of infiltration of institutions and the utterly useless Dem leadership

    You will have to use the weapons you can

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  2. Indeed. And it wasn't. Each time, a refaced racism replaced the last one. Notice, the ethnic groups ICE, DHS and NG target

    In an emergency, sometimes you only have the least worst option

    The immediate danger is Trump and the decades long erosion of norms, institutions and liberty by the right

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  3. there's your problem

    slavery was not abolished - exemptions for "criminals"

    watching 13th by Ava DuVernay a few years back and it stuck how white liberals celebrate the abolition of slavery while living in a society that accepts mass incarceration, and then forced labour, of black people

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  4. Brexit in parliament was a poisoned chalice. If labour voted against, the Tories and farage would have used "enemies of the people" shit

    In retrospect, Corbyn should have gone against as they hated him anyway

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