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Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 1 year ago* by to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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It was a "rubber" bullet, but still.

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[–] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Stories like this are why despise Biden and Obama so much. Both enthusiastically armed the police while pretending to support change and helped give them this sense of invincibility, and both had the power to make real change in policing but cared more about being reelected than doing the right thing.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Despite Obama’s “hope and change” promises the first time around, they were both status quo presidents who needed to ensure the dominance of the state above all else.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    But don’t you wish we had status quo now? I could go for a little stability and respect with a side of human rights and investment in the future

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    a side of human rights

    You mean like expanding the United States' illegal drone assassination program?

    That status quo comfort you're yearning for is exactly what lead us here in the first place.

    That stays quo was built on incredible amounts of violence inflicted on the global south, and now the imperial boomerang is coming back around.

    So no, I don't wish we had 'a bit of that status quo'.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I was replying with something snarky like ‘hey Alexa how many people did we kill in the Middle East while I was big chilling’ so thank you for producing an actual productive response first

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Ah yes love that stability built on the sounds of millions of broken backs it was built upon and the silent screams of the drowning poor. Stings like respect for human life and investment for the rich should.

    Status quo was just ignoring the pain of those that had to be crushed beneath to give the false sense of everything remaining the same for the last 20 years.
    I'm not sad to see it go just mad with what is replacing it.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Didn't take long to tie actions under a Republican admin to Democrats. Par for the course.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    That's because these things do not happen in a vacuum, and if said Democratic presidents had made real reforms, the actions Trump is committing right now wouldn't be possible.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yep, and the "block everything" McConnell senate of Obama's terms would have allowed that reform too. You could conceivably make that argument about Biden for 2 fucking years if not for Sinnema(sp?) and that chucklefuck from WV.

    The Dems are feckless but the president can't just decree shit. (well, unless you're trump I guess)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    McConnell made things difficult, sure, but Obama had a supermajority for eight months of his first term.

    Biden had Manchin and Sinema, but he wasn't without recourse. He could have targeted Manchin's daughter for regulation or investigation, because her company price gouges for prescription drugs and kills people. Sinema could have been stripped of all of her committee assignments, which would have made bribing her worthless and impacted her financially as well as severely limiting her power as a swing vote.

    But, at the end of the day, you pointed out the most critical thing. Presidents have power. They just need to be willing to wield it in order to create change. The reason you're seeing Democrats participate in fascism and pretend to be powerless is that it serves their wealthy benefactors and they're happy to take those $100k bribes, I mean, "speech" engagements.

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