Thoughts on Kamala Harris as VP, neoliberalism, ethical duties

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Sabeena
What did Pence say about the whole grabbing the p-word thing back then?
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abmobrast: Kamala's 'race' is largely irrelevant.
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What matters is *policy*.
Sabeena
Tell Indian Twitter that.
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And my Indian Viber/Whatsapp feeds.
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rumblerez there's more that happens than is reported
Sabeena
Oh yes. But it's all like "Indian parents: Kamala why VP candidate? You couldn't be Presidential candidate?"
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And: Now VP tops of the list of everything I could have been: VP, engineer, doctor, CEO.
Sabeena
Oh absolutely.
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The current neoliberal order is playing this game: Advanced policies consisting of the following: 1) Aggressive foreign policy including genocidal interventions, e.g. Iraq War, and disaster capitalism to facilitate profits of domestic corporations, 2) avoidance of universal healthcare to protect profits of health insurance companies, 3) avoidance of criminal justice reforms as law enforcement unions wield conside
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rable power in selecting and approving candidates for Democratic office.
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Sabeena: Memes about Indian expectations are a great way to distract people from really matters, so they're excellent propaganda for the neoliberal order.
Sabeena
infspire, OK but also people are just actually excited.
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They're excited in a slave manner.
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They should not do that.
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The above neoliberal policies are disastrous for the American people. They will utterly fail to reform the core grievances of the American people with the American order. They will keep fresh all the necessary preconditions which leads to the next round of fascism after Donald Trump. The Democratic Party is an enemy of the American people.
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(The GOP is treasonous and about 100x worse.)
Ana_Ng
The Jamaican part means she was allowed to get B’s in school
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So, how do they hide criticisms of these decades-long failed policies which only work to benefit a small amount of already filthy rich Americans at the expense of everybody else?
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They focus on 'race' and 'color'. She's African-American! She's Indian! It's progressive to care about race, remember?!
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None of that matters for the actual lives of people and their welfare.
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It is pure propaganda.
Sabeena
Didn't her Jamaican dad teach at Stanford?
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Currently, before COVID-19, there were 60k preventable deaths from lack of universal healthcare.
Ana_Ng
idk
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Indian memes about achievement will do nothing for these people.
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30% of Americans didn't pay rent on Aug 1. Kamala being African-American will do nothing for these people.
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The Obama order led to the fascism of Donald Trump. Kamala being a 'tough cop' and a 'real fighter' will do nothing to prevent the next round of fascism which will fester and metastasize during Biden's upcoming presidency.
Sabeena
Lots of this https://twitter.com/OfficeOfOPS/status/1293436699804987392
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The United States is dead under Donald Trump 100%.
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The United States is dead under continuing neoliberalism 99%.
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Which is why I will vote for Biden/Harris, as part of harm mitigation.
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But, have no doubt -- the United States is dead and will never recover for as long as the Democratic Party keeps killing and impoverishing tens of millions of Americans so people with four yachts can get that fifth yacht.
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So, fuck your excited about her being Indian.
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Fuck your excitement about her being African-American.
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African-Americans like Kamala Harris exist PRECISELY to sell white supremacy in more palatable ways.
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And she ain't never gonna fix any of that as Tough Cop.
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Stop being so easily fooled by people and a party who don't care the slightest about your welfare.
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Aim higher. Demand more.
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A large portion of the leftist African-American social justice movement talks about this frequently.
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John Lewis, for example, was a tough fighter as a kid.
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And what happened when he got to Congress?
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He became a defender of capital.
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He REPEATEDLY chose the interests of wealth and power over the interests of African-Americans or any average American for fucking decades in Congress.
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And his youth as a true activist only obscured criticism of him on this point.
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John Lewis, in Congress, wasn't your friend.
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Kamala Harris ain't your friend.
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I can't believe smart people are still falling for this shit.
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You have a *literal* duty to your life, the lives of your children, and the lives of all poor and vulnerable humans on this planet to stop being tricked by this.
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Is the Democratic Party in favor of universal healthcare during a once-in-a-century pandemic? Of course not.
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Does all the science indicates you need universal healthcare to manage such a pandemic? Yep.
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So, the Democrats choose profit over your lives, just not as badly as the treasonous GOP.
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And you're gonna focus on her being Indian.
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Shame on you.
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200k-1million dead in Iraq because of neoliberalism colluding with Bush.
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But you're happy cause she's black.
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Shame on you.
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Start getting excited when America hurts non-Americans less. Talk about that at the dinner table.
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Start getting excited when America actually lives up to its ideals instead of just putting black and brown faces into positions of power, while maintaining all the corrupt from your parents and grandparents generation.
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The woman literally dropped out of the 2020 presidential primary *before any votes were cast* because Democratic voters didn't like her.
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Literally nobody voted for her in this 'democracy'.
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And now she's heir apparent to the leadership of the Democratic Party.
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But, hey, at least you got some cool TikTok memes.
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Pathetic.
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Stop worrying about what politicians look like. Start worrying about how their policies will affect trans people, and people of color, and the impoverished, and non-Americans standing beneath falling American bombs, and those who can't vote, and those in prison for non-violent drug offenses, and people who live in places around the world vulnerable to climate change driven by American industries.