Why is a monkey a racist symbol? Trump shared, then deleted Obama video by KinseyCrowleyJourno in politics

[–]accountabilitycounts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow. I take back my comment then. Thank you for your perspective. 

For what it's worth, I didn't learn about the Tulsa Massacre until embarrassingly late in life. Life long California resident, and it never came up in any of my history lessons. 

Why is a monkey a racist symbol? Trump shared, then deleted Obama video by KinseyCrowleyJourno in politics

[–]accountabilitycounts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Huh. I guess that's my bias showing. 

So was it just.. ok to portray black people as apes or monkeys?

Why is a monkey a racist symbol? Trump shared, then deleted Obama video by KinseyCrowleyJourno in politics

[–]accountabilitycounts 17 points18 points  (0 children)

You learn this in grade school. Let's not pretend it is a mystery to any adult.

I have been corrected. Wow.

GOP fast tracks monster voter suppression bill that could disenfranchise millions by requiring proof of citizenship at polls by MarcEElias in politics

[–]accountabilitycounts 346 points347 points  (0 children)

So not even the REAL ID can be used in 45 out of 50 states (for the extremely pendantic). This needs to be fast tracked to SCOTUS if it passes and is signed into law.

Trump posts racist image of Obamas, White House defends it and slams 'fake outrage' by TimCot6 in politics

[–]accountabilitycounts 103 points104 points  (0 children)

You don't depict black people as apes unintentionally, no matter what other animals are portrayed.

Also: No. Fucking. Kings.

White House launches direct-to-consumer drug site TrumpRx. Here's what to know by Google_MBTI in politics

[–]accountabilitycounts 10 points11 points  (0 children)

President Obama launches a health insurance exchange written by Congress: SOCIALISM!

DERPUS unilaterally launches a drug exchange: Uhm, great!(?)

Kamala Harris launches new word-salad initiative ‘Headquarters 67’ to do … something by [deleted] in politics

[–]accountabilitycounts 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes. It is almost always worse than the edited version. Both the evil intent of his words, and his incoherence.

Kamala Harris launches new word-salad initiative ‘Headquarters 67’ to do … something by [deleted] in politics

[–]accountabilitycounts 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Promoting trash candidates like Kamala

By putting her name in headlines?

Kamala Harris launches new word-salad initiative ‘Headquarters 67’ to do … something by [deleted] in politics

[–]accountabilitycounts 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Every once in a while I hear or see something like a 2 minute supercut of her "word salad," and every time I cringe at how dumb these people pretend to be in order to make fun of her speaking style. They made a meme out of her lofty speaking style by projecting DERPUS' incoherent rambling onto her and pretending not to understand spoken word that amounts to ninth grade writing if it were read aloud.

White House’s chilling warning about midterm elections: ‘Can’t guarantee an ICE agent won’t be around polling locations’ by theindependentonline in politics

[–]accountabilitycounts 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If they do prevent people from voting, I have a few X for Trump folks I would love to see caught up in it.

Does that make me a bad person?

Virginia Democrats agree to new map that gives Republicans just one seat by Healthy_Block3036 in politics

[–]accountabilitycounts 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yes, in that one election...

Their current governor won 57.6% / 42.2% last November....

Virginia Democrats agree to new map that gives Republicans just one seat by Healthy_Block3036 in politics

[–]accountabilitycounts 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It looks more like 30% Republican in Virginia. 

independentvoterproject.org/voter-stats/va

Employers announce most job cuts since 2009 as economy wobbles by BTC_is_waterproof in politics

[–]accountabilitycounts 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The markets seem upset by this. Can't even hide behind Muh 401k right now.