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Why You Shouldn't Support Pete Buttigieg For The Upcoming 2020 Election: a thread
1. Refused to investigate the apparent lynching of a 16 year-old black boy

source: tyt.com/stories/4vZLCH…
2. Fired South Bend’s black police chief for exposing racism in the police force

source: edition-m.cnn.com/2019/04/23/pol…
...he later on lied about it

source: tyt.com/stories/4vZLCH…
...fired those calling for an investigation, possibly leaving innocent black people imprisoned

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...while some in his inner circle backed a $45,000 loan to one of the accused racist cops

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3. Oversaw a police force that was forced to pay out over $1.3 million in brutality and civil rights settlements

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4. Oversaw a 50% decrease in black officers on the police force, replacing many who left due to not being given promotions with white officers

source: cnn.com/2019/06/23/pol…
5. Responded to Black Lives Matter with the right-wing response “All Lives Matter”

source: cnbc.com/2019/04/03/pet…
6. Opposes tuition free public college

source: insidehighered.com/news/2019/04/0…
7. Demolished the homes of many South Bend residents unable to afford repairs and drastically ramped up unfair fines

source: currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-ab…
8. Wants to keep troops in Syria

source: ontheissues.org/2020/Pete_Butt…
9. Opposed Obama ending the torture of whistleblower Chelsea Manning

source: cbsnews.com/news/2020-cand…
10. Supports Israel’s right-wing apartheid to the point he wants to model US security after it

source: vox.com/2019/4/3/18293…
11. Supports continued removal of incarcerated people’s voting rights

source: independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
12. Doesn’t support boycotting corporations for political reasons

source: cnn.com/2019/03/27/pol…
13. Won’t support universal childcare

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14. Was for a while the only top candidate openly funding his campaign with lobbyist money

source: huffpost.com/entry/pete-but…
15. Opposes reversing Trump’s relocation of the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem

source: thehill.com/homenews/campa…
16. A white officer with a documented history of racist behavior that violated department policy was allowed to stay on the force without a bodycam he shot and killed an elderly black man

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...and Mayor Pete spoke to media before the victim’s family, skipped the vigil, and then gave a speech to the police instead

source: splinternews.com/mayor-pete-is-…
...and received a lot for backlash for it

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17. Allowed a white officer to keep his job after multiple racist and violent incidents

source: cnn.com/2019/06/23/pol…
...including beating and tasing an innocent teen after breaking into the wrong house

source: indystar.com/story/opinion/…
...and tortured a disabled man

source: indystar.com/story/opinion/…
...and posting a video of it online as retaliation for the man filing a complaint about the force ignoring a drunk driving incident

source: indystar.com/story/opinion/…
...even despite a community-led campaign

source: wsbt.com/news/local/new…
...and a petition

source: change.org/p/justice-for-…
18. Dismisses workers striking for fair wages

source: currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-ab…
...and called them "social justice warriors"

source: currentaffairs.org/2018/05/fear-o…
19. Has previously supported people opting out of vaccinations for personal or religious reasons

source: buzzfeednews.com/article/claudi…
20. His pandering is kinda racist

21. Did little to address the disproportionately high rates of poverty and unemployment among South Bend people of color

source: prosperitynow.org/sites/default/…
22. Does not support true Medicare for All

source: thehill.com/homenews/campa…
...and is the only top candidate not providing health care to his own staff

source: nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
23. Accept money from Blackstone

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24. He's one of Wall Street’s favorite candidates

source: nytimes.com/2019/06/16/us/…
25. Doubled South Bend’s eviction rate through shady practices, increasing it to 3 times the national average

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...while simultaneously ramping up a war against the homeless

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jacobinmag.com/2019/06/mayor-…
26. Released a plan for black America with no input from black advisers, claiming over 400 endorsements, yet most of them didn't know about the plan, declined to endorse it, are white, don’t live in the U.S., are duplicated names, or don’t exist

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theintercept.com/2019/11/15/pet…
...all while using a stock image from Kenya

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27. Black Lives Matter has asked him to resign

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953mnc.com/2019/08/31/bla…
28. Praised the Tea Party for their “real concerns about the direction of our government” during Obama’s presidency

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...when these are the concerns they had at that time:

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29. Mark Zuckerberg advises him on who to hire

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bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
30. His national policy director is a former Goldman Sachs executive

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cnbc.com/2019/07/18/but…
31. Says he would pick Supreme Court Justices like Justice Kennedy, who voted for Trump’s Muslim ban, defended Citizens United, gut labor unions, voter suppression, before resigning during Trump’s administration, paving the way for Kavanaugh

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32. Favors wealthy developers over regular citizens, passing out subsidies for luxury apartments 

source: journalgazette.net/news/local/ind…
...and a multimillion–dollar tax abatement for a high-end downtown office complex

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southbendtribune.com/news/business/…
...and even attempted to sell off a full quarter of the city’s parklands to for-profit owners

source: southbendtribune.com/news/opinion/v…
33. Took a disrespectful photo at the Holocaust Memorial

source: nypost.com/2019/11/18/but…
34. His climate adviser opposes fossil fuel divestment

source:
bostonreview.net/us/david-victo…
...and is a paid witness for the Trump administration in a lawsuit over its inaction on climate change

source:hillheat.com/articles/2019/…
35. Does not support the Green New Deal and is condescending towards young climate activists

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36. Specifically opposes “big structural change” and “political revolution"

source: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
...instead preferring empty platitudes 

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gen.medium.com/the-haters-gui…
37. The head of a working group for his campaign likes tweets from white nationalist Twitter

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38. Polling shows he would likely lose to Trump in a general election

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