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Tulsi and Tom Steyer making the debate but not Castro - who’s led the field on both immigration and police reform - is a major disservice to the electorate.
What the hell are Tulsi and Tom contributing to the conversation? Not a damn thing.
The candidate who’s police force shot and killed a black man during the campaign made the debate but the candidate that has focused on ending police violence doesn’t make the cut?
Because what? How they’re polling in the whitest of states? How much funding they pulled in? Those are the debate criteria?
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Samuel Sinyangwe
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The political power of police unions - concentrated in America’s most “progressive” states - has led to the creation of laws and policies that enable police violence and make places like CA and NY less transparent or accountable than the average Republican state.
The political power of police unions must be curtailed, their power to negotiate and determine policies involving police discipline and use of force must be taken away, and their influence in funding and electing candidates and initiatives must be challenged and defeated.
A big reason police unions have so much power is they enjoy bipartisan support. The Right is dismantling every union except police unions and the Left/organized labor won’t challenge any unions - even though police unions present a particular problem that needs to be addressed.
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I haven’t had healthcare since I was 26. This system is such trash.
Premiums are not cheap *at all*. I’m still young, but by no means invincible.
Either you pay thousands for healthcare or thousands for not having healthcare. Either way, the system isn’t helpful at all. And dental is another thing entirely, cost an arm and a leg and doesn’t even really cover much anyway. We need Medicare for All.
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Facebook’s argument for allowing political ads is that it allows for “underdog” candidates to reach people they otherwise wouldn’t. If that’s the case then why don’t they create a spending limit so campaigns with wealthy donors can’t buy $1,000,000+ in misleading ads/day?
They could ban political ads or restrict political ad spending. They could ban all misleading ads. They could limit the number of ads mentioning a candidate. And/or limit the number of political ads people are exposed to per month.
There are a lot of options they could consider. But instead all we seem to be getting is some corporatist mythology asserting that unlimited spending is a social good and that lies are welcome as a form of free speech.
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