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[–] febra@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Dangling the carrot of civil rights in front of minorities just so he can get reelected.. it's sad, but it is what it is.

[–] neptune@dmv.social 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's almost like shit has to go through Congress to become a law.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

If people VOTE it very well may happen. Biden has surprised a whole lot of people so far. Look at the student loan forgiveness - it is happening IN SPITE of the Republicans.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not like the other guy is going to be better for their civil rights. I'd rather have the guy who doesn't keep his promises over the guy who wants me shot in the street for existing.

[–] danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just hope Biden doesn't mistake you for Corn Pop.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're delusional if you think Biden isn't racist. Or very susceptible to his gaslighting.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's nice, but what was the corn pop thing about?

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dangling a carrot of civil rights vs. Dangling a carrot of internment camps. Which one gets the horse moving toward progress?

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Neither. Progress has never been made by begging powerful people for it. And if you just think about it for a second, you can see that. Hearing "just wait 4 more years then you can vote with your conscience" every single election cycle has to be a clue.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

The whole point of discussing your intent is to get people to vote for you so you can do the thing.

People want improvements to civil rights so Biden has to talk about furthering that agenda so they'll vote for him to go do that. It would be kind of odd not to do that.

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago

It's what he said about abortion rights, too.