Finally, slavery was not ended by offering compromises on slavery. I don’t care what Gavin Newsom feels or thinks. I care about what he says he will do.
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there's your problem slavery was not abolished - exemptions for "criminals" watching 13th by Ava DuVernay a few years back and it stuck how white liberals celebrate the abolition of slavery while living in a society that accepts mass incarceration, and then forced labour, of black people
aug 24, 2025, 8:36 am • 0 0 • view
Aware of this. But chattel slavery was ended. Jim Crow and sharecroppers was an early new form. Before ‘the war on drugs’. We have to oppose each new form as it comes along.
aug 24, 2025, 8:43 am • 0 0 • view
Indeed. And it wasn't. Each time, a refaced racism replaced the last one. Notice, the ethnic groups ICE, DHS and NG target In an emergency, sometimes you only have the least worst option The immediate danger is Trump and the decades long erosion of norms, institutions and liberty by the right
aug 24, 2025, 8:54 am • 1 0 • view
I accept that, but I am not convinced yet that Gavin Newsom is the least worst option.
aug 24, 2025, 9:13 am • 2 0 • view
I hope you are right, Newsom is far from good let alone perfect These authoritarians are not restrained by norms, conventions or laws, and now they are allowed unfettered power by a mix of infiltration of institutions and the utterly useless Dem leadership You will have to use the weapons you can
aug 24, 2025, 9:57 am • 1 0 • view
Lincoln was offering a compromise. Heck, even the Emancipation had a huge compromise right there leaving slavery in place for states that remained in Union until the end of war. You'd reject Lincoln, Grant et al and wait while complaining nobody does anything.
aug 24, 2025, 8:59 am • 0 0 • view
How is Gavin Newsom offering a compromise to transgender people?
aug 24, 2025, 10:05 am • 0 0 • view
Actually, when he was campaigning, Lincoln was understood to be an abolitionist. That’s one of the reasons the South seceded. In office, he was more pragmatic. are you trying to say that you think that Gavin Newsom will be the opposite? – will campaign as a pragmatist and be an idealist in office?
aug 24, 2025, 9:12 am • 1 0 • view