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OT: American Politics

yep

the stonewall riots were....1970? and finally in what 2015 gay marriage became legal in the us of a

i think it would be nice to see progress - something has to happen

Old people neither change their minds, nor die fast enough for progress to keep up.

Young people neither give enough fucks, or enough votes for the above to not matter.
 
Old people neither change their minds, nor die fast enough for progress to keep up.

Young people neither give enough fucks, or enough votes for the above to not matter.


“Youth is the most beautiful thing in this world—and what a pity that it has to be wasted on children!”

-George Bernard Shaw


Eventually paraphrased as "youth is wasted on the young ".
 


It doesn't have to take generations to not accept the police treating black people differently.

Not accept? Sure. Actually changing? It takes generations as has been evidenced by history.
 


It doesn't have to take generations to not accept the police treating black people differently.

yeah, it's completely different from gay rights...
it's more of a lingering structural problem with police forces....even if non racist cops went form 60%in 1967 to 95% today, it's still not good enough

as Chris Rock said, some jobs can't afford a few bad apples. and when they find a bad apple, the internal process should terminate them. full stop.

right now, they are protected by the union and management

 
I do think the looters and violent dickheads do need to be dealt with and that the media is not focusing enough on it. They rarely show the perspective of the people affected by these asshats.

Until the violence stops, the discussion won't continue productively.
 
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