TGF Master Political Thread

[Cop]

We demand reparations for past and continuing harms. The government, responsible corporations and other institutions that have profited off of the harm they have inflicted on Black people — from colonialism to slavery through food and housing redlining, mass incarceration, and surveillance — must repair the harm done. This includes:

 

Reparations for the systemic denial of access to high quality educational opportunities in the form of full and free access for all Black people (including undocumented and currently and formerly incarcerated people) to lifetime education including: free access and open admissions to public community colleges and universities, technical education (technology, trade and agricultural), educational support programs, retroactive forgiveness of student loans, and support for lifetime learning programs.

Reparations for the continued divestment from, discrimination toward and exploitation of our communities in the form of a guaranteed minimum livable income for all Black people, with clearly articulated corporate regulations.

Reparations for the wealth extracted from our communities through environmental racism, slavery, food apartheid, housing discrimination and racialized capitalism in the form of corporate and government reparations focused on healing ongoing physical and mental trauma, and ensuring our access and control of food sources, housing and land.

Reparations for the cultural and educational exploitation, erasure, and extraction of our communities in the form of mandated public school curriculums that critically examine the political, economic, and social impacts of colonialism and slavery, and funding to support, build, preserve, and restore cultural assets and sacred sites to ensure the recognition and honoring of our collective struggles and triumphs.

Legislation at the federal and state level that requires the United States to acknowledge the lasting impacts of slavery, establish and execute a plan to address those impacts. This includes the immediate passage of H.R.40, the “Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act” or subsequent versions which call for reparations remedies.

[joeybagadonuts]

Was hoping the floods in Maryland kept you off the internet for a few weeks

[Mofome]

[Brayden11]

Sounds reasonable, lol

[Sol Aristatel]

What a bunch of fucking clowns. 

[Cop]

You should read their other demands.lol

[KingKolzig]

In 1999, the African World Reparations and Reparation Truth Commission called for "the West" to pay $777 trillion to Africa within five years

 

 

[KingKolzig]

griffy griff is gonna get right on that

[Cop]

PEOPLE

 

We demand an end to the war against Black people. Since this country’s inception there have been named and unnamed wars on our communities. We demand an end to the criminalization, incarceration, and killing of our people. This includes:

 

An immediate end to the criminalization and dehumanization of Black youth across all areas of society including, but not limited to; our nation’s justice and education systems, social service agencies, and media and pop culture. This includes an end to zero-tolerance school policies and arrests of students, the removal of police from schools, and the reallocation of funds from police and punitive school discipline practices to restorative services.

An end to capital punishment.

An end to money bail, mandatory fines, fees, court surcharges and “defendant funded” court proceedings.

An end to the use of past criminal history to determine eligibility for housing, education, licenses, voting, loans, employment, and other services and needs.

An end to the war on Black immigrants including the repeal of the 1996 crime and immigration bills, an end to all deportations, immigrant detention, and Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) raids, and mandated legal representation in immigration court.

An end to the war on Black trans, queer and gender nonconforming people including their addition to anti-discrimination civil rights protections to ensure they have full access to employment, health, housing and education.

An end to the mass surveillance of Black communities, and the end to the use of technologies that criminalize and target our communities (including IMSI catchers, drones, body cameras, and predictive policing software).

The demilitarization of law enforcement, including law enforcement in schools and on college campuses.

An immediate end to the privatization of police, prisons, jails, probation, parole, food, phone and all other criminal justice related services.

Until we achieve a world where cages are no longer used against our people we demand an immediate change in conditions and an end to public jails, detention centers, youth facilities and prisons as we know them. This includes the end of solitary confinement, the end of shackling of pregnant people, access to quality healthcare, and effective measures to address the needs of our youth, queer, gender nonconforming and trans families.

[Cop]

INVEST-DIVEST

 

We demand investments in the education, health and safety of Black people, instead of investments in the criminalizing, caging, and harming of Black people. We want investments in Black communities, determined by Black communities, and divestment from exploitative forces including prisons, fossil fuels, police, surveillance and exploitative corporations. This includes:

 

A reallocation of funds at the federal, state and local level from policing and incarceration (JAG, COPS, VOCA) to long-term safety strategies such as education, local restorative justice services, and employment programs.

The retroactive decriminalization, immediate release and record expungement of all drug related offenses and prostitution, and reparations for the devastating impact of the “war on drugs” and criminalization of prostitution, including a reinvestment of the resulting savings and revenue into restorative services, mental health services, job programs and other programs supporting those impacted by the sex and drug trade.

Real, meaningful, and equitable universal health care that guarantees: proximity to nearby comprehensive health centers, culturally competent services for all people, specific services for queer, gender nonconforming, and trans people, full bodily autonomy, full reproductive services, mental health services, paid parental leave, and comprehensive quality child and elder care.

A constitutional right at the state and federal level to a fully-funded education which includes a clear articulation of the right to: a free education for all, special protections for queer and trans students, wrap around services, social workers, free health services (including reproductive body autonomy), a curriculum that acknowledges and addresses students’ material and cultural needs, physical activity and recreation, high quality food, free daycare, and freedom from unwarranted search, seizure or arrest.

A divestment from industrial multinational use of fossil fuels and investment in community- based sustainable energy solutions.

A cut in military expenditures and a reallocation of those funds to invest in domestic infrastructure and community well-being.

[Brayden11]

I want to join this program

[FairWarning]

I demand reparations for my Stl, CWS, and Texas bets.

[ERBtheGREAT]

Let all the dope dealing thugs get out of prison and pay for their doctorate so they could provide oxy instead.  Genius.

[Cop]

The left enables this madness.

[Machiavelli]

I say yes.

[Machiavelli]

*a win being at least 5 billion towards the Wall.

[Balco]

Yes as he is much smarter than his foes.

[Balco]

Wall is going up Mach.

[FISHHEAD]

If he did, would it CEMENT him as best ever?

[Bigrunner]

*a win being at least 5 billion towards the Wall.

Easy no! You're not very smart. IMO. We will revisit this on Jan 3rd.

[sleepy]

Wall is going up Mach.

 

and will be torn back down once he gets his ass kicked in the next election.

[theguesser]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMp8aDH8d9M

 

But the Brain Dead Cultists will declare it a win no matter what the result is.  

[Machiavelli]

Wall for DACA likely happening soon.

[theguesser]

My guess is that the Idiot takes whatever he's given by Jan 3rd, because when the D house enters the picture, his already weak position is even weaker.   

Of course, he will call whatever he's given a win, and the Cultists will nod in approval, as always.   

The Reality is that he already lost, and is losing more every day there's a shutdown.  I cannot stand Pelosi and even more Schumer, but they are clowning his amateur ass.   Pelosi's line about the idiot's wall now being reduced to beaded curtains was especially good, and was accurately showing how he's shifted.  https://thehill.com/homenews/house/422875-pelosi-trumps-border-wall-has-turned-into-a-beaded-curtain

[Machiavelli]

They never saw this move coming.

 

But he's played ball long enough.

 

Now he gets to wield his power n influence.