Everything I read on this guy’s Wikipedia page makes him look more and more like someone who’s “progressivism” is more marketing than conviction. 

This seems relevant:

Value for who? The oil and logistics companies who see their profits skyrocket or the dudes coming home with permanent brain damage? Or maybe its the dudes who get raped by their superior officers - maybe their butts are the “value” in joining a branch?

You’re probably right but I think it’s a worthwhile thing for people to publicly demand of their local police department. 

Hmmm - what if Antifa starts dressing up in camo kidnapping white supremacists in broad daylight? 

Imagine the government gave everyone “journalism vouchers” they could spend to support local, ad-free newspapers of their choosing. Probably solve a lot of our media problems just by having a democratic system of funding news

I'm so excited to see The Root writing about this. I thought y'all hated Leftists. 

It sets first principles. Next time the cops run protestors over, the workers can leverage the fact that they already asked Ford to stop supplying the fascists with deadly weapons to either make this demand again more aggressively or pressure them for something else the workers want. 

I think you’re mistaken in your assertion that there are police departments in America who don’t employ thugs. There might be some cops in this country who aren’t thugs; but a whole PD that hasn’t got any thugs seems as unlikely as an oil spill that doesn’t kill any wildlife. 

What if the fascist police just stopped getting new cars? Would that really be a bad thing? 

They probably gonna have to sell everything in a few weeks when the USPS runs out of money and satisfies a long-time fantasy of the right wing death cult. Maybe call Congress to ask them to pass some emergency funding to keep te USPS up and running.

Yeah, maybe you should call your Congress person and tell them to pass some emergency funding for the post office before they go broke. It would suck to not be able to vote by mail in a pandemic because the Republicans finally killed the USPS

I think that seeking consistency in how the law is applied is a bit of a fool’s errand because I’m very cynical about courts. But I admire the clarity of your thinking and hope we can someday build a court system that lives up to your vision of what it should be.

I heard Biden won SC with a historicaly-high white voter turnout. Wonder if TheRoot will ever discuss the implications of that awkward fact...

If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And that’s just as true of you, hacker boy, as it is of anyone else with a myopic view of politics. Show of strength; drawing attention to a major target; deepening social bonds through organizing - these are a few of the political gains this march…

Or we could defund the military like Bernie Sanders is trying to do right now. If we weren’t waging so many goddamn wars to make money for the rich we wouldn’thave so many veterans with traumatic experiences warping their psyche. 

I prefer the people who wanted to get guns because these protests revealed the fascist nature of American police

Don’t vote for a potted plant! Vote for the Howie Hawkins, the Green party candidate! At the very least check him out and listen to his pitch on Rising

Biden hasn’t earned my vote. I plan on voting for Howie Hawkins because of the policies he’s running on. If Biden loses in North Carolina it won’t be because of me - it’ll because he didn’t earn enough votes from people like me. 

I’m disappointed Graham didn’t use the word “guillotine”