And bless him for doing so. We’ve all been around the hippy dippy types, and I don’t have the patience for them. So much navel gazing. At least give me some acid or dmt so I can there.

Erykah always had a bit of hotepness in her. Or as my cousin calls it “a taste of shea butter bitchassedness in the soul”.

For many it may well be not wanting to lose their status quo and creature comforts, but that’s also knocking those who are trying to represent the districts that put them in office in the first place, many of which don’t jive with the pulse of the rest of the country - standing up for a cause that maybe 40% of your…

America’s view of government jobs is so fucked up. Most people you think that have it made in the shade as soon as you get a government job, but that shit is not the fucking case. My SO tells people what she makes and they’re shocked.

I don’t think any political party is our friend, regardless of race/creed/religion/societal stances: they are in a way businesses that look out for #1 at the expense of their consumers and employees. All minorities need to learn that ride-or-die with any of them can and will fuck you and yours if the party you rep for…

They are the best friend we got. More than that, this is a patently ridiculous framing and why the left continues to lose. I don’t want a political party as a “friend.”

That would’ve been all the more reason to push those GOP representatives and senators to agree on DACA. You pressure the GOP to agree, not the Democrats to cave.

Black people have to choose between fair weather “friends” and outright enemies. That’s how it goes in Amerikkka.

Uh-huh, the Dems may not be your friend, but the Repubs are definitely your enemy. So what’re you gonna do on Election Day? Jillstein yourself by voting third party to express your displeasure with the not-following-thru Dems? That would split the sane vote so the Repub nazis will still slide under the wire and still…

Man, my aunt didn’t have no cushy government job. She wasn’t rich. She made as much as my mom did, and my mom for sure wasn’t balling. She had to raise two kids, she had a mortgage, she had a car payment. And she didn’t fucking care about anyone’s political stance when it came to getting paid.

But this most recent case might be the worst because they ran from a fight they could have won

They are not your friend; however, the GOP is absolutely your enemy.

I’m gonna have a very unpopular take on this one. Just because the Dreamers are also marginalized doesn’t mean that they’re on our side. As much as my heart bleeds for undocumented people and the terror and uncertainty that they go through, doesn’t mean that their hearts bleed for Black people (especially Black…

Killing yourself for pettiness isn’t a wise move.

On PAPER, what you’re saying is true. In practice, that is almost never the case.

The Democratic Party is still a better ally than the far Left.

I get what you’re saying, but a stop in government services+benefits/furloughs of non essential staff and the expiration of CHIP more than likely hurts black women, women of color, black kids, and everyone more than the expiration of DACA will.

A majority of people support DACA. But I suspect a majority of people also think it’s not worth shutting the government down over. The calculus of when holding out for a real fix turns sour in a way that is the difference in a tight senate race in 2018 is tricky.

here we go.

I have my issues w/ parts of the Democratic Party, but DACA is the dumbest hill to shutdown the government and die on. The Democratic Party has no power in the House and is the minority party in the Senate. Stopping government services/benefits and furloughing thousands of federal workers in blue states was never…