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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (2 children)

DNC loves calling poor people too stupid to help themselves. Insane that they don't get called out more on this.

[–] postmateDumbass 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Republicans have the military industrial complex.

Democrats have the poverty industrial complex.

[–] Manifish_Destiny 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What?

For profit prisons, and tough on crime policies are two massive contributors to poverty.

Not to mention centuries of racial oppression.

Not defending the DNC, but come on..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Private prisons are 8% of federal prisons. Police unions do more lobbying and damage.

[–] postmateDumbass 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-biden-senate-record-controversies-20190318-story.html

Biden is and always has been a Wall Street democrat. The 1994 crine bill, championed by JB, is a significant reason the prision industrial complex has thrived for 30 years.

[–] Daft_ish 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bidens voting record is pretty shameful. Any time I say this though some dem hard liner will crawl up out of some sewer or drop in from the sky and internet fite me.

I can vote blue as a matter of preservation and still be critical of democrats. The "but someone might hear you" people can go fuck right off.

[–] FontMasterFlex 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

apparently poor people are to stupid to know they are being talked about that way.

[–] PopcornTin 4 points 1 year ago

"Poor kids are just as bright as white kids."