• FanciestPants@lemmy.world
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      She didn’t come in prepared to have a nuanced conversation about private equity firm or hedge fund acquisitions of residential living spaces, so I’m not surprised that she tried to nope out of the conversation. There are thousands of topics I can’t hold up a conversation about, but I think it would be awesome for reporters to do a 15 seconds of fame rule in these cases. Just state “i’ve got nothing to contribute, but you have the next 15 seconds,” and then let them cook.

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      11 hours ago

      She’s not a class traitor because she’s black or because she’s a woman, she’s a class traitor because she works for a living and is cooperating in suppressing news about the problems caused by the Owner Class.

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        They’re aren’t implying that it’s because of those things. They are saying as an individual who has undoubtedly been subject to those systemic abuses is makes it all the more stomach turning that they’d be a cog in perpetuating it.

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      15 hours ago

      This was the twist of a great movie about corrupt cops

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      In Rebel Ridge, the protagonist, a black guy, is trying to get a bag of bail money back from a corrupt police department that enacted civil forfeiture. It often cuts away to the one black woman in the dept who has to drive a shittier car than the rest. Then, we learn there’s an informant to IA inside the dept trying to bring them down. The protagonist figures it’s the black woman. He’s wrong; she betrays him, trying to arrest him. Turns out, the informant was the white guy who first stole his money, as a way of trying to build trust with a department that had been doing a lot of the same.

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          14 hours ago

          Oh, I absolutely know it’s not new. Long ago, I thought that Uncle Ruckus in the Boondocks was an absurd fictionalized character. But people like that absolutely exist.

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            I don’t often get to talk about this because I’m a straight white guy from the south with a thick accent. I ain’t upset about it because I would assume the worst of me too.

            I think it’s at least semi common knowledge that conservative/racist/sexist/homophobic white men often assume all other straight white men think the same as them and will say some wild shit on that assumption. Well it wasn’t common but I definitely remember a few black folks that may as well have been Stephen from Django Unchained