American Politics Thread VI: Can't We All Just Get Along?

[Genivaria]

Honestly just searching Bexar County under News should bring it up.

I was talking about Lin Wood saying 97% of the government was corrupt. Sorry if you didn't notice the emboldment, I probably should've edited out the rest.

Ah you good.

[North Washington Republic]

Honestly just searching Bexar County under News should bring it up.

I was talking about Lin Wood saying 97% of the government was corrupt. Sorry if you didn't notice the emboldment, I probably should've edited out the rest.

Lin Wood needs to be disbarred and institutionalized..l

[The Black Forrest]

Strangely, a quick search found nothing similar. So she's either hired by Wood or the news station.

Honestly just searching Bexar County Nelson under News should bring it up.
https://www.tpr.org/news/2021-09-06/bex ... to-mask-up
https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/ ... 438895.php

It did.

[Diahon]

Louisiana detainees used as labour to fill sandbags to protect property, but left behind when Hurricane Ida rolled through

Last Friday, as Hurricane Ida was tearing up trees and ripping roofs from homes in western Cuba, officials on the Louisiana coast put out the call to residents: Get out. Forecasters were saying the “extremely dangerous major hurricane” would make a beeline for the bayous and oil refineries along the Gulf Coast. In Lafourche Parish, where the storm would eventually make its landfall, parish president Archie Chaisson issued a mandatory evacuation order. “Not the easiest decision I’ve ever made in life here in parish government,” Chaisson told residents in a Facebook livestream. “But one we felt was necessary, as a group, to help keep everybody safe.”

Everybody, that is, except the roughly 600 people locked in the Lafourche Parish Detention Center. A day after the evacuation order, some of the detainees were tasked with filling up sandbags to protect residents’ property against flooding. People incarcerated in the parish were not evacuated, even as the storm gained massive force over the next 24 hours—building from the Category 1 storm over Cuba to a Category 4 cyclone just offshore.

The legacy of Hurricane Katrina looms large over this decision. In 2005, before that disaster, the sheriff in New Orleans, Marlin Gusman, decided that people in his massive Orleans Parish Prison would “stay where they belong,” even though the mayor had issued a mandatory evacuation order. When the storm hit the city, the jail’s generators failed, plunging around 7,000 prisoners, pretrial detainees, and staff into darkness and sweltering heat. Lacking electricity, many cell doors were stuck shut; detained adults and children remained trapped for days as their cells filled up to chest height with sewage-tainted water, according to an ACLU report published the following year and based on interviews with hundreds of people. By the time the sheriff changed his mind and decided to evacuate, there were only three boats available. The number of deaths is still disputed.

Perhaps with this history in mind, many Louisiana sheriffs decided to evacuate their jails in advance of Ida. Nicholas Chrastil, writing in the Lens, reports that hundreds of pretrial detainees were sent from the Orleans Parish Prison to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola, which is further inland (According to state data, 27 staff and eight prisoners in Angola were COVID-positive as of last Wednesday.) Other sheriffs made the same call, evacuating parish jails in Plaquemines, Acadia, St. Mary, Vermillion, Terrebonne, and St. Bernard, according to Chrastil.

Yet the people incarcerated in Lafourche went nowhere. They’d been made to fill sandbags in the days leading up to the storm’s landfall and were still doing that work after the evacuation order, according to a video posted to the sheriff’s Twitter and Instagram pages on Saturday, and since deleted. According to the post, pre-filled sandbags were available to elderly and disabled residents. Lafourche Sheriff Craig Webre wasn’t the only Louisiana sheriff to decide to keep incarcerated people in the storm’s path. The Jefferson Parish Correctional Center, on the bank of the Mississippi, kept 1,100 detainees in place. Jails in St. Charles Parish and St. John the Baptist Parish also did not evacuate. […] As it turned out, St. Charles and Lafourche parishes sustained some of the worst damage in the region. Webre told CNN on Sunday night that every road in the parish was impassible and two of three hospitals were damaged. Power in the region is not expected to be restored for weeks. A break in a water main has left many without clean water. But the sheriff’s gamble may have worked out, at least according to his spokesperson: On Monday, public information officer Capt. Brennan Matherne told Chrastil that the jail, though running on generator power, sustained “minimal damage.”

This atrocity would get most countries embargoed.

but as using prison slave labor is a constitutional exemption, a see-nothing attitude is treated as the default option

[CoraSpia]

Honestly just searching Bexar County under News should bring it up.

I was talking about Lin Wood saying 97% of the government was corrupt. Sorry if you didn't notice the emboldment, I probably should've edited out the rest.

That's a low figure honestly. Closer to 100 sounds more realistic.

[Kowani]

Lee surrenders in Virginia once again

[CoraSpia]

Lee surrenders in Virginia once again

Ridiculous, like all of these statue removals.

[Yed Very Yed]

We can never get along, and it is fact.

[Lady Victory]

Lee surrenders in Virginia once again

Based and Patriotpilled. I can smell the Neo-Confederate tears from here... smells like victory.

[Lady Victory]

Lee surrenders in Virginia once again

Ridiculous, like all of these statue removals.

Nah, what's ridiculous is that we allowed the erection of statues to traitors, slavers, and white supremacists who made war on their country to keep their fellow Americans in chains. Now *that's* ridiculous. Imagine if Gorbachev had erected a statue of Nicholas II. That wouldn't make much sense, now would it?

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Lee surrenders in Virginia once again

Ridiculous, like all of these statue removals.

The only thing ridiculous about the statue removals is that people are asking the government nicely and waiting for them to come remove them.

[Lady Victory]

Ridiculous, like all of these statue removals.

The only thing ridiculous about the statue removals is that people are asking the government nicely and waiting for them to come remove them.

It's the civic, patriotic duty of any American to remove statues of traitors whether the government wants them to or not.

[Grave_n_idle]

Lee surrenders in Virginia once again

Ridiculous, like all of these statue removals.

Why would you even want statues of people that not only hated America and everything it stood for, but tried to destroy it?

[Punished UMN]

Ridiculous, like all of these statue removals.

Why would you even want statues of people that not only hated America and everything it stood for, but tried to destroy it?

Well when you put it like that...

[Vassenor]

Ridiculous, like all of these statue removals.

Why would you even want statues of people that not only hated America and everything it stood for, but tried to destroy it?

Because without them how will the uppity black people be reminded of their place? Or something like that, given when and why most of these statues went up.

[San Lumen]

Lee surrenders in Virginia once again

Ridiculous, like all of these statue removals.

There used to be a statue of Roger Taney a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in front of the Maryland State House. He wrote the Dred Scott decision. Should that statue have remained there?

[The Andorian System]

Ridiculous, like all of these statue removals.

Why would you even want statues of people that not only hated America and everything it stood for, but tried to destroy it?

"Cause the answer to 1984 is 1776...

...or 1861...

...or January 6？...


FREEDOM!!!


Infowhores.com

[Andsed]

Lee surrenders in Virginia once again

Ridiculous, like all of these statue removals.

Lee fought to defend slavery. Why the hell should we have a statue for someone like him? Statues are built to glorify their subjects, what is worth glorifying about him? Plently of people don't deserve to have statues because what they did is not something that should ever be glorifed or celebrated. Lee is a textbook example of that.

[Ifreann]

Is it statue time again? Hell yeah, kill all statues.

[Cannot think of a name]

Is it statue time again? Hell yeah, kill all statues.

Countdown to the implication that people can only possibly learn history from a statue erected decades after the event it's celebrating.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Ridiculous, like all of these statue removals.

Lee fought to defend slavery. Why the hell should we have a statue for someone like him? Statues are built to glorify their subjects, what is worth glorifying about him? Plently of people don't deserve to have statues because what they did is not something that should ever be glorifed or celebrated. Lee is a textbook example of that.

In Mexico they’re doing the same with a statue of Columbus. They’re going to replace it with one of an indigenous woman. I say that’s better.

[Tarsonis]

I was gonna add Lenin's statue in Seattle to the destro list, but ironically that ones on private property.

[Ifreann]

Is it statue time again? Hell yeah, kill all statues.

Countdown to the implication that people can only possibly learn history from a statue erected decades after the event it's celebrating.

That's what every American high school campus has statues of FDR, Churchill, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito. Gotta have those statues to learn about history.

[San Lumen]

https://nypost.com/2021/08/28/nyc-gop-f ... cil-races/

NYC Republicans fear enthusiasm gap in open city council races. One race they are concerned about is that of the minority leader who is from Staten Island and is retiring. A Conservative Party candidate could be a spoiler and allow the Democrat to win.

The same could happen with the Staten Island Borough President where former Congressman Vito Fossella is attempting a comeback. A Democrat has not won this office since 1985.

[Kilobugya]

Speaking of statues, I had a neighbor who came from Spain, and before she came to France she was always leaving crumbs of bread near Franco's statues so birds would come and sh*t on the statues. Always loved her spirit