Just realized that I never posted my thread about why Buttigieg cannot win the 2028 election here.
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Just realized that I never posted my thread about why Buttigieg cannot win the 2028 election here. Oops.
Way back when, mayor Pete's reform-minded chief of police, Daryl Boykins, recorded some of his officers making vile racist statements. So Buttigieg fired... the police chief.
Boykins was the 1st Black police chief in city history, and was building trust with Black folk.
But it gets worse...
Thank you so much!
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Because people infantilize Black folk, in particular Black men, they usually assume that they have more info than Black men voters, and make better decisions than us when presented with the same info.
️No one bothered to do what you did (ask Black men why they didn't like Buttigieg as a candidate).
@mekkaokereke Yep. See also: Fetterman.
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Just realized that I never posted my thread about why Buttigieg cannot win the 2028 election here. Oops.
Way back when, mayor Pete's reform-minded chief of police, Daryl Boykins, recorded some of his officers making vile racist statements. So Buttigieg fired... the police chief.
Boykins was the 1st Black police chief in city history, and was building trust with Black folk.
But it gets worse...
@mekkaokereke
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@mekkaokereke ugh, there’s something uniquely terrible about white gay men, especially ones that can code switch or mask when needed, because they don’t have to live with their marginalized identities AND they don’t have to be around other marginalized people. At least my husband gets a front row seat to what it’s like for me being a woman in tech these days.
@irene Wait, I just saw a relevant: https://blackqueer.life/@blackfinalboi/116531307998971505
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@irene Wait, I just saw a relevant: https://blackqueer.life/@blackfinalboi/116531307998971505
@ProcessParsnip @mekkaokereke yeah totally I guess it makes sense that many of the gay white men I’m friends with grew up working class so there was less of a sense of entitlement (according to what they tell me) that they were cheated out of. And an extra layer of shittiness in terms of lack of acceptance
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The best that Dem presidential candidates with anti-Black track records can do, is win the Dem primary... and then lose in the general.
Then write silly and incorrect articles about how "Black men are moving towards Trump!
"Dems complete this whole arc without ever having had one real conversation with any of the Black men voters that noped out.
️@mekkaokereke i would really like it if you were wrong, but this is going to be exacty what will happen.
Handing the american psycho party(*) the win because they are as disconnected from the people as the current president from reality.
(*) using that term just because it sounds cool. I know its a thing, but i dont know/remember the subtext.
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Just realized that I never posted my thread about why Buttigieg cannot win the 2028 election here. Oops.
Way back when, mayor Pete's reform-minded chief of police, Daryl Boykins, recorded some of his officers making vile racist statements. So Buttigieg fired... the police chief.
Boykins was the 1st Black police chief in city history, and was building trust with Black folk.
But it gets worse...
@mekkaokereke
I've been looking for corroboration of what you say. But I'm struggling to find any. Probably just searching on the wrong words in the wrong search engine.
I recognize you don't owe us anything but I'd really like to read evidence of this if you have any links. -
@mekkaokereke
I've been looking for corroboration of what you say. But I'm struggling to find any. Probably just searching on the wrong words in the wrong search engine.
I recognize you don't owe us anything but I'd really like to read evidence of this if you have any links.No worries!
Let's do this together.
Please share the exact search term you tried based on the above post.
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No worries!
Let's do this together.
Please share the exact search term you tried based on the above post.
I just searched on Qwant as well. The search term I used was:
"Buttigieg boykins tapes"This is the first link:
Judge rules for officers in South Bend Police Tapes Case
After a 14-year legal fight between the South Bend Common Council, city administration and a group of officers, St. Joseph Superior Judge Jamie Woods on Thursday ruled the city must destroy the recordings of officers, some of the allegedly saying racially offensive things, because they were made without the officers' consent, in violation of the Indiana and federal wiretap acts.
WVPE (www.wvpe.org)
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I just searched on Qwant as well. The search term I used was:
"Buttigieg boykins tapes"This is the first link:
Judge rules for officers in South Bend Police Tapes Case
After a 14-year legal fight between the South Bend Common Council, city administration and a group of officers, St. Joseph Superior Judge Jamie Woods on Thursday ruled the city must destroy the recordings of officers, some of the allegedly saying racially offensive things, because they were made without the officers' consent, in violation of the Indiana and federal wiretap acts.
WVPE (www.wvpe.org)
@mekkaokereke Ah! I think "boykins" might have added to the sauce.
Thank you! Reading now!
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Because people infantilize Black folk, in particular Black men, they usually assume that they have more info than Black men voters, and make better decisions than us when presented with the same info.
️No one bothered to do what you did (ask Black men why they didn't like Buttigieg as a candidate).
@mekkaokereke
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@mekkaokereke
I assume "you" is a journalist you were replying to on some other platform?Not a journalist, but yes.
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Not a journalist, but yes.
@mekkaokereke damn, got my hopes up that there might be a journalist who'd actually bother
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Just realized that I never posted my thread about why Buttigieg cannot win the 2028 election here. Oops.
Way back when, mayor Pete's reform-minded chief of police, Daryl Boykins, recorded some of his officers making vile racist statements. So Buttigieg fired... the police chief.
Boykins was the 1st Black police chief in city history, and was building trust with Black folk.
But it gets worse...
@mekkaokereke bruh that pete guy is NOT IT. At all. Has the opposite of trust and goodwill
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@mekkaokereke bruh that pete guy is NOT IT. At all. Has the opposite of trust and goodwill
@cykonot @mekkaokereke do you remember when he showed off his biggest contributor was Zuckerberg? pepperidge farms remembers…
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@cykonot @mekkaokereke do you remember when he showed off his biggest contributor was Zuckerberg? pepperidge farms remembers…
@blogdiva @mekkaokereke wild. Says so much about his values and sensibilities
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@blogdiva @mekkaokereke wild. Says so much about his values and sensibilities
@cykonot @blogdiva @mekkaokereke the Buttigiegs, Altmans, Thiels et al may be queer people, but they will always be white men first and foremost. disgusting pieces of shit, the lot of them.
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@davidnjoku @mekkaokereke @jennifersmith I seem to recall he's one who "makes good trouble"
.@deborahh @davidnjoku @mekkaokereke @jennifersmith
I like Ossoff a LOT. It is hard for me to imagine white america electing a Jewish president.
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@deborahh @davidnjoku @mekkaokereke @jennifersmith
I like Ossoff a LOT. It is hard for me to imagine white america electing a Jewish president.
@minmi @mekkaokereke Try harder to imagine it. It’s actually not a problem.
The anti-semites are almost all white evangelicals who are already in the bag for the GOP. They are easily outnumbered by a fully energized base that wants to vote for pluralistic multiracial secular democracy.
There are two groups that are reliable voters for that and the math needs both of them to be energized in the swing states. One of them is black people. The other is white non-religious people. Biden won because he had both behind him. In the swing states.
Keep running these candidates that black people and white non-religious people don’t support, and you keep losing.
