Just realized that I never posted my thread about why Buttigieg cannot win the 2028 election here.
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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 thanks for continuing to educate, your clarity on this is a big help to me.
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Yes! Lots! Black voters are surprisingly forgiving/ optimistic! Eg: Harris. AOC. Ossoff.
Ossoff is closer to the 2028 presidency than Buttigieg.
He speaks with similar clarity, but adds an understanding of racial issues in the US, and a genuine empathy for Black people that cannot be faked. He doesn't just show up to the closest Black church a few weeks before the election.
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Yes! Lots! Black voters are surprisingly forgiving/ optimistic! Eg: Harris. AOC. Ossoff.
Ossoff is closer to the 2028 presidency than Buttigieg.
He speaks with similar clarity, but adds an understanding of racial issues in the US, and a genuine empathy for Black people that cannot be faked. He doesn't just show up to the closest Black church a few weeks before the election.
@mekkaokereke @jennifersmith Georgia is lucky to have two good senators.
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Iowa and New Hampshire are irrelevant for predicting the next Dem president.
Caucastrophies or caucasualties or caucuses are also nonsense.
Black men are holding an Africus, and in ours we went to the corner of the room that says that we're not electing any more people with anti-Black policies.
️In 2019, people were surprised that I predicted the exact date of Buttigieg's stunning collapse.
🧙️@mekkaokereke I knew exactly when Biden was going to get the 2020 nomination because I'm an adult who has paid attention to other primaries. He was never going to win NH and Iowa, but who cares? (I'm not just saying that because I'm in MA.) Biden was ALWAYS going to clinch it in SC (and people who attacked Black voters for not being "progressive" enough to choose Bernie missed the entire point).
Anyone who thought Buttigieg had legs were delusional or *really* liked his aw, shucks act.
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@mekkaokereke I assume as far as the democrats are concerned it’s besides the point. They’ll continue shaming people who won’t pick the lesser of two evils because that’s worked really well so far.
@fds @mekkaokereke that's the centrist, nominally left, way worldwide.
"You are wrong to care about the subjugation, why are you spoiling everything"
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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.
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@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…
