Even then, as a former cop state procecutor and district attorney/AG, positions which are well known to have an extensive supportive connection with police and cops that everyone knows operate in lockstep and are functionally 2 sides of the same coin, her voting record has been surprisingly comparatively progressive/left wing sometimes on par with Bernie.
She was also progressive as a DA too. She ran on the promise to never seek the death penalty, and she never did. She had a record number of cannabis prosecutions, but a substantially lower number of incarcerations for cannabia.
Her mother is an Indian American doctor, and her father is an Afro-Jamacain American professor of economics. She's lived in the East Coast, Chicago, California.
She's progressive. She plays by the rules but she's progressive.
IMHO, forced seems a bit harsh. The co-elected incumbent VP is historically the backup when something goes down with the President and you’re outside of an election cycle.
The primaries already happened, there is no time to print ballots, stand up polling stations, and get the public to vote before the Ohio roll call to get a candidate on the ballot. This would probably be impossible even if Biden dropped out on that debate stage.
The party / delegates are basically forced to pick someone, and using the precedent of a the VP being the fallback, this is probably the most democratic option. She was elected with Biden in 2020.
Even if Biden dropped out before the primary, Kamala would have had an incredible advantage over all other candidates. She very likely would have been the nominee.
There are things to get upset about. The most likely alternative taking over is not one of them.
Oh? Harris wasn't part of the ticket that won the majority of delegates at the Primary...?
EDIT: Wow, Lemmy.world really wants to elect Donald Trump again. I mean, fair enough I guess (for those who can actually vote in US elections), I just wasn't expecting all the immediate attacks to be in such bad faith.
$100,000,000 (mostly small donors) and 40,000 new voters in the 24 hours after she announced she was running.
Like anyone, she's not perfect, but we're excited and energized about the candidate... finally. We will fight against fascism and actually improve things with Kamala Harris...
Even ignoring all the structural issues like donors and media that prevent a truly open process the fact that Biden was the incumbent meant there was even more pressure from the DNC to not have a legitimate competitor run.
Saying she won the most delegates so she was everyone first choice is being basically blind to how the primary process actually operates.
If wealthy donors weren’t as important to the process, if she wasn’t the incumbent VP after a very unusual occupancy of the incumbent president stepping down this late, and you had something like ranked choice you would get a very different answer. This should be obvious to anyone because in the last “fair” primary in 2020 she and Biden were among the least popular candidates before the other centrists dropped out all together.
Not to mention the record-setting >100 million in grassroots small dollar donations in the first day and a half after Biden dropped out. I'd call that a lot of support.
The ACAB people have never been opposed to laws or prosecution of criminals. The problem is that the cops and their powerful friends tend to be immune to those laws.
It's certainly true that some laws and some sentencing ranges are unjust, but that's different from saying that laws themselves ought not exist. And although we've seen several high profile cases recently where prosecutors are clearly dirty as hell, that's probably less common than the dirtiness ratio among the pigs.
Also, ACAB doesn't mean there are no good cops. Just that even the good cops are sullied by being a part of an organization that promotes and protects those who commit terrible crimes. Sort of like, "Even the really good ones are sort of bad."
"A rotten apple quickly infects its neighbor", the 1130s version of the famous proverb.
It also suggests the solution: remove the bad apples before they can spoil the bunch. But, bad cops are protected, and as a result the whole institution is rotten.
Also, if you end up with a whole box full of rotten apples, the only solution is to throw it away and start fresh. Police reform processes almost never do that. They try to keep most of the cops, even the supervisors, in their jobs. Then try to fix it with extra training, or outside supervision or something.
There should be laws, and if there are laws there's a need for law enforcement. But, other countries around the world have managed to do that in a way where their law enforcers are properly supervised. They've found a way to have specialized units that deal with violent crime or organized crime, so that the rest of the law enforcers don't have to walk around with a life-or-death mindset. Most importantly, they have a culture that a police officer is a public servant whose main job is to help people in very stressful situations. In the US the culture is that every person you encounter is potentially going to kill you, so you and your brothers need to approach every situation as though your life is on the line.
Good cops don't let bad cops do bad things. Which is another way of saying that I agree with you, but I would prefer to categorize cops based on their actions and not based on their theoretical potential, because we have to live with the former. Or die from it, as happens all too often.
This is too broad an interpretation of ACAB. The concept is specifically about policing and takes no stance on the concept of law. That's a consideration seated in political theory. No movement is a monolith. Progressive liberals, socialists, and anarchists alike share ACAB in common but have differing views on laws/enforcement/justice system.
Prosecutors are like cops more than they are different. They work with them day to day. They have the power to charge the bad ones with crimes, but they rarely do, and even then they often overcharge or put up a poor case so the cop goes free. They also overcharge people to force plea deals and avoid trials. This goes double for those who can't afford bail and have to spend years in jail waiting for a trial. Prosecutors are every bit as bad and corrupt as the police.
Well it's certainly the quirk of your electoral college and system that there's only two candidates with any chance.
But there is a choice between one that wants to fix that by removing choice all together and one that might, overtime, be moved towards giving the fundamental problem (if consistently voted for with a large enough majority).
Yea, seems weird to me to call a prosecutor a cop. I don't understand why people seem to be equating the two. Maybe I'm just ignorant on how that works.
Xenocide, actually. He was duped as a child, and he spent the rest of his life atoning for it. I'm also not wrong. If you think a lawyer is a cop you need to go back to school. Maybe reread Ender's Game while you're at it. You might learn something.
I don't think Ender Wiggin counts as genocidal. Sure, he did a genocide, but there was neither intent nor knowledge to do so. He never held a genocidal belief, opinion, or intent. His actions don't reflect on his character because he was tricked, except to establish that he's gullible. (And not very gullible considering the scope of the deception).
are you kidding? it seemed like they were just retreading the same exact plot points of last season, everyone said they got lazy and BAM plot twist actually a black and Indian living woman instead of a white corpse... the ratings are surging right now
I don't think its too spicy, I just think it isn't very smart or strategic.
The ACAB crowd obviously doesn't love Harris precisely because she's a cop, but as Transient Punk pointed out, the ACAB crowd didn't choose Harris and don't represent most of the Democratic party, who skew right-wing. (Whereas the back-the-blue types overlap much more with uncritical enthusiasm for Trump, who they see as an innocent man who has been wrongfully convicted by a corrupt and politically motivated justice system.)
The Democratic coalition made up of progressive, leftists, and more right-wing liberals holds together by pragmatically overlooking these divisions and cooperating against the even-further-right, and this meme sows division right before a major election where Democrats are divided (e.g. over Israel) and having a hard time unifying.
In that sense this meme will get a reaction, but again not because it is spicy but because it is divisive.
There's right wing misinformation going around that Kamala Harris prosecuted over 1900 cases of misdemeanor drug possession charges during her seven years as a DA - sending those people to jail.
THIS IS NOT TRUE!
she oversaw roughly that many cases, but ONLY 45 saw jail time, and since 2018 she's been a campaigner against the laws that jail people for minor possession charges. Convictions for such crimes drastically dropped during her time there.
I know the left always complains that the right don't check sources - but frankly no one does. So do better, and do basic research before spreading any information thoughtlessly. GET THE FACTS!
How is she a "cop" if she was a prosecutor? They're not even in the same branch of government. Police is executive branch, a prosecutor is judicial branch.
In most states attorney generals have arresting privileges and are the top cop in the state. They would be responsible for arresting sheriffs or even a governor for crimes.
Weird system. In most countries public prosecutors are firmly in the judicial branch, because they are expected to be impartial and independent from the executive branch.
Prosecutors are executive branch. Prosecutors are the ones that legally accuse people of committing crimes in court using evidence that the police obtain. They work in court but they are not arms of the court.
I'm not an expert on the American justice system, and I guess it shows, but in most countries prosecutors are magistrates who are part of the judiciary and who are independent from the executive branch. For example in my country it's like this: https://www.advocaat.be/en/words/magistracy
IIRC, this comes from the Napoleonic Code which many countries used as a basis for their legal system.