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Putting the blame on the poor

lundi 21 décembre 2020 à 01:00

The Tories have been squeezing the poor for a decade. No surprise that they want poor whites to blame their bad treatment on the poor blacks instead of the rich.

We've seen similar tactics in the US. It is the standard right-wing form of divide and rule.

Life in prison for $20 deal

lundi 21 décembre 2020 à 01:00

*A homeless man sentenced to life in prison for a $20 marijuana sale is freed after 12 years.*

The war on drugs must have taken some very bad drugs 12 years ago.

Hatch act undermined

lundi 21 décembre 2020 à 01:00

The corrupter has totally undermined the Hatch Act, which is supposed to prohibit most federal employees from taking partisan actions. Its enforcement depends on backing from the president.

Social credit scores

lundi 21 décembre 2020 à 01:00

The IMF proposes using people's digital dossiers to calculate their credit scores — which would in effect convert them into social credit scores.

Dissidents

lundi 21 décembre 2020 à 01:00

Some Cuban dissidents get US backing and even support the wrecker. What they believe would be bad for Cuba just as it is bad for the US.

However, that doesn't excuse Cuba's imprisonment of them for saying what they think.

Not all Cuban dissidents support right-wing extremism. Oswaldo Payá did not. The Cuban government had him killed.

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