Tech billionaire and close adviser to President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, is lending his voice to encourage the pardon of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who killed George Floyd in May 2020.

  • @[email protected]
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    -221 day ago

    How is it possible that this is the only thing the democrats seem to care about? Yet they seem fully complacent with Trumps destruction of the US economy, democracy and international relationships?

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        24 hours ago

        Am I wrong though?

        There were massive riots from the BLM movement after the death of George Floyd, which is fair enough. But now that we are witnessing the US being turned into an oligarchy and the annihilation of 80 years of US diplomacy, what do we see? Almost no opposition, just some small scale protests.

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            -422 hours ago

            Nice argument. Surrendering without a fight just like your politicians. Seems like Bernie Sanders is the only one with some guts

        • @NocturnalMorning
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          We were already an oligarchy. We’re just not pretending anymore that we aren’t.

    • @shalafi
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      218 hours ago

      Simple. Seeing video of a cop murdering a black man in cold blood, while other officers fend off help, is far more visceral than the other items you mentioned.

      • @[email protected]
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        113 hours ago

        This is the actual answer to their, although ill-phrased, reasonable question. If something equally visceral occurred that represents the other issues, the same will happen.