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1. pepper+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-01-13 22:16:21
If it takes a felon winning an election for you to come out and write this then you are a coward. Where were these deep thoughts when BLM was blocking public roads and emergency services. I'm impartial to both sides simply making an observation.
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2. fullsh+E8[view] [source] 2025-01-13 23:03:35
>>pepper+(OP)
Most people were cowards then, and now too. It's nice to finally get these leaders sharing what they actually think again. After biting their tongue for what a decade?
3. tim333+Gb[view] [source] 2025-01-13 23:20:05
>>pepper+(OP)
PG has been tweeting about woke for years.
4. bsimps+2v[view] [source] 2025-01-14 01:10:57
>>pepper+(OP)
If you insist on casually calling the guy you voted against a felon, I don't think you're as impartial as you claim.
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5. Animal+cx[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-01-14 01:26:12
>>bsimps+2v
He is in fact a convicted felon. That is objectively, impartially true.

It not be impartial to mention it, though. PG almost certainly didn't write this essay out of cowardice because a felon got elected.

He may have written it out of cowardice because a bully got elected, though...

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6. bsimps+TB[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-01-14 02:00:57
>>Animal+cx
I erred on the side of pithy to try to avoid derailing. I've never voted for him and there's a lot that I dislike about him; however…

There's a very credible argument that the DA overcharged the case so people who dislike him can try to ostracize him as a felon and make his supporters look unhinged. If your shorthand for "the less woke candidate won" is "the felon won," you don't get to credibly claim "I'm impartial" in a conversation about wokeness.

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7. cycrut+8L[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-01-14 03:17:15
>>bsimps+TB
So still a convicted felon then?
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8. notaco+6N[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-01-14 03:33:23
>>bsimps+TB
It's not a credible argument. The "overcharges" led to a guilty verdict and sentence. That could not have happened if they were truly as you portray. Believing that your less-informed opinion overrules those of everyone actually in the courtroom is pure hubris.
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9. mbs159+5e1[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-01-14 08:13:23
>>bsimps+2v
It is a fact that he is a convicted felon.
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