• Freeanotherday [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Richard Bradley shinnied up a flagpole in front of San Francisco City Hall for the second time in as many days yesterday to tear down a Confederate flag he finds offensive. When he got to the ground, after ripping the flag to shreds and throwing the pieces to the ground, he was arrested and charged with malicious mischief. He was arrested on the same charge Sunday after he climbed the same flagpole and tore apart another Confederate flag

      Absolutely based.

    • JohnBrownIsCool [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I was skeptical if this was true or not, but after I read this part

      We could find no evidence that Feinstein was responsible for that act, and the director of Recreation and Parks, Thomas Malloy, said it was done “quite by accident.”

      I was like “oh okay so it 100% was Feinstein”

      • sovietknuckles [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        They’re only claiming to deboonk that she definitely did it multiple times

        Claim: While mayor of San Francisco mayor (sic) in 1984, Dianne Feinstein repeatedly ordered the reinstallation of a Confederate battle flag outside City Hall.

        Unproven

        pinocchio-evil pinocchio-evil pinocchio-evil pinocchio-evil

  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you’re a politician in office today and have black and white pictures of yourself as an adult, you shouldn’t be in office.

  • D3FNC [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The fine legacy of wealthy, conservative, pro-cop, anti-LGBT, Stanford graduate, doctor’s kid, ex-wife of a neurosurgeon Diane Feinstein that used her influence to aggressively prosecute medical workers found to have known of, or participated in abortions up until the absolute last minute.

    Diane Feinstein, mayor of San Francisco after Harvey Milk’s assassination, known for publicly begging gay people to please act normal in public so as not to tarnish San Francisco’s reputation. Diane “personally responsible for the SF housing crisis” Feinstein, champion of the war on drugs? That legacy?

    Diane Feinstein, because what we really needed was more conservative billionaires in congress.

    I don’t know how anyone to the left of Goldwater could have ever defended this woman. The old guard of the DNC, Biden especially, somehow makes the republican party look progressive.

  • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Some other fun facts about her

    When asked about her relationship with Beijing, Feinstein said, “I sometimes say that in my last life maybe I was Chinese.”

    In September 2016—in advance of UN Security Council resolution 2334 condemning Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories—Feinstein signed an AIPAC-sponsored letter urging Obama to veto “one-sided” resolutions against Israel

    At an April 2017 town hall meeting in San Francisco, Feinstein was booed when she stated that she did not support a proposal for single-payer health insurance. Feinstein said, “[i]f single-payer health care is going to mean the complete takeover by the government of all health care, I am not there.”

    Following her 2012 vote to extend the Patriot Act and the FISA provisions, and after the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures involving the National Security Agency (NSA), Feinstein promoted and supported measures to continue the information collection programs. Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss also defended the NSA’s request to Verizon for all the metadata about phone calls made within the U.S. and from the U.S. to other countries.

    At an August 29, 2017 event in San Francisco, Feinstein expressed hope that Trump could become a good president. “The question is whether he can learn and change”, she said. “If so, I believe he can be a good president”.