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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 67 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Loving all the weaseling here

It's not providing education training, it's supporting

Not mentioning getting the men already in prison for cannabis charges out

Protecting cryptocurrency

Fuck, if they actually cared about the issues that predominantly affect black men, they'd do something about the Pigs or the Chuds

But they don't and they won't

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are doing something about the pigs, they wanna put one in the white house.

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

And the Chuds, inviting them into Cabinet positions pete

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)

protect cryptocurrency investments to Black men who make them know their money is safe

WE'RE NOT JUST DOING WHAT'S GOOD FOR WALSTREET BECAUSE IT'S GOOD FOR WALL STREET! THIS IS ANTI RACIST MAGIC INTERNET MONEY PROTECTION! WE'RE DOING THIS BECAUSE WE HATE RACISM! obama-socialism

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

thinkin-lenin Hmmm:

How Wall St. Is Subtly Shaping the Harris Economic Agenda

The vice president has repeatedly incorporated suggestions from business executives into her economic agenda.

...

Paul Grewal, the chief legal officer at Coinbase, a crypto exchange, said he had spoken several times with top aides to Ms. Harris. He, along with other crypto executives, sat down with Mr. Nelson, Ms. Harris’s confidant, on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August.

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Mr. Cuban, for his part, sees Ms. Harris as a total break from Mr. Biden’s Democratic Party.

“She says she’s open to inputs from independents and Republicans, she means it. She truly is open minded. I’ve put some wild things in her direction that they don’t laugh at,” he said. “People are trying to say, ‘Here are the progressive and liberal principles that have always been the principles of the Democratic Party.’ Those are gone. It’s Kamala Harris’s party now.”

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago
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[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This sounds like a fantastic way to stir up resentment among white democrats while doing absolutely nothing for black men

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

The bourgeoise intentionally stoking racial divides to divide the proletariat? Nah, couldn’t be.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The internet funny money proposal...

[–] miz@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I won't dispute that the black community has some reasons to distrust banks, but it says a lot that the prescription for addressing systemic racism in banking is to regulate scam tokens

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm not even sure if this is a call for regulation or just a vague encouragement to put money in a highly volatile planet-burning dubious investment that arguably has a more white and pasty ruling class bigots dominating it. flashbang

[–] miz@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

excuse me sir but Spike Lee told me that the Digital Rebellion is Here!!

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

Oh, takes me back to those crypto clowns that made accounts on Hexbear just to tell us all that we're ignorant and against the real revolution if we don't buy into the internet funny money.

The only way to beat Wall Street's casino is to buy chips in the new bazinga casino (also owned by Wall Street!).

[–] SubstantialNothingness@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"We want an alternative to the traditional industry with its captured regulations that help the rich and hurt people like us."

"We hear you and we're here to help. We propose folding alternative markets into the traditional industries so than can be held to the standards of existing regulations."

I think the campaign has a profound - and somewhat comedic - misunderstanding of the entire situation.

[–] Kestrel@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How bout you expunge marijuana convictions for the hundreds of thousands of black men still in prison while white folks get to enjoy gentrification gummies

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Enough with the fucking small business loans for people that open yada yada yada FIX FUCKING INFLATION

[–] miz@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you want help but you won't even apply for a Pell Grant and open a business in an underserved community for at least three years?

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

The same shit she touted in 2020 that people were clowning on her for, back again! peppino-why

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Zoolander-ass policy descriptions

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

The Super PAC to support Democratic candidates who don't campaign good. contextphobic

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Libs, often white ones, will literally read this kind of shit and use it as irrefutable "proof" that Kamala and the Dems give even two fucks about the marginalized. At the same time, they'll also call you "racist" and say that you don't understand the plight of underprivileged Americans if you don't vote for her, which would leave you to uphold all of the fascist bullshit that comes with said vote.

They have no ability to think beyond some vaguely "supportive" language in a tweet that actually is, like the title says, condescending when you examine it a bit more closely. Libs don't care about actual policy, tactics, or even ideology. They care about the aesthetic of the people they're voting for, but they support the exact same fascism as Republicans. They'll just be a lot more complacent under a blue-colored fascist than they would be under a red-colored fascist. top-cop

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

Yeah this shit just comes off as stereotypes/tropes and paternalistic condescending bullshit like it seems to assume that black people are stupid therefore more likely to have fallen for crypto scams and then goes on not to address the inherent problems with crypto but to protect their investments in the scam. Whoever crafted this is a massive racist piece of shit.

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

to bolster support among haitian-americans, we promise to legalize cat eating

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Launch a national health initiative focused on the illnesses that disproportionately affect black men"

So they'll talk about sickle cell anemia a bit before refusing to do anything about it.

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Biden cured cancer. Kamala will cure Diabetes

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[–] WorkingClassCorpse@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Lowkey hope he keeps doing that, it's such a Hillary Clinton 2016 non-starter type argument for so many people, guaranteed to cost Kamala the election

These reptilians really can't help but indulge in their worst instincts this election, they're so peeved that people are talking back to their ghoulish asses that they're throwing all political sense out the window

[–] WorkingClassCorpse@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

It honestly looks like they're intentionally trying to torpedo their own chances. Who do they expect to convince with that rhetoric?

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

$20k is barely rent for half a year in a small apartment. Let alone securing a building, or making a viable product or hiring employees.

Here's another springboard into unfathomable debt! jokermala

eric-andre Legalize MJ because sterotype

$20k is barely rent for half a year in a small apartment. Let alone securing a building, or making a viable product or hiring employees.

You're thinking too ambitiously. Our aspirations are supposed to top out at "eBay Dropshipper."

[–] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago
  • “and others”
  • “support education” lipservice
  • encourage gambling while burning the planet
  • health awareness campaign but no healthcare
  • nothing stopping doing it now, a lie that will be repeated next election
[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What weird American terminology is a "forgivable" loan? Is that a grant with extra steps? Or a recognition that no loan scheme works and they'll eventually have to give up chasing repayment on half of them?

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's a closing cost on a 200k-$2M financing needed to actually start a buisness.

You know how people are gunshy about gov loans because the whole student debt can't be discharged in brankruptcy? Well now we're trying to sell START A BUISNESS to compete in a broken and senseless market and has a 90% chance of going bankrupt anyways. So the closing costs on the financing can be forgiven, twisted but not the other 90%

porky-happy Think of the vultures that will feast on the remains! Mark Cuban!

[–] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does anyone have any insight on how this is being received by the target audience?

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

Gonna find out in about 3 weeks.

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

Why are they formating their policy suggestions to look like a computer bluescreen? I mean, it works for me, I think they are making bad policy decisions that really do indicate that this administration has encountered a critical error and will need to be shut down, but I didn't get to pick the design. And somehow I don't think that they chose this horrific visual design out of pure honesty.

[–] SoloboiNanook@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

Lol kamala Harris really doing a "yall like to gamble and smoke weed right?". Incredible stuff.

[–] PostyourJaggaHogs@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

This is a Nick Mullen bit

[–] adultswim_antifa@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

None of the black people I've known were drug dealers liberalism

[–] T34_69@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Any "opportunity agenda for black men" that doesn't include reparations (with interest) is an insult

[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

$20,000 of reparations in the form of a PPP-style loan that can only be used by business owners to invest in crypto.

[–] T34_69@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

doomscroll : no, I... N-no, not like that

jokermala : Yes hahaha, fuck yeah! Yes!!

mission-accomplished-1 kamala-coconut-tree mission-accomplished-2

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Blue screen of death take me back

[–] Beetle_O_Rourke@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

bitcoin will not make everyone rich

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

What kind of business can you actually start where the missing ingredient is a $20k loan and the idea isn't "buy bitcoins/stocks"? This seems like a grift to get taxpayers to fund dumping $20k x 1 million into the bottom of a diverse portfolio of pyramid schemes.

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

The kind of disgustingly condescending racist garbage you'd expect from the Dems.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

I thought the 2024 election couldn't become more of a clown show after the Biden debate but somehow it keeps getting dumber.

[–] RION@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Protect cryptocurrency investments

I thought the point of crypto was the lack of regulation. If it gets the same protections as conventional securities, what is the point of crypto versus those securities???

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Nah it ain't you, this feels patronizing as fuck

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