• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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      “This federal administration is making hard-working, tax-paying, God-fearing residents afraid to live their lives,” Wu said. “A city that’s scared is not a city that’s safe, a land ruled by fear is not the land of the free.”

      Yeah, that’s beautifully put.

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      She’s no Obama-level speaker but she can definitely speak. Wonderful to hear people performing a well-written speech around an important theme like that.

      I watched as much as I could before I ran out of time. Can we set up a prop from the old “gong show” and gong the people who can’t speak well in Congress?

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    their suggestions on how to actually make cities safer were all wonderful. but nowhere did they say the one thing that matters the most. REDUCE INEQUALITY BY TAXING THE ULTRA RICH.

    seriously, how else do we fund the suggestions they just made? tax them bitches.

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      We could also decrease our military budget, but that would go hand in hand with reducing the money the wealthy have.

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        It’s not fair to only target the military industrial complex, all the other billionaires should share the love too!

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    The hearing occurred amid heightened national tensions around immigration, with Trump and Republican rhetoric focusing on linking immigrant populations to crime.

    The real criminal population that needs to be rounded up are conservatives.