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@stockcar86 Check out News of the World for how it was 150 years ago.
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Virginia is about to abolish the death penalty. That doesn't sound like much, but that would make it the first southern state to do so. Virginia has the most executions of all the states and was the location of the first US execution, and also has the second most executions in the modern era after Texas, so it's a watershed moment in the abolitionist struggle.
The modern era is usually defined in the USA as post-Furman, which was a legal moratorium imposed by SCOTUS between 1972 and 1976 due to racial bias in death sentencing, with the first execution after that being Gary Gilmour by firing squad in 1977 in Utah (for sports fans, his last words were "Let's do it", which was the inspiration for Nike's catch phrase of "Just do it!").
Virginia used to be solidly Republican at state level, but has recently switched to Democratic, so it's interesting to see the various agenda items being progressed after the change and whether that will be replicated in other purple states.
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@catogrande Virginia elections are in the odd-numbered years, so although the governor, lieutenant (deputy) governor and Attorney-General have been Democrats since 2017 (earlier for some of them), the state legislatures flipped in Nov 2019, with the first session in Jan 2020.
I can't find anything to suggest it was specifically Democratic Party policy, but abolitionist groups normally work across parties because it's not a strictly partisan issue, although Democrats are usually in favour of abolition in larger numbers than Republicans. The abolition campaigns usually run for decades and never stop trying, so even if it wasn't party policy, it will always bubble up from time to time as a political issue.
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@godder said in US Politics:
Virginia is about to abolish the death penalty. That doesn't sound like much, but that would make it the first southern state to do so. Virginia has the most executions of all the states and was the location of the first US execution, and also has the second most executions in the modern era after Texas, so it's a watershed moment in the abolitionist struggle.
The modern era is usually defined in the USA as post-Furman, which was a legal moratorium imposed by SCOTUS between 1972 and 1976 due to racial bias in death sentencing, with the first execution after that being Gary Gilmour by firing squad in 1977 in Utah (for sports fans, his last words were "Let's do it", which was the inspiration for Nike's catch phrase of "Just do it!").
Virginia used to be solidly Republican at state level, but has recently switched to Democratic, so it's interesting to see the various agenda items being progressed after the change and whether that will be replicated in other purple states.
that's awesome
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@frank said in US Politics:
Covid nursing home supposed cover-up, multiple sexual harassment allegations emerging.
The once lauded Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo ain't having an easy time of it recently."The higher the profession of virtue, the lower the morals": Noel Coward
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@victor-meldrew said in US Politics:
@frank said in US Politics:
Covid nursing home supposed cover-up, multiple sexual harassment allegations emerging.
The once lauded Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo ain't having an easy time of it recently."The higher the profession of virtue, the lower the morals": Noel Coward
That Coward quote should be on a wall in every national institution
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@kiwiwomble said in US Politics:
@frank can you elaborate? He covered up? He sexually harassed or he just in charge?
Basically nobody died after being put into nursing homes. Nobody covered up and lied about covid death numbers. Nobody came forward with direct sexual assault accusations against the governor himself. Nobody has fled from New York and the city and state is in the best condition it's ever been in and nobody has cause for concern about the best selling, Emmy awarded Governor facing discipline from the Democrat Party and an FBI investigation.
America marches on triumphantly to prosperity and social unity now that despot former president is no longer involved.
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@kiwiwomble mate, you'd have to google it anyway and because our algorithms and news sources differ we will always arrive at different "truths" - such is the way of the world and the media business model.
The points I made, sarcastic or not, ( probably Cuomos position), are the points you will find by googling. After that, it's anybody's guess what the truth is
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@kiwiwomble My understanding is that Cuomo ordered infected oldies out of hospital back into the aged care facilities , where it spread and killed a lot of oldies. He has been accused of obfuscating the numbers in a bid to cover up the extent of that fuck up.
Subsequently there have been accusations of sexual harassment.
All the while he was lauded by those elements of society that were/are sympathetic with his politics because:
- Not Trump
- Democrat
- brother is CNN reporter.
I may not have got that 100, but think it's close.
Hope that helps?
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But how could this happen? We were told repeatedly by supposedly sage people that only Trump could act like this towards women and all the Covid difficulties were down to that narcissistic, blowhard, populist liar Trump.
There must have been an evil Republican plot, backed by Steve Bannon, to take over Cuomo's mind to make him look bad.
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