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Oh my god when I heard this bullshit about ACAB with her I was like wtf? She's not a fucking cop. She's a Prosecutor. Yes that ties into police work and shit but she's NOT A COP. I was so confused by this. Like people…she's a prosecutor. In addition to that, she's a strong advocate and ally for LGBTQ+ and wants to uphold abortion rights and overall women's rights. Oh, and she wants to stop Trump's Project 2025 and Agenda 47 (which is basically the same thing!). Trump's close associates are the ones behind Project 2025. Sooo that tells you something. (comment courtesy of @justacoldfrappucino)

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It should be noted that the California right wing accused her of being soft on crime because she didn't hand out enough jail sentences. (comment courtesy of @aqueerkettleofish)

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And when she was a district attorney, the cops did not like her. The Marshall Project has a good overview of her record. I think it's important to note she learned and grew over time, as well.

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I'd also like to add that if you look at her record in a timeline she has gotten progressively more liberal!

#some ppl will call it pandering but uhhhh we literally want our politicians to listen to our concerns and change their policies based on it (comment and tags courtesy of @kaoticspoonie)

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What drives me crazy about the prosecutor/district attorney = cop common line of leftist thinking is that. People always talk about when a progressive DA is appointed, and how important that is, because the DA literally can just decide not to prosecute certain offenses. I think people who just dismiss a lawyer or DA as a "cop" are deeply unserious people, and are unable to actually participate in political change in any way because of it (comment courtesy of @tharkuun)

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We vote for the weakest adversary. The weakest adversary is always the politician who mostly agrees with you but got where they are by compromising with an unjust system. Elect that person and mush their face in the compromises they’ve made and we can undo the fucked up laws and practices !!!! Or you can let someone who can never be convinced because they hold opposite views on criminalization, incarceration, police brutality and immunity, etc. If you don’t understand or care that voting works this way, where’s your pipe bombs and guerilla fighter cells? Cause that or complacency with fascist takeover is all you’re eating (comment courtesy of @thisismenow3)

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Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

It didn’t hit me until recently that people genuinely think Kamala Harris was a police officer because of all the people who call her a cop online.

Like I think maybe it’s important people should know she was a prosecutor. She was once a district attorney and later an attorney general for the state of California. And we can discuss how related that is to police work and how tied she is to the carceral system etc etc (but for fairness would have to include her record of pushing for lowering incarceration rates through programs helping former prisoners + her office refusing to jail folks for low level weed offense). But she was never a police officer. Like people should get that clear. Kamala Harris was never a police officer. She was a district attorney. She was never a police officer.