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{F2591 size=full} When he first announced, the following was true: He's for packing the court and universal healthcare. So far so good (although the devil's in the details). But he's [[ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2020-candidate-pete-buttigieg-troubled-by-clemency-for-chelsea-manning/ | against Chelsea Manning ]], so fuck him. ---- There are other reasons why he's terrible, too! Both in his past, and in how he's repositioned himself since. - [[ https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/us/politics/buttigieg-black-police-chief-fired.amp.html | He fired his town's first black police chief ]] due to the chief having recorded conversations with white officers "us[ing] racist language", and the national lens being focused back on this area, alongside issues he has to deal with in his ongoing role as mayor, [[ https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-2020-pete-buttigieg-mayor-police-shooting-black-voters-20190624-story.html | hasn't been handled well by him ]]. - Like every centrist, before he was running [[ https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/965396700511825920?s=20 | he supported M4A ]] and now of course pretends he never did. - [[ https://twitter.com/xor/status/1186334679630254082 | One of Facebook's first 300 users ]] - [[ https://twitter.com/erasmusNYT/status/1200822105438347264 | As Mayor, Pete Buttigieg removed traffic lights from an intersection by a public bus stop . . . when a Black 11-year-old was killed at the intersection, Mayor Pete blamed the kid for darting across the street. ]] - [[ https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1211715779776913409 | Buttigieg in 2013 on Petraeus: "I think 50 or 100 years from now we’ll look at the approach he brought to the conflict, and conclude that it was a radically progressive vision." ]] See some articles for more: - "[[ https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-about-pete | All About Pete: Only accept politicians who have proved they actually care about people other than themselves… ]]", Nathan J. Robinson, //Current Affairs// - "[[ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-once-boasted-he-helped-mckinsey-turn-around-fortune-500-companies-not-anymore/2019/12/27/032888b4-2347-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html | Pete Buttigieg once boasted he helped McKinsey ‘turn around’ Fortune 500 companies. Not anymore.]]", Amy B. Wang, //The Washington Post// {F3371}

{F2591 size=full} When he first announced, the following was true: He's for packing the court and universal healthcare. So far so good (although the devil's in the details). But he's [[ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2020-candidate-pete-buttigieg-troubled-by-clemency-for-chelsea-manning/ | against Chelsea Manning ]], so fuck him. ---- There are other reasons why he's terrible, too! Both in his past, and in how he's repositioned himself since. - [[ https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/us/politics/buttigieg-black-police-chief-fired.amp.html | He fired his town's first black police chief ]] due to the chief having recorded conversations with white officers "us[ing] racist language", and the national lens being focused back on this area, alongside issues he has to deal with in his ongoing role as mayor, [[ https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-2020-pete-buttigieg-mayor-police-shooting-black-voters-20190624-story.html | hasn't been handled well by him ]]. - Like every centrist, before he was running [[ https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg/status/965396700511825920?s=20 | he supported M4A ]] and now of course pretends he never did. - [[ https://twitter.com/xor/status/1186334679630254082 | One of Facebook's first 300 users ]] - [[ https://twitter.com/erasmusNYT/status/1200822105438347264 | As Mayor, Pete Buttigieg removed traffic lights from an intersection by a public bus stop . . . when a Black 11-year-old was killed at the intersection, Mayor Pete blamed the kid for darting across the street. ]] - [[ https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1211715779776913409 | Buttigieg in 2013 on Petraeus: "I think 50 or 100 years from now we’ll look at the approach he brought to the conflict, and conclude that it was a radically progressive vision." ]] See some articles for more: - "[[ https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/03/all-about-pete https://twitter.com/erasmusNYT/status/1200822105438347264 | All About Pete: Only accept politicians who have proved they actually care about people other than themselves… ]]", Nathan J. Robinson, //Current Affairs// - "[[ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-once-boasted-he-helped-mckinsey-turn-around-fortune-500-companies-not-anymore/2019/12/27/032888b4-2347-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html | Pete Buttigieg once boasted he helped McKinsey ‘turn around’ Fortune 500 companies. Not anymore.]]", Amy B. Wang, //The Washington Post// https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1211715779776913409{F3371}