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You can’t throw away police in a country that is this over-armed. We have to fix how they police, not eliminate the function. But hears a thought for those that disagree, keep a social worker’s number in your contacts and if someone is breaking into your home call that, not 911? |
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Let me know if you'd ever like to know what I actually think. |
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Anyway, here the police seem to have defunded (or more accurately double-funded) themselves by taking disability en masse (more than a hundred officers) over PTSD in a barely disguised sick out and we’re already on the hook for $111 million in misconduct settlements from last year alone. |
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Have y'all watched Summer of Soul on Netflix? Very enjoyable documentary about a musical event I'd never heard of. Also a reminder of how insane the late 60s would have been if social media and the 24-hour news cycle had existed...
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Trump and Reagan both promised everybody a pony. Trump remains a beloved demagogue to his Montagnard army of lunatics (26% of voters). Reagan's practically sainted. Neither fixed anything. Quote:
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If you doubt that merit is being used to avoid that conversation, next time you're sitting with a professional who enjoyed an upper middle class upbringing, suggest to him that luck of daddy paying for his education and helping him with connections is largely responsible for his success. Oh my will you get a face full of angry bullshit in response. Quote:
Sandel sees no difference between being born lucky in terms of intelligence and being born lucky in terms of money. Both as he sees it are things over which one has no control. I think his argument is weak there because I think raw intelligence is cultivated to useful and marketable intelligence, and he doesn't seem to address that. But regardless, the book provides, like most of his work, some fascinating considerations. |
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But then this author goes on his own cherry-picking expedition, and his selections are cultivated carefully to undo Sullivan's point. This tennis match of "You're Biased" vs. "No We're Not" could go on endlessly. But I think that tedium could be short-circuited with an easier analysis explaining why the "MSM" is assailed for alleged bias: Because the "MSM" is read by those who like and those who hate it. And its right-wing competition is not read by anyone (sane). Do you read the right wing papers? I don't. Other than the National Review, they're just not well written. They're rags. And do you watch OANN? No. No one sane watches OANN. The Big Three and large cable news outlets (sans Fox), and the Times and similar papers lean left. They admit it. But as the author notes, they also include some right wing voices. But those right wing voices are never the marquis names (Douthat and Bret Stephens aren't massive draws). The haters need something to hate, they go looking for articles to hate, and they find stuff by people like Krugman or Charles Blow (just to stick with papers) because those articles are the most cited. In the case of Krugman and similar writers, it's because he's a well known brand. His stuff gets widely aggregated and circulated. In the case of people like Blow, it's because they're somewhat mentally unhinged, and so provide a perfect foil for the right (look at what this nutball wrote). The centrist and right wing voices in the "MSM" universe don't get top billing. In fact, they're billed so low by the algorithms that share articles they often might as well not even exist. And no one with any common sense reads the right wing papers because they're nuts. So it appears to most people that the "MSM" leans hard left, and the right runs with this argument. |
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I said, but what about y? If y is true, then that's a different explanation for x. So you say, Gurri says y. I take it that you want me to agree that Gurri is brilliant, whatever he says. Got it. Gurri is brilliant. He seems to have figured it all out. Quote:
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Just to give you a sneak preview before you go and wrestle with A Theory Of Justice, which is pretty turgid, the basic idea is that if you were to ask people what kind of society they would want to live in and they were ignorant about the sort of lot they would be born to, they would want to be in a society with some protections for everyone -- maybe healthcare, and a minimum income, etc. You can quibble about the details, but that's the gist. In other words, some redistribution of resources to ensure that the worst-off among us aren't that badly off. In other words, the sort of thing the Democratic Party tends to advocate for, and the Republican Party tends to oppose. |
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This has sped up the "spin" processes of the past such that the spin is junk. Anyone can see thru it in an instant. It took years and years of degradation of talent within institutional management/govt to expose that the power structures within a society were decayed and incompetent. Today that happens almost daily. Govt says X and within 20 minutes an analyst has dismantled X and shown its flaws. Case in point -- Biden's BBB. The deltas between Administration-projected and realistically objectively expected revenues to pay for the bill were available everywhere, with supporting formulae, within days of the announcement of its specifics. Same with Trump's tax cuts. Its delivery of outsized benefits to the wealthy and r/e investors were on the front page of most media outlets days after its initial sketches were out. The emperor's closet is empty before he could even hope to put on clothes. Quote:
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If only the Democrats had total control, they'd could fix it all, or at least most of it. Wrong. They'd at best fix it at the margins. That's Gurri's point. Is that a little bit better? Of course. Is it what the "public" wants? Is it the fix the portion of our society chaffing under inequality desires or thinks the govt can provide? Not Even Close. |
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If you want to go for a walk on the beach, and your wife also wants to go for a walk on the beach, and you then go for a walk on the beach, you don't "control" her. If you're still unclear on how that works, I suggested you discuss it with her. You don't need to control her, because you have found something better, a happy situation where your wishes are aligned. Quote:
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It seems like you have just discovered that politicians say what people want to hear to get elected. Where have you been? Quote:
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It seems to me that we have a political system that makes it very hard to get anything done legislatively. The bigger problem is not that the public expects too much, it's that it gets too little. |
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Mass shooting at a High School not far from me. Unbelievable.
Update: 3 dead kids. My cousin’s grandchild was in the school. The child’s mother shared texts. The most striking thing is there is no shock. Just “oh this is happening now.” There should be shock. But of course there isn’t. Just the opposite reaction to winning the lottery. And the local news makes the point that they do train kids what to do, but the eventual shooters are there for the training. As my dad would say, it’s all maroush. |
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Again, a hearty fuck you to anyone who said, "they'll never overturn Roe."
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How did Trump get 3? The one they stole from President Obama, RBG and _____? |
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Otherwise I can’t promise any safety. Sorry, it’s the world we live in. |
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A reminder that Hank would like to give this cop a medal and a raise and increase the police department's budget for guns and ammo.
Oh, and he'd make sure the man had the latest bullet proof vest to protect him in situations like this. https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/stat...425634310?s=20 |
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A reminder that GGG would have sent in social workers to stop the murder rampage, instead of armed deputies.https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/...and-afterward/
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Hank believes you need these things for normal traffic duty, too. And if you don't arm the teachers, how are you really going to keep the well-armed kids in line? https://arc-anglerfish-tgam-prod-tga...TINWQCT3CJKWGE |
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I’m sorry guys, but I’m having problems adopting either of your positions. |
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Serious question- curious whether our local school shooting hit your local news markets? Like is there a minimum body count to become national? For normal (non-school) mass murders I think less than 5 and it is local only.
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