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@Reece101
Not sure about how banning traffic stops is going to solve the largely ignored single motherhood and substandard schooling problem, both of which are well documented precursors to criminal behavior and lower social outcomes as well.
But you might have a nuanced perspective.
Even if the data doesn't bother to differentiate people being arrested for other crimes while just happening to be in possession of a minor drug, reducing traffic stops will surely at least reduce the amount of crime reported by police on paper if they can ignore the 911 calls often enough.
And that's all that really matters: that it looks good on paper. Then you can report lower crime on election day to appease the lobbyists and campaign donors.
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@Reece101
Blacks and whites consume cannabis at the same rate yet blacks get arrest far more for carrying it.
That's been debunked many times. Blacks regularly plea bargain down to a lesser drug possession crime because the state doesn't want to pay for a trial for felony assault etc. or other crime that went along with it. Not to mention that Blacks are more likely to keep committing crimes until the 3 strike rule is triggered because the underlying social issues in Democrat cities like single Motherhood and poor schools go largely ignored since Blacks have zero political lobbying power.
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@Reece101
The more you crack down on a group of people, the higher their crime will be. e.g. Black traffic stops go down at night due to cops not being able to see their ethnicity. What you’re arguing for is a self fulfilling prophecy.
What a silly thing to argue, that Police arrests cause crime.
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@n8nrgmi
You won't admit the rat race is an obvious social construct.
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@n8nrgmi
I think the average person had the choice to be a slave to consumerism and overbudgeting and underinvesting in themselves, and chose slavery.
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@n8nrgmi
More like pray to my 401K.
In god we trust is on every bill.
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@n8nrgmi
Fun fact, you can choose to not overconsume despite what commercial advertising states.
If you don't make that choice, you are choosing slavery to consumerism.
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@n8nrgmi
I simply chose not to chase the Jones's and lived under my means. The rat race is a social construct.
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@n8nrgmi
you'd need at least 20 grand expenses and that's after taxes.
ok...20 grand for "the basics" (which is still pretty cushy but whatevs..1st world problems...)
20k x 50 = exactly one million dollars.
minimum wage earns you 750,000 in 50 years after taxes.
So you need to find 250,000.
If you have a child you can get up to 4,500 a year for food from food stamps x 50 is $225,000
If you have a child you qualify for welfare You get about that amount again, so now you are over "the basics"
Then there are housing programs you can qualify for... now you are way over 1 million.
Here is a quick sheet on what a family can get right now.
As you see Family 2 column which earns minimum wage (not even working 40 hours a week either) gets a grand total of 35,000 yearly.
That's $15,000 above and beyond what YOU consider "the basics" so we are paying the poor more than we have to.
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@n8nrgmi
Why don't u just join society in offering another choice besides slavery and hand outs?
I'm actually retired because I didn't make mostly shitty life choices.
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@n8nrgmi
Still waiting for a dollar figure on what you think "the basics" are for 50 years.
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@n8nrgmi
So u think people should have to rely on charity and hand outs if they want to have the basics?
How about you calculate what you think "the basics" are?
Then we can go on from there.
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@n8nrgmi
They would need lots of charity to get ahead.... As I said either at the mercy of others or slaves
That's their choice to "get ahead"
I don't care about what people choose to do with their lives. If they wanna spend their entire life looking for greener grass, chasing the Joneses in fits of bitter jealousy, so be it. But I shouldn't have to subsidize that. Their idea of "the basics" is an insane distortion of reality. Most people live far above their means and choose to do so, especially at lower education levels. If they choose to chase that rabbit, they can choose to work 40 hours a week for 50 years.
My calculations are correct, and most people waste far more opportunities and money than they care to admit because that would mean to own up to the responsibility of poor life choices.
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@n8nrgmi
Do you dispute my calculations? Most people live FAR above their means and call it "the basics"
When u make barely more than poverty.
Our Poor in America are the wealthiest poor in the world, and we have the immigration rates to back that claim up.
In fact, our poor today live better than the top 1 percenters 100 years ago. People complain way too much these days.
1st world problems I guess.
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@n8nrgmi
So u don't view working 40 hours a week for 50 years to afford the basics is in any way similar to slavery?
I was doing some calculations freehand. The average minimum wage in America is $7.25. Assuming you NEVER invest in yourself nor seek opportunities or take a dime in welfare, if you were to work 40 hours a week for 50 years, you would earn $754,000. And that's almost all tax free at that wage bracket since USA has the most progressive tax scale in the world. To have good food for 50 years would be around $100,000 assuming you never applied for food assistance. That leaves $654,000 to spend on whatever else you need, and you can buy a decent trailer home easily for under 100k.
Objectively anyone working to make that amount of money is CHOOSING to earn far above "the basics"
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@n8nrgmi
If a person wants property and not live in a box they have to work a lot.
That's your environment and your biology. Everyone has to work to stay alive, whether you participate in society or not.
Fatties r a big reason our healthcare costs r so much but its a fact that the main reason is simply that we r charged too much
I agree it's kind of unfair that skinny people often are forced to subsidize the health costs of fatties with insurance "size-fits-all" policies (like Obamacare and Medicare), but the only way around that cost issue would be setting up private health insurance that only accepts healthy weighted people with annual checks. That would guarantee that fat people would pay their fair share of the health costs.
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@n8nrgmi
given we r already slaves to society...
Actually no. In the end the only thing we are slaves to is our environment and our genetic biology. Everything else is our own responsibility.
Point in fact, we could have had the very low Covid death rates as China had if people simply owned up to the responsibility of eating properly and maintaining a healthy weight. The vast majority of the Covid deaths were from people who believed they were a slave to food, instead of accepting the reality that they chose to do it.
The vast major contributing cost to healthcare in America is due to the most unhealthy lifestyle choices anywhere on the planet in ANY nation. You don't need to enslave yourself to government authority OR society to fix your own body.
In fact, the government has an endless array of programs that objectively facilitate unhealthy lifestyles, essentially helping people to kill themselves. Government power has never really cared at any point in American history about the health of the peasantry.
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@n8nrgmi
it should be affordable for everyone, as a right,
You lost me there because that essentially means theft should be a right if you aren't able to provide your own funds for your health.
I am against theft and forced charity, because culturally it creates huge populations of thieves and jealous entitled classes, which have no place in a meritocracy.
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@thett3
The 2 greatest contributors to the ongoing ethnic disparities in America are the single-Mother rate and lack of quality schooling.
Every time I try to engage any liberal on this site, they either go silent or they say objectively stupid things like "single mothers are just as good and you're racist"
or "existing schools and Teacher unions need more power and money funded with taxes" Despite the mountains of evidence to the contrary.
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@Vader
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@thett3
White flight occurred because of a long term rise in violent crime concentrated in urban areas beginning in the 1960s...
In fact the largest decline among ALL Black households occurred right after the slew of 1965 Democrat policies destroyed the Black family per the Moynihan report, keeping crime rates high. It might not have been intended, but Democrats are historically notorious for shifting blame instead of cleaning house.
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@ILikePie5
Ultra rare.
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Greyparrot - Pyrus Fortress - You are Chan Lee’s guardian Bakugan that has battled the Battle Brawlers multiple times in the show. Your ability Face of Rage is a feared ability, but the Face of Grief ability is in my opinion the most overpowered because it renders other abilities useless. Gentlemen, Sorrow, Anger, are the three terms you live by. You are the Ascetic. Actions that target you, other than lethal ones, will fail as if roleblocked.
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@Mesmer
I'm just gonna go ahead and fact check this for satire.
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@drlebronski
So it's now OKAY to be white? well that's a relief!
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@drlebronski
Just admit it's not OKAY to be white.
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@ILikePie5
You need to break out Osha mandates so people will sign up.
My Mafia, My choice doesn't need apply.
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Also just so you guys know, Blackrock has gobbled up much of the privately owned property due to the eviction moratorium. And now this?
Why do you guys let DC dictate policies that aid Blackrock? Ignorance or dogged obedience?
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@zedvictor4
How about a more pragmatic approach, like offering an incentive to get a professional to build you a house instead of waiting for it to fall from the sky?
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@drlebronski
Have you ever payed taxes on property you owned? Do you even own a house? Have you done any research into the costs of owning a house?
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@drlebronski
My bad , rich people are smart for losing money from empty houses.
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@zedvictor4
When is the last time you decided to build a house for someone?
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@drlebronski
theres already enough housing its just that most of them are vacant and too much money.
Because property owners love losing money from yearly property taxes and depreciation maintenance of course. Rich people are so dumb.
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@n8nrgmi
That sounds like a good start.
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@n8nrgmi
There is one and ONLY one way to lower the price of housing and that is to raise the supply of housing.
What are your ideas on how you would increase the supply of houses if you were in charge of the world?
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@n8nrgmi
Why would this affect the supply of houses? If people are not allowed to own multiple homes, where is the incentive to build multiple houses?
People don't just wake up one day and say "I will build a house." There needs to be a reason to do it.
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@Intelligence_06
Nigerian and Chinese immigrants to the USA far outperform any other group. Perhaps those countries can teach us that cultural and ethnic hegemony has more value and strength than diversity?
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@zedvictor4
The fastest way to reducing living standards is war. The second fastest would be from facist tribal socialism, likely in the form of hyperinflation.
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@zedvictor4
A reduction in living standards wouldn't be so bad either considering the obesity problems.
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@thett3
I guess this is what typically happens with affirmative action intelligence. It's improbable to tell which pink haired Trap decided that a dropoff for water and food seemed suspicious enough to warrant an incendiary drone strike in the middle of a residential area.
It wasn't even the Taliban that died so you can't say eye for an eye for 911. We just incinerated a bunch of Afghans just because we could.
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@thett3
I just saw more detailed reporting with security cam footage that there wasn't even any ISIS bomber as reported...the person killed was an NGO aid worker...why am I not surprised?
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@Double_R
Then why doesn't Biden just say that instead of saying one week being vaxxed keeps you safe and saying the next week you will never be safe from unvaxxed people even if you are vaxxed?
I assume you can read English and decipher former from latter claims. Am I wrong?
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@thett3
I think we saw from 2016-2020 that there isn't anyone in the country that can stand up to the deep state in Washington DC. It's really inevitable what's going to happen in our lifetimes.
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@thett3
but I think there’s a strong case to be made that George W. Bush was the worst President of all time.
I was so happy to see the Republican party had the good sense to put Jeb Bush into single digit approvals during the primaries. That's the accountability that matters.
if there’s a bunch of drug running/arms smuggling/various other ways that spooks enrich themselves off the books or all of the above
I mean if it's not oil then its opium...
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Also, from what I understand, the WH staff are STILL not required to be vaxxed.
This is probably the most damning optic of them all.
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@Vader
Not FDA approved? Now it is.
FDA approved it without waiting for long term clinical trials. That approval doesn't mean what it typically means.
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@Double_R
Does it occur to you that the world does not always spell every issue out in black and white?
Then why doesn't Biden just say that instead of saying one week being vaxxed keeps you safe and saying the next week you will never be safe from unvaxxed people even if you are vaxxed?
Also, you never did cite the scientific study for that latter claim. I will just assume you can't find any.
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