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@thett3
One thing I desperately wish the USA would adopt from the Nordic cultures is the belief that all people should be taxed, even if you are poor.
We have a gigantic voting block that doesn't give a crap because they don't give a tax.
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@zedvictor4
So he bought a presidency and got his name in the history books.
At half the price Hillary tried to purchase it too!
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
@bmdrocks21
If you don’t want to deal with federal agents, maybe stop attacking federal buildings....?
These sick, weak Marxists hiding behind umbrellas in "peaceful protests" while they launch volleys of ice bottles at police remind me of the Taliban hiding behind women and children in Mosques. Absolutely sick.
At least McVeigh had the balls to go in without all the pussy pretense when he criminally and savagely attacked a Federal building and the people around it.
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Like, that's just your opinion...man.
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@ILikePie5
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot deserves criticism for giving in to Antifa demands that she remove statues and allowing violence to spread throughout her city, Tucker Carlson said Saturday.
"Chicago was a beautiful place. There are a lot of reasons it isn't anymore. But near the top of that list is a woman called Lori Lightfoot. She's the mayor," Carlson said on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
"Like a lot of big-city mayors, Lightfoot is incompetent," he continued. "She has no idea what she's doing. You wouldn't let her plan your spring break. She'd send you to Wuhan [China] by accident. But what makes Lori Lightfoot unusual is the remarkably aggressive way that she lies. Lightfoot says things that are so implausible they could be part of a comedy routine. But she's not joking. She expects you to believe every word of it."
"See, it's the Republicans' fault that Chicago is now more dangerous than many Third World countries. That makes sense. The problem is there aren't really any Republicans in Chicago. Donald Trump got 12 percent of the vote there. Of the 50 aldermen on Chicago's city council right now, not a single one of them is a Republican -- not one," Carlson said. "So she's moved on to a new excuse."
"You know why Chicago is circling the drain right now? Do you know why all those children are getting murdered? Because of Christopher Columbus. Yes. An Italian navigator who never got within a thousand miles of The Loop and who, by the way, died more than five hundred years ago. He did it," Carlson said. "This morning, Lightfoot ordered the city to take down two Christopher Columbus statues -- one in Little Italy and one in Grant Park. That'll fix the problem, you can let your kids play outside now."
"If Lori Lightfoot, progressive mayors like her around the country, and there are many, are allowed to divert attention from their own failures by bowing to the mob and destroying public property, this will not end with Christopher Columbus," Carlson said. "It will get much worse and it will get more dangerous."
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I have a friend who was a staunch liberal come and tell me he’s voting for Trump because of the direction the Democratic Party is moving towards. If he’s doing this imagine all the moderates. No one wants violence.
It's getting harder and harder to "blame whites" for the 50 years of systemic Democrat incompetence in violent urban centers, many of which have been and are run exclusively by Democrats of color for generations. (like Lightfoot)
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@ILikePie5
I love the drive-thru charade. Every employee with gloves, masks, glass shields.... but you give them your credit card or money, you just infected all of their gloves...which is then placed on your drink, food, foodbag, change, and credit card.
What a joke at virtue signaling.
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@ILikePie5
People cough into cloth masks, touch their faces, and put it on every public surface.
That isn't the hospital level lockdown required to keep 70% of the population from getting the COVID virus.
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@Vader
let's also point out a second wave was inevitable
Because it's a goddamn VIRUS. You can't keep it from spreading without a hospital-level lockdown, not this political excuse of a lockdown.
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@Vader
it's laughable that there can be a peaceful transition of power at this point no matter who wins. It's the result of allowing the government and the media to grow beyond manageable levels of power.
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@n8nrgmi
Lol they cherrypicked a data point for a single day and that means what exactly?
Badstats on one day therefore orangemanbad?
Actually I didn't know you even needed cherry picked stats to justify orangemanbad religion anymore.
Trump must be winning.
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@Username
Why do you think increased govt. funding for schools will be efficient when it's done here but not when it's done now?
Who chooses how the money is spent right now? The parents or the teachers? The parents don't have nearly as large of a lobby for controlling the politicians. School vouchers end the need for lobbies and places the responsibility for the funding of schools 100% in the hands of the parents. The teachers will have zero say as to how the funds will be allotted, which is by design.
create massive transportation problems,
Which are much easier to solve than the 50 years of allowing politicians and teachers to allocate school funding. Both in the short and long term.
and will ruin the local schools.
That is the entire point of reform. Destroy bad schools that are unable or refuse to reform.
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@Username
Do you realize how long the commutes are going to be when parents, who are often working two jobs/single, have to go to the nearest school OUTSIDE of their neighborhood?
Why do you care? It's their CHOICE, not yours. Right now, they do not have a choice.
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@Username
So just leave neighborhood schools and their teachers to rot away while you strain to keep this now overcrowded school alive?
That is how you give incentives for reform. Overcrowd and financially reward the good schools. Defund the bad ones.
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@Username
Or do you mean letting students have school vouchers so they can crowd up some school outside of their neighborhood?
That's exactly the point of vouchers, allowing parents to crowd up efficient schools and rewarding those efficient schools with increased revenue while defunding the inefficient ones.
The parents get to choose, not a politician paid by teachers.
A parent can look at the school options and see if there is a big difference between the SAT scores of the students at one school vs the SAT scores of the students of another school, and then make an informed choice.
School reform begins with the Parents and it ends with the Teachers.
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I don't like Democrats and I think they pay lip service to actual issues. Not that Republicans are better.
Be creative and support the people in both parties that do care and have a plan and a will to follow through.
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@Username
How to enforce this?
Instead of looking for government to enforce good behavior, cultural harmony, and good life choices at the barrel of the gun, have you considered using incentives instead?
Like school choice, incentivizing public schools to perform better as Sweden did with their education reforms...payments for fathers that choose to raise kids instead of jail for the ones that do not... Financial incentives for young people for waiting to get married...
A host of programs geared at providing more opportunities for full-time employment such as subsidized trade schools, minimum wage waivers for on the job training, and other financial incentives aimed at employers who employ young people from poor neighborhoods.
I'm sure a creative approach with incentives can help with the low high school graduation rates, teen pregnancy, low job opportunities, and the fatherless home problems plaguing Democrat-run cities over Congressional mandates, fines, and imprisonment.
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@HistoryBuff
He is sending out thugs to shoot and attack protesters.
Luckily he doesn't have to send them far since the "peaceful protestors" come to the "thugs" armed to the teeth ready for a fight.
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@Username
This is 1984 shit. I don't have time for authoritarians.
Lol, absolute bullshit. Trump isn't sending troops into your home. He is protecting his property and paid venues from people there for the express purpose to sow hate and discord in the middle of a rally. If anything, trying to censor a political rally by getting invited and then crashing the event is borderline unconstitutional infringing on the right of Trump supporters to peaceably assemble at a private venue without the jackbooted protesters censoring their event and then asking for a forceful removal when ignoring requests for them to leave. You can be invited and also uninvited to a paid venue. There is nothing Orwellian at all about that, and to equate the protection of private property and freedom of association with the force of government taking those protections away as was done in the book shows a profound reading comprehension failure.
It's the Marxist left that routinely tramples the rights of private property with outrageous laws and confiscatory policies. For the Marxist left, the fewer protections of private property and person, the better.
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@ILikePie5
Anyone who dares challenge the state deserves to be attacked or killed.
That's exactly how you put down violent armed revolts. Lincoln did it.
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The problem is that humans are shitty and will ruin anything.
Which is why controlling shitty people with financial incentives works better than the barrel of a gun.
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@Username
You sure give a lot of credit to police for not killing people.
That's not the point. If you are going to make the claim that the police system is so corrupt that it must be fundamentally changed from the ground up, you need the numbers to back that claim up. A few rogue cops out of millions of encounters isn't sufficient.
We have actual numbers to back up systemic corruption in public education in Chicago. A 22%+ failure rate to graduate high school has been for 50 years and continues today to perpetuate generational poverty and generational violence in Chicago. Where is the outrage for systemic reform and defunding of public education with those huge numbers? Wouldn't you want to rebuild that system from the ground up first when the numbers are soo much worse in proportion? We are talking about millions of disenfranchised people here, mostly young people. Not a handful of the ones you see on circus media hour.
As a career educator, I would fully support BLM if this was one of their stated goals instead of "the destruction of the western family structure and western values"
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From his father:
"Alas, your conduct has consisted merely in disorder, meandering in all the fields of knowledge, musty traditions by sombre lamplight; degeneration in a learned dressing gown with uncombed hair has replaced degeneration with a beer glass. And a shirking unsociability and a refusal of all conventions and even all respect for your father. Your intercourse with the world is limited to your sordid room, where perhaps lie abandoned in the classical disorder the love letters of a Jenny [Karl’s fiancée] and the tear-stained counsels of your father. ... And do you think that here in this workshop of senseless and aimless learning you can ripen the fruits to bring you and your loved one happiness? ... . As though we were made of gold my gentleman son disposes of almost 700 thalers in a single year, in contravention of every agreement and every usage, whereas the richest spend no more than 500."
-Heinrich Marx.
Funny how the leftards of the 1800's are almost the same as the ones now.
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@ILikePie5
And Lori Lightfoot let it happen.
Yep. Unlike the manufactured outrage of police where there is way less than a 1% chance in any given police encounter for a person to be treated wrongly (which we have a court system to rectify btw you antifa lovers)
There is a far greater chance over 1% from every encounter with a random black person from Chicago that he will either assault you or kill you if you are Black.
Manufactured tolerance says it's no biggie though. Just ask Lightfoot.
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@HistoryBuff
Chicago killed more blacks in a week than police killed all year. Your tolerance is whacked.
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@Username
... You're seeing how our law enforcers that are supposed to "serve and protect" is reacting when put in a situation where they have to serve and protect. And guess what? They're acting like fucking SS Blackshirts.
How many are doing that out of 3 million police interactions? Oh yeah...>>>that<<< many...
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@Dr.Franklin
Even if we include the justified deaths, the rate of use of lethal force when judged against the total of police-public encounters?
Answer: 0.0000043535286 %
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@Username
hope there are at least 300,000 links to put the 3 million annual police interactions into perspective.
Nope, let down again by the rabid left.
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@Stephen
Liberal Mayors join the mob in an attempt to appease the mob.
The very mob fueled by Antifa to attack Federal courthouse buildings.
RIP Federal courthouses.
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@ILikePie5
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@ILikePie5
These cities are such lol to watch right now. The excuses for 50 years of Democrat failure are endless.
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in order for it to be a rope-a-dope you need to be faking.
Which is insanely easy in a censoring cancel culture year.
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@HistoryBuff
not to actually make yourself unpopular.
You don't know how the rope-a-dope works then, Trump literally plans on doing what he did in 2016.
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@HistoryBuff
That's only part of it. A big part of Trump's strategy was to lull Hillary into a sense of complacency.
Hence the rope-a-dope. The only poll that really matters is the one in November.
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@HistoryBuff
Not like he didn't pull a rope-a-dope 2016 in October. This isn't Trump's 1st horserace.
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Trump knows the value of virtue signalling.
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"In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."
For replacing bad cops, it is more about fixing the review and firing process.
You foolishly assume there is a long list of qualified cops lining up for reduced pay. The opposite is true. If anything, it's going to be EXTREMELY expensive to recruit the kinds of cops you want to hire. Otherwise, you will have a reduced police force, which is already a problem as shown with the sick-outs. People don't understand WHY the police are needed when dealing with the homeless and mentally ill. Somebody has to protect the social workers. The homeless are absolutely irrational and sometimes very dangerous.
Defunding and reducing the police with the assumption "LOTS OF PEOPLE WANNA BE GOOD COPS BUT THE BAD COPS JUST WON'T LET THEM," Is a page right out of the Marxist manifesto. Just replace good cops and bad cops with proles and bourgies. When you throw the baby out with the bathwater, you don't magically get more babies. You just get a corpse. Expecting to recruit well-trained cops willing to take risks with their lives so that a handful of criminals might have theirs spared without monetary incentives is purely a Marxist ideal.
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and therefore reducing their funding.
A retarded position, otherwise you would support defunding public education when they abuse your kids and fail to give them what you paid for.
Exactly how are you going to replace bad cops with good cops without money? Good luck with that throw the baby out with the bathwater logic.
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@HistoryBuff
There's a problem with both sides of course, but I'd rather be safe with corrupt cops than live for any extended period of time in a police free no-go neighborhood.
Seattle can have Chop. They deserve it. Corrupt cops are by far the lesser of the 2 evils. And I say this from experience having once been physically violated by cops due to a mistaken identity. It was far more tolerable than the multitude of times being assaulted by criminals. It isnt the gated elites that need cops. It's the poor that need them.
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@HistoryBuff
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@HistoryBuff
well you continue to support republicans as they destroy the middle class.... so yeah I believe that.
Both parties support the elites. I support the elites. If you can't beat em, join em.
as they destroy the middle class...
Yeah, all those evil establishment Republicans in California...evil I say..eeeevil..
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@HistoryBuff
Reality is rarely so simple.
Kinda like peaceful protesters throwing bottles.
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@HistoryBuff
But we must try.
No we don't. Chop is easy. Police are evil.
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@HistoryBuff
Thanks for the zero-sum lecture. Now, I have some middle class people to villanize on behalf of the rich elites.
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@HistoryBuff
but i'm pretty sure we can have a society where we have police, but they also follow the law.
In your dreams buddy. Now pass me that ice bottle. I feel like protesting peacefully.
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@HistoryBuff
Not my fault you don't know the difference between the middle class and the rich elites with liquid capital.
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@HistoryBuff
But they absolutely care about the effect corona is having on their businesses.
The middle class might worry, but the rich elites have already transferred their capital. They don't give a fuck about what you think Corona can do for them.
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@HistoryBuff
It's ok.
We can reinstate CHop and let innocent Democrats kill each other instead of ebil po po.
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@HistoryBuff
If only we could keep police officers from attacking peaceful bottle throwers.
I mean, we could just reinstate chop and not have police to blame when more Democrats kill themselves. I am fine with that.
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