Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

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@CaptainXtra
All the legitimate issues going on in our world, and they choose to focus on this. This and pornography, along with discussion of sex and sexuality in general.
Because those are definitely important issues to address, right? /sarcasm
I never had “porn and sexuality make a comeback as culture war issues” on my 2020’s bingo card.
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a black officer, those same exact loonies will act like it never happened, point a finger at you when you bring it up & try to justify whatever with some bullshit excuse. i am of course talking about the Tyre Nichols murder.
Common conservative tactic: Claim no one is talking about the event that is widely covered by both mainstream news channels, indie reporters and social media personalities.
As someone who spends a lot of time in leftist circles? You couldn’t be further from the truth. We’re all busy condemning the American police system.
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We’re all busy condemning the American police system.
I honestly wish we didn’t cause the police to become militarized. They’ve become extremely aggressive, the government has given them military training, weapons, and military-grade vehicles, that it shouldn’t have to be this way.
The institutions of law enforcement in America are rotten to the core.
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We had the Yellow Vest movement four years ago, who at first took to block highways and major intersections (not just in Paris, but countrywide) to protest Macron’s policies (the spark was a carbon tax that disproportionately impacted the more modest drivers).
It was a weekly thing (mostly peaceful, with the occasional burst of violence and even nastier police repression) and lasted for the better part of a year before progressively losing steam (then Covid hit and more or less swept it under the rug).
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Some police cars caught on fire and one of the protests on the Champs-Elysees went bad with some storefronts smashed up (one of them being the Fouquet’s, the restaurant where Nicolas Sarkozy famously celebrated his electoral victory back in ’07) and the Arc de Triomphe defaced.
On the other side, several protesters got gravely injured (with some loss of limb in the worst cases) by the rubber bullets and blast balls shot by riot control squads.
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Monocle Gentlesir
a black officer, those same exact loonies will act like it never happened, point a finger at you when you bring it up & try to justify whatever with some bullshit excuse. i am of course talking about the Tyre Nichols murder.
Common conservative tactic: Claim no one is talking about the event that is widely covered by both mainstream news channels, indie reporters and social media personalities.
As someone who spends a lot of time in leftist circles? You couldn’t be further from the truth. We’re all busy condemning the American police system.
Yes, well thankfully, I’m not a conservative or a liberal. & perhaps I need to clear myself up here. This is just personal observation here but & of course everyone talks about it but whenever this sort of thing happens, there is usually a fair bit of bias shown.
I’m not saying to straight up believe me btw (never did say it). Besides, there’s no guarantee you’ll believe the source unless it fits one’s own narrative. Again, though not valid sources but Twitter news pages & users talk on it & users tend to have mixed reactions.
We’re all busy condemning the American police system.
I honestly wish we didn’t cause the police to become militarized. They’ve become extremely aggressive, the government has given them military training, weapons, and military-grade vehicles, that it shouldn’t have to be this way.
The institutions of law enforcement in America are rotten to the core.
I’m no expert on police (obviously) but I think that aggressiveness has only gotten worse since 2020. That may be just me, I dunno (at least I admit it). It seems to be quite a complicated system that won’t be easy to fix.
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Wow. Have they gotten back out there in recent years or have they not been out since then?
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Yes, well thankfully, I’m not a conservative or a liberal.
Lemme guess, you have a Third Position? I can’t wait to hear what it is.
I’m not saying to straight up believe me btw
I don’t have to believe you on anything. Major news outlets and Twitter users were going over Nichol’s death and yet you posted about how people “act like it never happened.”
Absolutely laughable. I’ve seen leftists talk about it with my own two eyes, what’s your excuse for pretending such discourse never happened?
I’m no expert on police (obviously) but I think that aggressiveness has only gotten worse since 2020.

ABC OTV’s analysis of police budget data show police spending has been up in some of the very cities frequently cited by conservative politicians and pundits as places where Democrat leaders’ defunding fueled violent crime waves.
In Houston, where the homicide rate nearly doubled in 2020 and 2021 before starting to subside this year, local government officials have not cut police spending.
They increased it - by nearly 9% (almost $80 million) from 2019 to 2022.
Similarly, Chicago police spending is up 15% since 2019. That’s almost a quarter billion dollars in new police spending since 2019.
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Monocle Gentlesir
Yes, well thankfully, I’m not a conservative or a liberal.
Lemme guess, you have a Third Position? I can’t wait to hear what it is.
nope, wrong again.
I’m not saying to straight up believe me btw
I don’t have to believe you on anything. Major news outlets and Twitter users were going over Nichol’s death and yet you posted about how, “nobody is talking about this.”
i didn’t expect you to. & you clearly bullshitting me as i have not said once that “no one is talking about it”, especially on Twitter. it’s not even worth entertaining you if your tactic is purposely twisting my words.
(lol don’t think i didn’t see you added that last bit it, doesn’t change anything.)
Absolutely laughable.
I’m no expert on police (obviously) but I think that aggressiveness has only gotten worse since 2020.
not as laughable as your little trick lol. i would play your little game too but that would get us nowhere.

ABC OTV’s analysis of police budget data show police spending has been up in some of the very cities frequently cited by conservative politicians and pundits as places where Democrat leaders’ defunding fueled violent crime waves.
In Houston, where the homicide rate nearly doubled in 2020 and 2021 before starting to subside this year, local government officials have not cut police spending.
They increased it - by nearly 9% (almost $80 million) from 2019 to 2022.
Similarly, Chicago police spending is up 15% since 2019. That’s almost a quarter billion dollars in new police spending since 2019.
huh, your condescension aside, it’s good that the defunding didn’t happen.
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Doing good deeds for other people, even if it comes at your own expense
(EG giving all the money in your pocket to a charity donation even of it leaves you with no more money to buy yourself sonething)
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What’s altruism? Asking since I heard it’s one of the things blamed for FTX’s collapse to defend Bankman.
Altruism is doing things to help others.
The philosophy of Effective Altruism is to disguise a millionaire’s buisiness practices as a good thing whether or not they are good. It proposes that just be producing profits off of a thing, in theory it’s being run good or you will put more money into the thing to make it run better and he a better service and also make more money. In practice it’s the same profit driven behavior as it always has been.
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@Ereiam
Wow. Have they gotten back out there in recent years or have they not been out since then?
Like I said, the Covid lockdown put more or less an end to their field action, after which some folded into the protests against the health pass.
Nowadays, they’re more involved amongst the more traditional protest marches and social movements (the most recent of which are opposing the current attempt at reforming the pension system and the pushback of the retirement age a further two years — something Macron had spoken against back in 2019 and is now catching flak about for reversing himself).
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In digital purgatory
Corporations send some water and pamphlets to poor countries to distract you from the fact they’re intentionally making your life a living nightmare.
Atleast some good comes out of it I guess.
I hate it when science education is funded by these people, and suddenly bad statistics and sources are being used for what’s supposed to be truly altruistic educational material.
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In Vino Veritas
A form of egoism that states that the best way to serve others is to do so in a way that also serves oneself.
I.e., rather than “give a man a fish” you open a fishing company to train him and others to fish and employ them as fisherman.
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Your understanding of Effective Altruism differs radically from mine. Last time I checked up it was a movement intent on developing measures to evaluate effectiveness of charities against each other - to make the same amount of charity money go further. Even promotion of charity is technically slightly beyond their aims, though it has been linked with efforts to drive charity donations, The Giving Pledge, etc. So I would like some sources.
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