uh, that's an interesting take. try serving on a grand jury. it won't improve your opinion of police, but it won't exactly reinforce your view of humanity's reluctance to do damage to one another either.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Thursday, 12 November 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
What can police do about, like, a murder anyway? Catch you after the murder? Worthless. Hardly anybody does murders and yet we have a thousand armed suburbanites strolling around with nothing to do on city payroll because people are afraid of murders! Preposterous.
― The Bosom Manor Michaelmas Special (silby), Thursday, 12 November 2020 04:15 (three years ago) link
The police aren’t going around catching car thieves and old-lady-scammers in the act, the main thing they do is intimidate protesters.
― The Bosom Manor Michaelmas Special (silby), Thursday, 12 November 2020 04:18 (three years ago) link
Catch you after the murder? Worthless.
yes I see (tents hands) please do go on.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Thursday, 12 November 2020 04:18 (three years ago) link
You’d probably need about six cops for the whole city if all the police did was arrest people who had done a crime.
No offense to anyone itt who was murdered
― The Bosom Manor Michaelmas Special (silby), Thursday, 12 November 2020 04:20 (three years ago) link
(looks over the top of his eyeglasses) very interesting. do go on.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Thursday, 12 November 2020 04:20 (three years ago) link
With computers the way they are now you can probably just get some high school kids to investigate the crimes on the weekend and then send jerry down to arrest the guy
― The Bosom Manor Michaelmas Special (silby), Thursday, 12 November 2020 04:21 (three years ago) link
what city is this? are we talking about Emerald City
― early-Woolf semantic prosody (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 12 November 2020 04:22 (three years ago) link
this is pretty funny
Rubio calls on GOP to rebrand as party of "multiethnic, multiracial, working class" voters https://t.co/NZaws2U7Hy pic.twitter.com/eNOFaHwAcZ— The Hill (@thehill) November 11, 2020
Marco Rubio is joining The Squad https://t.co/J6g5mIuZcw— Murtaza M. Hussain (@MazMHussain) November 12, 2020
Membership rejected 🙅🏽♀️ https://t.co/O9IUKh3ZBK— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) November 12, 2020
By unanimous vote 🚫— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 12, 2020
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 November 2020 04:30 (three years ago) link
lol solid
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Thursday, 12 November 2020 04:31 (three years ago) link
AOC may be the only politician whose tweets give me actual lols
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 12 November 2020 05:10 (three years ago) link
Aimless, grand juries are a load of anti-democratic bullshit most often utilized to intimidate and incriminate people. I should know, because I've had several friends sent to jail for refusing to testify on them. Fuck a grand jury, and screw your fealty to a system of laws that is only enforced against a few. Your middle-of-the-road rationalist superiority complex is one of the most pathetic things on this board, because it betrays a lack of any imagination or actual desire for change.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Thursday, 12 November 2020 12:37 (three years ago) link
*extreme commie voice* i feel like a lot of side effects of the way we’ve organized society cause, reinforce, and perpetuate “””””””crimes”””””””
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 November 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
albeit this is something i’ve mostly gleaned from watching a lot of law & order
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 November 2020 13:41 (three years ago) link
also most of the ppl doing the worst crimes against humanity have a ton of money and take forever to catch because of it, another thing that makes me think that policing within capitalism is highly ineffective
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 November 2020 13:43 (three years ago) link
cops are bad but shows and movies about cops are good
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:04 (three years ago) link
to the extent that anyone is trying to catch those particular criminals and not, like, hire them xp
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:04 (three years ago) link
who doesn't love a good creature feature
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:05 (three years ago) link
i would say there are degrees, cf. blue bloods which is basically like snorting uncut copaganda
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:12 (three years ago) link
all this stuff about the gop becoming a "working class party" makes no sense unless they start proposing some pro-worker policies.
― treeship., Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
the larry cohen movies that involve cops are like... cops are sometimes the main characters, but you can tell he thought cops were monsters anyway. that perspective really works for me
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
I recently watched an old episode of SVU (the first one as Amanda Plummer as the schizophrenic who was sexually assaulted) and I was taken aback by how much of a dick Liv was for most of the episode
― DJP, Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
all this stuff about the gop becoming a "working class party" makes no sense unless they start proposing some pro-worker policies
I think the idea there is that "working class" will be reduced to empty signifiers because neither party will bother to craft actual policy to significantly help workers
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
and the GOP could hypothetically swoop in and monopolize on said signifiers as the Dems become The Went to College Party
not saying I think that's going to happen but that's the theory
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link
^^^“Everything’s going to suck, and both parties are now openly admitted they’re not interested in changing anything. Might as well have “fun”, and the GOP isn’t going to make me feel bad about this “fun” the way the Democrats do” kind of a Meatballs/ Caddyshack slobs v snobs mentality that definitely has a lot of sway w the American psyche
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:22 (three years ago) link
― An Andalusian Do-rag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
America does not have a party of the working class. We have a party of the wealthy that keeps mostly white working class people voting for them using racism and cultural conservatism, and we have a party of the wealthy that keeps working class POC voting for them using fear of racism. Democrats are, of course, still better on actual working class issues than Republicans, but one is a brisk run and the other is a slow trot toward the same erosion of working class benefits and rights.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
both sides bash unions. right wing bashes teachers union. left wing bashes police union.
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
xpost to will - another reason i love AOC, her positivity. that GND video she made that was like an upbeat kids' cartoon from the future, about how back in the 2020s we totally rallied as a country and accomplished this amazing thing and put all these people to work and saved the planet! gloom and doom is the stick, but the opportunity to raise your standard of living (AND heroically save us from complete disaster) is the carrot.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
*all while
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, November 12, 2020 2:35 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is so disingenuous as to be demonstrably false. Teachers' unions fight for the salaries and working conditions of their members; police unions fight for the right to be unaccountable in the commission of human rights abuses.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
Yeah I don't get behind that "both sides." However it's more like GOP bashes teachers' unions, Democrats know they still need teachers' unions but quietly erode them through things like charter schools.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
exactly
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
and yes in orbit v v much otm re police unions
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
In my direct personal experience the main teachers' union in NYC fights AGAINST charter schools but loses to bought politicians! Idk about other cities though I guess.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:46 (three years ago) link
I mean Robert Cornegy Jr is set to run for NYC mayor next year and he is, and always has been, a charter-backed candidate!! I worked on a city council primary race in the district right next to his, when he first ran in 2013, and a bunch of charter school teachers & staff members came DURING WORK HOURS and GOT PAID by their employers to canvas for him! There was a lot of winking at us involved iirc.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
i will always bash police "unions"
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
Sorry, Cornegy is running for Brooklyn Borough Pres, not for NYC Mayor. Just a step on the way though.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 12 November 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
what in the living fuck at that moronic Thus Sang Freud post, everybody has jumped on it already but that's gotta be the stupidest fucking thing I've read itt so far which is really saying something
police unions are not "unions" and should be mercilessly destroyed
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, November 12, 2020 9:46 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I might have worded my post awkwardly - this is what I meant. Unions are against charters, democrats are ostensibly pro teachers union but also pro charter, which is actually a low-key anti-union position.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:05 (three years ago) link
otm, and even putting that aside, there are more than two unions last time I checked, so this was a particularly feeble attempt at both-sidesing
― rob, Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
democrats are ostensibly pro teachers union but also pro charter, which is actually a low-key anti-union position^if I were trying to describe the Democratic Party ca 2020 to someone unfamiliar w American politics
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
Yeah I've watched the machine Dem candidates in my district & surrounding ones take the softshoe "charter schools are public schools" route many times. They're all going to end up getting primaried from the left though, which I absolutely welcome and will happily put in hours for those candidates.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
Actually speaking of which I'm looking up 2021 City Council races right now and thinking about who to volunteer for!
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
I'm here for the Teena Marie clips.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
Both sides-ism: they all support charter schools :(
― Nhex, Thursday, 12 November 2020 15:27 (three years ago) link
Democrats have moved away from the Obama era courting of charter schools over the last few years - remains to be seen how that goes from here.
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Thursday, 12 November 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link