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If a home run hits your cutout, will they send you the ball?

Didn't you say the same thing about Ramsay Bolton?

Yeah, the one Deblasio proposal that I always liked was community policing. Police were going to walk a regular beat, get to know residents and business owners, pet dogs, tell troublemaking kids to go home, try to get homeless people into shelters, etc. Never happened. Police didn't want to get out of their cars. Not out of fear, but out of laziness. This predates covid by years, much less the protest. Police don't want to deter crime. They want to react to it. They don't meet their quota if crime is deterred. Officers are judged by their arrest numbers rather than the relative safety of their area. Traffic cops never stopped walking beats and people hate them more than regular police. Nobody threatens them.

I already see remote working getting stale for many. I think everything will consolidate back in SV when covid is fully over. It isn't just the "job" that causes people to aggregate. Its the networking that allows them to get poached by other employers, or start their own company. Plus the majority of tech people enjoy the lifestyle there. Wall Street is the same way. It has been capable of fully remote work for decades. Yet a significant share of people won't even live in New Jersey and work there. They choose the most expensive part of one of the most expensive cities to live in intentionally. I've done a couple of zoom networking events since covid started. They suck and you don't really make the personal connections that are needed.

She's a Bernie-ist. Anti-interventionist and protectionist. Oddly, foreign policy is also where Trumpist nationalism and progressive protectionism have some alignment. The big difference is that Trump has no plan for turning tariffs into actual jobs, and is pro-war even while he pretends he isn't. Where AOC varies from Bernie is that she would base trade policy largely on addressing climate change and on civil rights. Likely using a carrot or stick approach although I don't see where she's laid out any actual plans. Do other young Congresspeople have complete platforms suitable for a Presidential run?

LMJ and Springer might leave the Astros, but they paid their "Astro for life" dues already in my opinion. Cole was a hired hand. He did his job admirably. He had a right to be salty about not being put in in game 7. Now he's a hired hand somewhere else. Had he come in and won the WS, he still wouldn't feel like an "Astro for life." I have no hard feelings for him doing what he is doing. But he's a Yankee now so he can fuck himself for that and the Yankees can fuck themselves collectively as well.

They have, to an extent. Most of them now have an extensive remote workforce, and will hire people that live anywhere. The issue is that most people in the heartland who code or are ready to do other remote jobs offered by tech firms don't want to live in the heartland so they move. When it comes to fixed labor markets in small towns, its a tough sell. Even if manufacturers move more tech manufacturing back to the US, almost none of it will go to the old factory towns that need it. They want locations where people will compete for the jobs.

Where else are homeless people supposed to go right now? The NYPD pull back happened due to covid as well. They quit traffic stops, quit patrolling, and quit bothering people for minor "violations." Do you not remember when like half the force called in sick pre-protest because they were worried about getting sick themselves? All that happened prior to the protests and the defund the police movement. And every crime you listed is due to anxiety. Both the fireworks and the reaction to them are related to covid anxiety. The people shooting fireworks every night don't have anything to do tomorrow. Shooting people is never acceptable. But that doesn't mean that one can't understand how a feeling of desperation or hopelessness can lead to that. I also haven't seen anyone excusing shooting someone. Every single shooter has been arrested or is wanted by the police right now. Who is getting away with anything? I'm happy that you've largely weathered covid so far from a personal economic standpoint. I'm happy I've done so as well. But having spent months of my childhood with no electricity, and other months with the locks changed on our home, and having very little to eat some days except what my sister and I would affectionately call "bread sandwiches," I can understand where other people's heads are at. Most people don't just cower in the corner and starve to death. They lash out, and the rational ones will just take what they need and nothing more. But humans aren't a particularly healthy species. A lot of people have underlying psychological issues that always had them on the brink of sociopathic behavior. Well, now that brink has arrived. People need to know they have a roof over their head, food in their bellies, and something pseudo productive to do. Some of the money should be moved from the PD to these endeavors. It isn't being moved and likely won't be, however. Prison is the worst and most expensive way to provide social welfare.

The increase in crime is due to high unemployment and high anxiety during covid. It would be infinitely worse right now with a crackdown mayor. People can't pay rent and they can't get enough to eat. Also, in spite of the rhetoric, DeBlasio expanded the NYPD so far during his term. He never contracted it. The necessary loss of a new class is also coming due to covid really more than the fake defunding plan he suggested.

I get that you aren't a current Republican. No sane person would be. But your economic ideals are what used to be Republican. A functional country can't expect all governance across the entire political and economic spectrum to be in the Democratic Party while the Republican Party is left to just nazis with dementia who get votes by claiming to be anti-abortion. Before DeBlasio, NYC elected both a Republican and a Republican pretending to be independent as mayor. Now that fake independent has moved to the Democratic Party as well. Since then, DeBlasio, while largely unpopular, won 73% and 67% of the vote in the general election. Instead of Manhattan fiscal conservatives jumping into the Dem party, getting rocked, and complaining about it, they should take the Republican Party back from Staten Island. The GOP ran an anti-immigrant, anti-gay candidate against DeBlasio for mayor in NYC in 2017, and she was the only close to sane GOP candidate that even launched a campaign. DeBlasio could certainly use more oversight from a sane GOP city councilperson or two. Instead, there are just 2 Staten Island dumbasses, one of whom's entire Public Advocate campaign was "Stop the DeBlasio Agenda!"

It went to shit when US judges stopped wearing wigs. Wigs are on their way out in the UK now too. Thats why Brexit happened.

Having federal and state/local primaries on different ballots on different days is bullshit. She played the game exactly as she needed to play it to win. Crowley Hillary'd it and barely campaigned. That cost him. She did follow that up by smoking Caruso Cabrera in this year's primary which had higher turnout. But then Caruso Cabrera is actually a Republican, and that fact was hardly hidden. Everyone would have been better off had they let Badrun Khan challenge AOC. She has better liberal ideals. Then Caruso Cabrera could have run and lost as the Republican she is. But you're a Republican. Your party is in shambles. Take your party back. The Dem party isn't big enough for, nor should it take in, fiscally conservative refugees long term. It isn't Dems fault that Republicans have become unelectable in NYC. Republican candidates have become ghastly.

Fascists don't like competition. There's only one king in Portland and that is the President of the Portland Police Association.

It was calming down. Protests were dwindling signifcantly in NYC, but are coming back now. I think it was @Wulaw Horn who said that he thought all this would quietly go away with very little change in policing. I agreed and I think that had already started happening before the feds rushed in. Now, I think something will change because of it. Whether it changes for the worse or the better remains to be seen.

To be fair, I believe Penelope is some sort of Wall Street consultant. People never like economic models with the potential to disrupt their status. It doesn't mean that Penelope truly believes it isn't possible to value labor over capital in a functioning economy. It just means she knows that much of the revaluation will come out of her bottom line. We have created a world where market manipulation is seen to be more important and more "productive" than participation in the market itself.

Can't wait to see our list of largest cities next year. Tyler, Little Rock, Birmingham. NYC and LA only have 50,000 each. We counted.

Having seen several actual versions of the test posted, there is almost no way those were his recall words. The words aren't linked like that. That seems more like a personality test list of words and responses.

I can direct myself "to" something, but I can't direct myself "for" something. And Dr Razeq is doing alright with the English language otherwise. There isn't a "used to could" or a "fixing to" in his statement.

"Here are three defensive devices which protect specifically against the rubber bullets and tear gas used by my gestapo. Notice that none of these three devices are offensive weaponry." -fixed it for him.

It depends on whether they plan to add more 1 game deathmatches like the WC game, or whether they plan to add actual series. The 1 game deathmatches are exciting, but they are practically a coin flip. I don't want more of them.

"shouldn't have not?" So they should have then.

Probably a question for the constitutional lawyers. Let's say Trump manages to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census even though this is clearly unconstitutional. The courts drag their feet, and Census 2020 is completed before SCOTUS rules against Trump some time in 2021. What is the remedy? Is a census retake possible?

You'd need the local PDs to shield protesters from DHS troops. That seems really unlikely given the fact that local PDs are the reason this all happened im the first place. Alternatively, I'm told that there are 1000s of Americans who claim to stockpile guns to defend against tyranny. I have seen them march for absurd reasons. I have yet to see them show up when actual tyranny is going on. Seems like now would be the time to peaceful carry as a large group in front of the brownshirts. Well, I guess that would be the case if they were actually anti-tyranny instead of pro-tyranny.

It was a gangland targeted retaliatory shooting. One in which the funeral participants were also armed, expected it to happen, and returned fire. Innocents can be hit, but it is not the same as a random mass shooting where someone shoots up a mall. I am not even sure a targeted drive-by shooting has ever been classified as a mass shooting even though bystanders do get caught in them. As long as "don't start no shit, won't be no shit" applies, people don't get very concerned and coverage is minimal. A random shooter breaks this rule since none of the targets started shit or were involved in shit with the shooter. Police shootings also get more coverage because they are state actors.

Thats the dumbest shit I have ever heard. However, I have multiple relatives posting bullshit about Christianity being under attack this week, so maybe there is some bullshit lie making the rounds that I missed. Sometimes, I like to think we have gotten better over time, and that war isn't still required to reset backward thinking. Posts like this make me think I'm wrong.