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  1. 16 minutes ago, Rougarou said:

    I think you were the one that posted it; I've read a good 6 or 7 long form pieces from a variety of sources (NPR, WaPo, Politico, Salon, etc.) to get a varied point of view, and I think you summed it up well. It was experimented (through political necessity) and there was nothing left to lose, and the results that have been made available (there have been some accusations of transparency with data issues) represent a mixed bag. It's not the feel good, turn-around, zero to hero story that some activists want to paint it as and it hasn't been a failure either. One thing for sure is that Camden is better today than it was before.

    I would 100% advocate for using this model in other bombed out and depleted cities with over 170 open air drug markets and high crime rates that rival MS-13 strongholds and other failed states. I just don't think that most places are complete reclamation projects at salvage value.

    And there it is. Right out of the Fox News playbook. Portray inner cities populated by African-Americans as war zones with a comparison to MS-13 thrown in for good measure.
     

    You are either intentionally stupid and racist to say that shit or, check that, there isn’t another option. Rush and Tucker Carlson could not be prouder that all their hard work pays off with diarrhea like that posted.

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  2. 2 minutes ago, Rougarou said:

    You are militant. I'd definitely cross the street the get away from you.

    You are a racist moron hiding under the guise of word salad vagaries while simultaneously posing as stupid fucking questions guy. Figure out how to use google and drop the bullshit routine. Never heard about Camden...Get the fuck outta here with that.

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  3. 1 hour ago, hobbes2702 said:

    You posted basically three pages worth of your opinions on the subject so yes I think you should have some understanding of previous examples. Especially as you continually tell us that defunding the police is stupid. You are basically trying to mansplain this topic to other posters without having the necessary information because you aren’t as informed as you are pretending to be.

    There was a study cited in a book that I believe the title of is “Racism Without Racists.” In that book it cited that white flight is triggered when as little as 7 percent of the neighborhood is populated by African-Americans. SEVEN FUCKING PERCENT of the neighbors being black is enough for white people to throw up their hands and declare a neighborhood to be unlivable in and thus a move to a further out suburban neighborhood is necessary in their racist-addled minds. African-Americans are not the problem. Other minorities are not the problem. A smaller police force is not the problem. White people still being terrified of co-existing and living with black people and other minorities is the problem. It’s a racist behavior, but it’s covered up under the auspices of safety. 

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  4. 1 hour ago, hobbes2702 said:

    You’ve never heard of Camden, NJ?

    Has Fox News done an expose yet on the intense emotional distress officers in Camden are under every single day from being asked to do their job in a more human-friendly way that doesn’t involve beating POC for giving them a dirty look? They haven’t? Then no this just asking questions clownshow has not heard of Camden’s reformed police department.

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  5. 1 minute ago, Chuckie Finster said:


    Years before Trump became President, John Mulaney said it best: “Donald Trump is what a hobo imagines a rich person to be.”

     

     

    12 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

    What evidence do we actually have that Dotard is rich? The narrative that this shitheel is worth more financially than a hobo is fascinating.

    Hobo talk not going away!

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  6. 4 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    I highly doubt anyone on this site is as poor as this fat POS.  He knows nothing but debt.  He is likely at least 8 figures in the hole.  More likely 9 figures +   

    Anyone that refers to themself as the King of Debt should never be confused with being rich. He is definitely, at a bare minimum, nine figures deep in debt.

  7. 51 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    He's rich.  That doesnt mean he has good taste.

    What evidence do we actually have that Dotard is rich? The narrative that this shitheel is worth more financially than a hobo is fascinating.

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  8. On 7/30/2020 at 9:50 PM, 4th&Five said:

    Yada yada tan suit yada feet on desk yada coffee cup salute yada yada. 

    I waited to get an answer from AB to that question and none was given. The silence is more telling than any answer he could have provided. 

  9. 19 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

     

    #ACAB
     

    Fuck every last one of them that puts on a badge, gets paid with the tax dollars of their fellow citizens and does that to them. Blow the whole damn systemically racist and corrupt system up and start over. There is no getting through to these goose-stepping fascist clowns. 

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  10. 7 minutes ago, immamac said:

    You know what, people who are friends or tolerate racists are fucking racists. It's a position that is reprehensible and is only combated by intolerance. If you are friends with racists or support racists you are a fucking racist piece of shit. 

     

    I had to tell my brother in a text a couple of weeks back that while he may not consider himself a racist, if he votes for Trump he is saying that racism is okay and he would be condoning Trump's blatant racism. I have not heard back from him since.

  11. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    Killing the suburbs, obviously.  And founding ISIS.   Those sound about right.

    I mean, we KNOW it doesn't mean "maybe give a bunch of jobs that the police are doing to entities and people better qualified to do them, and less likely to create a dangerous power dynamic situation."  Nope.  Can't mean that.

    The amount of intentionally stupid people we share a country with is astounding.

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  12. 23 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    Don’t know why some of you assholes are calling me out in this lunatic asylum. Fuck that noise, but to set the record straight:

    No I did not. I always maintained he was a US natural born citizen and I was never aligned with the birthers. Never.

    Anyone who says I did is mistaken.

    I did say numerous times he was an empty suit (true), a liar (true), and a POS as president (my opinion). I also said he was a good family man. (true).

    Anyone who says I didn’t is mistaken.

    Over & out.

    Honest question for you. What exactly did he do or not do to earn the opinion of being a POS president? 

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  13. I don’t believe any of us will have even a fraction of the positive impact upon our fellow human beings that Mr. Lewis did. He never stopped fighting for a better tomorrow. He spent 65 years of his life fighting for civil rights and basic human decency for all. If we as a country were to ever make another Mt. Rushmore for American heroes he absolutely has to be on it. The longevity alone of fighting for what was right  is amazing. 

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  14. 2 hours ago, Bookman said:

    I watched this again. This video truly, truly makes me sad.

    I can't think of anything in an awful long time that's made me sadder.

    I watched it just now for the first time. Seeing that further solidifies that the BLM Movement is on the right side of history (Not that anyone supporting it doesn’t already realize that) and these people are headed to the single wide trailer park of dumbass and intentionally uneducated history. Keep fucking that chicken all the way to the bitter end you miserable fucking racists.

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  15. 1 minute ago, TexArcher said:

    How much more clear does it have to be that Donald J. Trump is pure evil and he needs to be stopped before something historically fucking awful happens in this country? 

    Historically awful started earlier this year when the death count piled up on Coronavirus and Dotard hindered every attempt to stop the spread. Every evil thing he has done since is just piling on at this point. There is no bottom to what horrific thing he will say or do. 

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  16. 35 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

    Wow, I just wasted some time in a rabbit whole on her account.  What a fucking lunatic.

    I just spent five minutes reading some of her tweets and retweets. Dear God the stupid is incredibly funny and sad at the same time.

  17. https://abc7ny.com/protester-released-after-controversial-arrest-in-manhattan/6339831/
     

    So here is where this shit goes sideways for me. The police could’ve picked this young woman up at anytime and arrested her without incident. Instead these idiots come in with nothing to identify them as police officers, claim this is standard procedure and then have the temerity to play the victim card (Shocking I know) and say officers were assaulted with rocks and other projectiles. You stupid fucks created that situation. 
     

    This was an attempt to intimidate protesters, plain and simple. Once again it has had the opposite effect. When I was at the protest march on Saturday, from Brooklyn to Chelsea Piers, an NYPD chopper showed up above Cadman Park. The assclown piloting it got low enough to create a stiff breeze while attempting to drown out the speakers. Thankfully the sound system was really good. Eric Garner’s mother was speaking there. NYPD knew that and they hovered over the entire time she spoke. Fuck these petulant children for not being able to handle that people are sick of them.

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  18. 4 minutes ago, FondrenRoad said:

    Park rangers don't fuck around.  Was fishing last year and we didn't know, but we were fishing outside of the designated area.  Park Rangers rolled up in full tactical gear, shot us with rubber bullets, tased us, and tossed us in the lake.

    Just kidding, they politely asked us to move.

    Second time today I LOL’d while reading this forum. Very well done!

  19. 2 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    I've just learned that Trump would like his presidential library to be placed on the campus of the University of New Jersey, Virginia State University, or New York State University.  He is not remotely concerned, that despite their standard college sounding names, neither of those colleges actually exist.  

    He won’t get a library in New York, but there will be books thrown in his direction starting in January.

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  20. 9 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'm not a lawyer.  I'm an engineer.  As a professional, if I were involved in a legal matter where another engineer claimed "force = mass x velocity", I'd fucking laugh at him and call him a fraud who has no business in the business.

    Barr claims an 8-9 year sentence for a 67 year old man is "unfair" and nothing happens.

    Fuck the Democrats.  They are utterly spineless unfocused cucks.  The heavy lifting these days is being done by anti-Trump Republicans.

    Apparently we need AOC and Katie Porter to be on every single committee asking the questions. 

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