@chrismckeever @LinkofSunshine No one is arguing to get rid of bodycams.
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@LinkofSunshine They call it an own goal because now there is a push to get rid of them by some…precisely because they show the opposite of what early proponents said they would show. Bodycams do make the world objectively better one way or the other because they tell the truth.
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These people can't even fathom that for some people, making the world better is the objective. They just see the world on owning the libs, and assume everyone is like them
captive dreamer@captive_dreamer
Democrats pushing for bodycams was the greatest own goal of the decade
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@AnthonyFormic13 @YungxJayy The US is actively preventing anyone from sending them fuel.
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@YungxJayy How come you don’t have any money to buy oil? You don’t get it free from Venezuela anymore, and you manufacture nothing that anyone wants.
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It cannot be said enough how evil the United States is for what they’re doing to Cuba.
AJ+@ajplus
Nationwide blackouts have left millions across Cuba without power. Some outages can last up to 20 hours, disrupting everything from food storage, to cooking, to sleep. Blackouts have become an ongoing crisis since the U.S. blocked all oil shipments to the island in January.
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@TheClassyConse2 @Pies_of_Lee What socialists mean by capitalism is the system as it exists, but advocates of capitalism prefer to defend an impossible anarch-capitalist fantasy.
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@Pies_of_Lee Ask a socialist why they hate capitalism and they’ll describe non-capitalist interference and then propose a system that magnifies those non-capitalist problems. (i.e. government intervention)
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@I_am_not_a_lib @TerrellLeftist Did DSA lose the 2024 election?
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@TerrellLeftist None of them help anyone because they don't get implemented. The DSA has a deeply delusional theory of politics that ultimately leads to republicans winning elections and further eroding the welfare state.
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I’m still trying to figure out which Democratic Socialist policies supposedly don’t help Black people.
Is it Medicare for All? Tuition-free college? Canceling student-loan and medical debt? Affordable housing? Universal childcare? A permanent Child Tax Credit? Direct investment in neglected communities? An $18 living wage? Stronger unions and worker protections? Paid Family and Medical leave?
Which one of these policies hurts Black people?
Because from where I’m standing, these policies would materially improve millions of Black lives. So instead of attacking Democratic Socialists, explain which policy you oppose?
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Simeon 🇺🇸@FTrilliams
@AdamrR83 Black leftists should be pushing for policies that address the needs of Blk voters. Class doesn’t fix race 🤷🏾♂️
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@SheldonGuinn @DemocraticWins That seems like a pretty BS excuse.
He has a picture of his opponent on the front of his podium, so the idea that he's just there to support the sheriff's is a bit silly.
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Well, from the clips I saw he was there on behalf of Law Enforcement. He wanted the questions to stick to that issue.
He should have handled it better. Trust me, does not own 15 properties on his salary. That's just dumb especially after the FBI investigated him.
And then he was impeached.
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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Ken Paxton just melted down and stormed out of a press conference after being asked about his 15 houses and alleged voter fraud. What a disaster for Texas Republicans.
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@Sir_Longshank @ZeldaZealot The decolonization movement was always going to happen. The USSR's support my have helped it militarily in some cases but they didn't create it.
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@ZeldaZealot Why would African independence movements even be a thing in the 1960’s in this timeline? There’s no USSR supplying guns to independent movements. No America condemning colonization. They just want to turn the mod into IRL Cold War
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“No you can’t have Burgundy, Atlantropa, or the Afrika-Schild because that’s hecking unrealistic! There is no fun in alternate history!”
“Anyway here’s progressive gay rights wish fulfillment path number 109.”
The New Order@TNOmod
germany, russia, africa, america, and beyond. in our new dev diary, we show some of the major additions coming to TNO with our Yippie! patch. will you try to repair this broken world or will you destroy it? what movements will you let mature in this age of monsters?
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@SheldonGuinn @DemocraticWins Then why didn't he just say that instead of running away?
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@DemocraticWins The idea that Ken Paxton has 15 houses is truly dumb.
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@AnnieOakleyAr15 @ChampionsOTIce But neither is the solution for the kindergarten teacher to hit the kid themselves.
I'm against the death penelty in modern society, but I think its especially wrong for a group of men to use a women being wronged as an opportunity to assert their masculinity.
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They are not the same desires at all. How do you come to that conclusion? What you’re saying is all very cutesy again and what I mean by that is it flattens everything in an egalitarian way like you have to do with kindergarteners. “Now Sara if you hit Jenny back won’t you become a bully then too?”
A rapist/murderer/pedo being executed in an orderly and private manner after an extensive public trial where he’s given a lawyer and a thorough appeals process is not the victim/society stooping to the perps level at all. That’s a completely made up idea in our society.
And back to your original point it’s not somehow controlling women’s bodies to address rape/murder/pedo with that as a solution. And if men have a feeling of protecting the sanctity and dignity of women’s bodies then that’s great because I have the same feeling towards my own! We’re on the same page!
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In a nearby town years back, someone raped a special needs girl.
The local boys got wind of it, captured the perpetrator, took him to a nearby barn, and proceeded to bullwhip him nearly to death.
In a similar incident, someone else got dragged behind a truck by his feet with a rope for half a mile down a gravel road.
And of course, there's Gary Plauche.
My point is that when the public feels as though the legal system cannot be depended upon to suitably punish evil, eventually they will deal with it themselves in the manner of their ancestors.
Poe's Law, Esq: Poe's Lawyer@dyingscribe
“Oh, you don’t care about a rapist and murderers’s life and you’re fine with them dying? You must be evil” Mercy to monsters is cruelty to the kind
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@AnnieOakleyAr15 @ChampionsOTIce I think you ought to recognize that your desire to have the person killed is the same as the desire which drove the person to harm you.
You have to rise above that nonsense.
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Heheh that’s kind of a cutesy answer but ok it would be less than “healthy” for me to want the man executed and not sadistic patriarchy, copy. But I think it’s actually a sign of ptsd or depression or lack of self-respect to not want your rapist or murderer or attempted murderer at least dead.
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@HammahThor @winmod1886 @ChampionsOTIce When I walk down the street I don't see much crime, nor when I look at the statistics.
But if you watch Fox News and read Facebook all day you might get the impression that crime is skyrocketing.
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@GenericName9991 @winmod1886 @ChampionsOTIce WHAT?!?
You need to get out of your mom’s basement more
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@pigman9000 @ChampionsOTIce I think there's a lot more career criminals in countries with harsh laws than countries with soft laws.
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@GenericName9991 @ChampionsOTIce Tell me you’re a career criminal without telling me you’re a career criminal
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@GenericName9991 @JP56611604 @ChampionsOTIce Well, our country was a much better to live in when it was tough on crime. Now, it doesn't believe in crime, and it's descending into shithole.
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@Saith516 @ChampionsOTIce Like most people, I'm not insulted by being called Jewish
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@lucentile @ChampionsOTIce Unfortunately, reactionary propaganda has led many to believe in general lawlessness which isn't actually happening.
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@GenericName9991 @ChampionsOTIce Maybe yes, maybe no. But I'd you want to stop it from happening you need people to trust the system will enforce the law.
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@AnnieOakleyAr15 @ChampionsOTIce Not necessarily, though I would say that's not a healthy attitude to have.
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@GenericName9991 @ChampionsOTIce I mean, gosh, I think if I were ever raped I might like the perpetrator executed. Or do you think that’s my internalized misogeny or patriarchy or whatever hahaha
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@Christo20327729 @ChampionsOTIce Rentier states should generally be disregarded from statistical comparisons.
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@GenericName9991 @ChampionsOTIce What is the crime rate in Saudi Arabia?
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@SamSwimsQuickly @whitesocksclips Because the southern elites wanted to preserve slavery.
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@whitesocksclips The liberal myth that the Civil War was primarily a war over slavery. Your average Confederate male citizen didn't own slaves or sign up to fight for slavery; he fought to preserve the South.
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@NewMoonShinto @ChampionsOTIce They started encountering people who weren't part of the church, and therefore legal to enslave and conquer.
The fact that those people also looked different made it pretty straightforward to categorize them based on that instead to keep the slavery going long term.
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@GenericName9991 @ChampionsOTIce ay mang "Race" was invented when a people who just discovered science started encountering different races.
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@NewMoonShinto @ChampionsOTIce "Race" is a concept invented ~500 years ago to justify the European conquest of the Americas and the enslavement of Africans.
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@GenericName9991 @ChampionsOTIce Oh I see why you were trying to slander polycentric law by referring to the afghans. I had assumed you understood racial differences existed for whatever reason.
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Both Haredi and non-Haredi Jews swung hard to the GOP between 2016 and 2024.
David Shor@davidshor
America's Jewish neighborhoods - both Hasidic and non-Hasidic - are trending fast toward Republicans while similar non-Jewish precincts matched on demographics like education and income have trended toward the Democrats
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