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We’ve engaged in a concerted propaganda campaign for decades suggesting that because moral equality is mandatory, biological identity must also be mandatory. This makes it practically unthinkable to consider that it’s perfectly possible to construct a political system that grants equal rights to all citizens while acknowledging that not everyone can visualize a rotating 3D cube with equal fidelity. But biting that bullet feels dangerous to many. It feels like opening the door to old aristocracies. So instead, we pretend the differences don't exist, which inadvertently creates a new aristocracy of "people who know the right shibboleths."
It's much more terrifying than that. There were two rough branches of the old eugenics movement, American and European. The European school of thought was that to get more quality people, those people should have more children. Deliberately breed your best specimens to get better.
The American school, OTOH, was more concerned with raising the floor by culling the lowest quality people. Ergo, Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood, inspired by the simple notion that if all the black people have abortions, then in a generation or two there just won't be any more black people. Trawling through American history, you'll occasionally stumble across references like "during this decade, the state of X sterilized 50,000 people, mostly the indigent and feeble-minded". This culminated in the 30's when American progressive eugenicists were quite proud to announce that finally a world leader had embraced the obvious logic of their approach to the selective breeding on the animal Man for the improvement of all society - and I'm sure you can guess who they were talking about, and how quickly they all distanced themselves from those positions and claims after 1945.
Basically, leftists have a cognitohazard blind spot on this topic because if they allow themselves to even consider biological inequality then the superstructure of their belief system goes right back to the stuff of nightmares.
The key word that twigged me there was "subway". Are there any places with both subways and Republican mayors? That actually seems like a good question for an LLM.
The Bing default search AI summary completely shit the bed:
The last five Republican mayors of American cities with subways are: Richard Riordan (Los Angeles, 1993-2001). Jean Stothert (Pittsburgh, 2013-2021). Corey O’Connor (Pittsburgh, 2021). Mike Mergner Bloomfield (Bloomfield, New Jersey, 2024). David Bronson (Anchorage, Alaska, 2024).
Richard Riordan is real, but Pittsburg has not had a Republican mayor since 1934. Mike Mergner Bloomfield seems to have been entirely hallucinated (hilariously so - "Yeah, the last Republican mayor was old Johnny CityName). Jean Stothert was the Republican mayor of Omaha, Nebraska. Corey O'Connor is the mayor of Pittsburgh, but he took office last week, not 2021, and is a Democrat. David Bronson is real. 3/5 fake answers.
Copilot did better, listing
- Michael Bloomberg - NYC
- Ralph Perk - Cleveland (1971-1977)
- Bernard Samuel - Philadelphia (1941-1952)
- William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson — Chicago (1915–1923, 1927–1931)
- Malcolm Nichols — Boston (1926–1930)
All of whom seem to be real.
Probably not actually the police fault there
Yeah, I would guess this is a blue city soft on crime prosecutor problem. A crazy/drug-addled person threatening to kill people should actually not be left free to be a violent random encounter for the citizenry.
What options do the cops actually have otherwise?
Then we are left discharging this massive liability as soon as they sober up or whatever.
Kinda sounds like buck-passing all around. How can society deal with low-grade socially corrosive people? Without offending the bleeding heart types who do nothing to help but condemn anything that might?
that "this is an amazing pasta maker!",
Holy shit that was good. I did not really know who Heather Lochlear was (beyond a vaguly famous name from before my time) but she killed it there.
Consider starting at a local river that offers multi-hour canoe/kayak trips before worrying about places and trips that require camping.
Holding your own well-being hostage to get your way is generally recognized as abuser behavior.
One place in Jersey is decent
Where?
The official position is that Good, after "stalking, harassing, and impeding" then committed a coordinated pre-trained "domestic act of terrorism" and "violently, willfully, and viciously" ran over an officer with who "followed his training and did exactly what he was taught to do." Nearly every load-bearing part of that entire position is false.
Actually, every part of that is meaningfully true.
You seem to literally exactly think this way, and that's why we're at serious risk of not having a country.
Do they really think that ICE are on some spree killing of middle-aged white women now?
At the least, if you have a middle-aged white woman in your life that you care about, please talk to them, make sure they know real people in grass world love them, and research de-radicalization strategies.
the kind of profanity that'd come to my lips would be more along the lines of "oh shit" than "what an obnoxious fuck".
That's a you thing. For myself, my initial reaction would probably be something like "You stupid asshole! (Why did you make me do that!?)"
But that's a reaction to your scenario, which skips the "attacker hits me with their car" step, in which case my language would likely be quite a bit worse.
A few minutes later, after I've left the scene and calmed down? Sure. Introspection, maybe grace. Two seconds after being hit by a car and shooting at someone in self defense? I'm more:
"Piece of shit pigfucking retard motherfucker asshole scumbag Karen bitch motherfucking shitstain waste of cum - holy shit, am I ok? Whew, I guess I'm not crippled. Where's the- Oh, fuck, did she die?"
Taking a human life is a grave thing, even when it becomes necessary, and respect for the dead is an important part of civilized humanity. If you've just killed somebody, and the threat is passed, then you should ideally be somber, even contemplative; you should take time to make the gravity of what you have done sink in deep, even - indeed, especially - if you are confident that your actions were just.
An hour or day later? Sure, though it's a grace she would have been very unlikely to offer back if she'd killed him instead.
Two seconds after she just put him in a life-or-death situation and hit him with her car, after a prolonged period of her acting like a fucking bitch Karen? When he very likely doesn't even know if she's dead or hurt?
You're being absurd.
probably hostile towards people trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
I wouldn't grant that. The common attitude among the left towards sexual exploitation perpetrated by "oppressed peoples" is awkward doublethink. Regarding illegal immigration in particular, they actively encouraged illegal immigrants to show up with children, were quite indifferent about whose child it actually was, and then deliberately hampered oversight while losing track of tens of thousands of children.
I'm not sure that I've ever seen people on the left take human trafficking / sex trafficking seriously as a concern. They generally seem to treat any discussion of the topic as a bad faith attempt to restrict immigration or be racist at brown people.
The fact that the living ex-husband has custody of the older two seems to be consistent, though it's hard to find a specific, news-like cite. I'm seeing numerous debunkings of the cigarette story, but from articles that are also saying she was just a mom dropping off her kid to daycare, so I'm tentatively rescinding that particular claim.
This is the product of about nine seconds of research to recall the details of a half-remembered case.
Sure, it's just that when I do that for things like excessive anti-gun laws I come up with examples like "black mom who had a totally legal gun in the back of her car by her home state's standards who was arrested and prosecuted for having a gun while getting gas because she didn't quite appreciate that her route passed through New Jersey". Or "veteran who was stopped in DC, and then arrested and prosecuted for having a spent shell casing in the trunk of his car".
In both cases, I hope them to be persuasive because of the vast chasm between the extremely minor infraction and then facing years of jail time. Imagine if the best example I could come up with was "The ATF went after this guy just because he owned a gun (and also, he was part of a gang of people that shot up a store and he was totally there but he says he didn't shoot)". I don't imagine that anyone on the other side would find that even slightly persuasive, and I would probably have to have an "Are we the baddies?" moment.
I see no reason to put more effort into it when past experience has shown that there is no amount of unambiguous evidence that you would accept at face value, let alone as demonstrative of a pattern.
The demonstrated pattern is that you have nothing remotely resembling "unambiguous" evidence. I've been asking this question for a year now, and every single example makes ICE seem actually extremely professional and reasonable.
This woman, mother of three
She actually is reported to have lost custody of the older two kids because she or the lesbian partner was putting cigarettes out on them. So, please amend this to specify "abusive, proven unfit mother".
Might be a fake claim slipped in there.
If Regina George hits you with a car, did her Mean Girls taunting somehow positively affect the transfer of kinetic energy?
If you hit somebody with a car, they get to reflexively curse at you. Sorry not sorry, those are the rules.
I agree that the claims that Good was somehow actively malicious, or that her death is anything else than a tragedy that shouldn't have occurred, are disgraceful.
I don't. She was obviously being malicious. She may (may) not have been deliberately, conciously attempting to murder a LEO, but at the very least she was acting with depraved indifference to the well-being of everyone around her, and having a great time and feeling extremely proud of herself for it.
If she had hit and killed that officer, she and her partner and all of her fellow protestors would likely have thrown a party.
Only one of those is even pretending to be an example. So, in the 700k deportations they did last year, ICE briefly detained a single citizen who was on a work crew with a bunch of other Hispanic guys who totally were illegal?
Did the anti-ICE folks finally accept that "guy who was working security on the weed farm that used illegal minors as child slaves" wasn't the most compelling case?
Seriously, if this is the best you have to offer then ICE is doing a spectacular job.
BTW,
To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion
You're welcome.
violate the civil rights of citizens by detaining them on no grounds beyond their skin color..
Can you name a single time this happened?
I believe that you're an aged-but-empty account that just posted a pparagraph that had incendiary flame-bait for both sides of the American political spectrum.
OTOH, you're throwing off clear ESL flags, so maybe you just genuinely didn't know how Americans would take that. My sincere apologies for accusing you of being a mildly clever member of my culture.
RW Twitter has been having fun comparing this to how the Central Americans might have felt when Spaniards showed up with ships, steel, horses and guns.

I tried to look that up, and it seems like they might have a stop on one of the Newark feeder lines. I don't really think that counts, but my experience with north Jersey public transit is pretty limited, so I wasn't willing to definitively count it out.
Also, a township of 50k is a bit weak to be calling a "city" anyway.
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