anti_dan
2mo ago
I think that there exists a set of rules of engagement that are reasonable, that is not the set of rules of engagement that have been issued to American troops over the last 3 decades.
anti_dan
2mo ago
Why does it always come back to food?
Its low effort? I think that is it. Its difficult to articulate why Ethiopian culture is a boon to the District of Colombia if one is discussing civics, governance, literature, etc. That requires actual knowledge. Its easy (and in fact every time I visit DC, someone insists I go to their favorite Ethiopian restaurant with them) to throw down $50 for some food. It is similar to how most people who hate the Confederacy or Nazis don't know what Northerners or American Soldiers thought of said regimes in 1864 & 1944 respectively.
anti_dan
2mo ago
See, I think this argument fails even worse than you. If you go back to, say 1875, and read what the opponents to immigration were saying, they seem quite prescient. They would argue things like that immigrants would congregate in cities and be exploited/power corrupt political machines that would eventually spill into national politics and the whole constitutional order would be altered... which all happened and culminated in the New Deal.
anti_dan
2mo ago
That aside, I am a big fan of national ID cards. The US should have one, and so should every other country. I don't understand why the right is so opposed to it. It's the easiest way to control illegal immigration.
Because it will not be so used. We already have sanctuary cities which house most of the illegal immigrants in the nation. Their cops will be mandated to not check that, as they currently are in those jurisdictions.
If you actually look at the US laws, you would observe that it is seemingly a very strong immigration code that should already be easily able to deal with the illegal immigration problem. The reality is tens of millions of illegals in America. How? Sand in the gears. No law can get rid of the sand. You could try to mitigate it by hiring millions more ICE agents and immigration judges. The sand throwers would re-direct enough of their efforts to preventing that hiring to continue to stifle you.
anti_dan
2mo ago
Reporting on things is always deceptive. "High School Graduate Gunned Down While on Stroll" was essentially the initial Michael Brown reporting. If you read the OP's news article, they frame all these allegations as allegations made by ICE, which is a far less credulous stance than federal law enforcement would be given by NBC news if this guy was being arrested on lynching charges.
anti_dan
2mo ago
In a just world we would have passed legislation allowing prosocial and well behaved people the chance to make their decades-long participation in the country’s social and economic fabric official. Maybe tax them higher for a while as a sort of restitution or something.
But there is no such system that would allow a guy like this to remain. He's not productive, he's an active participant in the public schools system. Not just at the teacher level, which IMO is bad enough in most scenarios, but at the administrative level. The argument that this isn't a parasite class is incredibly weak. At best he's just following the incentives laid out before someone who wants money and prestige and has a passion for progressivism. 99% of the other scenarios he's cynical and knows he's part of a parasite class.
anti_dan
2mo ago
Much more important to the district's union, the district is best off when someone comes in and burns everything down.
anti_dan
2mo ago
Iowa isn't a swing state, democrats haven't won a statewide election there in over a decade- and that was mostly Obama's personal magic.
You need to excuse the olds.
anti_dan
2mo ago
Same time period. Blue state. I would say at least my middle and high school history had much more discussion of pre-American history than yours seems to have had, and also a much greater emphasis on slavery, civil rights, and the vietnam war once we get into the post 1776 era.
anti_dan
2mo ago
As I understand it, the purpose of ICE is to make a big theatrical show of removing a few unfortunate illegals pour encourager les autres, and, even if that doesn't actually do anything on a large scale, at least make the administration look like they're taking a hard stance.
There are many purposes, but yes, the idea is to encourage self deportation, and discourage illegal crossings, by making the environment not feel overwhelmingly pro-illegal as it has for most of the past 30 years.
This is a good target for that, but it also just seems like an insanely flagrant violation that couldn't be ignored once anyone at ICE got a whiff of it. This is one of the highest paid public employees in a swing state.
anti_dan
2mo ago
My son is of that age now so we watched the 1960s 101 Dalmatians which has a delightful little sketch where a fake TV show, "Whats my Crime" is playing. I think now is the perfect time for someone to actually make a show like that.
What are some other fake shows that need to be made in 2025?
anti_dan
2mo ago
Most of those issues for teachers are self-inflicted wounds. If they stopped pretending school can solve social problems as part of their demands for ever increasing funding such expectations wouldn't be imposed on them
anti_dan
2mo ago
Getting a job as a plumber is easy if you consider being a minimum wage plumber's apprentice to be "being a plumber". Keeping it and building yourself into one that makes money is not, years invested or not.
anti_dan
2mo ago
High income blacks are probably more likely to be doctors than high income whites, because there’s not a lot of black master plumbers and the like.
Because affirmative action has rarely been a driving force in hiring/education decisions in those occupations. If you are a shit doctor they just assign you the flu patients, if you are a shit plumber you get covered in shit and then your company never gets hired for another job.
anti_dan
2mo ago
I've seen Republican congressmen go after multiple DOJ officials including FBI directors for not going after the straw purchasers. The fact is that the DOJ and FBI are all filled with strivers (and more and more left of center strivers these days) that don't care about cases that won't get them in the news. They would rather spend 22 months building a shaky case against a state senator for taking a $5k gift from a friend who is also a donor who also might have benefited from some legislation the state senator was going to vote for based on ideology anyways than spend 2 months rolling up a crew of armed robbers who hit 7/11s in 5 states. Plus the arresting black women thing is a problem for many ideologically.
anti_dan
2mo ago
This being basic human psychology, police guidelines should account for this. Cops should be taught to ignore meaningless non-physical threats and irritations of that kind. If the guy isn't trying to make a run for it or otherwise physically resist arrest, let him talk, remain stone-faced, carry on with procedure. Demanding one-on-one submission should not be the way.
Cops are not taught to ignore "meaningless non-physical threats and irritations" because this concept as you've articulated it is nonsense. Cops have no reliable way to determine which guy whos getting verbally aggressive is going to escalate the situation to physical aggression. Sure there is some spectrum running from young black male to old asian lady where the threat level goes from high to low, but its still just probabilities not certainties. Verbal aggression commonly precedes physical aggression.
Anyways, its these bad apples that put the cops into the position where now they treat every traffic stop like they are pulling over Al Capone's hitman. Its not too much to ask fellow citizens (imo) to stop shitting in the commons and just take their speeding ticket and cross examine the officer in front of a judge in court.
anti_dan
2mo ago
There is a significant difference in the degree of difficulty in avoiding misconduct. One person's job is legalized kidnapping, it is within the nature of mistakes that someone could be seriously injured or killed. Teacher misconduct is almost always intentional actions. I dont think any teacher has ever been giving a lecture, slipped on a banana and fell serendipitously getting impregnated by one of her lonely male students.
anti_dan
2mo ago
It can look like a luxury belief to you, but a better way to look at it is low time preference. Sure, tomorrow you might be better off if everyone was more complaint with police, but today you has a gun or drugs or both and doesn't want to be arrested.
anti_dan
2mo ago
My sister's neighborhood has recently hit a 30% ish tipping point, and now is a constant hotbed of HOA litigation whereas before there were no issues that took more than a piece of mail to resolve.
anti_dan
2mo ago
Regulations of workplace conditions being poorly implemented is so frequent that it is basically the iron law of workplace regulations. Your solution is akin to proposing amputation of a person's leg to solve their athlete's foot.
anti_dan
2mo ago
This is also a key problem with the industry that would be solved if the market was less confounded by things like H1B visas. Very few people have to leave the car dealership they work at to get paid fairly.
anti_dan
2mo ago
The low pay and bad conditions is one part, but solving that with regulation has proven to be worse than the problem in Europe. When there is an easy solution in front of us in America: Ban fake resume H1Bs and let Iowa State and Florida Atlantic grads with B averages actually get STEM jobs, it is not a hard tradeoff.
To be honest, I wasn't aware that the problem that H1B visa holders generally are not good at the jobs they are typically allegedly overqualified for was not a topic that could be brought up in polite society. But maybe that is because I work in the legal field now and only interact with engineers as part of my job. Where I work, time falsification is a huge point of discussion, for example.
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