hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4d ago
Actually prosecuting these guys for incitement to violence is not how you go after them. You get them demonetized- much simpler.
hydroacetylene
4d ago
I think the first thing to note about Sanders is that while the establishment does not like Trump, they hate Sanders(and other actual socialists) a lot worse. Right-populism is bad for GDP maxxing but unpredictable left-populism is a lot worse.
So, that out of the way, we saw Hillary fail with full elite backing. Sanders with no elite backing? Hmm, that relies on a self-proclaimed socialist being popular enough to overcome that. I doubt that, especially in 2016.
I do think the coalitions would look different. The democrats are to a large extent reliant on upscale movement in their direction. What Sanders managed to win over from the bottom, he loses from the top.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I suspect a ton of it is genuine over representation- kids from conservative backgrounds becoming progressive are just going to spend a lot of time on the internet.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
A big chunk of the horseshoe theory, in my mind, is just ‘crazy people have certain similarities but their politics isn’t one’.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
How’s Red Eye on fox doing?
hydroacetylene
5d ago
The US executes a low-mid double digits number of people per year, the majority in southern states. We’re regularly beaten out by China(lol huge population totalitarian regime), and some Islamic theocracies. Other states with the death penalty very rarely use it, either due to low crime rates(Japan) or to being small(some of the Caribbean countries), or both(Singapore). Add in the basically-failed states of the world that would execute lots of people if they were able to enforce criminal justice in a meaningful sense(much of sub Saharan Africa), and the US execution numbers don’t tell us much.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
one can only anticipate the prizes that are coming. Destiny and Hasan are obvious trophies that the right would love to claim,
There is a major difference between these people and major pundits employed by tv networks trying to stand on their reputability. The big three have some standards because of who they are.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Yeah, MAGA base doesn’t have a lot of sympathy for the guy because most people don’t understand root causes and the healthcare industry sucks for ordinary people.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Most people think highly of their partners and don’t want to believe they’re murderers? Intentional ignorance is a hell of a drug.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
It seems relevant to note that democrats language control has mostly failed. Latinx backfired badly, after all. Political correctness in general just doesn’t win elections.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
That may be the reason for his nervous breakdown.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Very high pay for the skill level is almost uniformly much blacker than the general population these days. They're not as black as the stereotype suggests but there's definitely an overrepresentation.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
I assume there's usually not a cop who wants to nail them bad enough to falsify evidence.
It further seems like the usual false evidence a beat cop would plant would be drugs.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Actually seems very relevant. One's right wing beliefs were basically words, and could be molded to a general worldview which was not terribly right wing. The other's left wing beliefs were part of how he lived his life.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Luigi showed the classic signs of a nervous breakdown in the runup to the assassination, IIRC.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
22/23 is the natural age to do these kinds of things, though. Old enough to do it, young enough to still be bad at making decisions.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
There aren't any hardcore libs in my filter bubble. There's democrats, sure, but of moderate factions who have boring, coalition politics reasons for supporting democrats. No progressive activists, no one pro-trans, none of that.
I don't hate these people and want them dead, although I suppose there are some progressive-approved behaviors I think should be a crime. I don't believe they're any different- yes they want to take my guns away but they don't particularly want to hurt me, even if they might out of ignorance and stupidity. Oppressing people is a lot of work and it seems like not how people are.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
It's very, very common for conspiracy obsessed loons to have an idiosyncratic hodgepodge of beliefs that look like the far end of whatever side of the spectrum you find most distasteful.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Did... this guy need discrediting? Convicted felon conspiracy theorists who claim to personally commit high profile murders they obviously weren't behind seem like the last people the government would try to discredit. More likely he just happened to be deranged in more than one way.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Now, you might think such a person would have a strong incentive to avoid being picked up by the police and have his phone searched, but Mr. Zinn did not seem to have much hesitation.
I mean, someone who immediately fesses to a high profile assassination in a red state is willing to suffer the full wrath of the criminal justice system. Having kiddy porn on him might be strictly worse, but does it really change the calculus?
hydroacetylene
7d ago
That’s possible. Also possible- policia armada is being handicapped for Spanish political reasons(AIUI it’s actually a thorny political issue in Spain and their government is propped up by a coalition that includes some of their equivalent of far left wackadoodles) or Spain just wants to give Palestinians a platform in a way France doesn’t.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
Most ultra-orthodox Jews, especially in Israel, are not satmar.
hydroacetylene
7d ago
Aren’t Spanish cops known for being more skull cracking and thuggish, not less?
hydroacetylene
7d ago
Totally possible this gets pinned on trans successfully and Rico takes out some lefty groups.
Hold on there's no need to resort to violence. The way to make sure the cowboys lose is to increase the star players' pay. C'mon, listen to the cowboys fans tell jokes about it.
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