Part of the issue here is the system seems set up to make the good cops afraid of the bad ones. There often seems to be a 'snitches get stitches (if lucky)" mentality in police departments that can put organized crime's code to shame. Pair this up with an expansive view of "Qualified Immunity" that shields police from almost any form of accountability - things like SCotUS rulings that 'you have no established right not to be killed in your own home", "no established right to not have property confiscated without due process of law", and "that these actions are admittedly retaliatory in nature in no way removes the protections of qualified immunity."
Basically, there is a LOT of work that needs to be done, and I have barely scratched the surface.
Dark does not mean deep.
They're Republicans, of course they're going to do that. I was speaking from a Democratic perspective of Republican presidents, it's not like the GOP didn't love W. when he was president.
Edit: That's just a thing Republican presidents, there's no bar to clear with that. The "bar" is from a Democratic perspective, to the GOP Trump's a legend just like very other Republican president when they were in office.
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Here's the Wikipedia definition of neoliberalism.
That lines up fairly closely to with what 'free market conservatives' claim to want - although I think that what we have now is really just people laying claim to that title, but want the government to provide a guaranteed income and freedom from any level of oversight (while simultaneously putting up expensive regulatory roadblocks to any potential new competition)Originally Posted by Wikipedia
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Dark does not mean deep.
Even though we usually talk about liberalism and conservatism as diametric opposites, strictly speaking they don't have to be. Liberalism is basically in favor of free markets, free trade, free everything, whereas conservatism is in favor of traditional values and social hierarchies, but in the world of the 1980s, those at the top of the socioeconomic ladder also just so happened to be the ones that would benefit from free trade policies. Historically, liberalism fell out of favor in the early 20th century since both socialism on the left and fascism on the right favored greater government control of economic activity, and so neoliberalism sort of represented a revival of the free market policies of the 18th and 19th centuries.
45's EO on Twitter reads like one of his Adderall rants from his TV snorting days.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
“Neoliberalism is a term for different social and economic ideas. Neoliberalism is characterized by free market trade, deregulation of financial markets, individualisation, and the shift away from state welfare provision.”
So basically the opposite of social democracy.
How many cops have spoken out these killers in the Floyd case? How many cops or police groups or police unions EVER speak out against police brutality or extrajudicial killings of predominantly African-Americans? My larger point is people don't choose to be black. People don't choose to have their civil rights constantly violated. Cops choose to be cops. And what are the consequences been for killing African-Americans now, or in the past? Not much. That's what I mean when I say less than human. People know there are gonna be consequences if you verbally or physically assault or kill a cop. What about the reverse?
Look at Justine Damond and the effort that went to prosecute her killer because she was a white woman. Then look at the efforts to prosecute cops that kill African-Americans.
And would body cameras have been necessary if cops didn't go around violating people's human rights and killing people?
Exactly. And who is most likely going to be impacted by these court rulings? Well, it ain't white people.
Looking at the statistics, 48 cops were shot to death last year. Three died from assault. Seven died from vehicular assault.
https://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2019
Every death is a tragedy, but it doesn't stand to reason that more police officers are murdered on the line of duty than kill someone unnecessarily.
Trickle-down economics doesn't really exist as an economic policy. It's more of a caricature.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...ie_121142.html
If it's a term for different ideas, doesn't that suggest it's a meaningless buzzword?
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
If you're making statements about me as an individual, of course it's personal. It's about the person making the comment, rather than what was actually said.
There is no obligation to respond to any point in a public forum. It could be seen as suspicious if I don't respond to a relevant point, but that does require the point to be relevant. If I note that education spending is high in the United States, and that the problem isn't how much we're spending, a comment about Republicans cutting education budgets doesn't address the question of whether money is spent wisely.
Isn't the main reason Chinese culture would look the same without racism that 91.5% of the country is Han Chinese?
I'm sure he sees Kanye West as a person.
Do you think he recognizes this about himself?
What were his good qualities, aside from arguably the most important actions of any prime minister?
I'm not sure what earlier argument you're referring to, but it seems unwise to imply that it's a valid approach to go for justice without democracy. It probably increases the chances Republicans have of winning elections, and gives moral cover to corrupt conservatives.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets