“I myself am African-American and also LGBTQ.” There’s your answer. Why is this relevant at all? Focus on irrelevancies and you miss the real story. Until Progs understand that lionizing race and sexual proclivities is irrelevant to competence, they will continue to do a serious disservice to the public.
I’m a white Anglo-Saxon and heterosexual, resident of The City long ago, when it was sane. I agree with almost everything you said. Perhaps just saying it will be enough without the markers.
The speaker knew she would be accused of being white and straight on account of the views she expressed.
Gin Not Sling
1 year ago
Immature voters will get what they voted for. And deserve it.
Warren Trees
1 year ago
The absurdity of electing a prosecutor who campaigns on not prosecuting people who break the law, and actually delivers on the promise, is the very definition of absurdity and dystopia.
Indeed. Look up “world homicide rates” on wikipedia and you’ll definitely see a pattern
Richard Abbot
1 year ago
The Absurdity of Socialism Episode 453
Penny Adrian
1 year ago
The idiocy on crime is what has turned me from a Democrat to an Independent voter.
Going easy on violent criminals is the same as going viciously hard on the most vulnerable members of society, especially women and kids.
There is no one more oppressive than a violent predator, and to go soft on predators is to enable the oppression of those who live in the poorest neighborhoods.
The Dems are out of touch hypocrites, and I can no longer support their party.
Alan Groff
1 year ago
Daniel Goleman’s “Leadership That Gets Results,” published in Harvard Business Review, argues that no leadership style works all the time. Instead, choose the style that maximizes your effectiveness in a given situation.
The “people come first” affiliative style has its place and can be alternated with other styles to get balanced results.
Where progressives cross the line is the celebration of victims as a path to power. If you want to be all-powerful in this world, you must represent the victims, then your opponents speak against victims – they have no right to speak.
Peter McLaughlin
1 year ago
Why is prosecuting illegal possession of a gun racist.
Because you can’t prosecute those with legal guns, just do the numbers.
John Pade
1 year ago
These prosecutors aren’t stupid. They only appear stupid because normal people believe their policies are mistaken and that they should know better.
But what if they do know better but have other goals? What if they already know “reimagining” is fantasy, where “Let’s Talk Fentanyl” leads?
What if the Bolivarian Militia is their model and they are knowingly taking measures to create one? The raw material, criminals, is already there. All it needs is to be made legal when the conditions are right. The Progressives’ approach to prosecution might be better understood in this light than simply as wrong.
“I myself am African-American and also LGBTQ.”
There’s your answer. Why is this relevant at all? Focus on irrelevancies and you miss the real story. Until Progs understand that lionizing race and sexual proclivities is irrelevant to competence, they will continue to do a serious disservice to the public.
I’m a white Anglo-Saxon and heterosexual, resident of The City long ago, when it was sane. I agree with almost everything you said. Perhaps just saying it will be enough without the markers.
The speaker knew she would be accused of being white and straight on account of the views she expressed.
Immature voters will get what they voted for. And deserve it.
The absurdity of electing a prosecutor who campaigns on not prosecuting people who break the law, and actually delivers on the promise, is the very definition of absurdity and dystopia.
“In [Philadelphia] a city of just 1.5 million, 559 people were murdered last year.”
For the sake of comparison, in England and Wales, with an ONS-estimated population of 56.1m in 2018, 594 homicides were recorded in the year ending March 2021.
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/uk-population-by-ethnicity/national-and-regional-populations/population-of-england-and-wales/latest
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/articles/homicideinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2021
If London had a similar murder rate we would have over 3000 murders a year.
Yes indeed, and we would be approaching 21,000 if England & Wales had a similar rate.
If London had the same demographics as Philly you probably would have a much more similar murder rate.
And similar levels of fatherlessness
A demographic breakdown of those murder cases might come in handy when judging why England and Wales have much lower rates.
Indeed. Look up “world homicide rates” on wikipedia and you’ll definitely see a pattern
The Absurdity of Socialism Episode 453
The idiocy on crime is what has turned me from a Democrat to an Independent voter.
Going easy on violent criminals is the same as going viciously hard on the most vulnerable members of society, especially women and kids.
There is no one more oppressive than a violent predator, and to go soft on predators is to enable the oppression of those who live in the poorest neighborhoods.
The Dems are out of touch hypocrites, and I can no longer support their party.
Daniel Goleman’s “Leadership That Gets Results,” published in Harvard Business Review, argues that no leadership style works all the time. Instead, choose the style that maximizes your effectiveness in a given situation.
The “people come first” affiliative style has its place and can be alternated with other styles to get balanced results.
Where progressives cross the line is the celebration of victims as a path to power. If you want to be all-powerful in this world, you must represent the victims, then your opponents speak against victims – they have no right to speak.
Why is prosecuting illegal possession of a gun racist.
Because you can’t prosecute those with legal guns, just do the numbers.
These prosecutors aren’t stupid. They only appear stupid because normal people believe their policies are mistaken and that they should know better.
But what if they do know better but have other goals? What if they already know “reimagining” is fantasy, where “Let’s Talk Fentanyl” leads?
What if the Bolivarian Militia is their model and they are knowingly taking measures to create one? The raw material, criminals, is already there. All it needs is to be made legal when the conditions are right. The Progressives’ approach to prosecution might be better understood in this light than simply as wrong.