Thoguh posted:

Crime stats are lower in communities that are terrified of being noticed by authorities? Huh.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10940-013-9210-5 posted:

Results

Findings from the analyses suggest that temporal change in overall homicide and drug homicide rates are significantly related to changes in immigration. Specifically, increases in immigration are associated with declining rates for each of the preceding outcome measures. Moreover, for several of the homicide types, findings suggest that the effects of changes in immigration vary across places, with the largest negative associations appearing in cities that had relatively high initial (i.e., 1970) immigration levels.

FuriousxGeorge posted:

Well, can you imagine a future where a party might nominate someone party loyalists love but independents hate, costing them the general? That would be a huge mistake. Better to nominate someone independents are also willing to get behind, which is why a fairly run primary that gives them a voice is a strength.

mrmcd posted:

Turns out the vanity candidacy run by incompetent delusional millionaires and cheered on my meme loving retards was us all along.

mrmcd posted:

Turns out the vanity candidacy run by incompetent delusional millionaires and cheered on my meme loving retards was us all along.

mrmcd posted:

That's a cool story but kind patronizing to people in those towns and believing poo poo like that is a good way to lose elections.

Jaminjami posted:

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/797486365248090112

Jaminjami posted:

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/797486365248090112

loquacius posted:

When does Bill Gates get his biopic anyway, is the problem that he's not as much of a douchebag as Zuck or Jobs?

Nonsense posted:

BERNIE IS A WHITE SUPREMACIST IM VERY WOKE

SHY NUDIST GRRL posted:

I've heard good things about Kander. I was waiting a bit since some people floated doubts about the first guy before I sounded the horn to everyone i know to call our congressman

DaveWoo posted:

https://twitter.com/samsteinhp/status/797509723360808961

comedyblissoption posted:

licking the boot of wall st and not criminally indicting ANYONE for the 2008 crisis or the loving robo-foreclosure scandal is entirely on obama and the democrats. you can't loving fall back and try to blame the republicans here.

there were loving criminal cases there. federal judges were publically appalled when the obama doj and sec were just going after fines for mass fraud and wondered why they weren't going after criminal charges based on the cases for the fines.

people are loving pissed about it and the wall st financial institutions are one of the most unpopular institutions in the united states if not the most unpopular

and then you push a candidate who is funded gigantically by wall st and got millions of dollars of in giant bags of money of personal enrichment raining down on her head and put her at the top of the ticket

just lmao at anyone crying over the dems losing

Nonsense posted:

I hope Jason Kander tries again. Does he have to wait 6 years to run again? Or does Missouri have US Senate coming up in 2018?

Patter Song posted:

Claire McCatskill (D-MO) is up for reelection in 2018 (and she's probably doomed).

Zikan posted:

more epic Clinton campaign failure

https://twitter.com/jimtankersley/status/797492671631790084

im gonna get off the internet and smoke now

pathetic little tramp posted:

Yeah anyone saying the idea is to finally magically appeal to those republicans from cities like Steubenville Ohio and Weirton West Virginia is deluding themselves. They will never vote for you, because you cannot sufficiently lie to them like Republicans do. Try to explain to a Steubenvillain that "We literally cannot build a new steel mill, it will cost half a billion dollars and the only reason we were able to build it in the late 40s was because we used illegal immigrants that your grandparents promptly kicked out of town once the task was done." Or try to explain to them that said steel mill will have about 10% of its original workforce because steel production is heavily automated. They just refuse to get it, and that writing has been on the wall for 35 years. But they keep voting for politicians who promise them it'll all be back any day now.

Cities like Weirton woke up one day in 1981 to see a note on the fridge from the steel industry that said "Went out to pick up some cigarettes, be back soon." And they've been holding onto that note ever since. Any time they go out to dinner with friends they say "Oh yeah I'm sure he just got lost or maybe he decided to buy me a present! He must be planning something big for our anniversary!" while the rest of the country just sort of smiles, nods, and feels a deep sense of sadness. This year a con man showed up and said he knew where the steel industry was and he really misses her and he wants to come back, but he just needs a little bit of money. The con man can get the steel industry to come back if only she'd just give the con man a little bit of money. Well, Weirton gives the con man her whole life's savings and the rest of the nation comes by and has an intervention. Weirton gets pissed at the intervention, screams "Don't you say that! The steel industry is coming back! Trump said so!" and pulls out a gun, killing us all. Weirton is sitting there now, rocking back and forth, corpses of the rest of us strewn around her, waiting for a knock on the door that's never going to come.

You can't appeal to that level of delusion. You have to shore up your support in cities like Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, that got upset for a few years, but then came to accept the past was the past and have been recovering since.

LmaoTheKid posted:

https://twitter.com/breakingpol/status/797515757068447745

https://youtu.be/X7XbukdoGmM

LmaoTheKid posted:

https://twitter.com/breakingpol/status/797515757068447745

https://youtu.be/X7XbukdoGmM

Princess Di posted:

LmaoTheKid posted:

https://twitter.com/breakingpol/status/797515757068447745

https://youtu.be/X7XbukdoGmM

nachos posted:

I'm trying real hard not to think accelerationist thoughts but everything I'm reading about the incompetence of the Hillary campaign is stunning. Maybe it's better to take the L now and regroup for critical 2020 rather than the almost guaranteed wipeout 4 years after a Hillary presidency which would have been obstructed to hell and accomplished nothing anyway.

Astroclassicist posted:

HOW WERE THEY THIS BAD AT THEIR JOB?

Princess Di posted:

Silly Dems.

I mean it's only 30 years of experience, millions of dollars and the fate of the free world depending on it, why not simply forget to campaign in the swing states!