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Kraftwerk posted:Holy poo poo, it's like some Emmet Till lynching level poo poo. If they weren't wearing cop uniforms it literally looks like someone rounded up a posse of good ol' boys who got hyped up to lynch someone. IIRC, in interviews the family has been describing it as a lynch squad in uniform from the beginning.
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Velocity Raptor posted:Some news regarding the Andrew Brown murder. We learned yesterday that the body cam footage won't be released, but someone discovered what is supposedly a street view video of the incident.  What in the flying gently caress. Why are there like 8 guys loaded in the back of a pickup to serve a warrant if the goal wasn't to kill the guy? Christ. Demilitarize the police. poo poo, take away their guns entirely, you generally shouldn't be in a spot where you need to use lethal force over non-lethal means (taser, pepper spray, etc)
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Apr 29, 2021 21:16
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At what point do the police officially become "just another gang"?
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Apr 29, 2021 21:24
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Josef bugman posted:At what point do the police officially become "just another gang"? 1844
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Apr 29, 2021 21:25
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Josef bugman posted:At what point do the police officially become "just another gang"? i mean they have always been, though probably since the 1950s/70s.
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Apr 29, 2021 21:26
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loving this^ This is an absurd amount of force to serve a warrant. Was this guy even a violent threat? What is he that requires that much firepower: the loving Incredible Hulk? This poo poo is absolutely insane and everyone of the officers involved need to be held and questioned immediately
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Apr 29, 2021 21:27
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Hellblazer187 posted:I seem to remember that during the Obama years, Krugman was saying an inflation rate of 4-5% would have been very beneficial to the economy. I wonder if that's the case now or if anyone even cares about Krugman anymore. I'm not sure that he has a specific target in mind, but I'm sure he would be fine if inflation ran hot for a few years. There was an interesting retrospective on his intellectual evolution by Adam Tooze in the London Review of books https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n08/adam-tooze/the-gatekeeper recently, so I guess some set of people care about him. Certainly Biden's econ appointments are closer to Krugman's views than Obama's cabinet was, and I think you can get some idea from the debate on the Biden stimulus that Summers and Krugman had https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbZ3_LZxs54 .
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Josef bugman posted:At what point do the police officially become "just another gang"? "Just another" gang? Give them their due, They're by far the most prolifically violent gang in the US, there's no hyperbole there
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Apr 29, 2021 21:30
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Apr 29, 2021 21:30
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The actions of police actually make a lot more sense when you consider the police unions as organized crime syndicates that are shaking down the government for "protection" against other organized crime. The ways they act are pretty consistent with this. That's actually how most organized crime gets started throughout history, as rented or volunteer neighborhood "law" enforcement. Xombie fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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Apr 29, 2021 21:33
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Hellblazer187 posted:I seem to remember that during the Obama years, Krugman was saying an inflation rate of 4-5% would have been very beneficial to the economy. I wonder if that's the case now or if anyone even cares about Krugman anymore. Krugman is getting listened to a pretty good amount these days - the summers wing has been very discredited. The people currently in charge at the Fed have absorbed a lot of the "you were overemphasizing inflation and underestimating employment as a concern" and adjusted policy as a result. evilweasel fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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Apr 29, 2021 21:34
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Kraftwerk posted:Holy poo poo, it's like some Emmet Till lynching level poo poo. If they weren't wearing cop uniforms it literally looks like someone rounded up a posse of good ol' boys who got hyped up to lynch someone. No kidding. Even if you accept the right-wing whining about him bumping officers with his car, if I'm sitting in my car when a black pickup pulls up and a bunch of armed white guys jump out of the back and try to surround me, you bet your rear end I'm gonna hit the gas because they are there to kill me.
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Apr 29, 2021 21:37
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Hollismason posted:Does anyone know if Biden's Economic plan the 4 Trillion Infrastructure include the Student Loan forgiveness and changes? No forgiveness for current loan holders in the American Family Plan. The stimulus bill made it so loans that are forgiven are tax free, but the student loan benefits in the American Family Plan are all for future students - free 4 years of college, increased Pell Grants, free grants to people going to HBCUs, Tribal Colleges, and MSIs.
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Apr 29, 2021 21:38
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Josef bugman posted:At what point do the police officially become "just another gang"? To add on to what others have replied with, American police were pretty much a gang from the beginning. Here's an excellent series Behind the Bastards did about the history of America's police force. Everyone should listen to Behind the Bastards Behind the Police: Slavery, Mass Murder and the Birth of American Policing Behind the Police: How the First Police Went From Gangsters, To An Army For The Rich Behind the Police: The History of American Police and the Ku Klux Klan Behind the Police: How Police Defeated Lynching Via Torture Behind the Police: How Police Unions Made Cops Even Deadlier Behind the Police: How the Police Declared War On All Of Us
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Apr 29, 2021 21:41
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For a lighter tone, Cohen speaks about the raid on Guiliani's home. https://twitter.com/CNNnewsroom/status/1387839768646590465?s=20
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Apr 29, 2021 22:07
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Velocity Raptor posted:For a lighter tone, Cohen speaks about the raid on Guiliani's home. Smartest damned thing Cohen has ever said.
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Apr 29, 2021 22:16
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What time does Rudy incriminate everyone tonight Live with Tucker? That should be a complete shitshow 
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Apr 29, 2021 22:18
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TulliusCicero posted:What time does Rudy incriminate everyone tonight Live with Tucker? How drunk do you think he will be?
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Epic High Five posted:There was a time inflation may have meant something, but it doesnt anymore. It is a solved metric and wouldn't be cited if it accurately represented the economic life of the majority of Americans We can actually put some numbers to this, should you want them.  The CPI rent index went from 188 twenty years ago to 346 for the most recent month available. That works out to an average increase of 3.1% a year, which seems pretty reasonable? Worse on the coasts and urban areas, most likely, with inland rents likely pretty flat.
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Apr 29, 2021 22:19
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Velocity Raptor posted:For a lighter tone, Cohen speaks about the raid on Guiliani's home. Michael Cohen: Somehow not as dumb as Rudy Giuliani. Also please let there be a similar slate of images as the "Michael Cohen finds out he's been indicted collage, as seen in GreyjoyBastard's avatar" but for Rudy.
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Apr 29, 2021 22:21
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Velocity Raptor posted:For a lighter tone, Cohen speaks about the raid on Guiliani's home. also rudy is gonna be on tucker tonight so that will be fun. rudy is gonna flip. its just a debate of if he does it intentionally. TulliusCicero posted:What time does Rudy incriminate everyone tonight Live with Tucker? yeah.
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Senate just passed the decent-if-kinda-small Drinking Water And Wastewater Infrastructure Act: https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/0/0/007a33e2-9917-4969-8402-e8985d25ca6b/6648E1D261909FA95B77FF2EA8F8D7D8.maz21294.pdf 35b for infrastructure overhauls, including doubling the federal lead pipe remediation budget, and some other good stuff. Including a pretty big EPA research thingybob to study racial inequities in water infrastructure implementation. 89-2 vote, which is encouraging for the future of other unspectacular but decent bills.
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Apr 29, 2021 22:24
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Velocity Raptor posted:For a lighter tone, Cohen speaks about the raid on Guiliani's home. Did Cohen just try to create the word "squoze" (@6:44) not knowing the word "squeezed" exists?
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Youth Decay posted:In a 6-3 decision...wait what? I seem to recall that the mere threat of court packing was enough to get the FDR-era SCOTUS to moderate itself, a) how correct is that and if it is b) are we seeing that here https://twitter.com/axios/status/1387846898959233034 Vile socialism!
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...Clarence Thomas sided with an immigrant? ...I'm sorry what? Does anyone but Clarence Thomas understand his decisions?
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zoux posted:I seem to recall that the mere threat of court packing was enough to get the FDR-era SCOTUS to moderate itself, a) how correct is that and if it is b) are we seeing that here Imagine being a family with an annual income of $800,000 and being worried about tax increases.
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Just chiming in that the police raid on a "search and arrest" entails having police/swat roll up like they're extras from Black Hawk Down is overkill. Just wait til the guy is out shopping to raid his house and then arrest him while he's out bowling or whatever - no need to treat it like he's going to come out blazing with akimbo AK-47s and Commando Pro on, running around like it's a video game. Also, the whole "just listen to orders from the police" prove they don't work, so it's no surprise that people try to run or drive away - it's for their drat lives. Ringo Star Get fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Apr 29, 2021 |
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Thom12255 posted:Imagine being a family with an annual income of $800,000 and being worried about tax increases. *$799,998
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TulliusCicero posted:...Clarence Thomas sided with an immigrant? It's one of those weird cases where Thomas using constitutional literalism to take the law completely literally with no context ends up at a good resolution. Thomas sided with him because the law says "the government must send a notice" and they sent two notices.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:No forgiveness for current loan holders in the American Family Plan. The stimulus bill made it so loans that are forgiven are tax free, but the student loan benefits in the American Family Plan are all for future students - free 4 years of college, increased Pell Grants, free grants to people going to HBCUs, Tribal Colleges, and MSIs. Did they include funding for social security by bumping up the taxed income rate? I seem to recall reading about something about that since its scheduled to start being unable to pay full amounts in 2035 or something.
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Thom12255 posted:Imagine being a family with an annual income of $800,000 and being worried about tax increases. this is taking food out of people's mouths did i say mouth? i meant nose. and did i say food? i meant cocaine.
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TulliusCicero posted:What time does Rudy incriminate everyone tonight Live with Tucker? He's going to claim alsorts of stuff was on Biden's laptop that the FBI now have taken and will never be seen again.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:It's one of those weird cases where Thomas using constitutional literalism to take the law completely literally with no context ends up at a good resolution. Supreme Court Justice is the best job in the world. Even less accountability than working for your dad!
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TulliusCicero posted:...Clarence Thomas sided with an immigrant? he wants himself/his party to not have horrible history book entries so he manages Loses and Wins to give the illusion of the SCOUTS is a tiny bit fair.
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PhazonLink posted:he wants himself/his party to not have horrible history book entries so he manages Loses and Wins to give the illusion of the SCOUTS is a tiny bit fair. that's roberts who does that thomas will bite the bullet and admit his crazytown beliefs sometimes lead to non-republican party endorsed results (e.g. agreeing his beliefs on the commerce clause mean the feds can't ban locally-grown weed)
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zoux posted:I seem to recall that the mere threat of court packing was enough to get the FDR-era SCOTUS to moderate itself, a) how correct is that and if it is b) are we seeing that here And this is from an outfit that purports to be legitimate journalism! gently caress!
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:loving hell! TAX RATES DO NOT WORK THIS WAY! There is not some magic switch that gets flipped when you go over a certain income where all of a sudden you lose a huge chunk of your entire earnings! They understand this completely. They're just still aghast that people making half- to almost a whole million dollars a year will be paying a few thousand extra (just as they were a few years ago). Alternately, they don't really care but they also understand clickbait.
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:loving hell! TAX RATES DO NOT WORK THIS WAY! There is not some magic switch that gets flipped when you go over a certain income where all of a sudden you lose a huge chunk of your entire earnings! I mean it is a tax increase. Their income over whatever threshold that is currently subject to 37% or whatever the top rate is would then be subject to 39.6%, which is the definition of a tax increase. He's not going to be taking 40% of the whole $400,000, sure, but it is definitely going to be more in taxes then they're paying now. I don't know what audience they're going for trying to gin up sympathy for couples making $800,000 a year though.
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zoux posted:I seem to recall that the mere threat of court packing was enough to get the FDR-era SCOTUS to moderate itself, a) how correct is that and if it is b) are we seeing that here You recall incorrectly. The threat of court packing backfired spectacularly for FDR, his Congressional majority, and his agenda. It was probably the weakest point of his presidency. What happened was that in the next few years multiple justices died or retired, so soon enough the court was mostly FDR appointees and supporters. Not saying this is an argument against pressure on the court today. Only pointing out that the popular myth of FDR cowing the court into submission is just that.
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:And this is from an outfit that purports to be legitimate journalism! gently caress!
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