The Harris campaign forgot (again) how every single Republican is a scumbag and actually went out of their way to highlight Tillis' statement calling out misinformation, which predictably blew up in their faces
I feel like the ultimate goal really should be getting people to a place where they're not going to commit further crimes and harm their communities again, and I don't think just trying to punish people into that is effective. More often than not punished people just sink further into their own misery and keep pushing out and hurting others.
That all being said, I do think the experience of helping a community like this could be a positive one that could actually improve people's behavior in a lasting way. Minus the coercion and the life threatening conditions, I support volunteering opportunities for prison inmates.
Gives you an idea of how much they try to not spend any money at all on inmate care, those clothes are probably over fifty years old
He has fewer Republicans endorsing him than Kamala does
Does anyone seriously think Biden is ever going to propose any of those ideas to offset this?
"They asked me how well I understood class consciousness. I said I was a member of the conscious class. They said welcome aboard."
Ah, you're totally right,thank you, I'd been using those interchangeably without thinking about it much
Synthesis: everyone should have a well constructed residence with ample sound damp~~en~~ing where late night fireworks and early morning traffic noise wouldn't be a problem. Capitalist real estate developers minimizing their costs and maximizing their profits have us fighting each other when they're the real problem.
e; I was actually thinking microphones would pick up and retransmit sounds after running it through some reverb and flanging to get a cozy underwater effect, but damping external sounds makes a lot more sense
That actually might be exactly what we should do, just try to reinterpret this before it gets off the ground and make all their attempts to dogwhistle to their fellow shitheads come off like they're just calling themselves paranoid schizophrenics
And, like, for what it's worth, "Is bigotry a mental illness?" is a question that's gotten some academic debate. The professional consensus is still "no," but it honestly makes a lot of sense to me to think of bigotry as a form of delusional and compulsive thinking (although I don't want to minimize the evil of racism or demonize mentally ill people, so like I'm still thinking over that one).
The problem with that problem is you can say any kind of accusation of racist behavior is non-falsifiable in the same way ("You can't prove I was shitty to them because they were black, maybe I was shitty to them because they're just a jerk"), but everyone knows racist behavior and dog whistles still exist
if people buy the claim
This is a good demonstration of why the concept of dog whistles isn't really a problem, because when it's a totally absurd accusation people aren't going to buy it.
Yeah, it would've been nice if the headline could have mentioned which states, thanks for quoting this
Also, it always bares repeating how mean-spirited, selfish, and shamelessly hypocritical the Republican party is -