robillionaire wrote:Fat Kat wrote:
Woody Johnson says it without the wordy obfuscation. Hopefully he’s forced to sell.
hoo boy
The NFL owners will have to substantially fine him and possibly remove him from ownership like they did to Sterling.
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robillionaire wrote:Fat Kat wrote:
Woody Johnson says it without the wordy obfuscation. Hopefully he’s forced to sell.
hoo boy
HarthorneWingo wrote:And now we turn to our national news correspondent in Portland, Capn'O, for an update on the Constitutional Crisis there. Capn'O, first tell us, are you safe?
thebuzzardman wrote:Fat Kat wrote:robillionaire wrote:
this just seems like a really strange conclusion to reach. let's agree that poverty is the primary cause of crime. not the only cause, but primary. reduce poverty and you reduce crime. let's also agree that society was and still is set up to financially benefit those who pool together their resources. Now, your suggestion seems to be that the #1 way to reduce crime, is to take away welfare from people who are already poor, making them even more poor, so that couples will forced to stay together out of necessity for survival, which will in turn help them financially because they are still able to pool together their (now virtually nonexistent) resources, and in turn this will reduce poverty and by extension, crime. For most people it would just plunge them into an even more dire and desperate situation which would cause crime to rise. And probably domestic violence as well.
Now you pointed out a correlation between welfare in the 1960s and single parent households increasing although I wouldn't say it proves causation. but I would also note that other things happened in the 1960s. One is that is the women's rights movements really took off at this time. This resulted in women's equal access to education and an increased participation in politics and the workplace. Statistics show that divorce rates are higher when couples make nearly equal incomes and lower when one makes most or all of the money. In other words when people are able to survive independently without being dependent on their partner, they may be less likely to stay in an unhappy relationship. In addition to this, you may be overlooking that in 1969 in that same time frame, Reagan signed the first no-fault divorce bill in California, other states quickly followed suit. This marked the time where people were free to have a divorce without the process of proving wrongdoing in your partner. Trapping people in unhappy marriages out of financial necessity through welfare cuts and perhaps other means to force people to stay together does not seem to be a realistic solution for poverty or crime. What are you suggesting you could do to "improve the family structure" that wouldn't amount to some sort of coercion?
If I've completely misrepresented your position here feel free to clarify what I've got wrong
Edit: I forgot to mention that one of the major policies that was enacted that created single parent household especially in the black community was the introduction of the "war on drugs" which was designed to target their communities and pretty much caused black men to disappear from their family and reappear in cages in grotesque numbers, the US still leads the world in incarceration today, and the war on drugs is still a driving force of it and this contributes to both poverty and crime. So if you want to look at improving the family structure there's my solution for a great first step. end the war on drugs, end mass incarceration
Glad you mentioned the war on drugs. The Rockefeller drug laws, over policing, and sentencing disparities are specifically damaging to black communities. We also have to consider that felons aren’t allowed to live in public housing with their families. That creates the perfect recipe for a single parent home. Almost as if it were planned that way to create a for-profit prison pipeline.
I think MPHarris has some points, but all along that was my point - there are a LOT of complicating factors.
Also, a general point about we'll all find facts where our ideology leads us, but that was kind of me going off on a tangent.
Welfare policy seems like an odd choice as the prime mover of poverty, or the prime mover of family breakdown, therefore poverty.
Again, I think a LOT of things are went on during that time frame and any time frame, regarding poverty.
I don't know. Someone here alluded to the fact that an underclass is part and parcel of the capitalist system. One of my earliest memories of someone teaching about social programs, probably from way back in high school, was that the New Deal was largely about recognizing that there were boom and bust cycles in capitalism, that there are always some people who don't do as well in it, and it was about the social responsibility to take the edge off those things.
Obviously, there is also the interpretation that the New Deal etc is about helping to maintain that system and I don't disagree, but some of those interpretations are a bit cynical for me. Or they could be exactly true.
BallSacBounce wrote:Garrett Foster buys AK47 on July 6th to bring to protests.
Garrett gets interviewed at one of the protests and is asked why he's open carrying around his AK47. The interviewer then asked if he felt like he would need to use it.
“Nah,” he responded. “I mean, if I use it against the cops I’m dead. I think all the people that hate us and want to say **** to us are too big of p-ssies to stop and actually do anything about it.”
Sounds like Garrett wants to walk around intimidating people that he considers too weak to do anything about it.
On July 25th, Garrett receives the Darwin award from one of them. Apparently highly deserved. We'll learn the details later. Gotta wait 72 hours on this stuff.
What I've read, unconfirmed but corroborated by audio is that apparently he tried shooting out the tires of a car that was honking its horn, maybe even moving slowly through the protesters. There are 5 initial shots of a deeper louder caliber like an AK47, a pause, then three shots from a smaller caliber gun like the 9mm that was used by the driver.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/blm-protester-fatally-shot-austin-people-hate-us-big-p-ssies-actually-anything/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/breaking-austin-police-confirm-protester-shot-killed-motorist-carrying-rifle-may-approached-vehicle/
Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
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robillionaire wrote:BallSacBounce wrote:Garrett Foster buys AK47 on July 6th to bring to protests.
Garrett gets interviewed at one of the protests and is asked why he's open carrying around his AK47. The interviewer then asked if he felt like he would need to use it.
“Nah,” he responded. “I mean, if I use it against the cops I’m dead. I think all the people that hate us and want to say **** to us are too big of p-ssies to stop and actually do anything about it.”
Sounds like Garrett wants to walk around intimidating people that he considers too weak to do anything about it.
On July 25th, Garrett receives the Darwin award from one of them. Apparently highly deserved. We'll learn the details later. Gotta wait 72 hours on this stuff.
What I've read, unconfirmed but corroborated by audio is that apparently he tried shooting out the tires of a car that was honking its horn, maybe even moving slowly through the protesters. There are 5 initial shots of a deeper louder caliber like an AK47, a pause, then three shots from a smaller caliber gun like the 9mm that was used by the driver.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/blm-protester-fatally-shot-austin-people-hate-us-big-p-ssies-actually-anything/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/breaking-austin-police-confirm-protester-shot-killed-motorist-carrying-rifle-may-approached-vehicle/
Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
When your life becomes a meme you chose poorly.
RIP Garrett Foster, murdered while exercising his constitutional rights. Veteran who died defending people from a gunman who tried to run people over and shoot them
You are defending a murderer, you disgusting piece of ****
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Garrett Foster was murdered last night July 25th while attending a peaceful protest in Austin, TX with his disabled fiancée in her wheelchair. An unknown vehicle barreled into the crowd and this evil person shot and killed Garrett, while he was trying to protect his fiancée. A great person was taken away from his fiancée, his mother, father , siblings and a host of loving family members. He fought against injustice , served in the military and was fiercely protective of his fiancée. They fell in love at 17 and were never apart. This fund is established to cover funeral , burial and other expenses in the days to come. We appreciate all the love , support and compassion during this emotional time.
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A man who plowed his vehicle into protesters shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday. Foster pulled out a rifle and approached the driver, at which point the motorist gunned him down, police have said.
HarthorneWingo wrote:From the bastion of progressive journalism the NY Post. I’m sure you’re very familiar with it. Garrett’s mistake was not killing the driver on the spot. We’d all be much better off as a country if he had.A man who plowed his vehicle into protesters shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday. Foster pulled out a rifle and approached the driver, at which point the motorist gunned him down, police have said.
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