Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

If a kid shows up at school with pink eye his parents are "like the worst people ever. "

But if you bring small pox to a continent you're explorers.
 
I'd like to point out that the officer who shot the individual who had the gun... was black.
From all indications, it was a good shoot. However, given that there have been so many questionable shoots, deaths in custody, etc, that the community had reached the boil over point. That doesn't make what they're doing right, but when you're living in a community where violence at the hands of the police happens all too frequently, any incident can become an ignition point.
 
@PatrThom its a political cartoon from the 60s making the same complaints about Martin Luther King that people today make about BLM.
It was more because the post showed up blank, I thought the hotlinked content had been deleted.
Turns out it was just more of that "some browsers are better than others" thing.

--Patrick
 
I'm starting to think I confused a party. Lemme look into that again.

EDIT: Ehh... depends on how pro-Israel you are really. Green Party signed on with that whole BDS movement against Israel thing awhile back.
That's a small party who less than two years ago held the exact opposite opinion.
 

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About a month ago, the Wichita police department hosted a BBQ with the local chapter of BLM in order to bring them closer to the community they serve. To start to heal the rifts that cause police and local communities to be so distrustful of each other. They opened a dialogue, listened politely to each other, this was a great step, demonstrating that we as a nation can address these issues like adults, over red meat and beer.

But then..



... apparently the DC "Chapter" of BLM thinks it is in charge of all BLM functions (and that there are official chapters) and that peaceful, productive dialogue is not "in line" with BLM "principles."
 
I'm starting to think I confused a party. Lemme look into that again.

EDIT: Ehh... depends on how pro-Israel you are really. Green Party signed on with that whole BDS movement against Israel thing awhile back.
I'm now confused.

Not because the Green Party is the least relevant of of our Leftist parties (ignoring the truly irrelevant fringe candidates that rate no mention ever). They're new, have only ever won a couple seats, and aren't anywhere close to gaining momentum, because we have a Centre Leftish party in power, and a resurgent well Left party to take their votes. If you source calls the Greens significant, it's wrong.


But regardless of that. What confuses me is the suggestion that supporting Palestinians makes one a white nationalist.
 
But regardless of that. What confuses me is the suggestion that supporting Palestinians makes one a white nationalist.
That's a fair statement. A lot of the anti-Israel/pro-Palestinians get lumped into the white nationalist/neo-nazi/white supremacy group a bit unfairly, even if they don't express their opinions violently like other people they get grouped with.
 
I wasn't aware there were official chapters, or even principles beyond "we'd really like you to stop killing and imprisoning us with impunity and for little to no reason"
There are those who want an end to the bloodshed and violence, and who just want to be treated like people.
And there are also those who won't be happy until the other guy is forced to suffer as much as they did, for at least as long as they did, until they are satisfied.
And you can't tell 'em apart just by looking at 'em.

--Patrick
 
I think that's something almost all of us can agree on. The private prison industry is exploitative at best and private prison corporation lobbyists push for mandatory sentencing, zero tolerance policies, and third strike laws for non-violent crimes in order to keep their cells overflowing.
 
Private prisons could be done right, provided you actually incentivize the outcomes you prefer. Capitalism is this soulless machine that will take what you feed it and optimize the capital gain. "I will pay you for every prisoner you house!" and the world turns into a spartan prison. I think using capitalism right is hard, but rewarding, so for matters where the negative outcomes seem repugnant (e.g. life, liberty, and the pursuit of nukes), state monopolies are safer.

In a way, it reminds me of the paperclip maximizer concept.
 
Private prisons could be done right, provided you actually incentivize the outcomes you prefer. Capitalism is this soulless machine that will take what you feed it and optimize the capital gain. "I will pay you for every prisoner you house!" and the world turns into a spartan prison. I think using capitalism right is hard, but rewarding, so for matters where the negative outcomes seem repugnant (e.g. life, liberty, and the pursuit of nukes), state monopolies are safer.

In a way, it reminds me of the paperclip maximizer concept.
After the case near here where judges basically sold kids to the private juvenile detention centers, like Frank said. Fuck private prisons.
 
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