political hobbyist thread

[sys]

thank you for at least finally stating your thoughts when pressed repeatedly.

dude, shut the eff up.

[sys]

i'm not sure how you define accountability but its pretty meaningless if nothing happens as a result.

the eff do you think accountability means?

[MakeItRain]

The police do get way too much funding. It's not like taking their tanks away will do anything to get them to stop killing people, but police tank money would still be better spent elsewhere.

This is not at all a controversial stance but republicans use this talking point to make white folks scared of the negroes running amok and so called policy and polling wonks are more than happy to enable this line of thought.

[Trim]

I can’t imagine this country ever getting to a point where the people that would be good cops want to be cops, no matter how much money is in it for them.

[BIG APPLE CAT]

i'm not sure how you define accountability but its pretty meaningless if nothing happens as a result.

the eff do you think accountability means?

for cops? not a damn thing. They can do pretty much whatever they want in broad daylight with unimpeachable evidence of their wrong doing, and they can do so with impunity. The instances of police being held to account for their actions is statistically insignificant.

[Rage Against the McKee]

Qualified immunity protects police from lawsuits, but not criminal prosecution. It's mostly public sentiment toward the police that prevents them from facing consequences for crimes. I do think that juries would be a lot more willing to award financial compensation to victims than place cops in prison, though, so eliminating qualified immunity would be great.

Derek Schmidt has an ad on tv with a lady crying about how Laura Kelly's woke commission wants to allow criminals to sue police, so at least we know that our governor supports the idea.

[sys]

it's hard to know how this will all settle out, and i for one very much doubt that i would like the politics of a multiracial, working-class party, but it probably is a little bit healthy for the country if our politics become less divided by race/ethnicity (though perhaps not great if parties instead become even more ideologically consistent).

https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/1590164375398416385

[catastrophe]

I personally think it would be great if politics became less racially oriented like that tweet described. Although I’m a little nervous as to what it would take to get there (e.g., Herschel Walker).

[sys]

there could be some benefits to removing florida from battleground state status, if dems let themselves admit that it's gone.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1590209264177807360

[MakeItRain]

there could be some benefits to removing florida from battleground state status, if dems let themselves admit that it's gone.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1590209264177807360

I wonder if repopulation will put Florida back in play, soon. New York is the only place nationwide where the democrats underperformed, and they grossly underperformed there, they should have already secured the house majority but won't because of all the seats they lost in New York. The population in the state has completely stalled, those people are going somewhere.

[michigancat]

it's hard to know how this will all settle out, and i for one very much doubt that i would like the politics of a multiracial, working-class party, but it probably is a little bit healthy for the country if our politics become less divided by race/ethnicity (though perhaps not great if parties instead become even more ideologically consistent).

https://twitter.com/Halalcoholism/status/1590164375398416385

What's keeping you from becoming a Republican now? (Serious question)

[chum1]

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1590213966999216128

[sys]

What's keeping you from becoming a Republican now? (Serious question)

not agreeing with them on a lot of stuff.

[michigancat]

What's keeping you from becoming a Republican now? (Serious question)

not agreeing with them on a lot of stuff.

you don't agree with dems on a lot of stuff

[sys]

What's keeping you from becoming a Republican now? (Serious question)

not agreeing with them on a lot of stuff.

you don't agree with dems on a lot of stuff

that's true.  i tried to agree with dems more during the trump years, but dems winning power has helped remind me why i wasn't a dem before 2016.

[steve dave]

Not agreeing with either party on varying stuff is good imo


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[catastrophe]

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1590213966999216128

Damn I love some snappy analysis over stupid fear porn. I would have voted for that guy so hard.

[MakeItRain]

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1590213966999216128

Yet Caruso is going to will the mayoral election, make it make sense.

[sys]

Yet Caruso is going to will the mayoral election, make it make sense.

well that's easy.  bass is going to win.

[sys]

feels true.

https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1590261735289937920

[star seed 7]

4chan lingo infiltrating politics is just the worst

[MakeItRain]

Yet Caruso is going to will the mayoral election, make it make sense.

well that's easy.  bass is going to win.

She's been consistently down 3 points since they've started counting ballots

[sys]

She's been consistently down 3 points since they've started counting ballots

there's still at least 50% of the vote left to count, probably more and i can't recall any ca election that hasn't moved left as you get to the later ballots.

[chum1]

Ends justify the means, I guess.

https://twitter.com/Robillard/status/1590238360534413317

[MakeItRain]

She's been consistently down 3 points since they've started counting ballots

there's still at least 50% of the vote left to count, probably more and i can't recall any ca election that hasn't moved left as you get to the later ballots.

 

The only la race I really cared about was getting Villanueva the eff out of the LASD, mission accomplished.