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Rathinor posted...

Given that TC is super anti non-white people, it's hard to believe he made this topic in good faith

I'm really not. It's unfortunate you think of me that way, even though you're just someone on the internet.

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Garioshi posted...

I fucking hate Chris Cilliza

I don't care for him too much, either. But this particular article is quite short and to the point, analyzing data, wherever it may have come from.

I did, though, always enjoy his "44 (or whatever random number) RIDICULOUS LINES FROM TRUMP'S RALLY". It was a good laugh just reading how ridiculous some of his "fact checking" and retorts were.

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Vampire_Wreath posted...

WTF TC you like CNN now?

I post CNN articles from time to time. If I'm going to link to a political related article or want to post about a particular topic, I try to find something left leaning since most of CE is left. It's a lot harder for certain people to say "LOL CNN ARTICLE" like they do with Fox News or something else.

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"In Florida, Trump won 46% of the Latino vote, a performance that allowed him to win the state more easily than expected. In Texas, Trump took 41% of the Latino vote, again helping him to a win in the state.

Nationally, he won 32% of the Hispanic vote, an improvement from the 28% he had taken in 2016.
New polling from The Wall Street Journal suggests those 2020 numbers weren't an anomaly.

Asked whether they would vote for a Democratic or Republican candidate for Congress in 2022, Latinos were split right down the middle, with 37% choosing each side. Asked who they would vote for if the 2024 race was held today, 44% opted for President Joe Biden while 43% went with Trump.

So, what changed? Democratic strategist Ruy Teixeira, in an essay titled "The Democrats' Hispanic Voter Problem," suggests the leftward movement of the party nationally has made it less appealing for Latinos.

"This constituency does not harbor particularly radical views on the nature of American society and its supposed intrinsic racism and White supremacy," Teixeira writes. "They are instead a patriotic, upwardly mobile, working class group with quite practical and down to earth concerns. Democrats will either learn to focus on that or they will continue to lose ground among this vital group of voters."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/politics/biden-hispanic-voters-democrats-problem/index.html

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So what happens next? Is he in jail awaiting sentencing? I'm not sure if they're always arrested immediately or if it depends on the severity of the crime.

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Skiggie posted...

Dumbasses.

https://twitter.com/TheRevAl/status/1090293213682982913

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1090422326783606784

https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1090361495119187969

I wonder if Kamala will Tweet about this verdict like she did about the Rittenhouse one. Or if she'll just keep her miserable mouth shut.

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Irony posted...

I'm sure this is the full context

It really is. I was questioning it and listed several reasons why I thought it could be a hoax. I didn't even say it was 100% hoax or anything like that. It was super unpopular to even question anything about it at the time.

Something similar happened with Rittenhouse, too.

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Fun Fact: I got warned (I think even suspended) for eloquently laying out why I thought this could be a hoax from the very beginning.

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I wonder if he'll actually serve time... if I'm understanding correctly, each count is up to 3 years. That's up to 15 years, which I don't expect him to serve that long even though he should.

Hopefully he at least gets a few years in the slammer.

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gunplagirl posted...

What counts? I don't know the numbers.

Apparently:

Count 1 accuses him of telling responding Chicago Police Officer Muhammed Baig at around 2:45 a.m., some 45 minutes after the purported attack, that he was the victim of a hate crime. He said two attackers put a rope around his neck. Count 2 refers to Smollett telling the same officer he was a victim of a battery, describing attackers beating and pouring bleach on him.
Counts 3 and 4 are when Smollett made the same claims but to a different officer, Kimberly Murray, later that morning, at just before 6 a.m.
Count 5 accuses Smollett of again telling Murray at around 7:15 p.m. that he was the victim of a battery. Count 6 refers to Smollett reporting on Feb. 14, 2019, to detective Robert Graves that hed been a victim of an aggravated battery.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/what-charges-does-jussie-smollett-face-at-trial-heres-a-breakdown/2703612/

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Source: Fox News Live TV. Reporter got a text. Guilty on count 1-5

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I wonder what it will take before people finally do something about all these incidents occurring in places like NYC. Do people just not care? Convinced its all "part of living in a big city"? It's getting pretty bad in some of these cities. Maybe Bloomberg should start taking the bus.

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What state is this in? Looks kinda cold outside.

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"The governors of Maine and New York deployed the National Guard in response to dangerously low capacity at statewide medical facilities due to the pandemic.

The New York National Guard announced Wednesday that it had deployed 120 medics and medical technicians to a dozen long-term care facilities statewide. The deployment came at the behest of Gov. Kathy Hochul, who issued the order last week in response to staffing shortages.

Hochul has indicated that she may deploy the Guard to hospitals as well -- as of last week, some 50 hospitals in northern New York had less than 10% bed capacity in large part due to lack of staff."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/08/us/maine-new-york-covid-national-guard/index.html

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Mistere Man posted...

Because Everything is BIGGER in Texas even the covid numbers.

While I happen to be browsing CNN, here's another article on their front page about some Northeast states deploying the national guard due to a medical capacity crisis. Maybe it's getting pretty bad up there and/or shouldn't have fired healthcare workers (last years heroes) for not getting vaccinated. Or maybe just a coincidence. Who knows? Certainly doesn't have anything to do with Texas, though.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/08/us/maine-new-york-covid-national-guard/index.html

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"The Senate voted Wednesday night to overturn President Joe Biden's Covid-19 vaccine or testing mandate for private businesses with 100 or more employees.
While it likely won't become law since its chances of getting a vote in the House are uncertain and Biden is certain to veto it, the effort demonstrates the bipartisan opposition in Congress to the federal government's vaccine mandate for large employers.
The effort was led by Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Braun, and it needed just a simple majority of 51 votes to be approved by the chamber.
The final vote was 52-48. Two Democrats, Sens. Jon Tester of Montana and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, joined their 50 GOP colleagues in voting to repeal the requirement."

I'm starting to warm up to this Manchin guy. Ultimately, though, we'll all probably have to wait to see what the Supreme Court says.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/08/politics/senate-resolution-opposing-biden-vaccine-mandate/index.html

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CE_gonna_CE posted...

You have 1337 Karma today

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(allegedly) orchestrating an attack on yourself to own the Repubs.

I guess we'll have to wait and see if the jury sees it that way.

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UPDATE: Subject was captured

"An afterschool fight, which ended with four students getting clipped by a minivan being driven by a parent, started over claims of ongoing bullying, Las Vegas Metropolitan police officers wrote in an arrest report released Tuesday.

Jaquitta Madison, 36, faces four counts of battery with a deadly weapon related to the Friday incident."

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/she-has-a-gun-las-vegas-mom-accused-of-clipping-students-with-van-claims-ongoing-bullying-of-her-child/

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Is it pronounced latin x or Latynx?

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Kloe_Rinz posted...

It was a scenario with someone actively shooting people, in the middle of an already chaotic scenario (a riot). You cant blame anyone for not thinking straight in that environment. What I can blame Rittenhouse for is premeditating this by heading there in the first place and enabling the situation to begin with when he could have just stayed home

I'm sure in retrospect he would have stayed home, too. And in retrospect others also would have stayed home.

But it wasn't illegal for him to be there and he was within his rights.

You can't lock a man up for life for obeying the law and defending himself against people chasing him down.

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Kloe_Rinz posted...

Nobody there at the time could accurately tell that he was only shooting in self defence. You can only say that with 20/20 hindsight and recordings

Ok, that could be argued. Except for Gaige Grosskreutz, who was told by Rittenhouse he was heading to the police department.

And it should have been obvious to everyone else that Rittenhouse was no longer firing at anyone and was headed in the opposite direction of people, which is something an active shooter generally wouldn't do.

Regardless, Kyle was 100% in the right and clearly was found not guilty on ALL charges.

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Kloe_Rinz posted...

repeat for the class, since you disagree that active shooter means someone who is firing their weapon at someone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_shooter

An active shooter does not equal someone firing a weapon to defend themselves. As you should be able to deduce (or, heck, maybe not), it's used to define people who are actively firing upon people indiscriminately.


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Kloe_Rinz posted...

Once he shot his gun once, he was an active shooter. Anyone attacking him after that was doing it in self defence
the first person who attacked him was in the wrong but that doesnt make Rittenhouse any less of a monster for provoking him

You should research what the definition of an "active shooter" is.

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Why is your dad eating frozen white castle burgers?

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"A Georgia judge said President Joe Biden probably exceeded his authority with the executive order imposing the mandate."

"Judge R. Stan Baker, who's based in Georgia, temporarily blocked implementation of the administration after a lawsuit from numerous states and a trade group argued that letting the mandate take effect on Jan. 4 would cause "irreparable injury" to workers who could be forced out of their jobs.
The judge wrote that allowing the rule to move forward "would force Plaintiffs to comply with the mandate, requiring them to make decisions which would significantly alter their ability to perform federal contract which is critical to their operations."

The court setback is the latest in a string of rulings hampering the administration's efforts to force more people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/judge-issues-nationwide-injunction-against-biden-s-vaccine-mandate-federal-n1285551

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From the article:

"This is not a political statement, we did what we thought was best for our staff, the restaurant added."

What is going on in SF right now? What is the mindset? I guess I just have a hard time relating. Either they're legitimately afraid of officers sitting down having a meal or it is in fact a political statement. If it's the former, the media and/or Twitter sure did a number on 'em.

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I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with it, providing that it is truly between two consenting adults.

But there's often not too many people out there who choose that as their first line of work, either. It's generally a seedy practice involved with seedy people, and I can understand why prostitution is illegal in most cases.


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CableZL posted...

I haven't tested just leaving it idle for an extended period of time, but it would maybe lose about 1% of range per day depending on how many times I open the app, which tells it to wake up. Also, sentry mode being turned on would also use more battery. The max range on mine is about 402 miles.

I don't know much about Teslas, but that sounds to me like your battery would last a long time if left idle.

What would your generator do that you bought? I also don't know much about generators. Could that run your house heater? Or maybe just a store bought heater for a single room at the very least? If you get a store bought heater, just be sure it is one that can safely be used overnight without monitoring it.

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The_Hat posted...

Hi, this is a way to kill people. Don't fucking do that.

Would a car running outside be a threat? I specifically said outside. And even acknowledged he has a battery powered car to begin with.

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Maybe you could sleep outside in your car with it running, but I suppose that could be an issue of recharging your car if there was no electricity.

If you had a vehicle that ran on gas that wouldn't be an issue, except you'd probably use a tank of gas doing so over the course of a few days. But $30-$50 to refuel sure doesn't sound like a bad deal if it keeps you warm.

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2k soon coming your way? I'd wait. Unless you can afford to quit now without any major financial set backs and don't really care about the 2k.

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Thankfully, no deaths. But there were four injuries.

"Startling video shows a woman driving a minivan at fleeing youths in a desert lot in south Las Vegas on Friday afternoon during a melee that injured four kids.
Las Vegas police said they were searching for the driver of the van that fled a shopping complex parking lot near Maryland Parkway and Silverado Ranch Boulevard. The episode happened at 2:20 p.m., just after school let out at nearby Silvestri Junior High School."

The saddest part was her son was in the front seat, saying, Go mom! Go get him! My moms going to run you over you better move,Duda said. She was literally doing doughnuts trying to hit these kids.
Police provided no update Saturday on the search for the driver."

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/video-shows-minivan-driver-targeting-fleeing-kids-in-las-vegas-2491018/

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I guess C, though I don't think what you're describing applies to me or many others.

I work a lot of hours but also get a lot of time off. I also choose to have a professional job so that I can live in a nice place, eat what I want and where I want, buy what I want and be able to travel and take vacations without really having to plan to "save up"

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Google is good for some things but not too much as a search engine if you're trying to research certain things. They're a pretty insidious company to be quite honest.

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Vicious_Dios posted...

Ahhhhhh, San Francisco. The bastion of liberal utopia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I0vkKy504U

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Stalolin posted...

no one would reasonably defend this. My point is that theres no evidence that shows its as widespread as people claim. Yeah, its a big country, it happens, but it doesnt really that happen that often. And theres not one shred of evidence in the original post or in this thread about those specific stores and whats happening with them and why. Its just some rando on Twitter making a bunch of wild claims.

Are the pictures lying? A bunch of places are just randomly (and suddenly) boarding up? It may not be "widespread" but clearly what has transpired over the past week or so is having an impact.

You're really going to take the position of, "We don't really know why stores are boarding up and there's no proof"? My goodness.

https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-stores-board-up-windows-smash-grab-thefts-2021-12

https://www.newsweek.com/san-francisco-stores-board-amid-wave-smash-grab-lootings-1655004

https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-mayor-london-breed-union-square-limiting-access-theft

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/15/walgreens-closures-san-francisco-crime-debate


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It's becoming quite obvious certain people on CE can't or won't defend this or even give their honest input on the matter. The actions of the looters are bad. This is bad behavior. This is not normal. This is not just part of "living in a big city". Something is clearly wrong in CA right now, and if anyone says otherwise, I'd love to hear their input.

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ButteryMales posted...

So you also think this is well paid people just having fun?

No, of course not. Your question is kind of alluding that they want to be well paid and just can't catch a break, so they go out and loot designer stores. Do you think that's the case? They don't have a high enough paying job so they want organize together and meet up to burglarize designer stores?

Certainly not how I was raised, or how my parents were raised. And one of my parents grew up with very little.

My guess is that the people involved probably don't have much of an interest in working in the first place, much less working hard enough to gain a respectable salary.

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Ysmir posted...

Isn't it funny how every conservative on CE magically lives in LA or SF and totally hates CA.

Never said I lived there. I know people who have lived there, though. What do you think about the situation? You seem to just be making comments against certain users without providing any sustenance to the topic.

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ButteryMales posted...

The problem is the only thing that conservatives will offer as a solution is bus tickets or killing the poor.

I'm not sure where you get that from, to be quite honest. These specific looting examples, in my opinion, have much less to do with poverty and much more to do with laxed laws they are taking advantage of, coupled with the decreased police presence and general lack of enforcement.

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hockeybub89 posted...

"Crime rates are out of control" is almost always sensationalist propaganda that is either downright wrong or over-exaggerating short-term increases. All so anyone who suggests anything other than getting tough on crime can be accused of being a criminal supporter and part of the problem.

I'm not sure exactly how crime rates are calculated or how individual jurisdictions calculate them. What I do know is that cities 20-30 years ago didn't generally have miles of tents, open drug use, open defecation, and if it did occur, people certainly weren't saying that it was normal or just part of living in a big city. Stores certainly wouldn't have boarded up or shut down due to rampant crime (apart from big events such as the 90s LA riot).

You can dance around it all you want, but I see with my own two eyes the difference. Things are getting pretty bad in some places and it wasn't like that before. Maybe you don't notice a difference, but I certainly do.

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Stalolin posted...

What point are you trying to make or what are you trying to convey? The 2nd twitter post is a particularly bad interpretation of whatever he was interpreting from the highlight.

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DD Divine posted...

All that crap is insured anyways fuck em

I think you may be missing the point. Boarded up stores (or permanently closed stores) means less places for residents to shop. It also means less tourists will come to shop and spend their money not just at the stores, but spend money on hotels and other resources while they're there.

And most obviously, it means less places for people to work.

The main takeaway is not necessarily to feel bad for the larger companies, because they will survive anyways and move somewhere else (unless they're a mom and pop shop, in which case you should feel bad and those have also been affected).

The takeaway should be that this is bad. This is unsustainable. Imagine if this was going on in every city in the country. It'd be terrible.

This really should be a wake up call and foreshadowing for a lot of people. But I suspect it will fall on deaf ears, since this seems to have been a "work in progress" for many years in some of these cities. This didn't just happen overnight.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

More than likely, the gentrification cycle will flip back to wealth abandoning the urban core again.

Yeah, which is already happening. CA had their first ever population decline last year. I can only hope those leaving either vote differently or never voted that way in the first place and are just tired of it. But I'm sure some leaving still have their heads in the cloud and think it simply must just be the state or city itself.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Wealth is always more mobile than poverty, which is what's going to happen next, soon.

I mean I get a lot of them can afford to hop on a plane and take a vacation and get out of the city. But I'd be frustrated knowing what I have to come home to and deal with every day, even If I could retreat to my $5,000/mo secured luxury apartment at the end of the day.

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I'm not sure what it will take, but maybe eventually people will start voting differently. Seems like people aren't catching on or just don't care, though.

I'd be kinda peeved if I was a well off, upper middle class or rich liberal living in SF and have to walk through feces, needles, homeless and now shuttered stores, too. But I guess some people have trouble connecting the dots sometimes, or truly believe that "it's just part of city life".

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People travel for all sorts of reasons. Family, funerals, weddings, business, leisure, etc. Not everyone wants to put their life on hold nor sometimes can for several years.


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