Did you seriously just "ackchyually" us? It doesn't matter what it means to you. It doesn't matter what it officially means. My vote has never mattered because I've only lived in blue states. It matters what it means to people in swing states. He who explains, loses. I know exactly what you mean it doesn't fucking matter, the perception by those exposed to right wing media is that "Defund the Police" is a nicer way of saying abolish them.

Also, defunding really does imply reducing police presence and effectiveness, so perhaps that saying should be dropped entirely. It's failed messaging, at best.

Again, I'm not voting for a Trump 3rd term nor will I vote for a Republican for the foreseeable future....but hey, keep repeating "defund the police" and "ackchyually" anyone who uses the common definition instead of the one you think is best. It's a real winner politically!!!!

I'm the fucking messenger, dude. You're campaigning for the Republican Party and Trumpism, presumably unwittingly.

A difference between you and is that I was actually a victim of violent crime and lived in the ghetto on the South Side of Chicago for 5 years in the 90s and I grew up near an even worse ghetto as a child. I got used to going to sleep at night with the sound of gunfire. When I first moved, I naively asked someone why people set off fireworks every night. I knew a dozen cops by name just from my neighborhood and I knew another dozen from my student jobs. I only know a few now because I live in an expensive gentrified neighborhood. You must be fucking privileged to spout that bullshit. Now that I have a good job and expensive house, yeah, the police are a theoretical concern.

When I was living in Chicago and being violently assaulted for no reason on the subway once or mugged a few times as well as followed, they were people I was very glad to see. All Cops Are not Bastards. In my experience, even as a mixed race person, they're quite nice to you if you are nice to them.

Police brutality is a crime. Stalking people is crime. Some cops are criminals and need to be punished.

However, if I was living on the South Side of Chicago, I can tell you that everyone there who wasn't a criminal would tell you they wanted more cops and better ones, not less. They don't want them defunded...maybe augmented with social workers?...sure, but everyone who lives around crime eventually needs a cop to save them or prosecute someone who committed a crime against them. They hung out at White Hen a lot (like 7-11) and I'd make conversation with them when I saw them.

If the police are enemy #1 in your mind, you are QUITE ignorant of the ways of the world. The police are not perfect and have a LOT of room to improve, but they're not your enemy. Only those who grew up with silver spoons in their mouth have the luxury to say stupid shit like ACAB. For those of us who relied on them to keep us safe from FAR WORSE people...we were glad they were there...wish bad cops didn't do shitty things and want to see them held appropriately accountable, but we WANT effective police who follow the law.

Once you experience violent crime for yourself, you'll find your simplistic thinking as cringe as the rest of society does.

Do not generally make it a habit to admit to their crimes right? And people who sympathize with criminals also do not generally let people know that they sympathize with criminals.

What I'm saying is that your cop buddies aren't likely to tell you that they think it's cool to spy on ex's using police resources. But based on a lot of the statistics we have about them at least 40% do...

If nothing else getting ammo to win a divorce is something you can get a lot of people behind regardless of how the information is obtained.

As for defund the police that was largely a scam and something pushed on you by right wing media. Whenever somebody on the left wing says something blisteringly stupid you can bet Fox News and oan will be there with a megaphone to make damn sure you hear it over and over and over again.

You will not hear any of the perfectly reasonable reforms and solutions the left wing proposed. Funny but those always seem to get buried...

You're welcome to your opinion, but every cop I know today or have met would not condone this. There are approximately 737,000 full-time sworn law enforcement officers employed in the United States, according to recent Statista data. So a few assholes doing 1000s of searches, thinking they wouldn't be held accountable doesn't seem like a conspiracy to me. It seems like a few shitty cops thinking the rules don't apply to them.

Also, fuck off with the Defund the Police talk unless you're actively campaigning for a Trump 3rd term. Police who commit crimes need to be held accountable, just like citizens. You don't punish the entire police force. The same people that are victims of police misconduct are the most dependent on them to keep them safe from far worse criminals.

Look, you're having an emotional overreaction to misdeeds by police officers. However, if you're going to say "defund the police" I'm going to tell you to fuck off....that stupid shit helped get Trump elected. That makes people think democractic voters and liberals are a bunch of children with no common sense. There are a lot of people who never liked Democrats, but also don't like that diesel is $6.50 a gallon and that we're definitely not winning this war in Iran at the moment and the "dept of war" doesn't appear to have a clear plan. Some are finally seeing that "yeah, trump IS as corrupt as everyone said." Many votes are in play this Nov. Not as many as there should be, but there are folks that are curious as to what it would be like if grownups ran the gov and are considering not voting Republican... If they think the choice is more trumpism or nuts saying "Defund the Police" then you're really not making the alternatives compelling.

If you want to defund flock?...there's a reasonable argument there. However, I think you'd be a lot less smug and confident if it was your car that was stolen and the thief would have been caught if the cops could use an automated license plate reader, but were forbidden to because some dipshit stalked his ex. I don't know the right answer. I don't like cops committing crimes and stalking women. Apparently the ones in this report are having some sort of accountability, which seems good on the surface. However, I also want people harming me and and my family or stealing our stuff easily. I want to make life more difficult for criminals. So I don't think the answer is "Flock for everyone without a warrant or due process"...nor is it "No one can use surveillance technology in law enforcement ever!" The right answer is somewhere in the middle, IMHO.

Why do some people hate on systemd?

There are new players entering the market, and new capacity is being built by the big 3. Who can't try and drive anyone out with a price cut until they've cleared the backorders and produce batches that aren't already sold.

There are a couple of hurdles I wasn't aware of. Like Japan restricting etching gas exports and EU environmental policy that's forcing fabs there to retool.

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If you're going to tell me what I think, at least be correct about it.

Isn't this all part of the Biden broadband plan, and the associated federal dollars? Sounds more like local governments looking at what the feds gave the ISPs and trying to get some of it.

Is that why their population is collapsing and they just banned economists from discussing the economy on TV without prior approval of what they will be saying?

We have over a century's worth of evidence that Socialism doesn't work. Across the 20th century, it only brought about mass slaughter and suffering.

Biden's broadband initiative is fascist?

Are local governments slow-walking Federally backed deployments and/or trying to squeeze some of that cash out of the ISPs? If they are, the feds may have explicit authority to step in.

And this is all Biden's broadband push, right?

Do you need to be a public utility to do those things?

Railroads and telecoms are the ones people forget about. Railroads captured the regulators back in the 19th century, and ATT got to write the rules for their industry in the early 20th. Big surprise, ATT quickly became a legal monopoly.

China wouldn't follow either. Almost all AI development is in the US or China, so it'd be the rest of the world trying to tell the two most powerful nations what to do. And they don't have to listen.

Last I heard, the AI companies were publicly calling for regulations but fighting them privately while also taking steps to ensure that if regulations do emerge, they'll be the ones writing them.

That sounds familiar...

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