Can't wait for the CHAZ to jump the tips of the horseshoe, make a stop at the 3% movement and arrive at the Posse Comitatus destination.
Hard mode: half of your population is on meth, the other half on heroin.
2016 U.S. Presidential Elections: The Circus Is In Full Swing
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i thought you'd be beyond superstition smh
Trump has an official survey on whether you approve or disapprove of him that popped up for me as a Youtube ad. They want you to put in your full name, ZIP code, email and phone number, with only the phone number being optional. I can't help but wonder if that's intentional profiling of people who disapprove of him. I don't think I have heard of any survey of this kind were you have to disclose your name to participate (or of any survey in general).
So, either you nail yourself to the prospective Antifa insurgent dartboard, or you don't exist, leading to a massive positive polling. Nice. Nice.
Wonder no more, eddie. It is exactly intentional profiling of people who disapprove of him. What the consequences of participation are, I can only imagine.
You're being far too naive, Arven.
We're talking about a guy who may or may not have praised concentration camps built for the purpose of ethnic cleansing and political re-education, without the claim seeming out of character.
It's heinously late for benefit of doubt, and even if you do give it, it's data that'll stick around later, when folks involved might get bright ideas that they haven't yet had before.
It's heinously late for benefit of doubt, and even if you do give it, it's data that'll stick around later, when folks involved might get bright ideas that they haven't yet had before.
Right but why do they need the name then? The zipcode I get, that's in Biden's polls too, although it is not mandatory (I was curious so I went and checked). But why on Earth do they want the names?
If you agree with Trump, they will be sure you get to the polls in November. If you disagree, they will probably see that you have an accident and die.
They recently had an ad that used the Nazi's symbol for political disadents for the protesters. I very well can imagine why they would want a name.
Trump tells Tulsa crowd he wanted to "slow down" COVID-19 testing, White House says he was joking
“When you do testing to that extent ... you’re going to find more cases, so I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’”
In other news, our marvelous leader thinks we should 'slow down' coronavirus testing.
At this point he has transitioned from politician to comedian
At this point he has transitioned from politician to comedian
That would imply that he was kidding though! Although when confronted about it I imagine he would say that he was.
Well, he said he wasn't, but leading members of various organizations like the CDC and FDA testified before congress that they weren't slowing testing, and weren't asked to in the first place. Who knows? The cheeto-in-chief probably thinks it'll get him better polling results, and that's literally all he cares about.
Is there a text somewhere explaining how defunding police will make things any better or how it is supposed to work in practice? I mean, my European understanding would be that if an institution is disfunctional, it usually needs a reform accompanied by throwing money at the institution, not a reform accompanying by starving the institution out. Since with less money you either have to reduce the scope of the activities of the institution or pay less in salaries which translates into having lower quality personnel. And all that. So, yeah, just wondering about the concept.
I guess it's to stop them from buying armoured vehicles, assault rifles and ceramic plated armour outside of specialised units.
Becaue apparently that's currently a thing that happens.
Im more on board with them being stripped of legal immunity for their actions, and everything else is a distraction.
Becaue apparently that's currently a thing that happens.
Im more on board with them being stripped of legal immunity for their actions, and everything else is a distraction.
The reasoning is that what you mention is what happened in the past, and it didn't work. As Kobrag said the police ended up using the extra resources for other things while keeping training programs up just for show. You would also use the resources taken away from the police to set up alternative solutions for situations where the police might not necessarily be the most qualified institution to intervene (e.g., people with severe mental health issues causing a disturbance).
As far as I know, compared to most European nations the US also spends a lot more money on police. Just as a term of comparison, here is a link to an annual budget for the German federal police
at page 22 you can see their 2017 budget, which is of a little over 3 billion euros, while for example just NYPD had a budget of over 5 billion dollars for 2017
Admittedly the bundespolizei is the federal police, which from what I understand is not quite the same thing as the ordinary police for which I wasn't able to find data. But it has a number of employees comparable to those in the NYPD department (around 42000 in both cases when you consider both uniform and civilian staff). As another term of comparison, the 2019 budget for Polizia in Italy was of 6.6 billion euros for around 100k employees (source Wikipedia, so perhaps to be taken with a bit of salt) which seems to be in line with the expenditure for the bundespolizei.
