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@rainyoutset What the graph is meant to measure is if housing inflation has outpaced nominal earnings (because both are nominal numbers, adjusting for inflation would be double counting). One for medical care is much worse, though it has seemingly improved.
This neat little gif keeps getting passed around.
It's a lie.
It compares a real (inflation adjusted) number to a nominal (not inflation adjusted) number.
Here's the truth:
This is not the future of American policing.
This is the present. This is happening, right now, today.
Police are now violating 4th Amendment rights so that they can violate 1st Amendment rights.
Stalin would be jealous.
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Axeel Melendez was just a 24-year-old guy from Tucson trying to play Rust.
Someone on the server asked if they could inspect his computer to prove he wasn’t cheating. He agreed. Shortly after, hackers gained access to his accounts, stole his personal information, and began blackmailing him. They demanded money and threatened to swat him or call immigration on his family if he refused.
Melendez did the responsible thing. On April 8 he called the Pima County Sheriff’s Department and warned them about the threats. A dispatcher told him that no one could just call SWAT on him and that nothing was going to happen.
Less than 48 hours later, a fake emergency call came in claiming his father had shot his sister. Deputies forced their way into his house, breaking a window with a shovel. Thinking he was being robbed, Melendez grabbed his mother’s legally owned handgun. The deputies opened fire and shot him multiple times.
He is now paralyzed from the chest down.
Melendez and his mother have filed a notice of claim seeking $176 million from Pima County and the Sheriff’s Department, arguing that officials ignored clear warnings that the call was a swatting attempt.
He tried to do everything right. It still cost him the use of his legs.
Rebekah walked into a city council meeting with her 10-year-old daughter, expecting to speak for three minutes and get ice cream afterward. Instead, she was interrupted, forcibly removed, arrested, and separated from her terrified child—all for calmly criticizing city spending.
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Federal agents shoot taser at man pumping gas—his body instantly bursts into flames.
All over $10 misdemeanor.
Man suffered 1st & 2nd degree burns—needs months of physical therapy.
"I honestly thought I was gonna die," he said.
"I went into instinct to stop, drop and roll."
Clarence Coyl says he accidentally drove through an open gate at Havasu National Wildlife Refuge 20 minutes earlier.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife officer initially let him go with warning—then suddenly confronted him again when he stopped at gas station.
The department's policy clearly states that tasers should not be used near flammable materials.
Incident occurred on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Mohave Valley, Arizona.
For the people who don't track these things closely, when JD Vance says he's “postliberal” in this context it doesn't mean “post-Democrat,” it means “post-Constitution.”