@Gurz522218@mattparlmer@DanielleFong You cannot argue in good faith that “racism” is not the fundamental concern at the heart of claims about ShotSpotter “exposing black and brown people to involuntary encounters with police.” The entire discourse on the system was loaded with race-related terminology.
Cambridge killed its ShotSpotter contract in May, citing concerns about bias and privacy.
ShotSpotter is absolutely operated on July 4th. On 7/4/25, the company filtered out ~862,000 of the 972,000+ incidents detected, publishing more than 2,100 incidents generating alerts to police departments around the country. https://t.co/a3WvWt4ldr
I’d be very keen to see the contract language you’re referencing. Do you happen to have it?
Do you realize that you’ve done exactly what you accuse others of doing?
At best, you are unfamiliar with the nature of the debate over ShotSpotter in these communities. But instead of engaging with primary sources, you smeared your opponents as ignoramuses falling for disinformation.
@Gurz522218@mattparlmer@DanielleFong You can make the ineffectiveness argument on its own, or weigh the costs against the value of time/lives saved by faster response times to shootings. But the ShotSpotter debate in Cambridge was NOT about effectiveness and the people against it made that crystal clear.
Communists need children to vote because you have to be mentally under-developed to buy the bullshit socialists try to sell you. They’re like the student body president promising no homework and free soda in the drinking fountains.
I just watched Schindler's List again, this time with my 13 year old son - because we are going to Krakow in a couple of weeks.
And then I went down the Righteous Among the Nations rabbit hole again for the gazillionth time.
27,000+ righteous souls - which may sound like a lot - but it's less than .01% of the population, and that's if you count just in the areas with Jewish population density in Eastern & Western Europe, not the entirety of Europe.
And today you have people imagining themselves self-righteous blaming the Jews for genocide, literally taking a page out of the Hitler & Goebbels handbook - where if you repeat a lie enough times, people will believe it.
These are literally modern neo-Nazis cosplaying humanitarians.
The Nazis also imagined themselves humanitarians ridding the world of the Jewish evil.
They are just too historically illiterate to even know it.
And say we want to compare the Righteous Among the Nations to the Righteous Among the Noble Gazans (who are beyond criticism). Based on this very tiny ratio, there should have been at least 258 Gazans who tried to help the Israeli hostages escape.
Yet there wasn't even a single one.
Worse some of the hostages attempted to escape their captors just to be returned to them by ordinary Gazan citizens. Just like Nazi enablers.
Yet among the Israeli victims of October 7th there were dozens of volunteers in Gazan aid, and peace activists that were butchered.
Like animals.
Just like in the Holocaust.
So know, that if you are using the genocide libel against the Jewish people and against Israel, you are in fact a textbook neo-Nazi.
Do you hear anyone else speaking this manner? Buddhists? Jains? Seventh-Day Adventists? Protestants? Catholics? Jews? Hindus? No. There is only one religion that openly speaks in this supremacist manner and yet we tolerate it under the guise of "freedom of religion." Are we truly willing to commit Civilizational Seppuku via Suicidal Empathy?
An entire episode of Friends revolves around Joey reading (and loving!) Little Women. Can you imagine a sitcom today where the DUMB ONE in the group is devouring the 1868 novel Little Women??
Apparently the incest, throwing children off the walls of Troy, Trojan women taken as war trophies doesn’t disturb her. Neither does late Iron Age armour in a Bronze Age setting. Only Indians defending their country disturbs this quack.
Soccer is the most European of sports because while the athletes are real and there is actual activity, the final outcomes are determined by procedural manipulation of random bureaucrats
Cambridge disabled Shot Spotter because they said it was racist. Then a black Public Works employee got shot, lay undiscovered for over an hour while bleeding out in a public park, and died because first responders didn't know a shooting happened
https://t.co/OKIie6BAfX
Next time you deal with the hassle of TSA in an airport, remember that we have it because of a unique innovation in human history developed within the wholly unique Palestinian Culture, which invented politically motivated jet hijacking as its most enduring contribution.
As with the corruption of the once-liberal Amnesty, progressivism is the parasite: infecting the nervous system of a once-socialist organisation, forcing it to climb upwards to die on a hill, where it explodes its original secular, anti-racist, feminist, anti-authoritarian brain.
Poverty and harsh climates have challenged humanity since time immemorial.
Yet most humans- including the poor!- recognize the evil of selling your own daughter to an old man.
The same people who claim that child marriage stems from poverty or climate change are the ones perpetuating the evil practice.
Do I ever criticize Israel? Yes, let me do it right now: why would you let Ro Khanna into the country?! Obviously he was going to get exactly this photo op and the biggest morons in America would handwring on X. Blunder by Israel. Wish they were more like their haters imagine.
In the last day, Mamdani has blamed ICE for an illegal trying to run over them, and AOC has demanded the release of a Hamas colonel.
In both cases, they lied by omission about the circumstances.
This is the game, and it only gets more deranged and dangerous from here.
Seems much more notable that Jackson votes against Trump 98% of the time, 15% more than the average of Sotomayor and Kagan. In other words, Alito goes against partisan prediction more than five times as often as Jackson.
I've received multiple media requests today asking for comment on my recent call to ban mosques in America from blaring the Muslim call to prayer through loudspeakers 5 times a day across our cities.
Just to save time, here's my official response:
Yes, I 100% want to ban mosques in America from blaring the Muslim call to prayer through loudspeakers 5 times a day across our cities.
Hope this clarifies everything and have a great weekend!