@CybermanAndy@SidFishus@frankwrighter@TheHerefordian 12k arrests, yet only 1,119 sentences. If it's mostly serious crimes like stalking/threats, conviction rate wouldn’t be this low.
Laws are too vague: 'grossly offensive' or 'annoyance'? They are weaponized against opinions & banter, not just abuse. Blatant and clear overreach.
@SidFishus@frankwrighter@TheHerefordian The UK arrests more people for online speech offenses (~12k in 2023) than any other Western nation, more than most others combined. Only authoritarian regimes like China & Russia likely top it.
@seminolenutsack@mikethemoparman@DelusionPosting It wouldn't. California has high taxes and the largest homeless population. Billions spent, still a crisis.
Higher taxes on the rich aren't guaranteed to help. Fix housing, addiction treatment, & enforcement to revive the middle class and combat the 1% widening the wealth gap.
@seminolenutsack@mikethemoparman@DelusionPosting Christians feed the poor with their own money voluntarily.
Government 'charity' takes your money by force and wastes 70% on bureaucracy before it reaches anyone.
One is real compassion with choice and accountability. The other is forced redistribution with massive overhead.
@Avi1272277@AlfieFrost2219@mikethemoparman@DelusionPosting Big cities make most US GDP. But much comes from finance, real estate & mega-corps managing assets, not new value. Rural America grows the food, extracts energy & materials that sustain us. If finance bros vanished, life continues. If farmers did, we'd face major shortages fast.
@wokler_@bloomjpg Yeah, why don't they just close their eyes and pretend the millionaire socialist isn't wearing designer clothes. He is wearing normal clothes just like all his brethren in Cuba, there is definitely no difference.
And then, they have the audacity to make a spreadsheet? The nerve.
@AlfieFrost2219@mikethemoparman@DelusionPosting The map is 100% accurate.
Thank god our founding fathers foresaw the congregation of overwhelmingly retarded and corrupt individuals in dense urban areas and thus created the electoral college.
@JPuncut@C2Antiquity@RuslanKD So when Ruslan does it, he's just asking for money, but when Jay does it, he's begging? How retarded.
You are not a serious person.
@BenjiC14264@streetfighthard Sorry nah, evil begets evil. The fight was won, don't throw away your honor for an ego. Not to mention the potential legal ramifications of kicking someone in the head while they are down...
@nonlinear_james@Jessethefree@Nowlibertarian Calling out societal problems or issues within specific sub-cultures is precisely decent, not calling them out due to 'fears' of racism or sexism is actually the opposite of decent.