i hate to repost this but really can't comprehend how world historically insane this is and how we all would've reacted if 12 years ago someone showed you this clip
@stanveuger I mean you're the one making the caual claim that making it harder for poor people to live in the District or taking away their ability to rent scooters will have a meaningful impact on the city's violent crime rate.
@stanveuger Redistributive policies that deconcentrate poverty throughout the District expand access to opportunity and can reduce crime. Policies that expel poor people from the urban core like you suggest do neither and could concentrate conditions associated with crime in surroundingareas
@stanveuger Right, so like I said you don’t actually care about public safety or addressing it with evidenced-based approaches you just hate poor people. So just say that next time
@stanveuger The benefits here easily outweigh the negatives consequences. In fact, more redistribution would be good for us. In the US and elsewhere, studies show a clear association of poverty and inequality with violent crime.
@stanveuger It’s a program to ensure transportation can be accessed by all people in the one of the most economically and racially segregated cities in the country. You’re not really saying anything nor do you have any real interest in advancing public safety you just hate poor people.
Although America is legitimately repugnant the problem with europeans trying to critique America is that they dont see America as a direct product of their own imperialism and dont acknowledge that Europe to this day benefits from its continued brutality of the global south.
NEW: A Purple Heart veteran is taking legal action after 3 National Guardsmen detained her without a warrant on her D.C. patio in a violent confrontation. Her injuries required surgery.
"We are not at war with Americans, and my porch is not a war zone."
https://t.co/ARhfJoOnyq
This is like a massive, stinging slap in the face of every self-righteous proponent of the free-market economy who works tirelessly to brainwash the entire planet into believing that limited government intervention is inherently good, that state regulation is evil, and that prices will always magically find their true, natural value.
If the state does not decisively intervene to stop corrupt oligarchs, private equity firms, and global investment giants from buying up every single affordable residential home, real estate prices will never find a value that respects basic human dignity, local communities, or the working class. Instead, they will only ever find a highly inflated, artificial value that strictly protects the greedy corporate interests, profit margins, and portfolios of multi-billion-dollar venture capitalists.
Socialism works and will always work. Even the most ruthless capitalists on Wall Street still desperately lobby for massive government tax cuts, multi-billion-dollar state bailouts, favorable regulatory loopholes, protectionist trade tariffs, and direct central bank interventions, which is basically nothing but a highly customized, tax-funded communist manifesto designed exclusively for the rich, the powerful, and the politically connected.