We must do everything in our power to make sure that Republicans never hold office ever again. It’s for the good of the planet (and American society as a whole).
Don’t forget to vote in 2024! And not just the general election!
It really depends on the type and field of economics you’re looking at. Macro and micro are very very different fields. There are also a lot of different ways to present these facts. In general gdp means very little for normal people, and something like the Gini coefficient at least gets a little closer to a metric that actually represents the economic health of a country.
This is a brilliant way to win the next generation! I swear, the GOP is being directed by Month Python’s Flying Circus. It’s like the ministry of silly walks.
They’re probably not shooting for the next generation, they know that’s lost. They’re shooting for the ones after, when they’ve stripped the education system dry and can more easily exploit the naivety while their own kids take over. It’s generational planning.
Americans are so pathetic. Some stupid assholes walk around a bit in a government building and you call it an “iNsuRection.” If you wanna see an insurrection go to Niger, Somalia, Bolivia, etc.
You’re pathetic, because you participate in online horse-meat dietary scams. Haha!
January 6th was a literal insurrection, by the definition of the word, and many of the insurrectionists have been convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to long prison sentences. And prison is what they deserved, at least if not worse.
lol you really believe that people should have been executed over this. it was a directionless protest, no lever of power was ever in danger of being pulled by the happless MAGA idiots.
I don’t give a shit what they were sentenced for. Unlike you I don’t think something is true just cause the government said so.
There was no insurrection. Cope, seethe, but in 20 years everyone will think you were hysterical and funny.
honestly, It might be prudent to take the police force to a larger, broader agency from a hiring standpoint.
I mean, when a cop fucks up and gets fired, they just go to a near by agency and apply there. If there was one agency in the state, even if that agency had a few hundred precincts, then that couldn’t happen nearly as easily.
It would make more sense to have a licensing body or multiple that are all connected, use the same processes and can strip a license.
Doctors, nurses, lawyers, teachers all over the US already have licensing requirements, ongoing training requirements etc.
Edit to add: I live in Minnesota and Philando Castile was shot and killed by a Saint Anthony police officer in Falcon Heights. Falcon Heights used neighboring Saint Anthony’s department for their city as well. Outsourcing to another agency/department doesn’t address root cause of policing issues.
I also like the idea of liability insurance. Maybe make the agency pay for it. but it’s managed by a 3rd party. If they become a liability, the insurance would drop them like a sack of smashed asshole, because that costs them money.
It'd probably be a state level entity that offers endorsements to other states. That's how it is for nurses, anyway. In other news, nurses have more legal hoops to jump through than cops. Someone explain that.
Sometimes even this isn’t enough though. Minnesota requires peace officers to be licensed and to maintain that license with ongoing continuing education. Without steps to strip that license based on conduct then it is essentially toothless.
The solution to bad cops getting hired elsewhere is truly simple, and as American as apple pie.
Make them carry insurance.
Bad cops with strikes on their record have to pay higher and higher and eventually cost prohibitively higher rates for them to hold the title/badge/weapons.
Also, profit. Off of your tax dollars. As American as apple pie.
And to require the police to live in the areas that they police again. They shouldn't be able to ruin a community just to clock out and go home 3 towns over.
I know it is an edge case but what would you do about areas that have police but effectively no residents? Teterboro NJ, City of Industry California, etc.
IMO, the sketchiest part is that the department knew about the relationship, let him continue using the fake identity for years after leaving the force, and pressured the family to keep quiet after learning the truth.
Back when i was a teenager, i was a lifeguard. One day, a mother came to the pool with 3 young children. They were playing by the stairs in the shallow end of the pool when one of the children got out & proceeded to diarrhea on the floor. Mother swiftly picked up the kid in a panic & brought him clear to the other side of the pool to grab her towel. Once she had her towel, she proceeded to continue carrying the continuously shitting child back toward the shallow end on the other side of the pool & into the locker room.
This kid left a trail of shit that entirely circled the pool + a path to the locker room (total was easily over 150 linear feet of diarrhea.)
I would know as i was the dumb teenager who was tasked with cleaning it up… it was a very grueling day.
In short, i think it is very believable that it was “all the way”…
Is our mental health getting worse, or are we more aware of mental health issues? The article mentions how more people seek therapy now than 20 years ago and how more people are reporting their mental health as not good. However, I wonder how many people back then had mental health issues that they suffered in silence with. There used to be more of a stigma with having mental health disorders which led to people not seeking treatments (which of course led to less diagnoses). Someone with anxiety or depression would live with it or chalk it up to a character flaw or might think that what they’re dealing with was what everyone dealt with, but they probably wouldn’t seek therapy or tell anyone that their mental health is poor. So I do think that part of it is people acknowledging their struggles with mental health more now than ever.
I think this is a big factor in the uptick of MH cases being reported. It’s more okay to seek out help, so it gets reported more. The cases were still there 20 years ago.
When the military started to crack down on sexual assault and made it more “friendly” to report being a victim the number of cases reported went up. The cases where always there. Now we have a better idea of what we didn’t know before.
It’s the same thing with more lgbqt+ people. They’ve always existed, but since it’s more and more acceptable to come out more people are comfortable than ever before, despite the right screaming that kids are being “indoctrinated”.
I mean, for as much as we mock it: “Mia, I’m a cop” was the less assholish thing to do.
But yeah. I would argue that anything where you need to be undercover is too dangerous to be entering into a relationship with someone else. But… I can totally imagine how someone would stupid their way into that.
Hawaii Proud Boy was in the riot, sentenced in December… Okay I found the list of arrests(www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases) but there’s a thousand plus so far, I’ll take a rain check on tallying which states escaped the mark of treason.
No... no, this isn't an acceptable hyperfocus! I HAVE WORK TO DO! AAA-
Well, we go where the serotonin demands.
Here is an alphabetical list and the number of entries on the FBI site for cases in that state. Be advised this is of the number of people who were arrested in each state, so outliers (such as fugitives) aren't made clear, and neother are those who might be listed for multiple arrests in different states.
Additionally, I counted them by hand, on my awful phone, so user error is real.
Finally, I had some mechanical difficulty sorting through the individuals in the state of Washington versus towns named Washington in other states, versus the District of Columbia, the number of which I included after the list.
Alabama - 16
Alaska - 2
Arizona - 11
Arkansas - 4
California - 59
Colorado - 17
Connecticut - 4
Delaware - 5
Florida - 95
Georgia - 24
Hawaii - 1
Idaho - 7
Illinois - 36
Indiana - 18
Iowa - 8
Kansas - 19
Kentucky - 23
Louisiana - 3
Maine - 5
Maryland - 16
Massachusetts - 11
Michigan - 23
Minnesota - 12
Mississippi - 1
Missouri - 31
Montana - 5
Nebraska - 1
Nevada - 3
New Hampshire - 5
New Jersey - 28
New Mexico - 3
New York - 66
North Carolina - 24
North Dakota - 0
Ohio - 58
Oklahoma - 10
Oregon - 8
Pennsylvania - 80
Rhode Island - 4
South Carolina - 15
South Dakota - 2
Tennessee - 28
Texas - 84
Utah - 9
Vermont - 1
Virginia - 53
Washington - 14
West Virginia - 8
Wisconsin - 9
Wyoming - 0
Bonus round, Discrict of Columbia - 31
Also, I found zero incidents listed in any US territories but I may have been searching incorrectly.
I don't think it's fair that North Dakota (population; 763,657) and Wyoming (population 585,587) get the honor of being in the clear. The population of Hawaii (as estimated, my sympathies for the fires) was 1.43 million and produced a mere one insurrectionist. So I think a fairer metric might be insurrectionists by percentage of overall population. It might be skewed in some specific instances (New York being skewed by New York city, as a prime example) but it would be a more interesting metric...
God I hope I forget this thought experiment before I come to work tomorrow.
You could also compare the number of insurrectionists per capita to the expected number. For example, state x has 4% of the country’s population but 6% of the insurrectionists.
Oh wow, I was going to do a similar thing with a spreadsheet on my computer, so hats off to the dedication it took you to hunt and peck this information DANG!
I assure you that compiling this data was nonconsensual but my brain is rarely concerned with how I feel about it.
The worst part is, I put together a list of the insurrectionists by state, and I got through New York before I was able to override my impulse and just provide a list of how many per state. I hate being hard-wired for tedious paperwork.
That particular sort of attention must be valued in some marketing or accounting field. Take advantage of your fastidious nature. Or rather, let it roam free.
Wow! That poor kid! Poor woman too but I can’t imagine that kid learning all this and some imaginary person is on his birth certificate!? Trust issues forever. Fucking wow. Can anyone put a fictitious person down on a birth certificate? Can you do that for both parents? Does this get him out of child support? I have sooo many more questions.
Learning “all this”? That the father has a different name and job? Is that even relevant to their relationship? It has been 19 years. You can blame him for not telling her in the first months, after his undercover thing was over. After that he just rolled with it. That is it. Zero trust issues.
I agree. Your name is the least important part of your identity.
If my spouse told me that she actually had a different name on her birth certificate then I wouldn’t bat an eye. In fact, I would probably continue using the “fake” name, because why not.
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