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> What happens if police officers and prison guards go on strike?

> When New York police officers temporarily reduced their “proactive policing” efforts on low-level offenses, major-crime reports in the city actually fell, according to a study based on New York Police Department crime statistics.

> The scientists found that civilian complaints of major crimes dropped by about 3% to 6% during the slowdown.

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proacti...

> Literally, global warming activists, including presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, are saying we have 11 years or less left of Earth,

They literally are not, conservatives & CC deniers like you just keep parroting this misrepresentation for the purposes of easy dismissal. The 11-12 years is a time period for REDUCING EMISSIONS to keep warming UNDER A CERTAIN LEVEL. but of course you know this and are simply lying about it.

you're completely deranged. socialism/communism is barely mentioned at all in the public school system, and never in a positive light. the genocide of native americans was not discussed outside of a cursory mention of the Trail of Tears. watching 'Roots' was about the depth of instruction on slavery. I never heard a single critical word about the US from any teacher, and I was in the public school system all the way through college. I never even had to read Howard Zinn, the classic conservative boogeyman, a single time for any class.

the far-right in Europe is resurgent largely on the back of anti-migrant racism and hysteria, and that's with a crisis involving 5-6 million people. now imagine things with 25 million people, or more, and not just focused in Europe. it's going to be very bad.

literally all of them? toxic masculinity is not about the traits themselves being inherently bad, it's about them being elevated to the point of excluding other things, and the unhealthy ways this manifests in society.

their agenda is less non-White people in the US. it fits with that perfectly.

You sound like a sociopath.

Gandhi was hardly the sole arbiter of Indian resistance. In fact their success in fighting colonial rule was dependent on the reality that there were people like Bhagat Singh who were willing to and did use militant tactics.

> The use of force by the state to entrench the position and profits of a particular business

This is a natural and obvious end following from the foundation of capitalism, which is the existence of private property ensured by the state.

> Drugs in the UK exist but not in an epidemic. Teenagers and students smoke weed and then move on

this is not at all true from my understanding of MDMA usage in the UK

> A liberal constitutional democracy does not have any more ability to make you disappear than Facebook does.

oh for sure bud

"The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-poli...

there was a post on here a few months ago detailing something very similar, but for video, not audio. I can't recall the name unfortunately.

edit

found it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19529921

mutual aid is a wonderful thing

> nor can you make downhill skiing accessible for four-limb paraplegics

BS, we can and already have. here's a paraplegic person dropping in on one of the steepest in-bounds runs in the US.

https://youtu.be/MAF08-ko3aw

quit being so dismissive.

absolutely, and the scary thing is that

> I’m just one giant disaster away from this kind of thing.

this is true for the vast majority of Americans, given that somewhere between 60-70% have less than $1000 in savings

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/18/few-americans-have-enough-sa...

> it’s very proletariat.

I think you have your terminology backwards here, I figure you meant bourgeoisie

'Per Thomas Piketty roughly 60% of America's wealth is inherited, meaning most of America's riches are owned by people who didn't work for them.'

https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1092536441819648000

http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/AlvaredoGarbintiPiketty2015....

capitalism IS control, at the most basic level control of private property ensured by the state

access to people and information

somewhat unfortunate vicious cycle it seems like, engineers either don't consider the ramifications of what they build or are willing to handwave it away, until it all starts to come back around

> It's a necessary evil but I sincerely believe we're all better off

except for the million dead Iraqi civilians that is

Do you think teachers are working solely during the school year? Do you understand that the private sector already pays significantly more? There's a reason teachers have been striking across the country.

I'll thrown in another youtube recommendation, IM Eric Rosen has a good mix of recorded streams and instructional videos on specific themes, all with extremely relaxed commentary. He plays the London System a lot which is a solid opening for newbies.

https://www.youtube.com/user/RosenChess/videos

that's fair, anything over 10 minutes with increment is good enough while you're figuring out if you actually enjoy the game or not

John is amazing, that fundamentals series was a huge help for me. Climbing the Rating Ladder is also explicitly for beginners and really good, he plays longer time controls and fully explains his thought process and line calculations as the games progress. So much good content on his channel.

blitz/bullet is absolutely atrocious for improving, 15+10 is the shortest time control you should be playing if you're seriously trying to get better.

This is a total whitewash of the role pharmaceutical companies played by intensely pushing opiates while downplaying negative ramifications they were well aware of.

The Dispossessed is a classic.

'Arbeit macht frei' eh

yep, transformative justice seems natural to me. taking 'anti-social' people and isolating them in a situation where there's little semblance of the life they're supposed to start living does not.