[CNN via Hot Air] Telly Blair was among 93 people who were murdered in Minneapolis last year, city crime data shows. That’s just a few shy of the total killings in 1995, when the city earned the nickname "Murderapolis." (Neighboring St. Paul witnessed 38 murders last year — a historic high.)
After the police murder of George Floyd in May of 2020, Minneapolis became a worldwide symbol of the police brutality long endured disproportionately by Black people. In a kind of Newtonian response, the city became the epicenter of the culturally seismic "Defund the Police" movement. But that progressive local effort fizzled with a decisive referendum last November.
Now, with its police department under investigation by the Department of Justice, the city of 425,000 is trying to find a way forward amid a period of heightened crime that began shortly after Floyd’s death.
That year, the number of murders soared to nearly 80 — dwarfing the 2019 body count of 46. It has cooled somewhat this year, though the amount of killing — and violent crime in general — remains elevated far above 2019 levels and homicides are on pace to surpass the 2020 figure. The reasons why are far from clear.
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Ochlocracy, or Mob Rule, is the very antithesis of Democracy. First The Mob™ and then the Tyrant -- something the Ancient Greeks knew and our current 'intellectuals' ignore.
#5
Sob story in today’s seattle times lamenting failure of city to reduce police spending by 50%, and the city council members twisting like a pretzel to turn their defund the cops vote from back then to todays supporting the police. And usual losers crying about blm and other maligned peoples.
Comments are hilarious.
Still havent spent any money in seattle.
#4
The EU is a classic case study of how bureaucracies just grow and grow and grow. To think this was "just" a coal and steel economic union/community between a handful of European nations back in the late 1950's or so and looking at the political monstrosity it is now is just simply amazing.
They didn't know it at the time, but the political Leviathan known as the EU was doomed from the get-go.
Wonder why the US dollar is so strong? That is one reason.
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Someone told me that right wing parties across the EU are united covertly in a plan to mass exit. Hit the Eww with exit after exit so while it reels from the shocks they can firm up their own alliances. And that by 2030 the supranation will be full of failing, chaotic socialist tyrannies trying to barely maintain order.
[Powerline] An election is coming up in Italy in September, and the Brothers of Italy party, led by co-founder Giorgia Meloni, is currently leading the polls. There has been scant attention to the election in the U.S., but European news coverage is interesting for what it tells us about the state of politics on that continent, which in some ways mirrors conditions here in America.
That wasn't even a dog whistle. That was just a regular whistle. Who's the enemy? "Financial speculators" who want to destroy the family and create "the perfect consumer"? Who are these financial speculators who are out to destroy us all and replace us with immigrants? DA JOOZ of course. She could not say more clearly that she's anti-Semitic.
#6
Let the spying begin, traitorous appointments to emerge, corruption charges filed, false media stories of perversion and cooperation with Trump & Putin…
#7
One of the great lies of the late 20th Century, particularly by academia, is that the Nazis and fascist were 'right wing'. As Lawrence Samuels wrote on “The Socialist Economics of Italian Fascism” at Econlib in 2015, “In essence, the economics of Italian Fascism was Marxist and syndicalist-inspired—and far more left-wing socialist than the economies of many current western nations that embrace a mixed economy of socialism, welfarism and unionism." As for the Nazis just read their party platform.
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Who are these financial speculators who are out to destroy us all and replace us with immigrants?
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Fink, George Soros, Baraq Obama, Joe Biden and his son Hunter...some are Jews and some are not. That's not the point, troll. The point is they are flooding OUR country with illiterate, third world peasants to take our jobs, our schools and our homes away from us...to vote for socialism because they don't know any better. The third world types who invade Italy might be different from the third world types who invade America. The financial speculators might be different. But it's all the same enemy. We are not racists or nazis because we want to repel the invaders in spite of what you, Oprah and Joe might want us to think.
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If you believe the love and reverence for God, family and country is fascist you are profoundly damaged.
But you can be, my dear Goober Wittlesbach1280. It’ll take one to three years of hard study, depending on whether you choose the more liberal or orthodox style, and of course sincere belief in the face of challenges — because if you can’t face down challenges from your teachers along the way, you most certainly won’t be able to handle being an actual member of the tribe — but we take all races, nationalities, genders, and politics.
Thought really, if we’re to adopt you it would be nice if you had a better grasp of history.
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And the snip! Don't forget ...ow! The snip! Study I can take. Even the history. Chalenges from teachers? I can wrestle a rabbi to the ground! But the snip!
[mimes scissors ✂️]
Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!
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