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He's just this guy, you know?
I love how people who aren't funny always say that other people need to have a sense of humor. It's a great way to dodge responsibility for one's actions and words.
You might do well to listen to what people are saying to you, and to stop engaging in ableist narratives.
It's NOT mental illness, it's ideological illness, it's propaganda. They've been lied to. They're not mentally ill, they believe lies.
Correct framing will allow us to respond more effectively to the situation.
“I’m fiscally conservative” is a safe way for people to say,”I’m okay with some people being considered expendable.”
But really what people mean when they think about crime is visible homelessness and mental illness.
Most Americans have never lived in a safer America. And its not just things are safer. They are WAY safer. Leaps and bounds safer than they were in the 70s, 80s, and 90s and 00s.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
Larry Sabato says that crime is the Dems' Achilles heel and they need to talk about prices. The Dems can "complain" but too many hate crime and cities and don't care about democracy.
I guess we have to let the police state happen while we drone on about eggs. Can't walk and chew gum apparently.
We have to walk inattentive cis liberals through the reasons why the bargain they think they can strike won’t work.
We can and we must, because it is true.
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They keep thinking they can Neville Chamberlain...
And I came in to an email essentially criticizing the work we do with, fill in these gaps demands, which was cc'd to upper management.
I want to reply, "Happy Labor Day!"
The managers get today off.
