You blamed the people and didn’t once mention the very real racists in power who for centuries have shaped policy to hurt minority communities. Prison reforms no one because they give it to private corporations who need recidivism for their business to flourish. As someone already said they cut mental health and homeless support funding in this country drastically. They also cut a host of other social programs that offer alternatives to turning to crime. There’s always been career criminals in every society, but the vast majority of criminals are people at the end of their ropes looking for a way out. If the government and society cut the programs giving hope and an alternative to crime, the criminals looking for soldiers will always fill in the gap. Despite all that there’s still a lot of statistical proof that crime has been dropping over the last 4 years. Most likely due to a lot of measures that were pumped money into poor communities during the pandemic. We spend a ridiculous amount of money on our prison industrial complex that only presses pause on problems. A sense of community and a real responsibility to the people of that community is going to stop way more criminals than a cage.

It’s not going to stay that way with the policies going on destroying our global standing. These fascist morons are dismantling the global order that made America’s power and wealth possible. Not to mention they’re making it a progressively shittier place to live. Taking over cities with the military and harassing the commerce centers of this country is not going to make our economy excel. They’ve already all but killed the tourist industry from out of country. The whole stock market is propped up on AI that multiple studies are showing they can’t get return on investment on. That bubble will burst. The tariffs are turning allies to enemies. The bills passed are killing the social safety net which will only make crime worse. Still so many people can’t see beyond the propaganda the billionaire owned media pumps out. I am not at all optimistic about the future of this country.

Maybe you can’t be around minorities because your racism shows. I too lived in poor inner city neighborhoods and got along without issue.

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Crime stats have gone down for the last 4 years. Stop letting the right feed you a false narrative.

Because he fucking sucks. I just want to break his stupid smug face every time I see it.

She probably should’ve found a better country to live in if she wanted a safer life. America has become a shit hole.

I can’t wait till Trump fucking dies.

There’s no headline - Trump denies everything that anyone conceives as negative, but always is doing said negative thing.

It’s not just Russia. Most of big tech oligarchs are accelerating this hard for their network state fantasies.

I think we all just wish the Democrats would be as willing to win at all costs for the people as Republicans are with winning at all costs for corporations and the rich. Sure the Democrat and Republican parties are different, no doubt, but they both take money and capitulate to the same rich people. I would be a lot happier if they worked a lot harder to get money out of politics.

There are 6 other countries in that region hosting far more of the drug trade and gangs, but they are conveniently going hard at the one with massive oil reserves. Such total horse shit.

Capitalists run their businesses like Authoritarians. It’s not a stretch to see them embrace this style of rule as long as it benefits them. They were never allies to the populous. They just manipulated optics to get us to buy their shit.

No one is worth that. Capitalism is such bull shit.

Expect more of these dumb train wrecks in the future too. Wall Street is panicking about AI profitability on the DL so businesses are going to keep trying to shoe horn it into places it doesn’t belong to justify what was spent on it.

His goal, like every person Trump has appointed, is to dismantle and break those institutions. The point is to cripple the government so that private businesses get to fill the gaps and gain power.

That money should go to us because the business passed the price increases on to us!

Big tech corporations work hand in glove with authoritarians. Most businesses are authoritarian structures, so it stands to reason they would fit together well.

Science generally searches for answers.
Religion manipulates fears for power and control.

They are beholden to their capitalist masters. Democratic leadership only goes as far left as the donor class will allow. Mamdani scares the wealthy, so the Democratic leadership doesn’t want him to succeed.