Well, you seem determined to complain and worry today so have at it!
This is not the place to re-litigate the 2016 election, but I don’t think you’ll find that any turnout changes between 2012 and 2016 were about the issues or proposals of the candidates. And I don’t have any problem with granting that likeability of the candidate, which is a different thing entirely, impacts turnout, but I think it does so on both sides.
I’d swear when I first read that I thought it said “Vogon lard” and thought, yeah, that would work.
One of the most new/interesting points to me is how he describes police training in a way that makes it sound like cult indoctrination (my analogy, his analogy is to abusive relationships, which is sort of similar.) If police departments are like a cult, that may be another way to think about why it’s so hard to reform with the current system.
This “they hate you for protecting them and only I love you, only I can protect you” tactic is familiar to students of abuse. It’s what abusers do to coerce their victims into isolation, pulling them away from friends and family and ensnaring them in the abuser’s toxic web. Law enforcement does this too, pitting the officer against civilians. “They don’t understand what you do, they don’t respect your sacrifice, they just want to get away with crimes. You’re only safe with us.”
Yeah. Probably by other cops, who will make his life hell.
KevinC
4744
Does anyone know what the organizational structure of Black Lives Matter looks like? Is there an official organization with a leader?
I see a list of chapters here:
There is an organization calling themselves Black Lives Matter Utah:
https://www.blacklivesmatterutah.com/
I notice the iconography is different and the BLM website doesn’t list a Utah chapter. So is this organization unaffiliated with the national organization?
Yes, so much of that is terrible. But really that’s part of the consequence of police moving to a ‘military’ mentality- boot camp works much the same way. Nowadays it’s ‘cops’ VS ‘civilians’- forgetting the fact that cops are civilians. One of my favorite bits from Pratchett addressed that
It always embarrassed Samuel Vimes when civilians tried to speak to him in what they thought was “policeman.” If it came to that, he hated thinking of them as civilians. What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge? But they tended to use the term these days as a way of describing people who were not policemen. It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians the only other thing they could be was soldiers.
ShivaX
4746
Also my official wut for the day:
pyrhic
4747
Thanks for that. I felt it was a very good and authentic read.
Menzo
4748
Lotta Bubbas gonna be shocked and dismayed about this one.
aeneas
4749
This might be the most surprising thing I’ve heard coming out of the BLM.
Menzo
4750
So it appears that Trump is going to take the “pro” stance for racism in his upcoming speech.
Wonder how many times Miller will slip in the phrase “blood and soil”. And how many times DJT will bungle the line.
Based on my mental picture of the average babynames.com visitor I’m sure that’s going over swimmingly!
Holy crap at Babynames.com. As a semi-regular user (for work, really!) that is the last place I would expect to reference #blacklivesmatter.
I am a wee bit skeptical about this latest Trump’s-gonna-give-a-speech-and-Miller’s-gonna-write-it report. Somehow I don’t think the Trump admin is giving scoops to April Ryan. Either someone is playing her, or, more likely, this is just an echo of the earlier speech trial balloon.
(Though as I said before, if there were a speech, Miller would have to write it because there’s basically no one else Trump trusts who could write more than a paragraph. Maybe Scavino.)
Thrag
4755
I don’t know why this is making me laugh so hard. I’m just picturing a conversation…
“You see, in my line of you’ve got to name a lot of babies.”
Hey, at least he aint eating them!
But I do!
Well, not babies specifically, but characters.
