They were poor. Cops don't need a reason to interact.

If they were poor and not white then they don't need a reason to beat them.

If they were poor, not white, and legally carrying their firearm, then the cops don't need a reason to murder.

It doesn't matter why the interaction started. Law enforcement is never correct to punish an accused in custody.

Not even. Can't charge more for rent when it's already max out against income. It's a placebo that'll have zero effect. Don't get too excited about a "plan". This is the plan.

If Democrats kept their promises we'd have codified Roe, have free healthcare for all, and literally no one would carry student debt but those that haven't yet had time to graduate.

Just with me, that's twice that you've repeated a shallow perspective, then ran away when it was time to learn.

Read it again.

Worse than the idiots are the ones who believe themselves intelligent.

Unfortunately, despite decades of suffering, education, and patience, a fascist racist felon is successfully running for President, again. His followers only speak the language of violence. If they show up on my doorstep we'll have a conversation they can understand.

Logistics strikes and the threat of what I may rationalize in the future are your only leverage.

That's why you can have my firearms when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.

Best of luck, a reasonable radical

You need not weep for those willing to die for their principles. They've little value for your lukewarm understanding.

It's not good because in modern society if it's known to more than a small group then it's systemically prevented from positive consequences for the humans involved. But, even if you believe that, no one will believe us because we can't predict future nuance to their liking. Someone is looking at shadows on the wall. And, we all think we've got a good flashlight.

Here, I'll do the hard one: Gary Newsom with AOC selling out principles for lifetime admission to the club as VP. If not AOC then another Justice Democrat will go for it. This would short term quickly and easily unify the big tent under a compromise platform with long term certainty of fully neoliberal outcomes. It's not much different than the last two cycles.

It'd be even easier for Republicans with a dead Trump as a symbol. Give it a shot. Show me you're worth engaging with.

Look up to meta tactics instead of down at muddy short term details. In this way we can vaguely understand and predict without specific facts and as things happen.

The apparatus of manipulation specific to Trump's cult will continue to exist, and in fact be amplified, by martyrdom of the fallible man. He didn't create it. He doesn't maintain it. He doesn't even benefit from it anymore beyond propping up his ego. A symbol is whatever you make it, eternal.

Many of his contrarian actions were and continue to be the input for exercises is doublethink: a useful tool. But, he'd make a shitty puppet dictator because he simply can't follow the script. Even an intelligent fascist wants literally anyone else, just as everyone left of them except the accelerationists.

I'm applying the basics of Bernays, Herman, and Chomsky. I'm not an expert. But, this isn't rocket science, either.

We don't know and may never. It doesn't matter as party affiliation entirely fails to grasp any human element, let alone the nuance of any individual, let alone an individual who's capable of rationalizing meaning in martyrdom.

But, sure, that seems plausible.

no one else has been successful in wielding Trump's base

No one else has done so in a shallow enough manner for you to care to notice. Start with Reagan.

If Trump were dead then the big money would choose the next candidate behind closed doors next week at the convention. It would reunite the current polarization of the Republican party. The "masses" that were so easily co-opted will be more easily misled with the symbol than the fallible man.

You're making the same mistake as the user above. Evil isn't stupid. You underestimate them even as they're nearing a milestone victory.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out --- Because I was MLK's white moderate.

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate,

who is more devoted to "order" than to justice;

who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice;

who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action";

who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

You're not thinking evil and intelligent enough.

That cult propaganda is running full force. As a martyr Trump would shut the fuck up, making him much more useful, beginning with Republican reunification and spin at the convention next week.

A collection point for liquid drainage is called a "sump".

Examples: A basement may have a low point in the foundation with a drainage pump installed to prevent flooding: a sump pump. Boats have a sump to collect onboarded water called a bilge. They've a bilge pump to remove the water.

Maybe "sump cooler" became "swamp cooler"?

It got worse. We adapted parameters to try to compensate. You didn't do anything wrong. You've just not yet implemented continuous improvement.

Do a thematic series "Portraits of a would be murderer".

Pathetic.

Now there is.