How many uses of force are justified
Almost none.
How do you know this?
Call me when it's reporting a fuckin indictment, and when he doesn't want to go with the cops, someone slams him on the fuckin pavement and cuffs him. It's a goddamned military cemetery and they shoved the employee out of the way so they could disrespect the fuckin place and violate federal law.
Let's turn this into something that's in the fuckin news cycle. All kinds of weird bullshit becomes a big deal.
If seeing dumb video thumbnails on YouTube impacts your mood I think you need to stay away from YouTube.
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That is clickbait nonsense. I think it’s designed to induce as revenue. I generally don’t watch and avoid all versions of it, electoral and not (“You won’t BELIEVE what this HERO CAT did for Pennsylvania mother of 3”)… I get what you’re saying and it’s dumb but why does it cause you rage?
I have a question
Why is election stuff rage inducing? Like what’s an example of a thumbnail you would see that would induce rage?
Dude fuckin charge him
It's a violation of federal law? Go arrest him. Let people who served with the people buried nearby serve the warrant. Let him sit in custody until he explains to a judge why he should be free.
Fuck him. You don't have to charge him with anything above and beyond what happened, but just stop treating him special. Oh, go after the campaign staff who laid hands on the official, too. Pretty sure that's a felony in most jurisdictions.
I think they just have no idea what they’re doing. There’s no master plan. It is devolving into botshit, but not on purpose; it’s just because all the people with anything remotely resembling qualifications to run one of the world’s biggest social media sites have left the building at this point.
OH LOOK
Here are the main points covered in the transcript:
This summary captures the key points about Elliott County's unique political situation, the economic challenges facing its residents, and the complex factors influencing their voting patterns.
Emphasis is mine
I actually think the forgotten-ness of rural voters and their jobs and ability to make a living, by both sides of the aisle, is a hugely important story that almost no one in Washington understands, and specifically vis-a-vis why Trump got so much support. I don't fully disagree with the thesis of the video and especially as it applied to Washington 8 years ago.
However
I like to talk about this explosive growth of working class wages over the last 4 years (nowhere near enough but also something worth giving credit to Biden for). I wondered if that applied also to Elliot County -- I still don't really know the answer, but I found this, and if you click back to 2020 the bars only go up to $60k and in 2022 they were going up to $95k so that tells you some level of something.
It's also notable that I was able to predict what the piece would say without anything to go on other than educated guessing about what it might cover.
I would be curious to see something actually diving into how things have worked out (specifically taking Elliot County as an example) for the last few years, where that $95k actually came from, how common it is, how things worked out in 2023 and why, etc etc. Basically a real unbiased version of what this video is a somewhat blinkered form of, would be fuckin fascinating.
This isn't it though
Here’s my prediction about “More Perfect Union”, just based on the channel name and the downvotes:
I could be totally off base. That’s just my guessing prediction based on a learned level of suspicion that at this point verges on furious unfair cynical prejudice
Brb
Okay so you have no idea what the actual number is; you just kinda have your way that you look at it and that's all you want to know
Got it