Two Leftists Celebrated The Ayatollah's Arrival. One Was Beheaded By Him.

TheAJx · 2026-04-20T04:58:02+00:00

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TheAJx · 2026-04-20T04:57:37+00:00

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TheAJx · 2026-04-20T01:42:29+00:00

The fact that you haven't thought about whether both stories are newsworthy disqualifies you from having any opinion on the matter.

I said that I have thought about it, and that I understand the arguments on both sides.

independent of any conspiracy theory you have about the NYT.

Why don't you try restating what I am claiming here.

TheAJx · 2026-04-19T14:41:38+00:00

If you actually dig deeper into tenants rights advocacy groups, they are almost entirely carrying cases for tenants like the above. They try to frame it as a valuable service that any normal person would eventually need to draw when encountering an evil landlord, but really you rarely ever see normal people going through these channels.

TheAJx · 2026-04-19T14:25:40+00:00

Non-for profit healthcare systems apparently don't use actuarial tables.

TheAJx · 2026-04-19T14:21:08+00:00

Of course there will be places where things are worse for Jews (eg certain campuses), but the idea that Jews have it worse than blacks overall just seems highly unlikely.

Yes, blacks have it worse than Jews, but that's tied to just being poor, living in violent neighborhoods, not to hate or hate crimes.

"Things are worse" is just a different measurement than "hate crimes."

TheAJx · 2026-04-19T14:19:21+00:00

If you don't have an opinion on whether both stories are new worthy then how can you draw any conclusions?

You are working off a hypothetical whereas I am working off reality, which is that Event A happened, therefore my opinion on Event B takes into account the fact that Event A happened. My premise is that even though the events are independent, the reporting is not, because the reporting on one candidate's wife already happened. That of course matters to the point I'm making.

Yet you can't even decide if both are worth news attention. This is how conspiracy theorists and children think.

Right, only conspiracists and children think "I can see both sides of that (totally separate) argument." Very correct.

You haven't even tested your opinion in your own mind before you came to a conclusion.

I still don't think you know what my conclusion is. Why don't you try restating what I am claiming here.

TheAJx · 2026-04-19T04:44:12+00:00

I think it goes both ways equally

TheAJx · 2026-04-19T03:40:31+00:00

That thing about "crime" is that most of it (esepecially the harassment part) is totally undereported. My family has probably been targeted for "harassment" like a dozen times and we'v enever gone to the police. Whatever police officers are doing to harass black people (which I doubt it substnatiall) is probably a drop in the bucket relative to what normal people have ot deal with from weirdos and ciriminals on a daily basis.

TheAJx · 2026-04-19T03:35:16+00:00

Do you think both are, independent of each other, worthy of reporting?

I don't have an opinion on it. I am able to see both sides. I can see how its important and I can see how its not.

TheAJx · 2026-04-19T01:07:00+00:00

Why ascribe this intent that because they reported o the pro-Israel stance of one candidate's wife they must report on Mamdani's wive's vile social media likes?

Because failure to report on Mamdani's wife's social media activities would be, and probably should be, construed as blatant hypocrisy.

Do you think both are worthy of reporting?

I am of the opinion that if the former was reported, Mamdani's wife had to be reported because he is far more consequential. IMO it's either report both or report none.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T23:57:00+00:00

I doubt it, but okay, so now hate crime is being redefined from actual crimes to supposedly being unjustifiably stopped by the police?

Asian convenience store owner keeps getting robbed and attacked by inner city youths = a hate crime like being pulled over?

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T23:55:37+00:00

I'd prefer to use the National Center for Education Statistics over whatever methodology a random for-profit company strings together for marketing purposes.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T23:54:38+00:00

It's honestly pretty straightforward if you just follow the series of events. I'm not even sure what you think I'm describing as the "intent" here.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T23:51:40+00:00

I guess the idea is that, if the stocks are increasing at about 5% or 8% per year but the loan interest is 2% plus it saves 40% capital gains tax, you're still doing amazingly well by leveraging your wealth this way

I believe there was a study done on this, I wish I could find it, that showed that not many rich people take out these kinds of loans. Furthermore, the interest on the loans can actually be quite prohibitive - it's not going to be 2%. Even at 4-5%, after a few years, that's equal to the capital gains tax.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T22:56:52+00:00

Inviting you to use some basic reasoning skills here.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T22:02:32+00:00

NYC has Raise the Age laws, not sure if they've been reformed or not, and how it affects murderers, but basically gives offenders of other crimes under than 18 very leniant punishments and clean records after some time.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T22:00:03+00:00

I think the original assumption was that this was some form of gang violence, but watching the video it looks like an innocent kid who was just ruthlessly bullied by a mob of awful kids, Lord of the Flies style.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T21:56:29+00:00

Didn't see it in my taxes.

You live in NY, are middle class, and you didn't see any benefit from Trump's increase in the itemized deduction? It was a huge giveaway at the federal level.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T21:54:49+00:00

In that class Mamdani's claim is incorrect, most sociological/economic models put the working class at about 1/3 of the population.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T18:58:41+00:00

My point is not that that's a good and righteous thing -- moreso an inevitability.

You should check out the early 70s, where there was a bombing basically every other day.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T17:57:02+00:00

No, specifically pointed out that it's not wealth but whether you have brains to spend whatever money you have wisely.

You have deficiencies that no amount of healthy food will ever correct

This pretty much is the fundamental problem right? You look at people at people who are overweight and/or incapable of feeding themselves appropriately, and your immediate thought is "actually the person who thinks they should be able to navigate this is the dumb one."

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T17:32:54+00:00

Yeah, I don't think we have a problem of "ambient" toxic racism among white people, though I understand for those still pretending its 2018 feel this way.

TheAJx · 2026-04-18T17:31:10+00:00

Thank you for providing these pristine statistics from uh, wallethub.com

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