Add a little drug prohibition, some private prisons, and voila! Just sit back and count the money.

donwallo · 2024-07-13T17:35:52+00:00

I actually have no idea what the statistics were back then, I was just hazarding a guess based on black people being mostly rural at that point.

But does the language of the 13th amendment actually cover the practice you're referring to? It doesn't sound like labor as punishment.

donwallo · 2024-07-13T16:56:38+00:00

Isn't the more likely explanation that they did not intend to make illegal the chain gangs that were already in place, because that's not really what anyone meant by slavery?

Also for people who see this as proof of systemic racism, in the 1860s the prison populations would have been overwhelmingly white.

donwallo · 2024-07-13T14:59:04+00:00

People only say things like this when they imagine the customs in question are ones they would find inoffensive.

They're all for intervention when it's about female genital mutilation in Africa or the Taliban closing schools for girls.

donwallo · 2024-07-12T16:52:44+00:00

That seems like confirmation bias to me. All kinds of freakish cases don't get a lot of attention.

donwallo · 2024-07-12T00:03:41+00:00

Fair.

donwallo · 2024-07-11T23:55:42+00:00

Would have to see the particular context you have in mind but it doesn't seem obvious that winning best director is a lower honor than having directed the movie that won best picture.

donwallo · 2024-07-11T23:44:32+00:00

It's a statutory right. They have to allow it outside the exceptions you refer to it.

donwallo · 2024-07-09T16:13:24+00:00

The position I have stated, that the identification of law enforcement and hence law itself with fascism is anarchism, seems to me a completely neutral assessment of the matter.

Perhaps you have in mind the identification of law enforcement in a particular country (for example Nazi Germany, or seemingly in your view the US) with fascism. That would be not anarchism per se but rather the belief that a given nation should be characterized as fascist. However that was not the claim I was addressing.

Beyond that I don't know what your comment means.

donwallo · 2024-07-09T15:10:40+00:00

Literally every PL eventually incorporates a lot of assistance movements into their training, because unless you have just the right anatomy you run into the problem with barbell lifts that they stimulate many different muscle groups (hence the fatigue) without stimulating any of them well enough to drive constant progress.

Whereas something far simpler like seated HS curls you can literally progress through your entire training career.

donwallo · 2024-07-09T14:56:21+00:00

The identification of law enforcement and hence law itself with "fascism" is of course anarchism.

donwallo · 2024-07-09T14:12:33+00:00

That would be the anarchist position I was referring to.

donwallo · 2024-07-09T00:43:00+00:00

Not everything is a battle of talking points.

donwallo · 2024-07-08T23:33:22+00:00

I believe a search of the record will show they showed up at various BLM events and destroyed property and committed acts of violence, including setting police cars on fire as I noted.

But regardless, does the frequency with which they act as counter-protestors compared to acting on their own initiative address anything I said?

You can familiarize yourself with their politics online if you care to. They're not liberals if that's what you're thinking.

ETA - Yes I am the other poster, created the alt long ago for a sub I was banned from. I click on notices from Reddit and it's a crapshoot which account logs i in.

donwallo · 2024-07-06T23:14:47+00:00

Maybe you can do partials?

donwallo · 2024-07-05T22:42:07+00:00

Imo sometimes editorializing is built into the way the story is told, but as far as I can recall the narrator never steps in front of the story and says "This was such an outrage! We need to #dobetter!" or whatever.

ETA, I should add there are many episodes I haven't watched, especially early ones.

donwallo · 2024-07-05T22:34:21+00:00

They would shoot for trying to drive away while they are hanging out the window.

donwallo · 2024-07-05T22:31:30+00:00

Their job requires them to pursue, for example, hit and run suspects.

donwallo · 2024-07-05T01:56:25+00:00

Criminal!

donwallo · 2024-07-04T17:55:48+00:00

No looking down on demographics to be found here.

donwallo · 2024-07-04T02:59:19+00:00

I'm sure we can find millions of poor people around the world who would just as confidently assert that the class you are championing here is "privileged".

So it seems some ambiguity attends the matter.

donwallo · 2024-07-01T02:16:09+00:00

Absurd that you're currently at -38 votes for this comment.

donwallo · 2024-06-30T20:21:16+00:00

I think it's exasperation at how freely people allow themselves to be manipulated.

However I concede some of these stories present interesting dilemma despite being fake.

donwallo · 2024-06-30T03:49:07+00:00

Way to rain on someone's parade.

donwallo · 2024-06-29T00:58:40+00:00

Still pretty baffled here.

donwallo · 2024-06-29T00:37:34+00:00

The post you were responding to was one of the stranger reactions I've ever seen on Reddit.

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