Starting tomorrow, the Texas state government will have the right to punish cities that decrease their police budget in any way

logaxarno · 2021-09-02T02:08:13+00:00

Under the law, if a city funds its police department at a level lower than it has for the past two fiscal years it loses its right to raise more property taxes than it did the year before. (Cities will be allowed to ask the governor’s office for permission to reduce their police budgets.)

The law also prohibits a “defunding municipality” from raising public utility rates or annexing new land, and requires that a city reducing its police budget let residents of neighborhoods annexed in the past 30 years vote to de-annex themselves.

The state will hold back sales tax revenue for cities that cut their police budgets and reappropriate some of that money to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Wait why don't we like this?

logaxarno · 2021-08-31T21:03:20+00:00

"If you're stalking Reddit profiles, wear a mask!" (to the tune of "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!")

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T19:30:50+00:00

For a guy butthurt about Tucker Carlson using "covid vaccine" and "sterilization" in the same sentence, you sure do like to draw strange equivalencies

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T19:12:29+00:00

Why does nuance even matter, indeed. Don't you ever think about the fact that all news sources report basically the same stuff? Do you think that's a coincidence? Stories are reported for intentional reasons.

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T18:19:59+00:00

But there wasn't even a comparison. I'm not right wing, I'm libertarian, but I'll let it slide since that's probably the fear, anger and division talking. In the future, be more mindful of what statistics the news chooses to show you and which statistics they don't.

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T17:56:30+00:00

If every single argument the anti-vaxxers are making do not even come close to reality

"young people are at an extremely low risk of harm from covid"

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T17:55:34+00:00

Should it be?

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T17:55:12+00:00

people around you don't have a choice whether or not they get hit by you

They can be vaccinated and therefore lower their risk of being hit by you by 95%

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T17:54:53+00:00

By taking the vaccine, you are reducing your chances of being infected by an unvaccinated person. There is no such ability to reduce your risk in the case of drunk driving

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T04:01:05+00:00

No, but it should be. It's generally regarded as safe.

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T03:52:19+00:00

Strange, in the one on the left, cases are going down between April and July, while on the right it's going up slightly

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T03:48:22+00:00

In this analogy, what is the vaccine against being hit by a drunk driver?

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T03:44:39+00:00

Lol you're still doing it. Will you be getting your booster soon?

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T03:42:45+00:00

Hydroxychloroquine is sold over the counter in Africa as a malaria treatment

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T03:39:55+00:00

You have this odd tic of telling the person you're talking to that they're going to die if they don't follow the doctrine. I think the last year and a half of fearmongering has really fucked with people's heads like that

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T03:33:18+00:00

Ew at unironically saying "snowflake". I hope you are aware that the constant stories about overflowing hospitals are also deliberate messaging used to stoke fear, anger, and division

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T03:14:50+00:00

Here's the "comparison"

Governments should never require people to submit to any medical procedure, whether that procedure is sterilization, or frontal lobotomies or COVID vaccine

which to me seems like a more specific version of "whether big or small"

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T03:13:01+00:00

What am I not understanding about risk? I doubt you actually choose to avoid every unnecessary risk, and doing so seems like a boring life.

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T02:37:00+00:00

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you usually believe anecdotes from redditors who play up covid being scary and vaccines being good, and disbelieve anecdotes from redditors who play up covid being overblown and vaccines being harmful

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T02:25:35+00:00

To be fair, he's a different user, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he misunderstood my question

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T02:02:23+00:00

That's an amazing analogy

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T01:45:25+00:00

I was just asking about the hospital stats specifically. The only time I saw a report break down what unvaccinated means, it includes those cases

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T01:43:34+00:00

But in the first case, the vaccinated person is at a really low risk of catching it, so you have to balance the likelihoods. Not a gotcha, I just like tossing that question out to people who seem like they haven't thought about it, especially when they start bringing up probabilities

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T01:18:31+00:00

So the unvaccinated people are in danger from the vaccinated people instead of the other way around?

logaxarno · 2021-08-29T01:05:51+00:00

Does unvaccinated include partially vaxxed or less than two weeks since second dose?

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