swearwolf

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by swearwolf 5y ago
It’s reasonable for people to want those who do harm in their community to be removed from it so they can’t continue to perpetuate that harm, isn’t it?
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Or a cordless angle grinder.
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Thank you, this is a very informative post.
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by swearwolf 5y ago
I don’t necessarily disagree with you about the DA, but it seems like in your specific case the problem is more that the police themselves are acting indifferently.
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Because of mandatory minimum sentences keeping people in jail for a long time. Just because that’s a bad policy doesn’t necessarily mean that sending people to jail at all is a bad idea.
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by swearwolf 5y ago
She got cancelled for an essay that essentially says, “Trans women are fine, and I support them, but they are not the same as people who are born women”, which is a position that went from relatively uncontroversial to transphobic within th
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by swearwolf 5y ago
“Rather than focus on what their kids are actually reading, these parents often take their lead from social media pages and conservative organizations that list which books to target and provide talking points, as well as screenshots of sch
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by swearwolf 5y ago
True, but the pain of his parents being incarcerated was a big part of his campaign, so it seems fair.
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by swearwolf 5y ago
This gets repeated all the time by people who want to institute decriminalization in the US, but it’s always without an important bit of context. Although possession of personal use amounts is decriminalized, Portugal does force people into
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Me too. All the shadowy conspiracy theories seem way too complicated, but a simple screwup and the desire to bury it out of embarrassment seems so completely in line with every organization I've ever worked in. For those of you who are
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Some combination of shock and instinct. Probably more shock since she later reported that she didn’t remember doing it at all.
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by swearwolf 5y ago
I live in a west coast city that has seen an explosion in crime, much like San Francisco. While anecdotal evidence is not the same as data, I can tell you from my own experience and those of many others I’ve talked to, you won’t see the dat
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by swearwolf 5y ago
I don’t agree that you should shoot someone for stealing your catalytic converter either, but just for the sake of argument… So what if the argument that having your car disabled could spiral you into homelessness is more of a critique on o
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by swearwolf 5y ago
It does end up working that way in practice, though it’s not quite as straightforward as that. What’s really happening is that courts are very backed up, jails are full, and judges release most people on their own recognizance within about
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by swearwolf 5y ago
I feel like Andy would love this if he was still alive today. Although he was a talented artist, his real art was in making money, and he wasn’t above a little subterfuge to do it. He used to hire impersonators to do his public performances
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by swearwolf 5y ago
You’re absolutely right, no one is a garbage human. Some people, though, treat the people and the environment around them like garbage, and that’s really frustrating to deal with, whether it comes from an arrogant rich man or a homeless add
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by swearwolf 5y ago
I feel the same way. I was so excited to see a decriminalization measure on the ballot. A year after it took effect, our drug problems are worse than ever. It turns out that for the Portugal model to work correctly, there needs to be carrot
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by swearwolf 5y ago
There’s something that I think often gets overlooked about the replacement of old buildings with new ones, and I think it’s pretty important. The lowest tier of housing in a given city is generally accessible to poor people in ways that new
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Agreed, but I’ve noticed that over the past few years there’s been a shift away from talking about implementing some socialist policies into capitalism and towards the irredeemably of the capitalist system. At least that’s been my experienc
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Desired state seems like a stretch, but the cynical part of me does wonder sometimes whether having visible homelessness around is seen as inevitable proof that the capitalist system is irredeemable and must be replaced. A more likely expla
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by swearwolf 5y ago
I live in Portland. Last year the voters in Oregon voted to decriminalize all drugs when in user level quantities. No one bats an eye when someone shoots up, smokes meth, etc on the streets. There are needle exchanges available. I’d say tha
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by swearwolf 5y ago
This is completely anecdotal, but contemporary accounts of the Haight Ashbury following the Summer of Love tell the story of a movement that started out on acid, moved on to speed, and became far more violent and filled with squalor because
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Drugs create big livability problems for the neighborhood residents who aren’t using them. For example, despite the presence of needle exchanges throughout my city, it’s not uncommon to find a used needle on the ground. Or, people who are h
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A new, cheaper form of meth is creating a wave of severe mental illness(theatlantic.com)
29 points by swearwolf 5y ago|3 comments
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Feels like they really buried the lede here. From the article: In an April screening of channel Three’s comedy current affairs show New Zealand Today, hosted by Guy Williams, the Wizard said he liked to tease women by telling them they were
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by swearwolf 5y ago
In the broad sense, a proposition like creating a safe supply of prescribed drugs makes sense. If I recall correctly, this is how the U.K. used to treat heroin addicts, until the war on drugs became a widespread practice. Vancouver, B.C. ha
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Agreed. The other useful proposition I've heard is to make an inventory of all the things we use the police for that really aren't supposed to be a part of their jobs (such as mental health crisis response where there isn't a
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by swearwolf 5y ago
12 years.
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by swearwolf 5y ago
Indeed. The police have certainly earned a lot of the ire they're currently experiencing, especially in Portland. I tried to keep this list as neutral as possible, and just report the facts as I understand them to be true. #13 and #14
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by swearwolf 5y ago
I can't speak for San Francisco, but I can speak for Portland. There's a lot that's going on that feeds into this. I've been trying to construct a workable narrative for myself, to help explain holistically why the city

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