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yeonmi-park In capitalist America, in order to go to work every day you have to let the military search through your belongings. Once you pass the military checkpoint you must still be wary because there are police officers disguised as civilians hiding in the crowd.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Leave it to a New York Dem to come up with the most ridiculous and over the top reaction to violent crime.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (2 children)

*over the top reaction to nothing

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's the other thing. Without fail at the start of every year the local media goes on a sensationalist tear about how much crime there is on subways and how much worse it is. Usually they'll throw out percentages like "Oh a 10% increase in assault on the subway". But when they mention actual numbers, as I had last heard a couple weeks ago, we're talking about an increase from 58 to 64. On one of the largest subway systems in the world that moves 3+million people a day. We're talking about an extremely minuscule number, but if you didn't know any better you'd think the subway is an absolute war zone. Maybe put more money into cleaning up the subway and housing the homeless rather than putting more bandaid on the relatively nonexistant issue of violent crime.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

It's non stop.

Just like how Chicago and New York are mad max but thenshithole red states with a violent crime rate 5x as high is "real america".

Violent crimes don't count when it's some drunk bigot looking for an excuse to "stand their ground" at the county fair.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yup reactionaries taking full advantage of the fact there was no crime because everybody who wasn't a stupid asshole was staying home as much as possible so now the pre pandemic crime levels are an epidemic.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The contradictions, folks. They’re sharpening like you wouldn’t believe it. I’ve seen– Nobody understands sharpening contradictions like me, believe me- and Hokey Hochul wants to tell you “they’re gonna keep you safe, they’re gonna keep you safe!” But we know.. Hokey Hochul and the Crooked New York State Dems, they’ll tell you “State sanctioned violence, intimidation, we need it folks.” It’s sad. The Crooked Dems, they’ll tell you. They’re saying “we’re saving you from fascism” but believe me– they’re just as fascist as the republicans. Maybe even more fascist. People are saying “they’re using state violence to fight those opposed to state violence.” and it’s true folks. It’s unbelievable really. Unbelievable. They do it and they don’t even realize it and it sharpens the contradictions. And if they keep sharpening contradictions they’re gonna be big time losers– big time. Believe me. Just like the Czar. Remember the Czar? Huge loser, we all know it. Lenin said “the indissoluble oneness of the tsar and the people and the oneness of the people and the tsar, it’s a load of crap” and he’s right. Just like the Loser Czar, the Crooked New York Dems and Hokey Hochul are saying that their power is representative of the people, not over them.. It’s sad.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

And you can bet it's still not enough for the hogs, they probably wouldn't be happy until there's tanks on every corner

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Is that whats going on? I feel like I missed something.